I was wondering if you had heard about the “Twitch Plays Pokemon” thing? It’s pretty equally entertaining as it is frustrating to watch? If you haven’t heard about it yet, a guy modded a Pokemon Red emulator in order for multiple people to be able to play a single Pokemon game file at once. Essentially it has turned into 40-50,000 people playing one game and keying in commands at the same time…. you can see where things can get complicated and frustrating for everyone involved!

…you know, I was just thinking about posting something on this.

Here it is for those who haven’t seen it: http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

One player has aptly described the exercise as follows: “This isn’t a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters. It’s twenty thousand monkeys at a single typewriter, and half those monkeys are screaming and desperately trying to progress while the other half throw shit everywhere. It’s wonderful.”  They have managed to flail and stumble their way as far as the Celadon Game Corner over the course of four and a half days, and have even evolved their Eevee into a Flareon (I had the good fortune to actually be watching at this glorious moment) and raised a powerful Pidgeot.  On the other hand, they have released their Charmeleon, thrown away a nugget and a Moon Stone, and spent a good hour stuck behind the tree outside Erica’s Gym.  The guy running this mess has said that he might hack the Surf HM into their inventory, since realistically there’s no way they’re going to get through the Safari Zone in 500 steps or less, but he wants to let them try first.  Personally I’m not sure even that will help, because they’ll still need to either teach Pidgeot Fly and successfully target Pallet Town or make it through the Seafoam Islands… then again, they’ve gotten this far.

EDIT: …aaand they just stuck Pidgeot in the PC.  They’re in trouble now.