Twitch Plays Pokémon
Twitch Plays Pokémon (TPP) is a
The concept was developed by an anonymous Australian programmer and launched on February 12, 2014, starting with the game
The experiment was met with attention by media outlets and staff members of Twitch for its interactivity, its erratic and chaotic nature, the unique challenges faced by players due to the mechanics of its system, and the community and memes developed by participants. Twitch as a company used the experiment to explore how they could make streaming more interactive for viewers and expand their offerings. Following the completion of Red, the broadcaster continued the channel with many other games in the Pokémon series along with unofficial ROM hacks. The broadcaster has plans to continue with other Pokémon games as long as there remains interest in the channel. The success of the experiment led to a number of similar Twitch-based streams for other games, and led Twitch to promote more streams with similar interactivity with watchers.
Premise
Inspired by another Twitch-based interactive game, Salty Bet (a website where users can wager on the outcome of randomized
The erratic nature of the control scheme has made the game longer and harder to play than under normal circumstances; an
Despite the seemingly erratic process of playing the game, players have attempted to collaborate and strategize through various means, including infographics and a
The Streamer has since collaborated with others to continue preparing tools for the games for the Twitch channel. This group had added live commentary on the games as they were played. As a result of intra-group hostility from some of the collaborators, the Streamer stepped down from his role as lead for Twitch Plays Pokémon on 22 November 2017, and gave control to another collaborator.[18]
Progression and further games
On 18 February 2014, after encountering major difficulties with a puzzle in the Team Rocket hideout, a new mechanic was introduced in an effort to make the game easier to play, Democracy mode. On introduction it initially made all movements subject to a vote: all inputs received over a period of time (usually 30 seconds) were tallied, and the winning command would be executed at the end of that time. Users could also append their movements with numbers to specify the length of the motion, such as "right3" to mean three consecutive "right" inputs. Many people were outraged over this new system and protest broke out in the Twitch chat, many of them using the command "start9" (which would open and close the pause menu nine times to slow down progress) to fight the system. This became known as "The start9 protests." The broadcaster later reworked the mechanic so that users could vote to switch between two modes: "Anarchy", the previous default, and this new mode "Democracy."[19][20] However, a change to Democracy mode requires a supermajority vote, while a change to Anarchy mode requires only a majority vote, as indicated by an on-screen meter. This change was considered divisive by players, who believed that Democracy mode conflicted with the original concept of the stream and eliminated the potential for randomness which had helped to drive the elaborate narrative and mythology that had built up around the playthrough.[4][5][15][20][21][22]
Following the completion of Pokémon Red, a new game began on 2 March 2014, this time with the second generation game Pokémon Crystal.[23] The developer set a deadline for the completion of Crystal with the plan to start Pokémon Emerald on a fixed date, though the players were able to complete Crystal well before this point.[24] With the change to Crystal also came a change to the voting system; the Democracy mode was automatically activated at the top of each hour.[25] By 14 March 2014, players had reached a major battle on Mt. Silver against Red, a trainer representing the player-character from Red and Blue; however, the game was also modified so that Red's team would consist of the same Pokémon that were used to beat the Elite Four in the Twitch Plays Pokémon playthrough of Pokémon Red earlier.[26] The developer stated that he intentionally changed the game data of Crystal to behave in this way, as it was Game Freak's original intent when creating the game that the player would face Red in Crystal using the Pokémon they had finished Red with.[24] Crystal was beaten on 15 March, with more than 13 days of playtime.[27][28] The developer stated that even though fewer viewers watched Pokémon Crystal compared to Pokémon Red, he will continue the stream with other Pokémon games as long as there remains interest in the experiment.[24][29]
Pokémon Emerald was started on 21 March 2014. With the shift to Emerald, the Democracy mode was initially disabled entirely.
