10 years after the launch of Twitch Plays Pokemon, the social-experiment-turned-online-phenomenon is celebrating its double-digit birthday by getting back to basics, revisiting the original games on original hardware and this time trying to beat them without any method to reign in the full chaos of Twitch chat.
If you missed out on the whole Twitch Plays Pokemon thing the first time around, it's a stream where viewers directly control the action through chat messages. Any time somebody types "A," for example, the A button is pressed in-game. The initial run of TPP became something of a phenomenon back in 2014, drawing in tens of thousands of viewers, who transformed the collective chaos into a pile of weird, wonderful lore about how each game was completed.
