Twitch Plays Pokémon continues with second-gen game — will keep going as long as people care

Early this morning, Twitch Plays Pokémon beat the game, but that’s not the end of the journey.

After more than 400 hours, thousands of gamers working in unison (and just as many working to sow chaos) completed the entirety of Nintendo role-playing game Pokémon Red for Game Boy. More than two weeks ago, an anonymous Australian programmer set up the Twitch Plays Pokémon channel on the livestreaming site. It enables anyone to control the onscreen action by entering commands into a chat window. Now, he revealed the future of the experiment relies on the continued interest of the community: