Ah, the '80s. A time when video game technology had all the promise in front of it. A time of weird experimentation, where a lot of things didn't exactly work as advertised.
That's the story of Nintendo's Power Glove, an early motion controller released in 1989 that paired with sensors to control early Nintendo Entertainment System games (which it did rather poorly). The Fine Bros.' "Teens React" YouTube series, which is known for torturing youngsters with technology that pre-dates them, decided to pull it out for testing.
"So this is like the Wii before the Wii," said one in the video.
Sadly, this is much more painful. The teenagers quickly learned that while the Power Glove looked amazing, it had a lot of accuracy issues. Screen control was much harder than it should have been.
"I know why I've never heard of this -- because it's so bad," another cried, after playing Punch Out! with just the Power Glove.
Thankfully, the Wii controller and Kinect have (mostly) improved on motion controls, but it's fun to look back on just how early tech tried to tackle the same ideas.