Evan Ratliff

So he's using it like he's steering.

But they didn't really develop any games specifically for the Power Glove.

It was ahead of its time, I think.

It was a little bit because Dave likens it to Wii.

Eventually, Nintendo came out with the Wii system, which used essentially the same kind of technology.

But yeah, it was ahead of its time.

So it ended up in the closet with the power pad and Rob.

Oh, man.

Closet's getting full.

Exactly.

But as kind of clunky as those were, that controller we talked about, that was revolutionary.

Yeah, there's a writer at GamePro named Tai K. Kim who came up with this cool analogy that they found, which is that what Nintendo had landed on with that controller was what Kim referenced as the language of console gaming.

Took us under his wing and showed us the game, as they call it.

And that really kind of locks it down as to what they did.

Like, you know, we were talking earlier about that first NES brick.

It was all kind of there.

They grew and morphed, but that directional pad was revolutionary.

Those buttons were revolutionary, and they landed on the idea of a kid holding something in their two hands and mainly using their thumbs to operate it.

Thumbs and pointer fingers, I guess now, but mainly thumbs.

Yeah, because with the Atari joystick, you would use your thumb for the red button, but you used your whole hand to move the joystick.