Twitch Plays Pokemon: Its history, highlights and Bird Jesus
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TPP Victory! The Thundershock Heard Around the World - The Official Twitch Blog
WE DID IT! TwitchPlaysPokemon was victorious in just 16 days, 7 hours, 45 minutes and 30 seconds. With only 122 million chat messages. When can we do this again? (Oh, tomorrow, awesome!) On the 16th…
Praise Helix: The strange mythology of a crowdsourced Pokémon game
In the first-generation Pokémon games (Red and Blue), players can earn an item called the Helix Fossil in the caves of Mt. Moon. It’s not a particularly important object, and it serves no purpose other than allowing you to capture a rare mollusk-looking monster called an Omanyte. (And Omanyte itself isn’t all that special, either.) However, to the millions of people who flocked to the video game streaming site Twitch over the last several weeks, the Helix Fossil is an object of religious significance. It’s a tribute to the power of anarchy and a symbol of what thousands of people can accomp...
The Most Incredible Fan Art from Twitch Plays Pokemon
In the early hours of March 1st, 2014, Twitch Plays Pokemon came to an end. The thousands upon thousands of players had - over the course of nearly 400 ...
The Incredible Fan Art of Twitch Plays Pokemon: Crystal Version
After the successful completion of Twitch Plays Pokemon: Red Version, we showed you some of the greatest fan art created from that epic 400 hour adventure. ...
Ask The Almighty Helix Fossil
Consult with the Almighty Helix Fossil. Ask the Fossil for its opinion.
The Miraculous Progress Of 'Twitch Plays Pokémon' + picture collection
It has been nearly five days since Twitch Plays Pokemon, a stream that lets users collectively control a Pokémon game via chat commands, started broadcasting to the world. Since then, the stream has had over 60 thousand people watching and playing at once -- as you might expect, it's been a chaotic, awe-inspiring...
How Players Actually Make Progress In 'Twitch Plays Pokemon'
When more than 80,000 people band together to try to control a single Pokémon trainer via Twitch chat -- and then manage to actually make progress -- the question that immediately comes to mind is: just how in the world are they accomplishing it?...
Twitch Plays Pokemon - Status
Thousands Of People Are Playing Tetris Without Realising It
Right now, more than 100,000 people are trying their best to control a single trainer over at 'Twitch Plays Pokemon.' They know that if they send in a command via the 'Twitch Plays Pokemon' chat, it will make the character in the streamed version Pokemon Red do something. What many of them don't know is that, in doing...