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After two weeks of anarchy, 100,000 simultaneous ‘Pokémon’ players may actually beat the game

27
Feb
2014

We still dont know if infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters can produce the complete works of Shakespeare, but it appears that tens of thousands of people controlling a single Game Boy can beat a famous game. Two weeks ago, viewers of game streaming site Twitch.tv started playing a massively multiplayer session of Pokémon where each comment in the chat window translates to a button press on the gamepad — and somehow the resulting mess of over 10 million button presses has turned into successful gameplay. …

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