In 2014, the chaotic social experiment 'Twitch Plays Pokémon' achieved an impossible psychological feat by doing what?

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Pokémon once planned for Gold and Silver to be the finale

It’s hard to imagine willingly pulling the plug on a multi-billion dollar money printer. Tsunekazu Ishihara, the president of The Pokémon Company, stated that…

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Pokemon's in-game currency is heavily based on the Japanese Yen, which is why a single bottle of water costs 200 Pokedollars and a bicycle is famously priced at a completely absurd 1 million Pokedollars.

Pokemon's in-game currency is heavily based on the Japanese Yen, which is why a single bottle of water costs 200 Pokedollars and a bicycle is famously priced…

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Original Pokemon Red and Green codebase was so incredibly unoptimized and messy that the late Satoru Iwata had to step in and compress it himself so they could fit the second region into Pokemon Gold and Silver.

Original Pokemon Red and Green codebase was so incredibly unoptimized and messy that the late Satoru Iwata had to step in and compress it himself so they…

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The 40 Pokémon cut from the original games

Before you complain about the modern games lacking polish, realize you were spared dozens of extra hours of grinding purely by a technical memory limit. The…

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The childhood bug hunt behind Pokémon

A multi-billion dollar multimedia empire is entirely based on a neurodivergent kid's love for bugs. Growing up in rural Japan, Satoshi Tajiri spent all his…

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Magic The Gathering features twenty thousand unique cards

If you ever thought about genuinely trying to collect them all, simply abandon all hope right now. Decades of constant printing have resulted in an entirely…

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In 2014, the chaotic social experiment 'Twitch Plays Pokémon' achieved an impossible psychological feat by doing what?

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Pokémon once planned for Gold and Silver to be the finale

Pokemon's in-game currency is heavily based on the Japanese Yen, which is why a single bottle of water costs 200 Pokedollars and a bicycle is famously priced at a completely absurd 1 million Pokedollars.

Original Pokemon Red and Green codebase was so incredibly unoptimized and messy that the late Satoru Iwata had to step in and compress it himself so they could fit the second region into Pokemon Gold and Silver.

The 40 Pokémon cut from the original games

The childhood bug hunt behind Pokémon

Magic The Gathering features twenty thousand unique cards

A bigger world.
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