Life & fun · February 26, 2014
Twitch Plays Pokemon ASCII Edition
Twitch Plays Pokemon ASCII Edition launched on February 26, 2014 with 19 votes, #541 of 1,100 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.
In plain words
Twitch Plays Pokemon ASCII Edition is a text-based version of the collaborative Twitch Plays Pokemon experiment. Viewers control a Pokemon game through chat commands, with gameplay displayed in ASCII characters rather than graphics. The project is designed for anyone interested in participatory gaming and real-time community interaction. It demonstrates how large groups of internet users can collectively play and progress through a game by voting on actions simultaneously.
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