Never has a video game been played in such a manner. For more than two weeks, players from all over the world have been collaborating online to finish a game that is 15 years old. Though the idea of different people simultaneously playing the same video game may seem a bit confusing, and it is, all the players that partook succeeded in finishing the game.

The brainchild of an anonymous Australian programmer, Twitch Plays Pokémon began on Feb. 12 as a social experiment to determine whether a large group of people could play a single player video game by crowd-sourcing the button commands, according to CNET. For the project, the unknown programmer used Twitch.tv a popular game-streaming site.

Although the experiment had a slow start, over the next two weeks it has had 35 million views with active viewer amounts ranging from 50,000 to 120,000 when it was peaking. The interaction and success of the game has led to new development of new online community among players. According to CNET one of the odd quirks of the game was the crowd-created religious narrative, which revolved around the Helix Fossil.

Another quirk of the game, which also seemed to complicate it, was the addition of "anarchy" and "democracy" modes. CNET explains, "Anarchy mode retained the game's original makeup in which a free-for-all of button inputs was used to sporadically move the character around, while democracy was a true voting system that was painfully slow but careful. Switching between modes was also handed over to the crowd, with a supermajority needed to go from anarchy to democracy and a simple majority required to revert back."

Regardless of how complex the game was it proved a success so much so that the website could expand into a game platform. Vice President of Marketing Matthew DiPietro said there could be a possibility of expanding due to the success of the Twitch Plays Pokemon.