Praise Helix: Twitch played and finally beat every generation of Pokémon

Twitch Plays Pokémon is perhaps the finest example of what the human spirit is capable of when we work together. Well, that and the moon landing … except the moon landing never beat a single Pokémon game.

After nearly six months, the community on gameplay video-streaming site Twitch has beaten every single generation of Pokémon games by working together to spam control commands into a chat window. Twitch Plays Pokémon burst on the scene in February by introducing a way for thousands of people to work together to play a single instance of a game. After attracting a huge audience and defeating Pokémon Red in a couple of weeks, a smaller crew of dedicated fans went on to play through all nine major iterations of the franchise. That includes Pokémon X, which was a part of the latest generation for 3DS.