Twitch Plays Pokémon

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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.

Twitch Plays Pokémon logo

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.

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

RED Hall of Fame Red Reward: $40398

Types: Electric Flying AA–j Lv.81 ThunderShock Electric   --       Drill Peck Flying   --       Take Down Normal   --       Thunder Electric   --       Types: Poison Ground AAAAAAAAAA Lv.54 Surf Water   --       Poison Sting Poison   --       Strength Normal   --       Fury Attack Normal   --       Types: Rock Water OMASTAR Lv.52 Hydro Pump Water   --       Withdraw Water   --       Surf Water   --       Horn Attack Normal   --       Types: Bug Poison AATTVVV Lv.39 Disable Normal   --       PoisonPowder Poison   --       Leech Life Bug   --       Stun Spore Grass   --       Types: Water Ice AIIIIIIRRR Lv.31 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Mist Ice   --       Surf Water   --       Strength Normal   --       Types: Normal Flying aaabaaajss Lv.69 Mirror Move Flying   --       Sand-Attack Normal   --       Quick Attack Normal   --       Sky Attack Flying   --

Day Care

Types: Ghost Poison GASTLY Lv.50 Confuse Ray Ghost   --       Night Shade Ghost   --       Hypnosis Psychic   --       Dream Eater Psychic   --

Released

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   --	Types: Bug Poison A Lv.22 Tackle Normal   --       Disable Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --
Types: Bug Poison B-!) Lv.22 Tackle Normal   --       Disable Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --	Types: Grass Psychic AIA Lv.25 Barrage Normal   --       Hypnosis Psychic   --       Reflect Psychic   --       Struggle Normal   --	Types: Bug Grass AAA Lv.22 Scratch Normal   --       Stun Spore Grass   --       Leech Life Bug   --       Struggle Normal   --
Types: Bug Poison VENONAT Lv.22 Tackle Normal   --       Disable Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --	Type: Poison Unknown NIDORAN♂ Lv.22 Tackle Normal   --       Horn Attack Normal   --       Poison Sting Poison   --       Focus Energy Normal   --	Types: Grass Poison ×(araggbaj Lv.26 Cut Normal   --       PoisonPowder Poison   --       Stun Spore Grass   --       Sleep Powder Grass   --
Types: Normal Flying DUX Lv.31 Cut Normal   --       Sand-Attack Normal   --       Leer Normal   --       Fury Attack Normal   --	Types: Rock Ground GEODUDE Lv.17 Defense Curl Normal   --       Rock Throw Rock   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --	Type: Normal Unknown AAJST(???? Lv.29 Swift Normal   --       Body Slam Normal   --       Quick Attack Normal   --       Dig Ground   --
Type: Poison Unknown H Lv.24 Tackle Normal   --       Horn Attack Normal   --       Poison Sting Poison   --       Focus Energy Normal   --	Type: Poison Unknown AAEWWW Lv.24 Tackle Normal   --       Horn Attack Normal   --       Poison Sting Poison   --       Focus Energy Normal   --	Types: Ground Rock AEWWWWVV Lv.26 Horn Attack Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --
Types: Poison Flying ZUBAT Lv.16 Leech Life Bug   --       Supersonic Normal   --       Bite Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --	Type: Poison Unknown a Lv.24 Tackle Normal   --       Horn Attack Normal   --       Poison Sting Poison   --       Focus Energy Normal   --

Traded

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

Items

Item
Secret Key TM17 (Submission)

Red's PC

Item
S.S. Ticket Card Key HM03 (Surf) Moon Stone Silph Scope Town Map HM01 (Cut) Lift Key Poké Flute HM04 (Strength) Potion Super Rod

Tossed

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

Crystal

27 hours after Twitch users defeated Blue in Red Version, Pokémon Crystal Version was started, on March 2, 2014. Unlike Red, an entirely new game was started, allowing users to name the player character: AJDNNW. So far, the many players have chosen Totodile as their starter Pokémon, and kept the nickname TOTODILE.

Pokémon

AJDNNW Johto Crystal Reward: '
Type: Water Unknown Held item: None TOTODILE♂ Lv.9 Scratch Normal   --       Leer Normal   --       Rage Normal   --       Struggle Normal   --

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.

External links

• Twitch Plays Pokémon official channel
  • Twitch Plays Pokémon archived footage
• Twitch Plays Pokémon live-update thread
• Progress-tracking Google Doc
• Twitch Plays Pokémon on Reddit
• Twitch Plays Pokémon on YouTube
• Wikipedia article
• Interview with host

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