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    Season 1 

Main runs

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10 Heroes, over 60 Pokemon, 6 Regions, a Religion, at least 10 Gods, 65 million views. Season 1 was busy.
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  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Red (February 12th, 2014 - March 1st, 2014): The first run, done with a (minimally hacked) ROM of the Generation I game Pokémon Red. The protagonist was a boy named Red (the default player name). Because of the difficulty in coordinating even mundane tasks, successes and failures were attributed to being acts of gods with the iconic Pokemon as their angels. This was conflated with a voting system that came to represent political balance between democracy and anarchy. Achieving victory elevated to protagonist to being legendary.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Crystal (March 2nd, 2014 - March 15th, 2014): The second run in the season, being a sequel using the Generation II game Pokémon Crystal (hacked to make all of Generation 2's 251 Pokémon available in single-player). The protagonist was a boy named AJDNNW (shortened to AJ). This run started in the shadow of the previous protagonist. Eventually the need to be unique evolved into the primary theme: a military waging war against the gods of the previous generation.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Emerald (March 22nd, 2014 - April 11th, 2014): The third run in the season, using the Generation III game Pokémon Emerald. The protagonist was a girl named A, and the primary theme started off as complete anarchy, before a few releases caused it to shift to an elite police force trying to stop Bill, the inventor of the PC system.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon FireRed (April 12th, 2014 - April 27th, 2014): The fourth run in the season. It featured Pokémon FireRed, a remake of Pokémon Red, but with the added twist of introducing a randomizer, meaning that ANY Pokémon with ANY moves and/or Abilitiy could be encountered. The protagonist was a girl also named A (commonly referred to as Alice), and the run had a bit of an Alice in Wonderland theme in the midst of a communist revolution as the use of democracy was optimized.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Platinum (May 3rd, 2014 - May 20th, 2014): The fifth run in the season, using the Generation IV game Pokemon Platinum. The protagonist was a boy named Nqpppnl (usually referred to as Napoleon). The story became character study of the cold protagonist lightening up with Soap Opera elements surrounding the team. The sun played a prominent thematic role.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon HeartGold (May 24th, 2014 - June 12th, 2014): The sixth run in the season. It featured Pokémon HeartGold, a remake of Pokémon Gold, but with a Randomizer similar to the one used by Twitch Plays Pokémon FireRed. According to the Streamer, it featured "better RNG" to avoid spoilers (an issue that afflicted the FireRed run). The protagonist was a girl named "aoooo" who was seen as a werewolf as glitches in the emulator caused her appearance to change. The theme centered around the return of the gods after their destruction in Crystal, to help stop Bill once and for all.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Black (June 15th, 2014 - June 27th, 2014): The seventh run in the season, using the Generation V game Pokémon Black. The protagonist was a boy named GMYC (also called Jimmy C). After repeated failures and setbacks, it was decided that if Jimmy could beat the game without evolving any Pokemon the next protagonist would have forced evolutions, creating a theme of sacrifice for the greater good in the final days of this run.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Black 2 (July 6th, 2014 - July 25th, 2014): The eighth run in the season, using the sequel Generation V game Pokémon Black 2 in the form of the romhack Pokémon Blaze Black 2, made by Drayano60. As previously promised, it was confirmed by the Streamer to feature forced evolutions◊. The protagonist was a girl named "CL Y.," (also known as Cly), who thanks to Jimmy's sacrifice became the most powerful of all Trainers by defeating all the previous protagonists.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon X (July 27th, 2014 - August 4th, 2014): The ninth run in the season, held with help from dekuNukem◊, using the Generation VI game Pokémon X. It was the first game to be played on an actual console rather than an emulator. The protagonist was a boy named d who was unwanted by the Voices and shy around women, but extremely popular around the world due to being the first Host to connect to other players in real time via the internet. He chose Chespin as his starter, making it the first Grass starter to be picked.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Omega Ruby (November 21st, 2014 - December 1st, 2014): The tenth run in the season, which began on the release date of the game itself after a three months-long break. It featured Pokémon Omega Ruby, a remake of Pokémon Ruby. The main protagonist is a boy named !12rtyhaszs (Arty Haze), moving to a version of Hoenn where Mega Evolutions awaits.

Notable intermissions

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Conquest (June 27th, 2014 - July 2nd, 2014): A special intermission played between Black and Black 2, featuring the strategy game Pokémon Conquest. It was played entirely in Democracy mode, and its protagonist was a girl named ABnp3a (aka. Lady A.B. the Third).

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon ORAS Demo (October 25th, 2014 - October 26th, 2014): A short intermission featuring the pre-release demo of Pokémon Omega Ruby, featuring a boy named Orlando completing various missions showcasing different aspects of the game.

    Season 2 

Main runs

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Season 2, Glitches and Shadows and Moes and Fish.
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  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Red Anniversary (February 12th, 2015 - March 24th, 2015): The first run of the new season, holding the record of longest main run clocking in at almost 40 days. Returning to the world of Pokémon Red, the goal of this run was to complete the Pokédex, which was made possible by a hack including all 151 Pokémon. Originally planned to be in Anarchy Mode only, it was instead decided to place Democracy Mode on a timer, activated if players spent enough time in a single area. The lore focused on Evil Versus Oblivion, as the protagonist used both an undead monstrosity and Lord Dome up against an unknown Eldritch Abomination.

  • Twitch Plays Touhoumon & Moemon (May 10th, 2015 - May 24th, 2015): The second run of the season, in which the stream played two hacks ofPokémon FireRed at the same time, Touhoumon and Moemon, with inputs being shared between the two games. While less lore-focused than most previous runs, it still dropped some more hints at a greater Story Arc for the season.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Alpha Sapphire (July 12th, 2015 - July 27th, 2015): The third run of the second season, returning to Hoenn for a third time. The run uses a randomizer similar to FireRed and HeartGold before it, expanding the choices of Pokemon up to the sixth generation, with the added challenge of evolutions being randomized as well (e.g. Lotad evolving into a Squirtle, who then evolves into a Kingler). The protagonist is a girl named "!0999 qq", often referred to as "Agent 999" or "Nina". The run took on an espionage theme, as Agent 999 and her Pokémon went on a quest to take down Team Aqua, which was also being infiltrated by Team Magma, all alongside a subplot about fairies. The run concluded after completing the main game and Delta Episode, defeating the Elite Four rematch, and evolving the starter with a Dusk Stone.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Colosseum (October 12th, 2015 - October 18th, 2015): The fourth run of the second season, with the featured game, Pokémon Colosseum, being selected through the polling of TPP viewers. Colosseum is the first main run of a game released on a console rather than a handheld, and followed the adventures of a protagonist who seemed very interested (if not downright obsessed) in watching the news over and over.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon XD (December 12th, 2015 - December 21st, 2015): The surprise fifth and final run of the second season, confirmed right after the end of Pokémon Colosseum. The run marks a return to the Orre region by featuring the direct sequel to Colosseum, Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, with both the in-game and in-lore story continuing where Colosseum left off.

Sidegames

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal (March 3rd, 2015 - December 11th, 2015): The very first sidegame of the stream, aka a special intermission played in-between runs alongside PBR intermissions, debuting after the end of Pokémon Red Anniversary. It featured the infamously mistranslated Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal bootleg, played one Democracy vote at a time in-between PBR matches, and stared a female protagonist named BABA, after a Magikarp from Red Anniversary.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Trading Card Game (December 21st, 2015 - February 12th, 2016): Replacing Vietnamese Crystal as sidegame, it used the same "one Democracy input at a time" system, before shifting to a more traditional Anarchy-mode intermission right before the start of the next season. This playthrough of the Pokémon Trading Card Game video game adaptation stars Yugi in his quest to become the King of the Pokémon TCG.

Notable intermissions

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Channel (October 11th, 2015 - October 12th, 2015): An short intermission featuring the game Pokémon Channel on Nintendo GameCube, which directly preceeded the Pokémon Colosseum run, leading to a prevalent theory suggesting that the main character of both games were actually the same person.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Trading Card Game (February 12th, 2016 - February 14th, 2016): A short intermission that served to conclude the TCG sidegame as a lead-up to the start of the third season.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Trading Card Game 2 (February 14th, 2016): An intermission featuring a Fan Translation of the Japanese-exclusive second TCG game, beginning immediately after the end of the first one and serving as the final game of the season before the start of Crystal Anniversary.

    Season 3 

Main runs

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Crystal Anniversary (February 14th, 2016 - March 16th, 2016): The first run of the third season, marking the two-year anniversary of Twitch Plays Pokemon. The run used a special hack of Pokémon Crystal making all 251 Pokémon available, similar to the one used back during Red Anniversary. The theme of the lore was of a Cosmic Horror Story, as the Glitches that served as a Greater-Scope Villain throughout Season 2 came to the forefront,and also revolved around the protagonist's efforts to push onward in the face of tragedy.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Brown (June 16th, 2016 - June 27th, 2016): The second run of the third season, featuringPokémon Brown, a popular hack in the community at large that introduces a new region, new types, and 224 Pokemon to catch. It featured a more mature protagonist and turned out to have somewhat of a creepypasta vibe, as well as cementing a shift towards a more arc-based narrative for the series as a whole.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Randomized Platinum (July 31st, 2016 - August 15th, 2016): The third run of the third season. Marking a return to Sinnoh for the first time since Season 1, as well as the first time that TPP is playing through the same game a second time, albeit this time randomized. The randomization was pushed further than ever before, with even Pokémon types and move properties being shuffled around.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Prism (October 9th, 2016 - October 26th, 2016): The fourth run of the third season, which featured the premiere of the ambitious Pokemon Prism hack in its completed form. The game was intended be available for download when the run was finished, but legal challenges ensued preventing this from happening. The lore revolved around the story of a young girl attempting to survive after being thrust into a world-altering conflict, and marked the conclusion of the Glitches arc.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Sun (November 18th, 2016 - December 2nd, 2016): The fifth run of the third season, which was played shortly after the release of Pokémon Sun and Moon, featuring more than 80 new Pokémon to catch as well as a much more dangerous PC. A young man is sent as a secret agent to the Alola region in order to deal with a variety of threats, such as a political uprising, rapid party shuffles, and the mysterious Ultra Beasts.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Waning Moon (January 13th, 2017 - January 27th, 2017): The sixth and final run of the third season, intended as a way for players who didn't want to be spoiled by the Sun run to get a chance of their own of venturing through the Alola region alongside TPP. It featured a hack of Pokemon Moon with more Pokemon available and higher difficulty.

Sidegames

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team (February 12th, 2016 - January 27th, 2017): A sidegame that debuted during Crystal Anniversary, and was played simultaneously with the current main game or intermission rather than in between PBR matches, although it was changed to the "in-between matches" format after the conclusion of Ultra. Featuring Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team, it followed former human Squirtlee and its partner Pika Cena trying to save a world inhabited only by Pokémon.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Ultra (August 16th, 2016 - October 29th, 2016): Temporarily replacing Red Rescue Team as sidegame, Pokémon Ultra stood as a horribly mapped, terribly balanced, awfully written, extremely crude hack of Pokémon LeafGreen, and followed the potentially concussed Pee as he adventured through a nonsensical world.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Puzzle Challenge (January 27th, 2017 - February 9th, 2017): A sidegame featuring the puzzle game Pokémon Puzzle Challenge which was played alongside the final PBR intermission of the third season, in a manner similar to Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Red Rescue Team.

Revisits

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Trading Card Game 2 (March 29th, 2016 - April 8th, 2016): A return to the second TCG game that was left incomplete at the end of the previous season, during which the main character Mint followed up in the steps of Yugi by becoming Queen of the Pokémon TCG.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon FireRed Revisit (April 11th, 2016 - April 13th, 2016): A revisit of Pokémon FireRed which allowed the chat to explore the Sevii Islands and ended after Lugia was caught with a regular Poké Ball inside Cerulean Cave.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Emerald Revisit (April 13th, 2016 - April 15th, 2016): A revisit of Pokémon Emerald in which the chat failed to rematch any Gym Leader and to catch any Legendaries, but did defeat Steven Stone and pick up the Root Fossil.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Crystal Revisit (April 15th, 2016 - April 16th, 2016): A revisit of Pokémon Crystal during which Raticate came back to the team, Democracy was used to make Unown appear, and Lance and Red were both defeated again.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Red Revisit (April 16th, 2016 - April 17th, 2016): A revisit of Pokémon Red in which MissingNo. was caught, slowly breaking the game to the point of no return.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal Revisit (June 15th, 2016 - June 16th, 2016): A revisit of Pokémon Vietnamese Crystal that was played using the traditional Anarchy/Democracy system rather than the full Democracy system of the original sidegame.

  • Twitch Plays Telefang Diamond Revisit (October 8th, 2016 - October 9th, 2016): A revisit of the Pokémon Diamond bootleg played earlier during the season, during which the secret boss Stream was defeated.

Notable intermissions

  • Twitch Plays Telefang Diamond (March 16th, 2016 - March 24th, 2016): A special intermission featuring the infamously mistranslated bootleg game Pokémon Diamond, which followed the adventures of Johnny Rogue and Kuribute as they attempted to save Shengdu from Domesday.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Crystal Anniversary 1.OLDEN (April 1st, 2016 - April 3rd, 2016): An April Fools intermission featuring a special edition of Crystal Anniversary in which every important name or word was replaced by the word "OLDEN", as a reference to an infamous glitch turned overarching villain from the main run.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Sun & Moon Demo (November 18th, 2016): A short intermission that directly preceded the Sun run, featuring the pre-release demo of the game.

    Season 4 

Main runs

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Chatty Yellow (February 12th, 2017 - February 24th, 2017): The first run of the fourth season, marking the three-year anniversary of Twitch Plays Pokemon. It featured a hack of Pokémon Yellow, with Pikachu replaced by a Chatot with text-to-speech capabilities and all non-plot dialogue by Markov-chained segments of chat messages.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Blazed Glazed (April 8th, 2017 - April 25th, 2017): The second run of the fourth season. The game was a hack of Pokémon Emerald known as Pokémon Blazed Glazed, which features Pokémon and moves up to Generation VI, along with two entirely new regions. The protagonist of this run wass a sweet young girl named Honey, thrown in the middle of a world-colliding conflict.

  • Twitch Plays Pokemon Randomized White 2 (June 3rd, 2017 - June 20th, 2017): The third run of the fourth season, and the very first return to Unova since Season 1. This run's randomization brought a considerable number of villainous teams from outside Unova into the region to face Dr. AAAALK', as he supposedly tried to discover the origin of the various mutations plaguing the region.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Pyrite (August 12th, 2017 - August 27th, 2017): The fourth run of the fourth season. It featured a hack of Pokémon Crystal, which had, among other things, a level cap that increased with each badge acquired and prevented Pokémon that reach the level cap from gaining experience until it is increased. The protagonist was a girl known only by her Verbal Tic on a quest to restore everyone's lost names.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Theta Emerald EX (September 30th, 2017 - October 15th, 2017): The fifth run of the fourth season, featuring a hack of Pokémon Emerald that incorporates 721 Pokémon, most of Gen VI mechanics (Fairy-type, Physical/Special split, Mega-Evolution), and the ability to grind up to level 250. It also holds the honor of being the first run chosen via a community poll. The story involves a spoiled-rich girl traveling through a region affected by mysterious "Theta Waves", all while having to face the schemes of evil hamsters from another world.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Ultra Sun (November 25th, 2017 - December 9th, 2017): The sixth and final run of the fourth season, played shortly after the release of Pokémon Ultra Sun. The Host for this run wass a young boy nicknamed "Roark", who spent most of his journey dressed in bright yellow clothes.

Sidegames

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Dark Graystone (February 24th, 2017 - March 13th, 2017): The first side-game played during Season 4 intermissions, featuring a joke hack of Pokémon Gold. The main character wass named "TPPSIM", after the official Twitch Plays Pokémon chat bot.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Ash Gray (March 13th, 2017 - September 29th, 2017): The second side-game played during Season 4 intermissions, featuring a Pokémon FireRed hack based on the events of the anime. The chat desperately tried and failed to follow the script of the official anime; the side-game was discontinued due to lack of interest and the fact that Pikachu had evolved, locking out most of the game's events.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Bootleg Green (October 15th, 2017 - April 14th, 2018): The third side-game featured during Season 4 intermissions, which was continued during Season 5. Due to being a bootleg version of Pokémon Green and being played in all-democracy, the chat was able to pull off many glitches; most notably, it was first beaten in six daysnote , with zero Pokémon.

Revisits

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Black Revisit (June 1st, 2017 - June 3rd, 2017): A revisit of Pokémon Black, during which the chat finally managed to evolve the entire team and defeat the Champion; this version of the team was featured alongside the original during the PWT of the following White 2 run.

Notable intermissions

  • Twitch Plays Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak: A series of short intermissions respectively held before the start of Blazed Glazed, after the end of White 2, and after the end of Pyrite, during which the chat took control of Hamtaro to foil the evil hamster Spat, which would end up playing a part in the lore of Theta Emerald EX.

  • Twitch Plays Hamtaro: Rainbow Rescue: Another series of short intermissions that respectively took place after the end of Ham-Ham Heartbreak and before the start of Theta Emerald EX, featuring the sequel of the former that was never released in North America.

    Season 5 

Main runs

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Dual Red & Blue (February 13th, 2018 - February 27th, 2018): The first run of the fifth season, marking the four-year anniversary of Twitch Plays Pokémon, and the first dual run since Touhoumon & Moemon. It once more took place in Kanto with the original 151 Pokémon available; however, the games were modified to interact with each other so that the rival of Blue would have Pokémon from the Red team, and vice-versa.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Storm Silver (April 14th, 2018 - May 4th, 2018): The second run of the fifth season, featuring a hack of Pokémon SoulSilver by the same author as the Blaze Black 2 hack from the first season. The theme of this run revolved heavily around cats and Star Wars parodies... for some reason.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Bronze (June 9th, 2018 - June 18th, 2018): The third run of the fifth season, which featured a hack of Pokémon Gold created by the same person behind Pokémon Dark Greystone, which was played as a side-game during Season 4. Set in the all-new region of Kohto, it also features a few Ascended Memes, such as Pumbloom and MissingNo. The Host for this run was a girl named FEEFFr, whose starter Pichu was affectionately nicknamed "Winnie the Chu".

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Randomized Y (August 11th, 2018 - August 26th, 2018): The fourth run of the fifth season, and the sixth randomized run overall. It marks the first return to Kalos since Season 1, and is also notable for being the first time the chat managed to select a female character in a main-series game featuring character customization. Said character was a girl named "♀226", heavily speculated to actually be a ghost, who must travel through the Kalos region as most major characters seem to have joined the ranks of Team Flare.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Flora Sky (October 13th, 2018 - October 29th, 2018): The fifth run of the fifth season, featuring Pokémon Flora Sky, a popular romhack of Pokémon Emerald. Highlights included a Host who kept changing color and climbing to unreachable places, a Kirlia who changed gender upon evolving, and failing the Trick House challenges over and over and over.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Fused Crystal (December 8th, 2018 - December 19th, 2018): The sixth and final run of the fifth season. The game used, Fused Crystal, was based on the popular Crystal Randofuser tool, which turns every Pokémon encountered in-game into a random fusion of two existing Pokémon. On top of this, Fused Crystal features custom-made fusion spritesnote , randomized items, a winter-themed version of Johto, and, as per tradition, a secret opponent on top of Mt. Silver.

Sidegames

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Sweet (May 4th, 2018 - February 10th, 2019): Following Bootleg Green after it was beaten a second time, this sidegame took place in Sweet Land, a region in which PokéSweets, such as Squirpie, Meowffin, or Mintanyte, are found instead of Pokémon.

  • Twitch Plays Hypno's Lullaby (October 30th, 2018 - November 12th, 2018): A two-weeks long side-game featured as a Halloween intermission, based on the eponymous creepypasta. It featured a girl named "Doot", her Vulpix named "0", and children getting murdered.

Revisits

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Trading Card Game Dual Intermission (February 10th, 2018 - February 11th, 2018): A revisit of the Trading Card Game intermissions that served as a prelude to the Dual Red & Blue run, showcasing the dual input system. It featured both the original TCG2 save file and a recreation of the TCG character in TCG2, allowing Yugi and Mint to play against each other.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Conquest Revisit (April 14th, 2018): A revisit of Pokémon Conquest, which was once again played entirely in Democracy an focused on the extensive postgame stories.

Notable intermissions

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Telefang Dual Intermission (February 11th, 2018 - February 13th, 2018): An intermission featuring both the Pokémon Jade bootleg and a fan translation of Telefang Power, which served as a prelude to the Dual Red & Blue run, showcasing the dual input system.

  • Twitch Plays Detective Pikachu (September 8th, 2018 - September 10th, 2018): A short standalone intermission featuring the 3DS game Detective Pikachu, during which the Voices took control of a young boy named Tim and proceeded to fail numerous times to help him avoid danger.

    Season 6 

Main runs

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Burning Red (February 13th, 2019 - February 22nd, 2019): The first run of the sixth season, marking the fifth anniversary of Twitch Plays Pokémon. Like previous anniversary runs, it featured a hack created specifically for the occasion, but also a whole new mechanic: during certain screen transitions, the emulator randomly switched between Pokémon FireRed and Pokémon Red, with the two games sharing the same Pokémon, inventory, and global progress. This meant that certain tasks, most notably beating Gym Leaders, had to be accomplished in both games.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Volt White (April 13th, 2019 - April 25th, 2019): The second run of the sixth season, featuring a hack of Pokémon White by Drayano60, the same creator behind the previously-featured Blaze Black 2 and Storm Silver. Despite the chat initially picking a male protagonist, a soft-reset caused the Host to instead be a girl named "AAQ", whose Trainer Card description indicated that she suffered from depression.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Randomized Colosseum (June 8th, 201 - June 15th, 2019): The third run of the sixth season, and the seventh randomized run overall. Marking the first return to Orre since Season 2, it featured Host AAC "Ace" and his partner D QZ" 3 "Dairy Queen" trying to once more foil the plans of Team Snagem and Cipher. Highlights included a sun-summoning cat, a day and a half spent trying to catch an early-game Shadow Ho-Oh, a botched attempt at defeating a familiar-looking Trainer, and the realization that the "Release" button had been replaced by a "Hug" button.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon XG (July 13th, 2019 - July 21st, 2019): The fourth run of the sixth season, featuring Pokémon XG: NeXt Gen, a hack of Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness that increases the amount of Shadow Pokémon and Shadow Moves available, and adds mechanics from later generations, including the Fairy-type, a Physical/Special split, and a whole set of new moves and abilities. The Host for this run, Stars, shared his name with the creator of the hack, and used a team comprised of the three starters and two pseudo-legendary of Hoenn.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon TriHard Emerald (August 10th, 2019 - August 20th, 2019): The fifth run of the sixth season, which used a hack of Pokémon Emerald created for the occasion titled Pokémon TriHard Emerald, that incorporates Nuzlocke-like rules in its gameplay. As a result, fainted Pokémon are immediately transferred to the non-accessible PC, and saving can only be done by healing the team, with whiting out leading the game to revert to the last save point.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Randomized Ultra Moon (October 12th, 2019 - October 23rd, 2019): The sixth run of the sixth season, and the eighth randomized run overall. On top of the usual randomization of wild encounters, movesets, opponents, and evolutions, RUM also randomized the quasi-totality of in-game dialogue; as a result, the story was rendered completely nonsensical, featuring inconsistent names, out-of-order plot points, dialogue where there shouldn't be any, and players that desperately try to make sense of it all.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Sword (November 23rd, 2019 - December 1st, 2019): The seventh and final run of the sixth season, which featured the recently-released Pokémon Sword. As the very first run to take place on the Nintendo Switch, it came with its own hurdles for the chat to deal with, such as new easily-spammed inputs for joystick rotation and clicking, a keyboard positioned on "1" by default, and softlock-inducing wifi issues.

Sidegames

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Gold SpaceWorld Demo (March 2nd, 2019 - March 30th, 2019): The first side-game of the sixth season, featuring the beta version of Pokémon Gold shown off at SpaceWorld 1997, which was previously played as a Season 5 intermission. Due to being intended as a demo, the game is reset each time the player either blacks-out or clears the final rival battle.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon NavyBlue (December 1st, 2019 - January 12th, 2019): The third side-game of the sixth season, replacing Metronome Sapphire after the end of Twitch Plays Pokémon Sword. The game featured, Pokémon NavyBlue, is a hack of Pokémon FireRed taking place in the Larmog region, home to a whole slew of crudely-drawn never-before-seen Pokémon, along with the Voices' newest Host: a girl named Ai, daughter of Professor Barry Bloo.

Revisits

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Burning Red Revisit (March 11th, 2019 - March 13th, 2019): A revisit of Pokémon Burning Red that took place shortly after the end of the run itself, and dropped the game-switching mechanic to focus on FireRed's postgame and a secret battle against Cyan.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Channel Revisit (June 7th, 2019 - June 8th, 2019): A pre-run intermission for Randomized Colosseum, reprising the same save file that was itself played as a pre-run intermission for the original Colosseum.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Metronome Sapphire Revisit (December 14th, 2019 - December 19th, 2019): A revisit of Metronome Sapphire that took place as a special Christmas intermission, during which the elusive Meltan was finally caught.

Notable intermissions

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon: Trick or Treat House 2019 (October 31st, 2019 - November 1st, 2019): A special Halloween intermission featuring a specially-made hack of Pokémon Emerald, that focuses on solving user-submitted Trick House puzzles. invoked

    Season 7 

Main runs

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet Red (February 13th, 2020 - February 19th, 2020): The first run of The Gauntlet, using the original Pokémon Red. It once more features a boy named RED who has a rival named BLUE, picks Charmander as his starter and later evolves it into Charmeleon before ultimately releasing itnote , catches an early-game bird that becomes the powerhouse of the teamnote , chooses the Helix Fossil in Mt. Moonnote , and goes on a MissingNo. hunt during post-game.
  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet Crystal (February 23rd, 2020 - March 3rd, 2020): The second run of The Gauntlet, using the same 251 hack of Pokémon Crystal as Season 1. The Host is a boy named Dᴾk, referred to as "Dipper", "Dippy K." or "Dr. Pokémon" by the Voices. The run notably featured a large amount of Legacy Boss Battles, with no less than five different Hosts encountered in the Trainer House, and both incarnations of RED on top of Mt. Silver.
  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet Emerald (March 7th, 2020 - March 18th, 2020): The third run of The Gauntlet, using the original Pokémon Emerald. The Host picked for this run was a girl (again) who chose Torchic as her starter (again). Her name, n, prompted many jokes and theories regarding her being potentially related to another character named N.
  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet Platinum (March 28th, 2020 - April 5th, 2020): The fourth run of The Gauntlet, using the original Pokémon Platinum. The Host, a girl called .iecbw, chose the name "BFG" for her Turtwig, and was sometimes nicknamed "Izzy" herself, providing an amusing parallel to the Doom X Animal Crossing meme. A Lumineon later became the breakout character of the run after sweeping the entire Elite 4 by itself.
  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet Black 2 (April 12th, 2020 - April 27th 2020): The fifth run of The Gauntlet, using the same Blaze Black 2 hack of Pokémon Black 2 as Season 1. Like the original Black 2 run, it ended with a large reunion of past Hosts at Pokémon World Tournament, where ♀♀R had to battle against the four previous Hosts of The Gauntlet, then against the seven Hosts featured in the PWT of the original Black 2 run.
  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Gauntlet X (May 3rd, 2020 - May 10th, 2020): The sixth and final run of The Gauntlet, using the original Pokémon X. The Host chosen was a dark-skinned girl named Etr, who managed to reach the Hall of Fame in a mere 3 days and 19 hours, the fastest out of any main runs so far. Thanks to the help of online trades, she managed to complete the Pokédex that was passed down to her by the previous Hosts of The Gauntlet.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Sirius (June 13th, 2020 - June 23rd, 2020): The seventh run of the seventh season, that featured Pokémon Sirius, a hack of Pokémon Emerald set after a meteor fall that altered the landscape of the Hoenn region and caused brand new Pokémon species to appear. The run also had the Voices in a constant mock panic about softlocking the game by getting Mr. Briney's boat stuck in "Dewfon". invoked

  • Twitch Plays Pokemon Rising Ruby (August 8th, 2020 - August 21st, 2020): The eighth run of the seventh season, which featured, Pokémon Rising Ruby, was once more a hack created by Drayano60, this time of Pokémon Omega Ruby; on top of a heightened difficulty curve, it also alters the typing, stats and moveset of many Pokémon so that most of the 721 available become usable. This became the first run in which not only were all five Master Rank Contests succesfully won, but the subsequent Superbosses Lisia and Wallace were defeated as well.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Vega (December 12th, 2020 - December 25th, 2020): The ninth and final run of the seventh season, which featured Pokémon Vega, a hack of FireRed which acts as a sequel to Pokémon Sirius and features many of the same original species. It was notable for completely contradicting the events of the Sirius run, as the Voices picked a female character, but the game itself acted as if it was the same character from Sirius, in which the character picked was male.

Sidegames

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Lightning Sapphire (May 11th, 2020 - December 10th, 2020): A side-game that featured an earlier, buggier, gibberish-er version of the infamous Pokémon Chinese Emerald, a mistranslated bootleg in the same vein as Vietnamese Crystal and Bootleg Green. It was dubbed Pokémon Lightning Sapphire, after the user LightningXCE who discovered the original cartridge and spent several years trying to properly dump it.

Revisits

  • Twitch Plays Touhoumon Revisit (March 18th, 2020 - March 23rd, 2020): A revisit of Touhoumon acting as an intermission between Gauntlet Emerald and Gauntlet Paltinum, that was played standalone without Moemon and focused on the Johto postgame.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Sword: The Isle of Armor (June 27th, 2020 - July 1st, 2020): A revisit of Pokémon Sword featuring the Isle of Armor area from the Sword & Shield Expansion Pass DLC, during which the chat chose to complete the Tower of Darkness.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Sword: The Crown Tundra (October 24th, 2020 - October 29th, 2020): A revisit of Pokémon Sword featuring the Crown Tundra area from the Sword & Shield Expansion Pass DLC, and during which the chat chose to catch Regidrago.

Notable intermissions

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Randomized Explorers of Sky (March 25th, 2020 - April 11th, 2020): An interruption played in-between Gauntlet runs and using a randomized version of Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky, featuring a duo of Makuhita and Teddiursa as they explored a variety of dungeons filled with unpredictable ennemies.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Metronome Ruby (April 1st, 2020): Interrupting Gauntlet Platinum on April Fools' Day, this intermission featured a Ruby counterpart of Metronome Sapphire with a completely unreliable overlay, played in Turbo Anarchy until the obtention of the first badge and ending after the obtention of the second.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon: Trick or Treat House 2020 (October 31st, 2020 - November 3rd, 2020): An enhanced version of the original Trick or Treat House, featuring a brand new selection of user-submitted puzzles alongside the old ones, as well as a few additions and improvements, notably a non-binary protagonist option.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon: The Wooper Who Saved Christmas (December 10th, 2020 - December 12th, 2020): A special Christmas intermission featuring a hack of Pokémon FireRed that follows a lone Wooper on a mission to recuse Santa's Delibird. Subpar writing, flawed programming, countless glitches, permadeath mechanics, the occasional return of Turbo Anarchy and the eventual heat death of the universe all combined to result in one of the most unhinged yet hilarious runs in the stream's history.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Rescue Team DX (January 10th, 2021 - January 12th, 2021): An intermission featuring the Nintendo Switch remake of the original Red & Blue Rescue Team, during which the protagonist was a Cubone successively known as "ϷAj", "Tom", "paj", and "Mama".

    Season 8 

Main runs

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Chatty Crystal (February 14th, 2021 - March 8th, 2021): The first run of the eighth season, marking both the seventh anniversary of the stream and its 50th main run. It featured a hack of Pokémon Crystal which once more had all of its dialogue replaced with Markhov-chained sentences built from chat messages, and provided the players with an Unown and a Chatot who both used attacks that were influenced directly by the chat. As the fiftiest run, it also featured no less than 36 different characters returning from previous runs.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Renegade Platinum (April 10th, 2021 - April 21st, 2021): The second run of the eighth season, which featured yet another hack created by Drayano60, this time based on Pokémon Platinum. As usual for Drayano hacks, it featured higher difficulty, more Pokémon species available, and updated typings and movesets.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Red-Green-Blue Race (May 8th, 2021 - May 10st, 2021): A crossover between Twitch Plays Pokémon, Twitch Plays Paper Mario, and Twitch Plays Speedruns, which pitted the three streams against each other as they attempted to complete their respective version of Pokémon Red, Green, and Blue. The race concluded two days later, with TPP beating the Champion first, TPPM coming in second, and TPS in third.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Randomized Black (July 3rd, 2021 - July 12th, 2021): The fourth run of the eighth season and ninth randomized run overall. Some specific randomization settings were decided through a community poll, leading to the randomization of move types, power, and PP, while other quirks were thrown in as a surprise, such as every battle bar a few being a Double Battle.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Randomized Black 2 (July 12th, 2021 - July 29th, 2021): The fifth run of the eighth season and tenth randomized run overall, which served as a direct sequel to Randomized Black, beginning a mere 12 hours after the latter ended and retaining the same randomized move properties. It was notable for its exceedingly high release rate, with the party getting completely reset once to twice per day.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Blazing Emerald (August 21st, 2021 - September 9th, 2021): The sixth run of the eighth season, featuring an extensive hack of Pokémon Emerald which, on top of several mechanics brought from later games, included several brand-new original Pokémon, most of which Hoennian forms and alternate evolutions of existing species, along with a few standalone and well-hidden new ones.

  • Twitch Plays Pokemon Space World Gold Reforged (October 9th, 2021 - October 15th, 2021): The seventh run of the eighth season, during which the game used was Pokémon Gold 97: Reforged, an extensive hack of the Generation II games meant to recreate the content of the SpaceWorld '97 demo of Pokémon Gold and Silver as a complete game. For the occasion, many of the beta designs received brand new names chosen by the TPP community in order to distinguish them from their official counterparts.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Brilliant Diamond (November 20th, 2021 - December 1st, 2021): The eighth run of the eighth season, featuring the recently-released Pokémon Brilliant Diamond and beginning the day after the game came out. Once again, the Voices had to deal with the threat of a PC that can be accessed from anywhere with the push of a few buttons, but this time they also got to join the Host through the Internet for some sick Underground parties.

  • Twitch Plays Pokemon Legends Arceus (January 29th, 2022 - February 10th, 2022): The ninth and final run of the eighth season, featuring the brand new Pokémon Legends: Arceus and beginning the day after the game came out. Due to the more action-oriented nature of the game, players were faced with the brand-new challenges of 3D movement, fall damage, real-time battles, and Pokémon that could actually hurt their unfortunate Trainer.

Sidegames

  • Twitch Plays DBZ Team Training (May 14th, 2021 - October 29th, 2021): A FireRed romhack in which Pokémon are swapped out for Dragon Ball characters; it debuted during the 2021 April Fools' Day intermission, and was brought back as a sidegame by popular demand, chronicling the adventures of Fighter Trainer Pan and her father Gohan.

Revisits

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Sword: Test Your Luck! (January 7th, 2022 - January 10th, 2022): A revisit of Pokémon Sword comprised of three separate sessions spread over three days, during which the chat took part in the Test Your Luck! event, in which the only Pokémon allowed only knew the move Metronome.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon SpaceWorld Gold Reforged Revisit (February 10th, 2022 - February 12th, 2022): A revisit of Pokémon SpaceWorld Gold Reforged that focused on catching the beta Pokémon that weren't obtained during the initial run.

