Twitch Plays Pokémon

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Twitch Plays Pokémon logo

Twitch Plays Pokémon is a Twitch channel that is currently livestreaming a playthrough of a slightly 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 was intended to be a modded version that allows all 151 Pokémon in one game, but is actually identical to unmodded Pokémon Red except that the number 151 is added to the title screen.

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. 80% of the votes are required to switch from anarchy to democracy mode, whilst only 50% of the votes are required to switch from democracy to anarchy mode. The host said the reason behind the asymmetry is that with the equal 75% it took a smaller majority to disrupt democracy mode then it did to reinstate anarchy mode.

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 six Badges and defeated Giovanni at the Silph Co.

Pokémon



PC

Released

Spr 1b 005.png
Type:
Fire Unknown
ABBBBBBK( Lv.34
Cut
Normal
Bide
Normal
Growl
Normal
Leer
Normal
Spr 1b 019.png
Type:
Normal Unknown
JLVWNNOOOO Lv.13
Tackle
Normal
Tail Whip
Normal
BubbleBeam
Water
Quick Attack
Normal
Spr 1b 136.png
Type:
Fire Unknown
Flareon Lv.25
Tackle
Normal
Sand-Attack
Normal
  --  
   
  --  
   
Spr 1b 106.png
Type:
Fighting Unknown
CCC Lv.30
Double Kick
Fighting
Meditate
Psychic
  --  
   
  --  
   
Spr 1b 041.png
Types:
Poison Flying
× Lv.16
Leech Life
Bug
Supersonic
Normal
Bite
Normal
  --  
   
Spr 1b 048.png
Types:
Bug Poison
A Lv.22
Tackle
Normal
Disable
Normal
  --  
   
  --  
   
Spr 1b 048.png
Types:
Bug Poison
B-!) Lv.22
Tackle
Normal
Disable
Normal
  --  
   
  --  
   
Spr 1b 102.png
Types:
Grass Psychic
AIA Lv.25
Barrage
Normal
Hypnosis
Psychic
Reflect
Psychic
  --  
   
Spr 1b 046.png
Types:
Bug Grass
AAA Lv.22
Scratch
Normal
Stun Spore
Grass
Leech Life
Bug
  --  
   
Spr 1b 048.png
Types:
Bug Poison
Venonat Lv.22
Tackle
Normal
Disable
Normal
  --  
   
  --  
   
Spr 1b 032.png
Type:
Poison Unknown
Nidoran♂ Lv.22
Tackle
Normal
Horn Attack
Normal
Poison Sting
Poison
Focus Energy
Normal
Spr 1b 044.png
Types:
Grass Poison
×(araggbaj Lv.31
Cut
Normal
PoisonPowder
Poison
Stun Spore
Grass
Sleep Powder
Grass
Spr 1b 083.png
Types:
Normal Flying
DUX Lv.31
Cut
Normal
Sand-Attack
Normal
Leer
Normal
Fury Attack
Normal
Spr 1b 074.png
Types:
Rock Ground
Geodude Lv.17
Defense Curl
Normal
Rock Throw
Rock
  --  
   
  --  
   

Traded

Spr 1b 021.png
Types:
Normal Flying
Spearow Lv.15
Peck
Flying
Growl
Normal
Leer
Normal
Fury Attack
Normal

Items

Item
S.S. Ticket S.S. Ticket
Lift Key Lift Key
Helix Fossil Helix Fossil
Silph Scope Silph Scope
HM Normal HM01 (Cut)
Poké Flute Poké Flute
Super Rod Super Rod
HM Water HM03 (Surf)
HM Normal HM04 (Strength)
Card Key Card Key
Protein Protein


Red's PC

There are no items in Red's PC.

Tossed

Item
Moon Stone Moon Stone ×2
Nugget Nugget ×3
PP Up PP Up ×3
TM Psychic TM30 (Teleport)
TM Grass TM21 (Mega Drain)
TM Normal TM10 (Double-Edge)
TM Normal TM07 (Horn Drill)
Escape Rope Escape Rope
Elixir Elixir
HP Up HP Up
Awakening Awakening
TM Normal TM40 (Skull Bash)
TM Normal TM32 (Double Team)
Elixir Elixir
Carbos Carbos
TM Poison TM06 (Toxic)
Revive Revive


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. Previously they had suspected that they may have had to do so for the Safari Zone due to the step limit, but ultimately it was completed using democracy mode.

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

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