Over 500,000 people have attempted to wrap-up The Pokemon Red game on Twitch USA Today reported Wednesday.
"My goal was to see how a community would interact with a game in this manner, it was been mostly to satisfy my curiosity but I also wanted to gain valuable experience to put towards future projects," the game's creator, who did not want to be named told USA Today.
A Twitch user transferred a copy of the game onto the video platform community, last week and it has been a creative popular insanity ever since with the game that came out on Nintendo Gameboy in the United States in 1998 USA Today reported.
"Twitch Plays Pokemon" merges video games, live video and participation into something new," Matthew DiPietro vice president of marketing at Twitch told USA Today. "We've never seen anything like this before. What is really interesting is this is totally community- driven, organically-growing emergent behavior. We did not do this. We did not create this. This is entirely the creation of one Twitch broadcaster and the community that has now coalesced on his channel," DiPietro told USA Today.
"This is 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," DiPietro told CNN. "By merging a video game, live video and a participatory experience, the broadcaster has created an entertainment hybrid custom made for the Twitch community," DiPietro told CNN.
Viewers on Twitch's channel can participate by entering a command in the technology's chat box. Users can also put a,b, start select, up, down, left, and right into the box. The words Anarchy, and Democracy can also be entered.
"The most interesting things that happen on Twitch on any given day and in any given week are the things that come from the community themselves and our job is to support them when they happen," DiPietro told USA Today.
