The game was launched on the streaming service Twitch, with its creator hacking together a computer script that turned the website's comment system into a controller for the 1996 Game Boy title.
Commenters simply type in one of the game's eight commands to control the main character (up, down, left, right, A, B, start, or select) but the stream's popularity has proved its undoing, with massive numbers of gamers (reportedly as many as 50,000) attempting to play at once.
Sadly due to being stuck at the same spot, they now edited th mode with a vote for Anarchy (old system) and Democracy, where the most voted move in the last 10 seconds gets performed. I don't think they should've changed it, but at least they made it through the part now they were stuck in for 24h.