Notable intermissions

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Cursed (October 31st, 2021 - November 1st, 2021): A Halloween-themed hack made by the same person behind The Wooper Who Saved Christmas, in which a girl sees her night of trick-or-treating turn into a quest to stop ghosts from taking over the world.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon: Trick or Treat House 2020(1) (November 1st, 2021 - November 2nd, 2021): A re-run of the previous year's Trick or Treat House game. It featured no further enhancements or new puzzles compared to its predecessor, due to the hack's main developer having distanced themselves from TPP at the time.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon: Wooper 2: Electric Boogaloo (December 25th, 2021 - December 27th, 2021): The sequel to The Wooper Who Saved Christmas, left unfinished by its original creator and patched up by the stream developers to make it (somewhat) playable. Set hundreds of years after its predecessor, it featured the very same Wooper turned bloodthirsty tyrant as it sought to locate and take revenge upon Santa, and proved just as absurd and unpredictable as the original game, be it in terms of writing or programming.

    Season 9 

Main runs

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Randomized Chatty Crystal (February 14th, 2022 - February 28th, 2022): The first run of the ninth season, marking the eighth anniversary of the stream. It marked the return of Pokémon Chatty Crystal, from the previous anniversary, but this time with all of the Pokémon locations, evolutions and movesets randomized, which included all of the returning characters having their respective teams shuffled around, along with a few extra surprises such as replacing the starter Unown with a Shiny Ditto.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Charity Dual Red & Blue (April 24th, 2022 - April 30th, 2022): A run set as part of the "Catch a Million" charity event run by the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, which reused the same game and setup as Dual Red & Blue. During this timeframe, TPP managed to catch 310 Pokémon and raise a total of $559.90 for the charity.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Grand Colosseum (June 11th, 2022 - June 19th, 2022): The third run of the ninth season, which featured a hack of Pokémon Colosseum inspired by both existing Pokémon XD hacks and the work of Drayano60. As such, said hack featured numerous changes such as revamped typings and movesets, as well as the inclusion of later-generations machanics like the Physical/Special split, the Fairy-type, and reusable TMs.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon XG Remix (July 9th, 2022 - July 17th, 2022): The fourth run of the ninth season, which featured a hack of Pokémon XG: NeXt Gen, itself a hack of Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness. Said hack reprised most additions and improvements of XG, but mixed things up with a brand new type chart, along with multiple original species consisting of renames and/or recolors of existing Pokémon.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Randomized TriHard Emerald (August 20th, 2022, - August 26th, 2022): The fifth run of the ninth season, and twelfth randomized main run overall. It featured a slightly updated version of the pseudo-Nuzlocke romhack Pokémon TriHard Emerald that debuted back in Season 6, this time being given the randomizer treatment of every Pokémon location, moveset, and abilities being shuffled around.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Star (October 15th, 2022 - October 22nd, 2022): The sixth run of the ninth season, which featured a hack of Pokémon Ultra Moon titled Pokémon Star that made use of model swapping and edited dialogue to tell a new story taking place several years after the events of Pokémon Moon. Most notably, however, it was also ripe with memes, from throwing countless cartoon references around, to using human NPCs as mounts, to featuring dozens of creepily-obsessed Lillie fans cosplaying as her.

  • Twitch Plays Pokemon Scarlet (November 19th, 2022 - November 27th, 2022): The seventh run of the ninth season, which featured the recently-released Pokémon Scarlet. The Voices were once more faced with the many challenges of a Pokémon open world, including but not limited to repeated drowning, loss of orientation, hard to climb stairs, and tricky exam questions.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Volt White 2 Redux (December 26th, 2022 - January 7th, 2023): The eighth run of the ninth season, featuring the romhack Pokémon Volt White 2 Redux from AphexCubed, a "remake" of Drayano60's own Pokémon Volt White 2 romhack. It featured the usual numerous re-balancing, higher difficulty and later-generation mechanics, as well as multiple extra events and side-stories. Taking advantage of releases being disabled, the Voices took a different approach to their team by using more than six Pokémon, that rotated in and out as needed.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Randomized Violet+ (January 21st, 2023 - January 31st, 2023): The ninth and final run of the ninth season, which featured a version of Pokémon Violet enhanced with a combination of Pokémon SV+, a mod that adds multiple quality-of-life features and an increased challenge level, and a randomizer shuffling around spawn locations, Trainer teams, and Pokémon movesets and evolutions.

Sidegames

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Dual Sanqui Red & Blue (April 12th, 2022 - April 20th, 2022): A sidegame featuring two games of Pokémon Red at once, randomized using the Sanqui Randomizer, which replaces the original 151 Pokémon with a selection of 251 Pokémon from Generations I through VI. It is notably the first sidegame to be played in Anarchy mode rather than through input voting.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon: Trick or Treat House 2022 (November 2nd, 2022 - November 13th, 2022): A continuation of the Halloween 2022 intermission in the form of an Anarchy mode sidegame, allowing players to complete all final puzzle revisits.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Silver (November 27th, 2022 - December 3rd, 2022): The first in a series of Anarchy mode sidegames using original, unmodified Pokémon games, in this case Pokémon Silver. Thanks the slower pace and lesser number of players, players managed to successfully perform a Coin Case glitch in order to turn one of their Pokémon into Celebi.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Sapphire (December 3rd, 2022 - December 12th, 2022): The second sidegame in a row featuring an original unmodified Pokémon game following Pokémon Silver, this time featuring Pokémon Sapphire. It featured a boy simply named "tim", and ended on a long and unsuccessful hunt for the roaming Latias.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Yellow (December 12th, 2022 - December 16th, 2022): The third and final sidegame in the series of original unmodified Pokémon games, this time with Pokémon Yellow, notably marking the first time TPP got to use the partner Pikachu of said game. It featured a Trainer called "RITCHIE" and his partner "SPARKY", named after one of Ash's rivals from the anime.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Blazing Emerald Runback (December 16th, 2022 - December 25th, 2022): A return to Blazing Emerald, which had previously been played as a main run during the eighth season. Due to said run having become infamous for how poorly it went, this sidegame acted as a complete do-over, starting from scratch with a brand new save file. Players appeared to share this sentiment, as they symbolically gave their starter Clefairy the name of "Hope".

Revisits

  • Twitch Plays DBZ Team Training Revisit (April 1st, 2022 - April 2nd, 2022): A revisit of the prematurely-ended sidegame of Season 8 featuring Dragon Ball characters in the place of Pokémon, resuming right before the major release that led to the cancellation of the original sidegame. With some new Fighters and the worrying power of fusion on their side, the Voices finally managed to defeat the Dragon League at last.

  • Twitch Plays DBZ Team Training Revisit Revisit (August 19th, 2022 - August 20th, 2022): A second revisit of Dragon Ball Z: Team Training, centering around the exploration of the post-game Sevii Islands and the rematch battle against the Dragon League, the revisit ending soon after the Champion was defeated once more.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Legends Arceus Revisit (November 13th, 2022 - November 17th, 2022): A revisit of Pokémon Legends: Arceus that focused on the content added by the Daybreak update, notably the training ground's Path of Solitude and Path of Tenacity battles, and the Eternal Battle Reverie. Said revisit was broken in two parts, with a two-day break being taken in-between to revisit Brilliant Diamond.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Brilliant Diamond Revisit (November 14th, 2022 - November 16th, 2022): A revisit of Pokémon Brilliant Diamond, during which players unlocked the Battle Tower and focused on completing the Pokédex, including the newly-made available Mythical Pokémon. Said revisit was briefly interrupted after entering the Hall of Fame caused it to crash, which led to a two-minute break during which players manually switched back to Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Notable intermissions

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon: Spheal Team Six (April 1st, 2022): An April Fools intermission during which the Voices played through a short hack, as a young office worker rebelling against the evil Wizard Oak and eventually the goddess Cirno herself, with the aid of CoolSpheal (a Spheal wearing sunglasses), WentSpheal (a Spheal-shaped Ivysaur), and DumbSpheal (a regular Shinx).

