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FishPlaysPokemon is a real fish playing Pokemon on Twitch

TwitchPlaysPokemon wasn't enough. Animals are now involved.

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FishPlaysPokemon is a real thing. The fish in question, Grayson Hopper, can "press" the game's buttons by swimming around this tank. You can watch live. Grayson doesn't move very much.

He's playing Pokemon Red at the moment. He's been playing for 125 hours. He's won a single Pokemon.

This is sure to be the first of many copycats of TwitchPlaysPokemon, the social phenomenon that allowed Twitch users to enter screen co-ordinates by text to play through every Pokemon game ever.

Mornings like this make me glad to be alive. What's next? PersonPlaysPokemon? The mind boggles.

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Patrick Garratt is a games media legend - and not just by reputation. He was named as such in the UK's 'Games Media Awards', the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award. After garnering experience on countless gaming magazines, he joined Eurogamer and later split from that brand to create VG247, putting the site on the map with fast, 24-hour a day coverage, and assembling the site's earliest editorial teams. He retired from VG247, and the games industry, in 2017.
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