Do you like videogames within videogames? Are you waiting for a companion game for Inception? It doesn’t look like we’ll be getting that any time soon, but what you can do is download a mod for Minecraft that lets you play the Pokémon GBA games inside the world of Minecraft. Norwegian Twitter user @Reqaug tweeted a screenshot of his progress in this mad endeavour all the way back in January 2015, and only a few days ago (June 24) he shared a video of what it looks like now. Here’s what it looked like back then:
We have no idea how he has done this. How did he have the time? Where did he get the idea? What compelled him to spend what’s probably thousands of hours building a game he could just play on his GBA? It doesn’t even look like you can catch Pokémon in it – but then again, it doesn’t matter: what really matters is that this guy is immensely skilled and has done something that the majority of people probably don’t even understand. With the imminent arrival of augmented-reality game Pokémon Go it’s unlikely that people will be heading in their droves to Reqaug’s Minecraft version, but still – it’s pretty impressive to see what he’s made. Take a look below: