After 16 days, the hive consciousness of Twitch Plays Pokemon has successfully beaten Pokemon Red. Early this morning, thousands of chat participants navigated through the final fight with Blue, a major milestone in a social experiment that has effectively turned Twitch.tv into a huge crowdsourced gaming platform. Twitch Plays Pokemon, which launched on February 12th, translates chat text into button presses on a Game Boy emulator. In mid-February, the creator modified its controls to make it more beatable, preventing trolls from spamming the start button and creating a democracy mode, which accepted only the most popular button presses rather than all of them.
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