Despite suffering a major setback last week - with "Team Rocket" releasing the majority of the party, it seems the social media experiment Twitter plays Pokémon Red Version inside someone's avatar has bounced back.
According to the creator Constantin Liétard, it took 40 days and more than 90K comments to defeat the Elite Four and Red's rival. To top it off, Twitter went on to catch the legendary pocket monster, Mewtwo.
To celebrate, the creator has uploaded a YouTube video documenting the journey. Here it is in all its glory:
While there's been no mention of what's next, there are now calls for Twitter Plays Pokémon Gold or Silver. Were you part of this journey? Can you believe social media was able to complete a Pokémon game inside an avatar? Tell us down below.
[source twitter.com]
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WOOOOHOOO good job you guys.
WOOOOHOO GREAT JOB 10/10
That’s pretty outstanding, I’m very happy that decades of technical research, programming, coding and evolution have led us to this moment in history.
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Nice!
But please use a different preview pic in the future (I guess they do Nuzlocke now). Because every time I see that packshot makes me think we get a Pokemon classic collection or that NSO has finally added GameBoy.
Meaning that it's always disappointing to read it's the Twitter thing. Which it should not be, because that is awesome on it's own.
Very cool to see. It’s been an odd journey but it’s nice to see people actually working together to finish the game.
Let's gooooooooo
Dare I ask what the final team was?
Certainly impressive.
And, why was "release" even a feature to begin with?
@Mariotag I think it is because sometimes you might not want a Pokemon on your team anymore, and in Gen 1, the box was crazy limited. Also, I would love to see what the final team was.
Ah. Makes sense.
I barely remember Gen 1. It was so long ago.
I do remember you had to save every time you switched PC boxes though.
Oh man that must have been slow and tiring...l can't even think about it
@Mariotag The final team consists of CHAD the Zapdos, 'Alakazam' the Kadabra, LUKE the Dodrio, HOPE the Lapras, RYUKAHR the Dragonair, and MARSHALL the Growlithe who delivered the coup de grâce.
AMAYBE the Blastoise, ABBPRI the Graveler, CHAD the Fearow, DHY the Jolteon, and TPP:) the Snorlax were released by Team Rocket during a gym battle by using Graveler's DIG and warping to a PC at around 1:06:38.
Congratulations!
That's honestly faster than I thought.
Woho! Awesome! You wasted your time doing that so we don't have to. Thanks.
Nice, such a nice story.
Honestly, I never expected them to make it from the moment 'team rocket' was in the game!
Love it when they're just pacing backwards and forwards in the same spot haha
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