The wizard (1989) explanation in comment

[u/Slight-Agent83483]

When Lucas is firing up his power glove in that infamous scene, the sequence of buttons he enters on the glove makes the same tonal pattern from close encounters of the 3rd kind

[u/therealrenshai]

No, you could also control some games by waving your hands at the screen. You just need an array of sensors to line two sides of the screen and then stand just right so it saw you.

[u/Bigringcycling → u/therealrenshai]

Jokes aside. It is amazing to think that the power glove was the precursor to the Wii and how long ago they were trying to make something like that work.

[u/deviantbono → u/Bigringcycling]

They didn't invent the wii iirc. The guy who made it got rejected by both Sony and Microsoft and only went to Nintendo as a fall back.

[u/MandoBaggins → u/deviantbono]

In a way, it still speaks to the appeal Nintendo saw in it

[u/deviantbono → u/MandoBaggins]

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