Twitch Plays Pokémon

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Twitch Plays Pokémon is a Twitch channel that is currently livestreaming a playthrough of a modded version of Pokémon Red, where the viewers control the game by commenting button presses. The stream went live on February 13, 2014 at 01:23:18 GMT. The game is modded to allow all 151 Pokémon in one game.

The stream has peaked at around 120,000 viewers at a time, and has been the most viewed live Twitch stream for periods of time. Only footage from 11 hours into day 2 onward has been saved, which can be found here.

Gameplay

Twitch users control the character by submitting the case-insensitive button names through the chat. Valid commands are A, B, up, down, left, right, and Start; Select previously was valid, but after it was used to soft reset the game, it was disabled due to having no other functional purpose.

Originally, players would simply submit buttons and the game would execute as many as possible. However, after players were stuck in the Team Rocket Hideout for almost 24 hours on the first spinner puzzle, the host implemented a system where players can choose between anarchy (the original method) and democracy. In democracy mode, players button presses are instead tallied, then the most popular is executed; also, players can enter compound and iterative commands (such as "start9" and "upleft"). Players can vote to switch between anarchy and democracy by using "democracy" and "anarchy" as if they were buttons; once the inactive mode reaches 75% popularity, the mode changes.

Simple tasks often become extremely difficult due to the high number of players; players have spent hours trying to teach HM moves, cut down trees, pass through areas with ledges, and reach crucial points in the game.

Progress

The player character is using the default name of RED and started with Charmander. Currently, the player has obtained the first four Badges and has defeated BLUE at the Pokémon Tower.

Pokémon

Pokémon Trainer RED Kanto Red Reward: N/A

Types: Ghost Poison Gastly Lv.20 Lick Ghost   --       Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Night Shade Ghost   --       Struggle Normal   --       Type: Normal Unknown AAJST(???? Lv.27 Swift Normal   --       Body Slam Normal   --       Quick Attack Normal   --       Dig Ground   --       Type: Psychic Unknown Drowzee Lv.24 Pound Normal   --       Headbutt Normal   --       Disable Normal   --       Confusion Psychic   --       Types: Normal Flying aaabaaajss Lv.48 Gust Normal   --       Sand-Attack Normal   --       Quick Attack Normal   --       Whirlwind Normal   --       Types: Grass Poison ×(araggbaj Lv.22 Cut Normal   --       PoisonPowder Poison   --       Stun Spore Grass   --       Sleep Powder Grass   --       Types: Normal Flying DUX Lv.23 Cut Normal   --       Sand-Attack Normal   --       Leer Normal   --       Fury Attack Normal   --

PC

	Types: Poison Flying
ABB-??AAJJ Lv.18
Leech Life Bug   --       Supersonic Normal   --       Bite Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --

Released

Type: Fire Unknown ABBBBBBK( Lv.34 Cut Normal   --       Bide Normal   --       Growl Normal   --       Leer Normal   --	Type: Normal Unknown JLVWNNOOOO Lv.13 Tackle Normal   --       Tail Whip Normal   --       BubbleBeam Water   --       Quick Attack Normal   --	Type: Fire Unknown Flareon Lv.25 Tackle Normal   --       Sand-Attack Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --
Type: Fighting Unknown CCC Lv.30 Double Kick Fighting   --       Meditate Psychic   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --	Types: Poison Flying × Lv.16 Leech Life Bug   --       Supersonic Normal   --       Bite Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --

Traded

Types: Normal Flying Spearow Lv.15 Peck Flying   --       Growl Normal   --       Leer Normal   --       Fury Attack Normal   --

Items

Item
Helix Fossil S.S. Ticket Lift Key Silph Scope HM01 (Cut) Rare Candy

Red's PC

As of 6d 22h 53m, there are no items in Red's PC.

Tossed

Item
Moon Stone ×2 Nugget ×2 PP Up ×2 TM30 (Teleport) TM21 (Mega Drain) TM10 (Double-Edge) TM07 (Horn Drill) Escape Rope Elixir HP Up Awakening

Host

The host currently wishes to remain anonymous, but has revealed that they are Australian. They have stated that they wish to intervene as little as possible, but may do so for the Safari Zone due to the step limit.

Occasionally, the host has throttled Start button, to prevent people using it simply to interrupt progress. This means that Twitch users who submit Start will be put in Slow Mode. The host also had to intervene when the game was soft reset, so that the save file was not overwritten; after this, the host disabled the Select button since it had no other function purpose. Later, the host added the anarchy/democracy system to help players overcome otherwise incredibly difficult tasks such as the Team Rocket Hideout spinner maze.

External links

• Twitch Plays Pokémon channel
• Progress-tracking Google Doc
• Wikipedia article
• Interview with host

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