Twitch Plays Pokémon (partially found footage of Let's Play channel; 2014)
Twitch Plays Pokémon is an ongoing "social experiment" that is run by an anonymous Australian programmer on Twitch.tv. The stream has spawned a cult-like following since its beginning on February 12th, 2014 with the highest viewership count being 120,000 at once and reaching a total of over 30 million.[1]
Despite its popularity, the first day and a half of the stream was not recorded by anyone. The recording of the stream did not start until 1 day 11 hours 25 minutes and 48 seconds into the game after a commenter asked the streamer to archive it.[2][3] This left the capture of important early characters lost. Thus, this period is known in the TwitchPlaysPokemon community as: The Lost Days. Since Twitch had deleted most archived streams, it's very unlikely that significant footage from this period will ever be found. There are chat logs available that begin at 1d 7h 48m 18s.[4][5]
It's currently unknown what exactly happened before the first screenshot of Day 1 at approximately ~0d 9h 37m ??s. Several people have attempted to use various early screenshots and forum/image board posts to recreate a timeline of approximately what happened in the first 35 hours, however, exact events are unknown.[6][4][7]
5 Screenshots of Day 1 have been documented. There are also 4 Videos, 15 Screenshots, and 5 (potentially 6) GIFs from the lost 35 hours that have been found.
Contact and Leads
Several Twitch accounts from the Day 1 screenshots as well as members of the GBATemp forums thread have been contacted for any information. No media has been received as of 15 Mar '23. There is also a GameFAQs, two Reddit, and a Something Awful thread however they were posted on Day 2 and have not yet been contacted. 4Chan Archives from Day 1 do exist[4], however since they are anonymous it is impossible to contact them.
User Desparae from Day 1 has been contacted and his testimony can be found here. He was unable to provide any screenshots, but did give some new information about what happened in the ~5 hours he was present. He also said that two users: Undeadlibrary and Anon_agon (Twitch handles) were the two most active players and were there for almost the whole early game. These are the two biggest leads right now. Undeadlibrary's twitch has been inactive for years and twitter for ~3 years with only one reply tweet. Anon_agon's twitch seems to be deleted, and no twitter has been found.
User Speci4lEffx from Day 1 has been contacted and has said that he may have screenshots and is currently looking for them. He also mentioned that another user, Sir_belvedere, may have information as well.
Gallery
Screenshots from Day 1: (Timestamps are approximate)[8]
Videos from Day 2:
Screenshots from Day 2:
GIFs from Day 2:
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See Also
- Pokémon Crystal Version (lost Japan-only mobile adapter GB content for Game Boy Color role-playing game; 2001-2002)
- Pokémon Gold and Silver (found early SpaceWorld '97 demo build of Game Boy Color role-playing games; 1997)
- Pokémon Picross (found build of unfinished Game Boy Color puzzle game; 1999)
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gold Rescue Team -Challenge the Gold Rank!- (lost South Korean promotional demo of Nintendo DS game; 2007)
- Chuggaaconroy (found early Pokémon Platinum videos from YouTuber; 2008)
- Pokémate (inaccessible Japanese mobile phone app; 2006)
- PokéPark: Asari Taikai DS (lost Nintendo DS Download Play game; 2005)
- Pokémon.com (lost online games from website; pre 2010-2011)
- Pokémon 2000 Adventure Game (partially found browser-based online game; 2000)
- Pokémon PC Master (partially found Japanese educational PC game; 2006)
- Pikachu: DS Tech Demo (lost Nintendo DS tech demo; 2004)
- Pocket Monsters 64 (lost build of unreleased Nintendo 64DD role-playing game; 1990s)
External Links
- Bulbapedia page on Twitch Plays Pokémon.
- All footage from 1d 11h 25m 48s onward.
- All chat logs from 1d 7h 48m 18s onward.
Reference
- ↑ Article mentioning the highlights of the stream. Retrieved 31 Aug '19
- ↑ Archive of all footage after 1d 11h 25m 48s. Retrieved 10 Feb '23
- ↑ Reddit Post of Chat Logs of user asking streamer to archive stream. Retrieved 10 Feb '23
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Reddit Post about the in-depth timeline. [See Mega links for Timeline and Screenshot sources) Retrieved 10 Feb '23
- ↑ TPP Logs. Retrieved 12 Feb '23
- ↑ Reddit Post of the approximate timeline of Days 1 to 5. Retrieved 10 Feb '23
- ↑ Helixpedia Timeline. Retrieved 10 Feb '23
- ↑ Pastebin with broken links and timestamps for 4chan screenshots. Retrieved 10 Feb '23