Evan Ratliff

Like, if you go to arcades, those dance games, and there's still, like... I played one not too long ago with my daughter, Dave and Buster's, where you...

do like track and field stuff is still around but at home a kid isn't going to do like they're inside kids because they don't want to be outside running around yeah they want to be on the couch and so the power pad didn't go so well it ended up in the closet with Rob and

I almost called him Rod.

And then that glove, though, the Power Glove, it was really cool, and it looks cool today.

I imagine people buy these just for Halloween costumes because it looks kind of neat.

But Punch-Out!, which is a great boxing game, Power Glove was kind of the only game where you really maximized what you could get out of the glove.

Right.

I also saw there's a scene in the Fred Savage movie, The Wizard, where this kid pulls out a Power Glove and plays Rad Racer.

So he's using it like he's steering.

But they didn't really develop any games specifically for the Power Glove.

It was ahead of its time, I think.

It was a little bit because Dave likens it to Wii.

Eventually, Nintendo came out with the Wii system, which used essentially the same kind of technology.

But yeah, it was ahead of its time.

So it ended up in the closet with the power pad and Rob.

Oh, man.

Closet's getting full.

Exactly.

But as kind of clunky as those were, that controller we talked about, that was revolutionary.

Yeah, there's a writer at GamePro named Tai K. Kim who came up with this cool analogy that they found, which is that what Nintendo had landed on with that controller was what Kim referenced as the language of console gaming.