Twitch Plays Pokemon

Over the past week there has been a wide event taking place over at Twitch.tv called “Twitch Plays Pokémon”, or “TPP” for short. It is an online play-through of one of the classic Gameboy games “Pokémon Red”. But it’s not just one group of friends playing the game and commenting on it. Twitch Plays Pokémon is literally 70+ thousand viewers including you if you watch it, playing through this game using only commands that you typed out on your keyboard. TPP takes the concept of a thousand monkeys in a room full of typewriters, and replaces the typewriters with one Pokémon game. The results may actually surprise you.

Controlling the game is actually very simple, but the results are very complicated. Using a set of commands such as typing up, down, left, right, a, b, start, select makes red go in that direction or perform that action. But as you can probably imagine, having over thousands upon thousands of users playing this game, the way these actions are executed may not be what you planned. With all of this going on however, it does make watching the play-through seem impossible, almost maddening. So if you want to keep up to date with the game itself you might want to watch in short doses for a good effect.

Now when I first saw this I thought that these people wouldn’t make any progress. It seemed impossible and almost unlikely. But sure enough, let a couple of days go by and they already have 6 badges and some high level Pokémon. I started to think about the possibilities with this kind of devotion and even made a suggestion of trying other RPG’s with this kind of play through. Even if that suggestion gets tossed out the windows, one thing is for certain. With the mass amount of pictures, comics, jokes, animes GIF’s, this is obviously a popular idea that is spreading around like wild fire. So if you want to see what all the hype is about, I recommend you check it out for yourself and give it a shot.

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