100,000 simultaneous Pokémon players might actually end up beating the game

Two weeks ago, viewers of game streaming site Twitch.tv started playing a massively multiplayer session of Pokémon where each comment in the chat window translates to a button press on the gamepad — and somehow the resulting mess of over 10 million button presses has turned into successful gameplay. As of today, Polygon reports that players have managed to steer the game’s protagonist to collect all eight badges, the medallions of the Pokemon world required to proceed to the game’s final stages.