“I use Open Broadcaster Software to merge the website and emulator output into a video feed that gets sent off to Twitch. In what can be called the first video game pop culture phenomenon since 2007’s Portal and 2011’s The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, entire communities on NeoGAF, Reddit, and 4Chan, to name a few sites, have taken to creating memes, and a meta story and narrative around this game stream. Perhaps equally hilarious is the entire culture of meta commentary that has sprung up around this stream. Somehow, the hive mind is slowly working its way through the game.
#Playr pokemon red full
The stream is going to complete its fifth full day soon, and in this period, amazingly, four gym badges have been won, Rock Tunnel has been cleared, multiple HMs and Field moves have been taught and used, multiple Pokemon have been caught, trained, evolved, traded, and even released. With so many people playing all at once, the ensuing result is absolute anarchy, and a whole lot of uncoordinated, aimless wandering, but all with a slow, constant progress towards the end game.
The game is being streamed on Twitch, running on an emulator set up to accept commands from the Twitch chat- typing in A translates to the press of the A button, typing Left translates to a left button press, and so on. In what feels like an allegory for politics, democracy, and humanity at large, more than 70,000 people (as of this writing) have come together to collectively play an emulated version of Nintendo’s 1996 classic, Pokemon Red.
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