Watch Teenagers Laughably Play with the Nintendo Power Glove
"It's so bad."
The Fine Bros. have released another fun “React” video that features modern day teenagers being introduced to 1989's legendary Nintendo Power Glove. The first time I saw the Power Glove was in the 1989 film The Wizard. Not long after, one of my friends got it for his birthday. We spent hours trying to figure out how it worked, but neither of us or his parents could get the damned thing to operate. They ended up returning it and getting a couple of games instead.
I didn't really get a chance to play with the glove for another few years. In the end, it wasn't as fun to play with as I thought it would be. Watching these teens talk about it and play with it is really amusing, though.
With teens today growing up with controller-less technology that actually works, showing them one of the early attempts had fun results. Beyond some not even being sure if it something old or new, came some feeling it was very cool to wear and a great idea, only to have massive disappointment and a very sore arm after trying to play 2 different games with it, as they learned first hand it just didn't really work. Though in the end, when we showed them a commercial from 1989 for the Glove, they all felt just as we all did back then, that advertising works and it made it seem like the coolest thing ever and some even wanted to try again after seeing it...
Which of course we had them do in our other gaming series on our REACT channel as a fun extra, we had some of the same teens play RAD RACER with the Power Glove, made famous by the infamous scene in the movie "The Wizard" which we of course showed them a clip of, you don't want to miss that. Be great if you can post both! This was a lot of fun to produce.
This is a pretty entertaining video, and you can watch their previous one here featuring old people playing Grand Theft Auto V.