The shift to
In honour of the one-year anniversary of the original run, a new playing of Pokémon Red began in February 2015. The goal was to complete the game's main storyline and to catch all 151 Pokémon, the latter which they did in around 39 days.[35][36]
To celebrate the project's fourth anniversary, the channel started a new playthrough of both Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue simultaneously. Players in the Twitch channel can specify which game their command is for, but otherwise commands are issues alternating between the two games, and when the game's democratic mode is on, the command voted on is used in both games.[37]
As the experiment moved into its fifth year, having exhausted all the official Pokémon games, the channel began using more fan-created mods of the Pokémon games.[38]
In honor of running for six years straight, the stream ran a gauntlet of 6 games in a row.
Viewership
Launched on 12 February 2014 as a "
Community
An active community of players also emerged on communities and social networks such as
Certain Pokémon captured by Red during the gameplay have also gained fan followings. Two Pokémon that were obtained early in the game, and then later accidentally released were the
Reception
Media outlets have described the proceedings of the game as being "mesmerizing," "miraculous," and "beautiful chaos," with one viewer comparing it to "watching a car crash in slow motion."[4][13][14] Ars Technica felt that it encapsulated "the best and worst qualities of our user-driven, novelty-hungry age," providing hours of arguable time-wasting entertainment through a word-of-mouth viral distribution.[4] The stream has been compared to the infinite monkey theorem in that effectively random input to a game still ultimately comes out with forward progress in the game.[48][49] Twitch vice president of marketing Matthew DiPietro praised the stream, considering it "one more example of how video games have become a platform for entertainment and creativity that extends WAY beyond the original intent of the game creator. By merging a video game, live video and a participatory experience, the broadcaster has created an entertainment hybrid custom made for the Twitch community. This is a wonderful proof of concept that we hope to see more of in the future."[9]
Legacy
Twitch Plays Pokémon has also inspired imitators with other video games, such as Pokémon Blue,
The term "crowdplay" has been ascribed to similar games where the actions of the crowd directly influence the gameplay.
Another homage, Fish Plays Pokémon, surfaced in August 2014 as part of a
A Helix Fossil emote with the shortcut "PraiseIt" was later made available as a Twitch chat emote in celebration of the original Pokémon Red run.[77]
On March 1, 2024, the official Pokémon Instagram account posted a video of various Omastar and Omanyte to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the original run’s completion.[78]
Game completion
Season | Game | Start | Completed | Completion time | Notes | |
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Season 1 | Pokémon Red
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12 February 2014 | 1 March 2014 | 16 days, 9 hours, 55 minutes, 4 seconds | ||
Pokémon Crystal | 2 March 2014 | 15 March 2014 | 13 days, 2 hours, 2 minutes, 55 seconds | Uses a modded version, with 251 species of Pokémon available and the final boss Red's team consisting of the same team from Twitch Plays Pokémon Red. | ||
Pokémon Emerald | 21 March 2014 | 11 April 2014 | 20 days, 21 hours, 55 minutes, 41 seconds | |||
Pokémon Randomized FireRed | 11 April 2014 | 27 April 2014 | 15 days, 2 hours, 1 minute, 54 seconds | Used a modded version with a pseudorandom number generator to change the predetermined Pokémon, items, and moves. | ||
Pokémon Platinum | 2 May 2014 | 20 May 2014 | 17 days, 11 hours, 38 minutes, 47 seconds | |||
Pokémon Randomized HeartGold | 23 May 2014 | 12 June 2014 | 18 days, 20 hours, 33 minutes, 51 seconds | Used a modded version with a pseudorandom number generator to change the predetermined Pokémon, items, and moves. | ||
Pokémon Black | 15 June 2014 | 27 June 2014 | 12 days, 18 hours, 34 minutes, 59 seconds | |||
Pokémon Blaze Black 2 | 6 July 2014 | 22 July 2014 | 19 days, 2 hours, 15 minutes, 37 seconds | Used a | ||
Pokémon X[79] | 27 July 2014 | 1 August 2014 | 5 days, 5 hours, 44 seconds | |||
Pokémon Omega Ruby | 22 November 2014 | 29 November 2014 | 8 days, 13 hours, 29 minutes | |||
