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Twitch Plays Pokémon logo

Twitch Plays Pokémon is a Twitch channel that streams play-throughs of modded versions of Pokémon games, where the viewers control the game by commenting button presses. The stream went live on February 13, 2014 at 01:23:18 GMT. After the viewers finished Pokémon Red on March 1, 2014, the stream displayed a timer, counting down the time until the next adventure started. On March 2, 2014, viewers began playing a modded version of Pokémon Crystal that has all Pokémon available.

The stream peaked at around 120,000 viewers during its first playthrough, 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.

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 were 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 III 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 viewers defeated Blue in Pokémon Red, Pokémon Crystal was started, on March 2, 2014. Unlike Red, an entirely new game was started, allowing viewers to name the player character: AJDNNW. Currently, the player has obtained all eight Johto Badges and reached the Indigo Plateau.

Gameplay changes

Originally, during Pokémon Red, players would vote to choose between anarchy and democracy as the game progressed. With the start of a new game, this system was changed to the current style, where players are no longer allowed to change between anarchy and democracy at any time. Instead, the game starts in anarchy mode while a timer counts down at the top of the stream. At the start of every hour after the start of the game, the countdown reaches zero and democracy mode takes over. In democracy mode, players are allowed to vote for which button they want used, along with both an option to vote for "anarchy" and to vote for the "wait" command. If anarchy is the most popular command when the votes are tallied, then the game will automatically switch back to anarchy. The countdown is then set again to reach zero at the next hour, whether it is in an actual hour or in a minute.

Into the seventh day and fourth hour, the anarchy/democracy was adjusted once again. It was completely overhauled into a new system, in which a certain command had to be entered ten times within a period of 500 milliseconds for it to be executed. This system was briefly abolished an hour later, reverting back to the format described in the previous paragraph, until resuming the new form twenty minutes later. Anarchy/democracy was re-established at 8 days, 5 hours.

Pokémon



PC
Day Care

Level and moves are at the time of drop off.

Day Care
Spr 2c 011.png
Type:
Bug Unknown
Held item:
TM30
OXXOZZ -: Lv.8
Tackle
Normal
String Shot
Bug
Harden
Normal
  --  
   
Spr 2c 041.png
Types:
Poison Flying
Held item:
None
ZUBAT Lv.15
Leech Life
Bug
Supersonic
Normal
Bite
Dark
  --  
   
Released
Released
Spr 2c 161.png
Type:
Normal Unknown
Held item:
None
VV Lv.7
Tackle
Normal
Defense Curl
Normal
Cut
Normal
  --  
   
Spr 2c 096.png
Type:
Psychic Unknown
Held item:
None
:n Lv.12
Pound
Normal
Hypnosis
Psychic
  --  
   
  --  
   
Spr 2c 175.png
Type:
Normal Unknown
Held item:
Antidote
TOGEPI Lv.12
Growl
Normal
Metronome
Normal
Charm
Normal
Flash
Normal
Spr 2c 194.png
Types:
Water Ground
Held item:
None
WOOPER Lv.8
Water Gun
Water
Tail Whip
Normal
  --  
   
  --  
   

Items

Pack

Items
Full Heal Full Heal ×3
Ice Berry Ice Berry
Ice Heal Ice Heal
SlowpokeTail SlowpokeTail
TinyMushroom TinyMushroom
Calcium Calcium
Protein Protein
X Special X Special
Balls
None
KeyItems
GS Ball GS Ball
SquirtBottle SquirtBottle
Basement Key Basement Key
Coin Case Coin Case
Card Key Card Key
Clear Bell Clear Bell
TM/HM
TM Rock TM04 (Rollout)
TM Fire TM11 (Sunny Day)
TM Ground TM31 (Mud-Slap)
TM Normal TM35 (Sleep Talk)
TM Normal TM45 (Attract)
TM Dark TM46 (Thief)
HM Normal HM01 (Cut)
HM Flying HM02 (Fly)
HM Water HM03 (Surf)
HM Normal HM04 (Strength)
HM Normal HM05 (Flash)
HM Water HM06 (Whirlpool)
HM Water HM07 (Waterfall)


AJDNNW's PC

Item
None


Tossed

Items
Escape Rope Escape Rope
Full Heal Full Heal
Ice Heal Ice Heal
Miracle Seed Miracle Seed
Parlyz Heal Parlyz Heal
Potion Potion
Rare Candy Rare Candy
TinyMushroom TinyMushroom ×6
Balls
None
TM/HM
TM Normal TM39 (Swift)


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 or a Pokémon's moves). 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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