Twitch Plays Pokemon became an internet sensation when it launched, allowing players to simultaneously input commands into a live stream of Pokemon Red and watch it all unfold. Simple tasks are made difficult by everyone jamming commands ("up" "left" "A", etc) at once, but despite the challenges, players managed to beat two games already and recently began another.
The creator who came up with the idea stated that he wants it to keep going-as long as people are still active and interested. If the player base and viewers stay around, so too will Twitch Plays Pokemon.
"I intend on running the stream for as long as it still has an active following," the creator, who wishes to remain anonymous, told Polygon. His or her name is not known to the public, and the only detail we know is that the creator is a programmer from Australia.
The players beat Pokemon Red after 16 days of constant play, nearly beating the Elite Four on the first attempt but falling short, going through many failures after that until they achieved victory. They recently beat Pokemon Crystal within the time limit set by the creator, who stated that was more a timer until the start of Pokemon Emerald than a challenge he or she thought the players wouldn't beat.
"I was mostly certain they would have succeeded, if not I could have always delayed Emerald or ran them both simultaneously," the creator said.
He or she added an extra easter egg to the Crystal play-through, adding the exact Pokemon they had beaten Pokemon Red with to a final battle for a fun challenge. The creator explains that he thinks this was originally intended in the real game, but it didn't come together.
"I think Game Freak wanted the battle with Red to have the original team of Pokemon but weren't able to because it's impossible to read the saves of other games, that's why the team is comprised of Pokemon that the majority of the players have owned one of at some point," the creator said.
Viewership is still good, but has definite dropped since the original play-through. The creator contributes this to the novelty wearing off and the media writing about it less, but it's still going strong overall. You can watch the live stream at the link below, which runs constantly all day, every day.
Source: Polygon
