Evan Ratliff
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So there were a couple of other peripherals that came along that were as meh as Rob was, maybe even a little meh.
One was the power pad.
The other was the power glove.
And again, these were things that were really cool and helped advance the NES system and made a bunch of money for everybody.
But when you played with them, they weren't very good.
Yeah, the Power Pad is... It was a pad.
It had another use from another company.
It was called the Fun and Fitness Pad from Bandai.
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.
And that technology is still very popular.
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.