I remember getting this for C
hristmas in 1990 when I was 10 years old. I was so excited. The power glove looked so bad ass at the time. It was about $25 and I begged my mom at Toys R Us to buy it for me. The same day I got it I had also received the NES Powerball game made especially for the Power Glove. I was geeked and ready to play with it. The glove came with these sensors that you had to place on or around your TV so that it could pick up the signals from it. The really discouraging part was reading the manual. Now being a naive young 10 year old I thought all I had to do was put the glove on and start playing. Nope, that wasn't the case. I found out that every game that you played with the Power Glove had an initial code that you were supposed to enter on the it before playing the game. The lame part was that it didn't automatically respond to your hand movements. Each game had a set of hand gestures or particular movements that you had to make. It was like learning freakin' sig
n language. On top of that the games that were used with the Power Glove were only a select few. I never really got it to work. I think I had a problem with my sensors. So the aura of the Power Glove only lasted for about a few days after Christmas then it just became a part of my toy collection. I basically used it as prop in one of my make believe sessions when I played as Lion-O from the Thundercats using his lion claw glove. The main reason I wanted it was so I could play Mike Tyson's Punch Out. Then I saw all the signs and hand gestures I had to make and I quickly realized that it just wasn't gonna work out. I was so disappointed. The worst part was that it was a right handed glove. I'm a lefty. I don't know whatever happened to that thing. Talk about good times. I'm surprised they haven't revamped it for the Nintendo Wii. I think it would sell pretty well. The Power Glove was definitely way ahead of its time. It's neat to know that we actually had the Nintendo Wii's technology 20 years ago. Man I'm getting old. Here's some video featuring the glove in it's hey day:Power Glove Commercial
Scene From The Wizard
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