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Blue Beetle may sport a highly-advanced suit of alien armor but several elements were inspired by a toy from the past: Nintendo‘s Power Glove. Per Collider, director Angel Manuel Soto revealed where ...
At first, they thought it looked just brilliant. Then they tried to use it. YouTube stars The Fine Bros. got 10 teenagers to try out the Nintendo Power Glove, a device one kid describes as "Wii before ...
Nintendo’s Power Glove was, to quote one of the eighties’ finest films, “so bad.” The NES peripheral transfixed a generation of youngsters, only to later realize that the “bad” in this instance should ...
The triumph of most video games, and video game accessories is almost always down to functionality. No matter how great a game looks, or how slick a particular console was designed, aesthetics are ...
One of the most ambitious and hyped products of the Nintendo era finally gets a documentary to explain what the hell went wrong. The Power of Glove explores the creation and development of the ...
Niles Mitchell of the YouTube channel Will it Work? has seemingly undergone the impossible: reviving one of Nintendo's most unsatisfactory pieces of wearable hardware and leveraging it on modern ...
Although retro gaming is more popular than ever (except for when it was maybe not so retro), there’s some classic hardware worth forgetting. The Power Glove was one of Nintendo’s most disappointing ...
One gamer was able to get some hands-on time, or hands-in time in this case, with one of the most iconic and controversial add-ons ever released for a Nintendo console, sharing a picture of their ...
It’s been over thirty years since Nintendo released its Power Glove, but the infamous controller hasn’t quite faded into oblivion yet. A YouTuber recently crafted a nifty new use for the glove: ...
What just happened? A YouTube user has managed to modify Nintendo's Power Glove to work with the company's Switch, a handheld console that launched nearly 30 years after the ill-fated motion ...
In honor of the 30-year anniversary of the cult classic movie The Wizard, I wanted to see if I could get a Power Glove working. Jeff is CNET Editor at Large and a host for CNET video. He's regularly ...