Season 2 | Pokémon Anniversary Red
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12 February 2015 | 23 March 2015 | 39 days, 19 hours, 27 minutes, 12 seconds | Used a modded, more difficult version which makes all 151 species available; goal is to complete the Pokédex. | |
Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal | 23 March 2015 | 10 November 2015 | 37 weeks, 3 days, 3 hours, 21 minutes | A bootleg version of Pokémon Crystal. This version is notorious among Pokémon fans for its rampant mistranslations.[81] Unlike previous games, this version was not played constantly and instead was interspersed between Pokémon Battle Revolution matches. | ||
Touhou Puppet Play 1.8 Enhanced | 10 May 2015 | 24 May 2015 | 13 days, 15 hours, 44 minutes | Uses two modded versions of Pokémon FireRed at once known as Touhou Puppet Play 1.8 Enhanced which uses characters from the Touhou Project game series in place of Pokémon is utilized, as well as the hack Moémon. Both were being completed simultaneously. | ||
Moémon | ||||||
Pokémon Randomized Alpha Sapphire | 12 July 2015 | 26 July 2015 | 14 days, 1 hour, 17 minutes | Used a modded version with a pseudorandom number generator to change the predetermined Pokémon, items, and moves. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U matches, played by computer AIs, were streamed alongside the Alpha Sapphire playthrough. | ||
Pokémon Colosseum | 12 October 2015 | 18 October 2015 | 6 days 3 hours, 27 minutes | |||
Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness | 12 December 2015 | 20 December 2015 | 8 days 4 hours 9 minutes | |||
Pokémon Trading Card Game | 20 December 2015 | 13 February 2016 | 7 weeks, 6 days, 25 minutes, 6 seconds | Similarly to Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal, this game was played intermittently throughout Pokémon Battle Revolution. The game was completed during the Anniversary Crystal intermission. | ||
Pokémon Trading Card Game 2 | 13 February 2016 | 8 April 2016 | 7 weeks, 6 days | Started during the pre-Anniversary Crystal intermission. Finished during post-Anniversary Crystal intermission. | ||
Season 3 | Pokémon Anniversary Crystal | 14 February 2016 | 16 March 2016 | 30 days, 4 hours, 33 minutes | Similar to Anniversary Red in which a modded version is used and it's required to catch all Pokémon to complete the game. | |
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team | 12 February 2016 | 27 January 2017 | 50 weeks, 2 hours, 24 minutes | Played as a sidegame both alongside Pokémon Battle Revolution and other runs. It was temporarily replaced by Pokémon Ultra. | ||
Pokémon Brown | 16 June 2016 | 27 June 2016 | 11 days, 2 hours | One of the original serious ROM hacks based on Pokémon Red. | ||
Pokémon Randomized Platinum | 31 July 2016 | 16 August 2016 | 15 days, 4 hours, 2 minutes | Used a modded version with a pseudorandom number generator to change the predetermined Pokémon, items, and moves. | ||
Pokémon Ultra | 16 August 2016 | 28 October 2016 | 10 weeks, 3 days, 11 hours, 41 minutes | A poorly made ROM hack based on Pokémon Leaf Green . Like Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal and the Pokémon Trading Card Game before it, it is a sidegame and is played between Pokémon Battle Revolution matches.
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Pokémon Prism | 9 October 2016 | 26 October 2016 | 16 days, 23 hours, 18 minutes | The sequel to Pokémon Brown. It debuted on TPP after being in development for almost eight years.[82] | ||
Pokémon Sun | 18 November 2016 | 2 December 2016 | 13 days, 22 hours | |||
Pokémon Waning Moon | 13 January 2017 | 26 January 2017 | 13 days, 11 hours, 37 minutes | Used a modded, more difficult version of Pokémon Moon. | ||
Season 4 | Pokémon Chatty Yellow
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12 February 2017 | 24 February 2017 | 11 days, 19 hours | The third anniversary run. Uses a modified version of Pokémon Yellow centered around Chatot, which utilizes scripting to take quotes from users in the chat to replace in-game dialogue in real time.[83] | |
Pokémon Dark Graystone | 24 February 2017 | 13 March 2017 | 2 weeks, 3 days, 4 hours, 4 minutes, 57 seconds | Uses a modified version of Pokémon Gold. Played as a sidegame like VC and Ultra. | ||
Pokémon Ash Gray | 13 March 2017 | 29 September 2017 | 28 weeks, 4 days, 28 minutes, 6 seconds | Uses a modified version of Pokémon FireRed based on the events of the Pokémon anime. Played as a sidegame.
