The pretty forgettable line in the weirdly unforgettable film The Wizard, showed Lucas Barton as a too-cool gamer at the cutting edge of technology. The problem? He was using Nintendo's Power Glove, an uncomfortable, impractical nightmare of a controller.

Over at Wired, Clive Thompson looks at the way Hollywood's portrayal of gamers on the silver screen has changed. He mentions The Wizard, Jeff Bridges in Tron and a scene from The 40 Year Old Virgin (someone else make the joke, okay?) in his look at the way gamers are portrayed.

An overlooked scene from cinema history? The gents of Swingers' coming to blows over a game of hockey on the Genesis.

Gamers Get a Hollywood Makeover [Wired]