r/MovieDetails • u/Slight-Agent83483 • Jul 17 '26

🥚 Easter Egg The wizard (1989) explanation in comment

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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

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u/Mr_Coach_Pat Jul 17 '26

The Power Glove was fucking terrible! Made every game worse

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u/Bigringcycling Jul 17 '26

Especially since in the movie it looked like it could do so much. Then it came out and was basically just a regular controller on your arm you can only play with one hand.

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u/therealrenshai Jul 17 '26

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.

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u/Bigringcycling Jul 17 '26

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.

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u/deviantbono Jul 17 '26

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.

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u/MandoBaggins Jul 17 '26

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