Claude Plays Pokemon was the original concept and inspiration behind "Gemini Plays Pokemon". Gemini arguably only did better because it had access to a much better agent harness and was being actively developed during the run.

See: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7mqp8uRnnPdbBzJZE/is-gemini-...

Not sure "original concept" is quite right, given it had been tried earlier, e.g. here's a 2023 attempt to get gpt-4-vision to play pokemon, (it didn't really work, but it's clearly "the concept")

https://x.com/sidradcliffe/status/1722355983643525427

I disagree - this is all an homage to Twitch Plays Pokemon, which was a noteworthy moment in internet culture/history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_Plays_Pok%C3%A9mon