Twitch Plays Pokémon inspires ambitious Zelda, Mario, and Street Fighter spin-offs

Collaboration and chaos. TwitchPlaysPokémon embodies both at the same time. But it’s almost over already. As an army of 50,000 players prepares for Pokémon Red’s final dungeon and bosses, several entrepreneurial Twitch broadcasters have applied TPP’s crowd-play format to other games.

TwitchPlaysPokemon is a social experiment that permits tens of thousands to enter commands for a single game of Pokémon Red. They are all trying to play the same single-player game at once thanks to its programming being integrated into video-streaming website Twitch’s live stream and chat functions.