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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Okay, Chuck.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: A Partial History of Action Figures

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

So there were a couple of other peripherals that came along that were as meh as Rob was, maybe even a little meh.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

One was the power pad.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

The other was the power glove.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And again, these were things that were really cool and helped advance the NES system and made a bunch of money for everybody.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

But when you played with them, they weren't very good.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Yeah, the Power Pad is... It was a pad.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

It had another use from another company.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

It was called the Fun and Fitness Pad from Bandai.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And Nintendo bought them out and basically repackaged it and said, hey, now you can do, like, track and field games by running on this dumb thing.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

And that technology is still very popular.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

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...

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

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

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

I almost called him Rod.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

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

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

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

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

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.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

Right.

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SYSK's 12 Days of Christmas… Toys: How the Nintendo Entertainment System Changed Gaming Forever

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.