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon: A Grand Day Out (April 1st, 2022): Another April Fools intermission featuring a short, semi-satirical hack that loved to point out how irresponsible it was for a ten year-old to go on a journey alone and fight off criminals, and ended with them dying and ascending to Heaven. Despite its short length, it was jokingly referred to as "A Grind Day Out" dut to the vast amount of time that had to be spent Level Grinding.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Dual Sanqui Red and Blue (April 12th, 2022 - April 20th, 2022): An intermission featuring two games of Pokémon Red randomized using the Sanqui Randomizer, and serving as a "test" for Charity Dual Red & Blue. It was then continued as a sidegame, with both save files getting reset and re-randomized a few hours in.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Charity Dual Red & Blue - System Testing (April 21st, 2022 - April 23rd, 2022): An intermission that directly preceded the Charity Dual Red & Blue run, serving as a "test" in order to ensure everything was in working order for it. Despite only lasting for a little under a day and a half, the Dual Blue side managed to reach the Champion and defeat him, beating the game before the run proper even began.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Trading Card Game Dual Intermission - System Testing (April 24th, 2022 - May 1st, 2022): A short 12-hour long intermission serving as the final "test" before the start of Charity Dual Red & Blue, and featuring brand new TCG2 save files. After the run concluded, it returned for about a day, serving as filler until the "Catch A Million" event ended.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon: Trick or Treat House 2022 (October 31st, 2022 - November 2nd, 2022): A Halloween intermission featuring a new edition of Trick or Treat House which, while once more reprising the same puzzles as the 2020 edition, featured a much wider array of available Pokémon species and moves as well as numerous mechanical and graphical improvements, due to integrating the Pokeemerald Expansion into its code.

    Season 10 

Main runs

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Prism Anniversary (February 12th, 2023 - February 24th, 2023): The first run of the tenth season, marking the ninth anniversary of Twitch Plays Pokémon and featuring a return to Pokémon Prism in its latest version. On Day 11 of the run, an "Anniversary update" was deployed, which added some extra features and secret battles, and allowed for completion of the Pokédex, including the four Naljo Guardians.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Inverse Platinum (March 11th, 2023 - March 21st, 2023): The second run of the tenth season, featuring a version of Pokémon Platinum that reprises the concept of "Inverse Battles" from the sixth generation. This meant that all types there are usually resistant or immune to another would now be weak to it, and conversely. This concept had a notable impact on the Fan Art surrounding the run, which made heavy use of inverted colors.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Wilting Y (April 8th, 2023 - April 21st, 2023): The third run of the tenth season, which used a hack of Pokémon Y titled Pokémon Wilting Y which featured numerous difficulty and balance adjustment and increased the availability of rare Pokémon, items, and Mega Stones. After the game was beaten a first time, it switched from the "Rebalanced Version" of the hack to its much harder "Insanity Mode".

  • Twitch Plays Pokemon Victory Fire (May 13th, 2023 - May 18th, 2023): The fourth run of the tenth season, which featured an extensive hack of Pokémon Emerald set in the brand new Tyron region, featuring a completely original storyline as well as numerous Pokémon and characters from later generations. It served as the first part in a tetralogy of hacks, which would be continued with Pokémon Resolute.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Randomized SoulSilver (June 10th, 2023 - June 20th, 2023): The fifth run of the tenth season, and fourteenth randomized main run overall, which marked sort of a return to basics as it featured no extra gimmicks or mods beyond the randomization itself. Over the course of the run, the Voices argued over which of two Lapras to keep, then over which of two Deoxys, deposited two rare Pichu into the Daycare, and visited the Sinjoh Ruins twice using two different Arceus.

  • Twitch Plays Pokemon Resolute (July 8th, 2023 - July 18th, 2023): The sixth run of the tenth season, using an extensive hack of Emerald that served as second part of the tetralogy of hacks that began with Victory Fire, and would continue with Mega Power. On top of a brand new storyline featuring many original characters and numerous Pokémon and mechanics from later generations, it featured no less than three regions, namely Johto, Tyron, and the brand new Sylon.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Black & White 3: Genesis (August 12th, 2023 - August 19th, 2023): The seventh run of the tenth season, using a hack based on the engine of Pokémon Crystal that featured a demade version of the Unova region and a plot set ten years after the events of the Generation V games.

  • Twitch Plays Pokemon Mega Power (September 2nd, 2023 - September 9th, 2023): The eighth run of the tenth season, featuring an extensive hack of Emerald set in the Ivara region that served as third part of the tetralogy of hacks that began with Victory Fire, and would be concluded with Nameless. Countless technical issues, protagonist continuity going unmaintained, rare Pokémon obtained early, and the edgiest plot in the series yet made it clear that normal rules did not apply to this run.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Snakewood DX (October 14th, 2023 - October 23rd, 2023): The ninth run of the tenth season, celebrating the Halloween season by featuring an improved version of Pokémon Snakewood, an infamous hack of Pokémon Ruby set in a post-apocalyptic Hoenn filled with undead Pokémon and Trainers.

  • Twitch Plays Pokemon Nameless (November 11th, 2023 - November 22nd, 2023): The tenth run of the tenth season, and the final part of the tetralogy of hacks that began with Victory Fire, featuring an extensive hack of Pokémon FireRed set in the semi-open world of the Cyenn region that surprisingly fixed a lot of the jankiest aspects from previous entries.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Inverse White (December 27th, 2023 - January 3rd, 2024): The eleventh run of the tenth season, featuring a mostly unaltered version of Pokémon White that reprised the same "Inverse" gimmick as Inverse Platinum, causing all type weaknesses and resistances to be reversed. It also reprised some elements from Volt White 2 Redux, namely its custom C-Gear skins and its disabled releases.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Inverse White 2 (January 3rd, 2024 - January 12th, 2024): The twelfth and final run of the tenth season, and a direct sequel to the previous run. It also featured a mostly unaltered version of Pokémon White 2 with an "Inverse" gimmick, along with a cavalcade of returning protagonists, some yuri, and a lot of guns.

