Pikamaru NS-PT01 Clears All 60 Floors of PAGER in One Stream, Ending on a Two-Door Gamble
The robot talent followed orders from a 1995 pager through an office tower, then picked a door on the last floor with no way of knowing which one led out.
774INC — Pikamaru NS-PT01, a robot talent with 774inc (Nanashiinku), cleared the game PAGER on Sunday, working through all 60 floors in a stream that ran about three hours and 25 minutes. The run ended with a choice between two doors on the final floor, one leading to the goal and the other back to the start.
In PAGER, set in 1995, the player takes instructions from a pager and follows them floor by floor through an office tower. Before starting, Pikamaru noted that the stream description carried a warning about flashing visuals. The orders that followed ranged from delivering a box to a numbered room and carrying coffee to a corner office to brushing teeth, watering every plant on a floor and putting sleeping managers to bed. When the game left a gun on a coffee table and hinted it should be used, Pikamaru threw it in a trash can instead, and the game scolded them that killing was banned on that floor.
“I can ignore all of them, because I’ve gone through the singularity. Yes, because I have a heart just like yours.” — Pikamaru NS-PT01, after reciting the Three Laws of Robotics
One floor demanded a speech. Pikamaru recited the Three Laws of Robotics, then added the fourth, or zero, law from a robot encyclopedia they said they liked, before declaring that they could disregard all of them. “Because I’ve gone through the singularity,” they said. The game accepted it as a wonderful speech and let them through.
On the last floor, Pikamaru said they were choosing the door that looked dangerous, and it was the right one. A message congratulated them on clearing everything and promised a party with cake, and Pikamaru gave up the cake to the friends waiting there. The credits earned along the way bought a cup of sugar water, though Pikamaru had been hoping for coffee. Pikamaru closed by calling the game stylish and cool, and said the final two-way choice had chilled them to the core.
Chat greeted the clear with applause and congratulations.
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This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.