>> Hi. I'm Zach Anner and we're here at
the Microsoft Lounge to check
out their new Adaptive Controller.
This controller allows any variety of
gamers with any ability to
play the way that they want to play.
These two big buttons,
they can be programmed as anything on the controller.
Right now, they're at A and B.
My first thought was,
"Man, I would have loved having this as a kid."
I won, I won both games!
I'm amazing. My second thought was,
"I want to beat Josh Flanagan playing video games."
Josh and I met in college and
we immediately became best friends.
He has carried me up mountains,
he's the Thelma to my Louise.
That analogy doesn't work at all.
>> I've got a pretty solid 34 years
of gaming under my belt.
I'm really interested today to see how
far Zach's less than one day of gaming stacks up to that.
>> If I can just get to that level immediately,
then I'll be satisfied.
Hark! A loser approaches.
Joshua!
>> Yeah.
>> You ready to be beaten?
>> I'm ready.
>> You're looking pathetic today.
>> Thank you.You're going to regret this.
>> If I can't win after training for 15 minutes,
then what am I doing?
You know who else had 15 minutes of training?
Neil Armstrong
and he drove to the moon.
>> Ready?
>> Hiyah! Hiyah!
Yah!
Whoa!
Okay. So, you're beating me a little,
but I'm just getting warmed up!
>> This is more even than I thought it would be.
>> I was immediately taken aback by
how good I was!
>> I was actually pretty impressed.
He was giving some punches there,
but he was still awful.
>> No, stop it.
There's just so many!
Wait, you didn't win, did you?
>> Yeah, I did.
>> That went by so fast!
>> He got a few jabs in,
but at the end of the day, Zach, he's new to this,
he's a baby, and
what's the first thing you do to a baby?
You spank it.
>> I can't spin that.
That sucks!
I hope you get diarrhea and it never stops.
>> Too late.
>> You can lead a gamer to an Adaptive Controller.
>> But you can't.
>> Make him.
>> Win.
>> Good.
Huh.
>> Put that on the box.
Most people would be glad to get 15 minutes of fame,
much less 15 minutes of practice,
and Zach has squandered both.
>> I know what I have to do.
I'm going to go to the kitchen and get a snack.
I was losing so I needed to
take things to the next level with
a little anti-adaptive technology
otherwise known as
[French accent] sabotagé.
Okay. Well, I think I'm ready to play again.
Air Horn!
[Air Horn Noise]
I can't believe I'm still losing!
We had your standard sabotage package for Josh.
Hit him with the darts!
>> Argh!
>>Hanging him upside down,
Shot him with darts.
>> What's inside the mind of someone like that?
>> Bubbles!
How is he winning with bubbles in his face?
>> [coughing] I got one down the throat!
>> Can I get some bubbles?
Aw. This is nice.
>> [coughing]
>> If I don't beat him,
I'm going to have to train for another 15 minutes,
and I do not want to do that.
All right, Gillian,
shock him.
>> Ah!
>> More!
>> Ah! Argh! Ah!
>> It's working, it's working!
The Adaptive Controller is working!
>> Ow!
Argh!
>> Yes!
Yeah!
>> Ow! ow! ow!
>> [triumphant cat yowl] Meeeoooowww!
The Xbox Adaptive Controller works!
Thank you, Xbox!
See, this is what gaming is when you
make it adaptive so that everyone can play.
>> Thirty four years of work down the drain.
>> Thank you so much Xbox for
designing all this and making all this possible.
I speak for myself and Josh when I say,
it's great that we can finally play
video games together.
It's just so much fun.
>> It's just, he's a stand up cheater guy,
and I think he's going to go really far.
>> I did it!
I... I beat Josh!
Fair and square!
That's a microphone.
Wait a minute
am I being filmed?!
>> [laughter] Okay, cut.