Twitch Plays Pokemon

[Jessweeee♪]

Twitch

Who's been keeping up with it? For those of you not in the know, basically it's a twitch channel streaming Pokemon Red/Blue where the user has set up their emulator to accept commands from the twitch chat. Anyone can come in, type a/b/up/down whatever. So far the most I've seen on at once is a bit over 100k users. As you can imagine, progress is slow. I pop in a couple of times a day to check out progress and throw in a few inputs.

Highlights so far:

That smurfing ledge next to Pewter City only one space wide. One mothersmurfer presses down and it's all over.


Coordinating the cutting of a tree took many many hours.


Trying to get a pokemon that can learn surf. The hivemind opted for picking up an Eevee to evolve into a Vaporeon instead of getting Lapras. Accidentally got a firestone. They tried to dump the unwanted Flareon into the PC and instead they accidentally released Charmeleon and a Ratatta the fans affectionately refer to as "Jay Leno." Oops.

Spending a day and a half trying to clear Team Rocket HQ. Actually managed to navigate the mazes several times, only to accidentally use "dig" to warp out of the building and have to start over. This happened many many times and inspired the anarchy vs. democracy system you see in place now.



Obtained and immediately released a Hitmonlee. Oops.

[Jinx]

Jesswee, I thought I knew you.

[Slothy]

Getting this short update of the greatest hits is the only tolerable way to experience this whole Twitch Pokemon thing.

[Jinx]

Getting this short update of the greatest hits is the only tolerable way to experience this whole Twitch Pokemon thing.

For once I have to agree with you.

[Jessweeee♪]

People who are spending hours and hours actually trying to play this are doing it wrong imo. You pop in, catch up on everything that's happened while you were gone, throw in some a's and check out xD

[Pete for President]

Haha yea I saw this a couple days ago. It's hilarious.

[CimminyCricket]

This is all we've been talking about at work for the day or so. I can't handle the stress.

[Fynn]

I'm surprised this thread got started so late. This is awesome. It even has it's own TV Tropes page. The Internet is fascinating.

Also, Jess, it's because of monsters like you that Abby and Jay Leno are gone

[Jessweeee♪]

I'm surprised this thread got started so late. This is awesome. It even has it's own TV Tropes page. The Internet is fascinating.

I love how it critiques the strategies employed so far, as if anything is being done intentionally in this game besides "go to the place and do the thing."

[Shauna]

I think it is hilarious. I am always impressed whenever I check in and they've actually moved on!

[Dr Unne]

When I was watching, people kept opening the menu over and over. I'm also kind of sad that it broke Twitch chat for most of the week. It's an interesting concept though.

[Spuuky]

Yeah, they added start menu throttling which helps a little bit so it isn't just constant menu, but it's still there a lot.

[Del Murder]

The ultimate challenge would be to try and do this with a game like Dark Souls.

[Jessweeee♪]

There's three factions at play here with the menu opening. One group is opening the menu with the intention of eating up the excess number of commands and to help catch up with the 20-40 second delay, one group thinking they are just trolling and using scripts to spam b, and one group is just pressing start for funsies.

[Sephiroth]

This looks very boring and your thread with Red looking like a dork is the only good thing about it.