A Minecraft fan with a lot of time on his hands is attempting to create a working version of Pokémon Red in Mojang's hit.
Redditor Magib1 has been working on the project for more than two months now and expects it will take three or four additional months to finalise the core mechanics.
Magib1 is developing this as a port of the game, designed to run on a Gameboy Colour's screen. It's something like having a mini-Gameboy Colour within Minecraft beneath the actual port of the game.
“When the player clicks, a reader armour stand moves and clones the row of new textures behind the display,” he explains in this thread. “Display armour stands then detect the block type and stick the corresponding texture on their head before moving. The player model is just swapping between a static walking and standing texture.”
This is the port’s map as it currently stands:
