Twitter Plays Pokemon Red Avatar Beats Erika’s Grass-Type Gym

Over about 3 weeks, Twitter defeats the Grass-type gym leader Erika in a crowd-controlled game of Pokemon Red played inside a Twitter avatar.

Over the years, there have been many iterations of Pokemon Twitch Plays experiments, which originally saw an audience of Twitch viewers enter button inputs in a Twitch chat in order to play a crowd-controlled game of Pokemon Red on the streaming platform back in 2014. While many variations of Twitch Plays Pokemon involved playing newer games or playing them with different twists, one fan recently put a whole new spin on the idea a couple of weeks ago.

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