Twitch Plays Pokémon

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Twitch Plays Pokémon logo

Twitch Plays Pokémon is a Twitch channel that was livestreaming a playthrough of a slightly modded version of Pokémon Red, where the viewers controlled 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 had peaked at around 120,000 viewers at a time, and had 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.

Pokémon Red

Gameplay

Twitch users controlled the character by submitting case-insensitive button names through the chat. Valid commands were 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 significant functional purpose. Each input in the chat was processed for one frame of gameplay, so the process of canceling evolution required three consecutive inputs of the B button in anarchy mode.

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 could choose between anarchy (the original method) and democracy. In democracy mode, players' button presses are instead tallied, and then the most popular is executed; also, players can enter compound and iterative commands (such as "start9" and "upleft"). The "wait" command was also available in democracy mode, in which, when inputted, the player character takes no action until the next non-"wait" command is received. Players could vote to switch between anarchy and democracy by using "democracy" and "anarchy" as if they were buttons. 80% of the votes wer 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 that the reason behind the asymmetry is that, with the previous system of requiring 75% of votes for a switch in either direction, it took a smaller majority to disrupt democracy mode than it did to reinstate anarchy mode.

Simple tasks had often become extremely difficult due to the high number of players; players had 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 used the default name of RED and started with Charmander. The player entered the Hall of Fame and finished the end credits at 16d 7h 50m 40s. After the game was continued, it froze and the timer was reset permanently to 16d 7h 50m 19s, with a timer counting down from approximately 27 hours reading "A new adventure will begin". The header above the video was later changed to "TwitchPlaysPokemon playing Gold/Silver/Crystal". The save file has reached the maximum amount of playtime that can be recorded within the game, 255 hours.

Pokémon



PC
Bill's PC
Spr 1b 032.png
Type:
Poison Unknown
NIDORAN♂ Lv.22
Tackle
Normal
Horn Attack
Normal
Poison Sting
Poison
Focus Energy
Normal
Spr 1b 048.png
Types:
Bug Poison
BKKBBBBCBB Lv.22
Tackle
Normal
Disable
Normal
  --  
   
  --  
   
Spr 1b 041.png
Types:
Poison Flying
ABB-??AAJJ Lv.18
Leech Life
Bug
Supersonic
Normal
Bite
Normal
  --  
   
Spr 1b 096.png
Type:
Psychic Unknown
DROWZEE Lv.30
Pound
Normal
Headbutt
Normal
Disable
Normal
Confusion
Psychic
Day Care
Spr 1b 092.png
Types:
Ghost Poison
GASTLY Lv.50
Confuse Ray
Ghost
Night Shade
Ghost
Hypnosis
Psychic
Dream Eater
Psychic
Released
Traded
Spr 1b 021.png
Types:
Normal Flying
SPEAROW Lv.15
Peck
Flying
Growl
Normal
Leer
Normal
Fury Attack
Normal

Items

Item
Secret Key III Secret Key
TM Fighting TM17 (Submission)


Red's PC
Item
S.S. Ticket S.S. Ticket
Card Key Card Key
HM Water HM03 (Surf)
Moon Stone Moon Stone
Silph Scope Silph Scope
Town Map Town Map
HM Normal HM01 (Cut)
Lift Key Lift Key
Poké Flute Poké Flute
HM Normal HM04 (Strength)
Potion Potion
Super Rod Super Rod


Tossed
Item
Awakening Awakening
Carbos Carbos
Elixir Elixir ×2
Escape Rope Escape Rope ×2
Full Restore Full Restore
HP Up HP Up
Iron Iron
Moon Stone Moon Stone ×2
Nugget Nugget ×3
PP Up PP Up ×3
Protein Protein
Revive Revive
TM Normal TM05 (Mega Kick)
TM Poison TM06 (Toxic)
TM Normal TM07 (Horn Drill)
TM Normal TM10 (Double-Edge)
TM Ice TM14 (Blizzard)
TM Grass TM21 (Mega Drain)
TM Ground TM27 (Fissure)
TM Psychic TM30 (Teleport)
TM Normal TM32 (Double Team)
TM Fire TM38 (Fire Blast)
TM Normal TM40 (Skull Bash)


Pokémon Crystal

27 hours after Twitch users defeated Blue in Pokémon Red, Pokémon Crystal was started, on March 2, 2014. Unlike Red, an entirely new game was started, allowing users to name the player character: AJDNNW. Currently, the many players have obtained the first Badge and have hatched the Egg from Professor Elm's assistant.

Pokémon



Items

Items
Antidote Antidote
Potion Potion
Paralyze Heal Parlyz Heal
Escape Rope Escape Rope
Balls
Poké Ball Poké Ball
KeyItems
None
TM/HM
TM Ground TM31 (Mud-Slap)
HM Normal HM05 (Flash)


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 imposed step limit, but ultimately it was completed using democracy mode.

Occasionally, the host has throttled the Start button, to prevent people using it simply to interrupt progress; Twitch users who submit Start as a command 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 significant function (the early games used it solely for sorting items in the player's Bag). Later, the host added the anarchy/democracy system to help players overcome otherwise incredibly difficult tasks such as the Team Rocket Hideout spinner maze.

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