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The Pokémon glitch that taught kids to hack memory

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An incredibly popular handheld monster catching game shipped with a severe memory manipulation exploit that spawned a chaotic pixelated creature off the digital coast. By forcefully triggering this unique mathematical error, clever young players learned how to selectively overwrite basic game memory to duplicate their most valuable virtual items.

The Pokémon glitch that taught kids to hack memory
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