Play Pokemon Red/Blue with many other people at the same time through Twitch Plays Pokémon, wherein you can play this game by giving game commands like up, down, left, right, A, B, start in online chat.
Have you ever wanted to play Pokemon Red/Blue with thousands of other people, simultaneously? Now, you can fulfill your desire with Twitch Plays Pokémon, which is online stream of the Gameboy version of Pokémon. It is running on an emulator. At present, numbers of people are joining in the Pokemon Red game at Twitch.com to play this interesting game via online chat. They give command to the game simply by typing things like up, down, left, right, A, B, start, and select into the Twitch chat. As soon as you entered your command, twitch will translate it in to a game of Pokemon Red via an IRC bot. In short, thousands of people are fighting over a controller. However you must have Twitch account, in order to play Pokémon red game online and give comment on a public stream.
Believe it or not, the team effort has already gotten huge response from more than thousands of people just in three days. So, there is no sign of game stopping anytime soon. The community-controlled experiments have increased in last three days and encountered over 50 diverse types of Pokemon and captured nine of the collectable creatures – several of which are very advanced in level. Slowly but surely, players are making progress with simple commands. It is powered by combination of JavaScript and Python code and the VirtualBoyAdvance emulator.
Many challenges await the community, who are trying to play the game. No matter, they will succeed or not, but connecting with game collaboratively through internet will definitely become a great experience for them. Twitch’s servers introduce a lot of lag in order to support streaming to many people simultaneously. The time of lag is approximate 20 to 30 seconds, depends on your connection quality. Twitch Plays Pokemon is a brainchild of Australian programmer, who wants to stay with game as anonymous.
Anyone can register in Twitch at free of cost, and broadcast their game screens to the public. Twitch is the only place that will get more attention with this genius stunts.
How to play Twitch Plays Pokemon?
Registration is required to play Twitch Plays Pokemon with other people through online chat. To play Pokémon game, you have to just say about the button that you want to push in chat like (a, b, start select, up, down, left, right). It accepts only one button per message; so don’t try to combo or hold.
During the play, player will be disturbed by trees. In the first generation of Pokémon games, player can remove trees from menu and using cut while facing the tree. However it becomes so difficult to remove tress from the game, because large number of commands are needed to achieve this. One particular tree takes too much time to remove. No More difficulties will be faced by player during the plays, so enjoy each and every moment of the game with full of fun.
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