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Pokémon Blazed Glazed | 8 April 2017 | 25 April 2017 | 16 days, 16 hours | Uses a modified version of an existing modified version of Pokémon Emerald, known as Pokémon Glazed. | ||
Pokémon Randomized White 2 | 3 June 2017 | 20 June 2017 | 16 days, 18 hours, 11 minutes | Used a modded version with a pseudorandom number generator to change the predetermined Pokémon, items, and moves. | ||
Pokémon Pyrite | 12 August 2017 | 26 August 2017 | 14 days, 7 hours, 58 minutes | Uses a modified version of Pokémon Crystal featuring increased difficulty and other changes. | ||
Pokémon Theta Emerald EX | 30 September 2017 | 15 October 2017 | 15 days | A modified version of Pokémon Emerald which features increased difficulty, 721 Pokémon as well as various other changes from later generations. | ||
Pokémon Green
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15 October 2017 | 13 April 2018 | 25 weeks, 5 days, 3 hours, 45 minutes, 36 seconds | Badly translated bootleg. Played as a sidegame. | ||
Pokémon Ultra Sun | 25 November 2017 | 8 December 2017 | 13 days, 4 hours, 7 minutes | |||
Season 5 | Pokémon Red and Blue
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12 February 2018 | 27 February 2018 | 14 days, 1 hour, 50 minutes | A dual run in which Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue are played simultaneously. Unlike the previous dual run, inputs are split between the two games and users can choose to input specifically for one game or let it alternate between them. | |
Pokémon Storm Silver | 14 April 2018 | 4 May 2018 | 19 days, 3 hours | A romhack of Pokémon SoulSilver in which all Pokémon from up to the fourth generation are available as well as various other minor changes. | ||
Pokémon Sweet | 4 May 2018 | 10 February 2019 | 40 weeks, 1 day, 23 hours, 56 minutes, 23 seconds | A romhack of Pokémon FireRed with "candified" Pokémon known as PokéSweets. Played as a sidegame. | ||
Pokémon Bronze | 9 June 2018 | 18 June 2018 | 8 days, 8 hours, 21 minutes | A romhack of Pokémon Gold. | ||
Pokémon Randomized Y | 11 August 2018 | 26 August 2018 | 14 days, 11 hours, 26 minutes | Used a modded version with a pseudorandom number generator to change the predetermined Pokémon, items, and moves. | ||
Detective Pikachu | 8 September 2018 | 10 September 2018 | 1 day, 22 hours, 47 minutes | |||
Pokémon Flora Sky | 13 October 2018 | 29 October 2018 | 16 days, 2 hours, 42 minutes | A romhack of Pokémon Emerald featuring an original story and Pokémon from the fourth and fifth generations. | ||
Hypno's Lullaby | 30 October 2018 | 12 November 2018 | 1 week, 5 days, 23 hours, 55 minutes, 43 seconds | A romhack of Pokémon FireRed based on the creepypasta, Hypno's Lullaby. Played as a sidegame. | ||
Pokémon Crystal Randofuser | 8 December 2018 | 19 December 2018 | 10 days, 9 hours, 1 minute | A romhack of Pokémon Crystal which fuses different Pokémon together. | ||
Season 6 | Red
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12 February 2019 | 22 February 2019 | 9 days, 13 hours, 33 minutes | Used a romhack with the ability to switch between Pokémon Red and Pokémon FireRed. Pokémon, money and most items are transferred between both games. | |
Pokémon Gold Space World Demo | 2 March 2019 | 30 March 2019 | 4 weeks, 23 hours, 33 minutes, 15 seconds | An early demo of Pokémon Gold that was playable at Pokémon that are unused in the final game . Played as a sidegame.