Sidegames

  • Twitch Plays Tetris (June 4th, 2023 - June 8th, 2023): A sidegame featuring the NES version of Tetris, celebrating the 39th anniversary of the franchise. The emulation paused in-between inputs, leaving players plenty of time to plan their moves.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Japanese Blue (January 27th, 2024 - January 29th, 2024): The first in a series of sidegames meant as system testing for the upcoming Super Gauntlet. It featured the Japanese version of Pokémon Blue, played on the Super Game Boy peripheral. The final team notably featured two Zapdos through the use of a cloning trick, and the game eventually became so glitched that the Elite 4 began using undefeatable Lv. 129 glitched Charizard.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Japanese Green (January 29th, 2024 - January 31st, 2024): A second sidegame meant as Super Gauntlet system testing, featuring the Japanese-only game Pokémon Green played through the GB Tower feature of Pokémon Stadium, then later on the Game Boy Player peripheral. It debuted as a dual sidegame alongside the final hour of Japanese Blue, receiving the latter's disobedient Mewtwo very early on as a result.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Japanese Pinball (January 31st, 2024 - February 1st, 2024): A one hour-long sidegame featuring the Japanese version of Pokémon Pinball, serving as filler while setting up Japanese Sapphire.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire (February 1st, 2024): Another one hour-long sidegame serving as filler while setting up Japanese Sapphire, this time featuring the American version of Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Japanese Sapphire (February 1st, 2024 - February 6th, 2024): The last sidegame intended as system testing for the Super Gauntlet, featuring the Japanese version of Pokémon Sapphire played once more on the Game Boy Player. Players notably made use of glitches to duplicate rare candies, and the e-Reader peripheral allowed them to access rare Berries and battles against special Trainers.

Revisits

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Scarlet Revisit (March 9th, 2023 - March 10th, 2023): A three-and-a-half hour-long revisit of the Pokémon Scarlet save file, that let players challenge the recently-made-available Walking Wake and Iron Leaves.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Scarlet: The Teal Mask (September 13th, 2023 - September 15th, 2023): A revisit of Pokémon Scarlet featuring the land of Kitakami from the first half of the DLC expansion The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero, in which the team saw the return of the previously traded away Tinkaton, as well as the addition of new members such as Walking Wake from the previous revisit, the Shiny Golduck from Legends Arceus, and the newly introduced Ogrepon.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Ultra Mega Power (October 3rd, 2023 - October 6th, 2023): A revisit of Pokémon Mega Power that didn't continue from where the run left off, but instead from an earlier point in time where the Voices were able to choose the story path they didn't previously pick. The gender of the protagonist was also swapped, further establishing this revisit as an "alternate" timeline.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Ultra Mega Power Revisit (November 10th, 2023 - November 11th, 2023): A return to the Ultra Mega Power save file during which players successfully triumphed over the Lande League once again, and also got to face against the Host of the Resolute run.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Yellow Revisit (December 14th, 2023): A revisit of the Yellow sidegame file that filled in the two hours directly preceding The Indigo Disk intermission. It doubled as a test for streaming games played on the Super Game Boy accessory, allowing the chat to spend time messing with the colour palette after they failed to catch Moltres.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Scarlet: The Indigo Disk (December 14th, 2023 - December 18th, 2023): A revisit of Pokémon Scarlet featuring the school of Blueberry Academy from the second half of the DLC expansion The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero, in which the protagonist caught some brand new Pokémon to add to his team, such as Hydrapple, Archaludon and Terapagos, and donned a Team Star outfit that conveniently hid some questionable haircut choices.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Scarlet Epilogue (January 13th, 2024 - January 14th, 2024): A final revisit of Pokémon Scarlet featuring the "Mochi Mayhem" epilogue of the DLC expansion The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero, in which the protagonist returns to the land of Kitikami along with his friends from Paldea, and the chat goes insane from the Mochi Mochi dance.

Notable intermissions

  • Twitch Tries Temtem (April 1st, 2023 - April 7th, 2023): An April Fools intermission featuring Temtem, an independent game heavily inspired by the Pokémon franchise. It featured a protagonist named "Aarontofollowin", and confronted players with such challenges as an unfamiliar type chart, frequent crashes, and very uncooperative naming screens; thankfully, online play also meant they could count on the help of more seasoned Temtem players.

  • Twitch Plays Digimon Nova Red (May 12th, 2023 - May 20th, 2023): A hack of FireRed that served as an intermission before and after the Victory Fire run, and featured Digimon instead of Pokémon.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon HarvestCraft (July 6th, 2023 - July 18th, 2023): An intermission that both preceded and followed Resolute, featuring a hack of Pokémon Ruby with gameplay heavily inspired by the Story of Seasons series, with the player character balancing his quest for badges with tending to his crops, mining for ore, and making friends with his many neighbours.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Yellow: Cramorant Edition (August 9th, 2023 - August 12th, 2023): An intermission preceding the Black & White 3 run, featuring a hack of Pokémon Yellow in which the starter Pikachu is replaced with the Gulp Pokémon, Cramorant.

  • Twitch Plays PokéSus2 (October 11th, 2023 - October 14th, 2023): A joke hack of Emerald themed around the "AMOGUS" meme from Among Us, which as such replaces every Pokémon sprite with identical crudely drawn crewmates, and all of their names with "AMOGUS". Combined with the deliberate obfuscating of helpful information on the overlay, this made it near-impossible for viewers to tell different species appart without relying on their memory or sense of logic.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon: Trick or Treat House 2022(2) (October 30th, 2023 - November 2nd, 2023): Once more a re-run of the previous year's Trick or Treat House game, featuring the same puzzles as its predecessor and acting as an intermission between both Halloween-themed PBR seasons of the year.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Conquest Ultimate (December 26th, 2023 - December 27th, 2023): An intermission preceding the Inverse White run, featuring a hack of Pokémon Conquest with a re-balanced roster of available Pokémon featuring no less than 200 species from up to Generation IX.

    Season 11 

Main runs

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  • Twitch Plays Pokémon: Arena: A long intermission serving as filler between runs, that debuted using Pokémon Stadium 2 between X and Omega Ruby, then moved on to Pokémon Battle Revolution afterwards. It features a competitive aspect as players bet on randomly selected teams using a virtual currency, and get control over the team they bet on, with larger bets having more influence over the move selected.

  • Twitch Plays Pokémon Pinball: A permanent sidegame introduced during Season 2, and a self-playing game of Pokémon Pinball on which players can bet virtual "tokens", the final score determining how many they get back ; Pokémon caught on Pinball also get distributed as stream badges to random viewers. It was updated during Season 5 into Pinball Generations, which includes brand new "Gold" and "Silver" tables.

  • Twitch Plays GB Roulette: A recurrent intermission that usually serves as a prelude to Game Boy and Game Boy Color runs, as well as a GBA Roulette variant for Game Boy Advance games. It features a wide selection of randomly queued games, with players getting to vote on whether to keep playing the current game or switch to the next.

  • Twitch Plays AFD Roulette: A variant of GB Roulette debuting as an April Fools' Day intermission during Season 7, that almost exclusively features non-official Pokémon games from all three Game Boy systems, be it hacks, bootlegs or randomizers, including ones previously played as runs.

  • Twitch Plays RPG Weekends: A semi-recurring two to three-day long intermission acting as a break from PBR betting, debuting in late 2021 and featuring games such as Dragon Quest, Octopath Traveler, Xenoblade Chronicles, and Kirby and the Forgotten Land.

  • Twitch Plays Intermission Games: Whatever games are set up in-between main runs aside from PBR betting, which have included EarthBound, Tomodachi Life, Baba is You, Everything, multiple Final Fantasy games, all Zero Escape and Ace Attorney games, and so on. Sometimes, those games have influenced the lore of the following runs, such as the Petz and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? intermissions hinting at the backstories for the protagonists of Emerald and Gauntlet Crystal respectively.

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