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"Calling all old-school Pok\u00E9mon fans out there: Now you can re-live the fun via your computer and play the largest multiplayer game of Pok\u00E9mon Red/Blue with more than 12,000 other players. \nTwitch, a live-streaming website, is playing host to this massive crowd-sourced game, called \"Twitch Plays Pok\u00E9mon,\" which began on Valentine's Day. Anyone can join \u2014 just type in your command (up, down, left, right) in the chat sidebar on Twitch. Those commands are then translated into an actual moves by JavaScript, Python code and the Game Boy emulator, VisualBoyAdvance. Users are also welcome to just watch the game unfold on their screens.\nSee also: 20 Pok\u00E9mon GIFs That'll Make You a Better Friend\nDespite the huge lag time in playing and issuing commands, gamers everywhere are amazed that more than 12,000 people have already beaten three of the eight gym leaders needed to advance to the last segment of the Pok\u00E9mon game. Gym leaders test Pok\u00E9mon trainers and need to be defeated in order to gain a badge. These badges are needed by the Pok\u00E9mon trainer to defeat the best gym leaders \u2014 the Elite Four.\nA screenshot of Twitch Plays Pokemon.\nImage:  Twitch Plays Pok\u00C3\u00A9mon\n\n\nThe creator of \"Twitch Plays Pok\u00E9mon\" is just as surprised by the attention. \"I didn't really have any plans for it from the beginning,\" the anonymous creator told Polygon. \u201CI just wanted to put it up to see how people would respond. I put it together and put it up on a dedicated server all within a few days.\"\nOver three million people had viewed the page at time of writing. Twitch's experiment is sure to continue for the next couple of days, if not weeks, and gamers will definitely be keeping an eye out to see how far this crowdsourced game of Pok\u00E9mon can actually go.\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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