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Pokémon Metronome Sapphire | 31 March 2019 | 19 December 2019 | TBD | Uses a modded version with a pseudorandom number generator to change the predetermined Pokémon and sets them all to Level 100 with only the move Metronome. Ended as a full-run and continues as a sidegame as of 3 April 2019. | ||
Pokémon Volt White | 13 April 2019 | 25 April 2019 | 11 days, 21 hours, 16 minutes | A romhack of Pokémon White featuring all Pokémon from the fifth generation available as well as various other changes. | ||
Pokémon Randomized Colosseum | 8 June 2019 | 15 June 2019 | 6 days, 5 hours, 34 minutes, 21 seconds | Used a modded version with a pseudorandom number generator to change the predetermined Pokémon, items, and moves. | ||
Pokémon XG: NeXt Gen | 13 July 2019 | 21 July 2019 | 8 days, 1 hour, 40 minutes | A romhack of Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness. | ||
Pokémon TriHard Emerald | 10 August 2019 | 20 August 2019 | 9 days, 21 hours, 34 minutes | A romhack of Pokémon Emerald where defeated Pokémon are permanently removed from the party, similar to a Nuzlocke Challenge. The main difference being that upon loss of a battle, the game reverses to a previous save. Meaning that removed Pokémon can technically be restored at the cost of a loss of progress. | ||
Pokémon Randomized Ultra Moon | 12 October 2019 | 23 October 2019 | 10 days, 16 hours, 2 minutes, 17 seconds | Used a modded version with a pseudorandom number generator to change the predetermined Pokémon, items, and moves. | ||
Pokémon Sword | 23 November 2019 | 1 December 2019 | 7 days, 23 hours, 57 minutes | |||
Pokémon NavyBlue | 1 December 2019 | Ongoing | TBD | A romhack of Pokémon FireRed played as a sidegame. Extremely poorly made game, with many poorly made fan Pokémon. | ||
Season 7 | Pokémon Gauntlet Red
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13 February 2020 | 19 February 2020 | 6 days, 18 hours, 43 minutes | The Gauntlet is a rerun of most of the games played during Season 1 played one after the other. | |
Pokémon Gauntlet Crystal | 23 February 2020 | 3 March 2020 | 8 days, 16 hours, 19 minutes, 43 seconds | |||
Pokémon Gauntlet Emerald | 7 March 2020 | 18 March 2020 | 11 days, 20 hours, 10 minutes, 15 seconds | |||
Pokémon Gauntlet Platinum | 28 March 2020 | 5 April 2020 | 8 days, 14 hours | |||
Pokémon Gauntlet Blaze Black 2 | 12 April 2020 | 27 April 2020 | 14 days | |||
Pokémon Gauntlet X | 3 May 2020 | 10 May 2020 | 7 days, 5 seconds | |||
Pokémon Lightning Sapphire | 5 May 2020 | 10 December 2020 | 30 weeks, 2 days, 22 hours, 38 minutes, 3 seconds | A bad translation of Pokémon Sapphire. Was the final sidegame before a vote to remove them. | ||
Pokémon Sirius | 13 June 2020 | 23 June 2020 | 10 days, 1 hour, 12 minutes, 54 seconds | A romhack of Pokémon Emerald and the prequel to Pokémon Vega. | ||
Pokémon Rising Ruby | 8 August 2020 | 21 August 2020 | 12 days, 22 hours, 16 minutes | A romhack of Pokémon Omega Ruby including higher difficulty and all sixth generation Pokémon obtainable. | ||
Pokémon Vega | 12 December 2020 | 25 December 2020 | 12 days, 11 hours, 14 minutes | A romhack of Pokémon Emerald and the sequel to Pokémon Sirius. | ||
Season 8 | Pokémon Chatty Crystal | 14 February 2021 | 8 March 2021 | 21 days, 3 hours, 40 minutes | The seventh anniversary run. Uses a modified version of Pokémon Crystal centered around Unown and Chatot, which utilizes scripting to take quotes from users in the chat to replace in-game dialogue in real time. | |
Pokémon Renegade Platinum | 10 April 2021 | 21 April 2021 | 10 days, 19 hours, 50 minutes | A romhack of Pokémon Platinum including higher difficulty, balance changes and all generation IV Pokémon obtainable. | ||
Pokémon Green
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8 May 2021 | 10 May 2021 | 1 day, 3 hours, 32 minutes, 15 seconds | A collaboration between two other Twitch Plays streams in which they raced to see who could complete Pokémon Green, Pokémon Blue and Pokémon Red respectively.
