Mattel's Power Glove promised "amazing new ways to play almost every Nintendo game." It seemed awesome by any standards: a robotic-looking glove that you could use to play video games. In theory, there was nothing cooler than the Power Glove. But in practice, the Power Glove kind of sucked. If I rember correctly, you would move your wrist and the character would move on the screen; twitch a finger, and the character would jump or shoot. But using it was kludgy at best: the controls were sloppy, and the Power Glove turned out to be a huge disappointment. Oh well, it's a pretty cool-looking collector's item anyway.
Here's a clip from the Wizard supposedly showing how "bad" the Power Glove is. Bad is right. Notice they don't actually show the kid finish the game.
The above ad ran in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie Adaptation.
5 out of 5 - Simply incredible!
4 out of 5 - Pretty awesome!
3 out of 5 - Cool enough, I suppose.
2 out of 5 - Not quite good enough.
1 out of 5 - Pretty horrific!
0 out of 5 - No redeeming quality at all.
2 comments:
Aha! I didn't get a Power Glove till I was all grown up, and even then it was laying in the trash at a flea-market! :lol:
I always wanted one though, and really couldn't get the one I found to work. A friend of mine when I was a kid had one, but never would let me use it....now i know why.
Still there's just something nostalgic about the overly extreme peripherals that Nintendo kept making back in the day. Just to come back 20 years later with the Wii Remote which essentially looks less interesting than a t.v. remote, but is oddly capable of way more than anything else Nintendo had! :) Isn't life ironic?
I do however, Love to U-Force, it's so bad.
GOOD TIMES!!!!!!
I miss the good old days.:(
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