Twitter overcomes sabotage to beat Pokémon Red

After 40 days and more than 90k comments, Twitter has beaten Pokémon Red while playing it through someone’s tiny display picture.

Last month we reported on how creator Constantine Liétard had hooked up a copy of Pokémon Red to his Twitter avatar. It would take a screenshot of the game and upload it every 15 seconds, while waiting for people to input a button control via a Twitter comment.

Well, people have continued to play this bizarre version of the game – and have now beaten its Elite Four and captured Mewtwo. Hurrah!

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It took 40 days and more than 90K comments but we finally became the very bests!
Thank you. pic.twitter.com/0M2XtfJCTe

— Constantin (@screenshakes) February 17, 2021

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Success was far from assured. Last week, a group of players intent on sabotaging the project managed to wrestle control of the game in the middle of the night. This collective, which named itself Team Rocket, deliberately released the best Pokémon caught and trained so far. It was a big setback, though Twitter carried on.