cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) (04/03/91)
This was posted on The WELL, in the vr conference. I think it's
worthy of discussion. What happened? Is this the long dark night of
garage VR?
Topic 67: PowerGlove a goner?
By: James C. Barnes (jamesb) on Tue, Apr 2, '91
1 responses so far
Hello all,
It looks like the PowerGlove is dead. Can anyone confirm it? was in Toys R
Us about 1 month ago and they were selling the glove for $59.00 (too cheap to
be making money) and last week they no longer carried it. Is it gone?
1 response total.
Topic 67: PowerGlove a goner?
# 1: John Nagle (nagle) Tue, Apr 2, '91 (17:16) 8 lines
Fry's still has it, but the clientele is different. What didn't
happen, apparently, was the appearance of Power Glove games. This
may have been deliberate. The Power Glove came from Atari but attached
to Nitendo units. Atari lost a lawsuit with Nitendo on the right to
make Nitendo-compatible cartridges. The Power Glove is thus an orphaned
product.
I'll bet we see it again with the new Apple game machine.jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) (04/04/91)
In article <1991Apr3.062154.9030@milton.u.washington.edu> cyberoid@milton.u.wash ington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes: ># 1: John Nagle (nagle) Tue, Apr 2, '91 (17:16) 8 lines > > Fry's still has it, but the clientele is different. What didn't > happen, apparently, was the appearance of Power Glove games. This > may have been deliberate. The Power Glove came from Atari but attached > to Nintendo units. Atari lost a lawsuit with Nintendo on the right to > make Nintendo-compatible cartridges. The Power Glove is thus an orphaned > product. I wouldn't trust this article, since at least the companies involved are totally wrong. Atari never had anything to do with the PowerGlove. The glove was marketed by Mattel. Mattel seems to be in extremely good terms with Nintendo (at least in the US). This doesn't mean that there are games for the PowerGlove, so if the PowerGlove isn't dead now, it will probably soon be. ____________________________________________________________________________ / Juri Munkki / Helsinki University of Technology / Wind / Project / / jmunkki@hut.fi / Computing Center Macintosh Support / Surf / STORM / ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~