‘The Wizard’ Made Me Long for a Wearable Future
The Odyssey-like tale follows a traumatized young boy, Jimmy Woods, who has a preternatural talent for playing Nintendo games and is rescued from an “institution” by his half-brother Corey, played by Fred Savage. They strike out for California, picking up Haley Brooks (Jenny Lewis) along the way. They catch wind of a video game tournament in California with a $50,000 grand prize, which everyone agrees Jimmy could absolutely win, if only they could find their way through all of the Nintendo product placement littering the film to get there.
- ▪The Odyssey-like tale follows a traumatized young boy, Jimmy Woods, who has a preternatural talent for playing Nintendo games and is rescued from an “institution” by his half-brother Corey, played by Fred Savage.
- ▪They strike out for California, picking up Haley Brooks (Jenny Lewis) along the way.
- ▪They catch wind of a video game tournament in California with a $50,000 grand prize, which everyone agrees Jimmy could absolutely win, if only they could find their way through all of the Nintendo product placement littering the film to get
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The Power Glove’s one-minute-plus cameo in 1989’s The Wizard wasn’t the first time wearable tech made a splash in pop culture, but it’s the one that got me and countless others hooked on wearables nearly two decades before we ever bought our first Fitbits.cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"92b7b46b-43ed-4e0e-b21b-2c999302d9d7","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.gizmodo.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"2000790440","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"tech","SECTION":"gadgets","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"gadgets","TAGS":"nintendo,smartwatches,the-next-interface,wearables","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); If you haven’t heard of The Wizard, it’s essentially a 90-minute-long Nintendo commercial in the form of a kids’…
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