TwitchPlaysPokémon played Pokémon Green and came in first. TwitchPlaysPaperMario played Pokémon Blue and came in second. TwitchPlaysSpeedruns played Pokémon Red and came in last. | ||
Pokémon Blue
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1 day, 7 hours, 22 minutes, 42 seconds | |||||
Pokémon Red
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1 day, 11 hours, 3 minutes, 13 seconds | |||||
Dragon Ball Z Team Training | 13 May 2021 | N/A | TBD | A romhack of Pokémon FireRed featuring characters from the Dragon Ball Z anime series in place of Pokémon. Played as a sidegame. | ||
Pokémon Randomized Black | 3 July 2021 | 12 July 2021 | 8 days, 4 hours, 56 minutes | A romhack of Pokémon Platinum including higher difficulty, balance changes and all generation IV Pokémon obtainable. | ||
Pokémon Randomized Black 2 | 12 July 2021 | 29 July 2021 | 17 days, 7 hours, 35 minutes | Used a modded version with a pseudorandom number generator to change the predetermined Pokémon, items, and moves. | ||
Pokémon Emerald | 13 August 2021 | 17 August 2021 | 3 days, 9 hours, 48 minutes, 21 seconds | |||
Pokémon Blazing Emerald | 21 August 2021 | N/A | N/A | A romhack of Pokémon Emerald. |
From Platinum to Black 2, the stream showed a second game, Pokémon Stadium 2, alongside the main game. Unlike other games, inputs for Stadium 2 were chosen at random and were not controlled by the chat. Instead, players on the chat were given virtual currency that could be used to place bets on the outcome of Stadium 2 matches.
In addition, an extra game is showcased to the side of any game currently being played. This game is a romhack of Pokémon Pinball dubbed simply Pokémon Pinball Generations, which adds two new boards based on the second generation of Pokémon. As such, all Pokémon from Generation II are now obtainable in-game, and Pokémon badges are awarded randomly when a Pokémon is caught during a Pinball playthrough.[85]
See also
Further reading
- Marley-Vincent Lindsey, The Politics of Pokémon. Socialized Gaming, Religious Themes and the Construction of Communal Narratives, Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet (2015)
- James, Eric Andrew, Using Rhetorical Criticism to Track Twitch Plays Pokémon Fans' Attachment to Sacrifice, Transformative Works and Cultures, Vol. 28 (2018)
- Jenny Saucerman & Dennis Ramirez, Praise Helix! Christian Narrative in Twitch Plays: Pokémon, Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet (2016)
- Kyriakou, H., and Nickerson, J.V.. Twitch Plays Pokémon: An Exploratory Analysis of Mass Synchronous Crowd Collaboration, Collective Intelligence (2016)
- Laz Carter, Pokémon and a Fandom of Nostalgia, Reflexive Horizons, 24 March 2014.
- Milando, Chris, Community-Controlled Games and the Advent of the Fourth-Person Narrative, Level Up Literature Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
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External links
- Twitch Plays Pokémon on Twitch
- Twitch Plays Pokémon fan webpage
- The Complete History of Twitch Plays Pokémon – Schwam Games, via YouTube