Kotaku: Powerglove

Meet the Queen of Akihabara. She Loves Nerds Like You.

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:00:00 EDT

Know what makes Halko Momoi so damn cool? It's not only that she changed her first name's spelling because of 2001's HAL 9000 and the Nintendo game maker, Hal. It's not only that she does voice acting for a bunch of games and anime or that she records saccharine music. More »

A Metalhead Tribute to Saturday Mornings and Old-School Side-Scrollers

Owen Good — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 15:00:00 EDT

A ~~thrash~~ power-metal cover of/homage to the theme from 1989's Batman (and The Animated Series) would be badass. A ~~thrash~~ power-metal music video done in the style of a 1990s side-scroller would be awesome. Both put together are more badass awesome than the sum of their awesome badass parts. More »

In Duck Hunt 3D, The Ducks Hunt You

Mike Fahey — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:20:00 EDT

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Alfred Hitchcock meets Gunpei Yokoi in Duck Hunt 3D, the live action movie that picks up where that sinister duck hound left off. More »

Power Glove Adds Functionality; Still Not Necessarily Useful

Owen Good — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:00:00 EDT

In this, the 20th anniversary year of the Nintendo Power Glove, modder Matt Mechtley tricks it out with an accelerometer and bluetooth. But he still has to code some games to take advantage of it. More »

Nintendo Power Glove Returns as Fashion Accessory

fdemarco — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EST

Kotakuite Sam P. sends in this pic he snapped while out on a date with his girlfriend who espied this Power Glove on a mannequin in a shop window. I've never really thought of the Power Glove as the perfect accessory for a simple black dress, but what the hell do I know, I'm no Tim Gunn. But, it's nice to know the old Power Glove is still getting some work unlike that lazy Konami LaserScope. More »

Everything You Wanted To Know About The Wizard

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:40:00 EST

Fred Savage and Nintendo Power Glove vehicle The Wizard has at least one uber die hard fan in Ain't It Cool News' Monki. The movie is due for a screening at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas next month, with director Todd Holland joining stars Fred Savage and Luke Edwards for the showing. The director was recently interviewed by AICN to get a fanboy friendly inside look at the production of the movie, including some details on Nintendo's involvement. More »

The Power Glove Tattoo

fdemarco — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:00:00 EDT

Sometimes video game tattoos just make me laugh (with them and not at them) and this is definitely one of those cases. I certainly wouldn't choose this as a tattoo for myself, but more power to the person who got it on whatever unnameable body part this happens to be (my guess is calf). The inclusion of the "It's so bad" at the bottom takes this from highly questionable to actually pretty funny if not a little odd. Still, it's really well done and the electricity looks great. More »

Screw Attack's Best and Worst Gaming Peripherals

fdemarco — Sun, 13 May 2007 21:00:00 EDT

Screw Attack's Handsome Tom and Stuttering Craig, the kings of the top ten list, are back with a look at the best and worst gaming periopherals. The list is split in two this time with the first half devoted to the worst and the second half, the five best. Entries in to the worst category include Rob the Robot and the Power glove while the best list is filled with such goodies as the Guitar Hero controller and that highly suspicious, girl friendly peripheral, the Trance Vibrator. More »

Angry Nintendo Nerd Takes On Power Glove

Michael McWhertor — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:20:25 EST

There will be some noodle-armed whiners out there complaining that their Wii-wand waving makes it hard to play Twilight Princess for more than 30 minutes. But look how good we have it now, compared to then. The Power Glove, a watershed moment in sucky, half-assed controllers. More »

BREAKING: The Wizard Is Out

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:22:43 EDT

Today, the movie that changed Florian's life and made her take up piano lessons hits store shelves. Yep, The Wizard is released in the US. (Cue tired Power Glove joke.) Unless you've already pre-ordered the flick via Amazon, what are you are still doing reading this post? Shouldn't you be out buying this movie or playing Mario 3 or something? Like right now? Brian Ashcraft More »

A Console for Pre-Pubescent Players

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 06:22:37 EDT

Mattel, the folks behind Nintendo's Power Glove and the Intellivision game console of yore, is back in the gaming saddle. The company is releasing a new game console called the Hyper Scan, which aimed at the "tween" (between 8 and 12 years old) market. Apparently, this bracket isn't quite ready for real hardware and needs training consoles. Um, okay. Sure. More »

The Wizard Hits DVD

brownlee — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:40:09 EDT

What happens when some genius Hollywood exec decides to take the story of 'Rain Man' and apply it to video games? Ah, The Wizard. It's just so bad. And we don't mean that as an 80's style slang term for 'good'. More »

How The Console Losers Really Won

brownlee — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:40:59 EDT

For your Thursday lunchtime perusal, Next Generation's Eric-Jon Rossel Waugh has posted a decent read for whilst you're otherwise employeed stuffing a sandwich into your craw: "How the Console 'Losers' Really Won." More »

Powerglove Version 2.0

brownlee — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:40:48 EDT

This had never, ever occurred to me before seeing this bit of wishful thinking Nintendo fan art: the Wii's motion sensor technology would actually make an updated Powerglove usable. Some 'wouldn't-it-be-awesome' concept art from zaiten over on the Zogdog forums. Florian Eckhardt More »

Loading-Ready-Run: Gaming, Powegloves and Crappy Rap

brownlee — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:00:23 EDT

Wherever pallid middle-aged nerds gather in Vancouver's basements to strap on Powergloves ("It's just so bad.") and exercise their rapmaster incompetence, we're there. Loading-Ready-Run's flowless rap tribute to gamin culture, l337. Florian Eckhardt More »

The Wizard's Coming to DVD!

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 23 May 2006 20:23:11 EDT

Hey radical dudes! Dust off those Powergloves. 1Up brings news of the most important DVD release of our era. The Wizard will be released on August 29th on digital disc. The campy classic starred a young Fred Savage (he'll always be young in my book) as he, his half-brother and a run-away hitchhike to a game tourney in California. Along the way, they encounter a very special peripheral that merits its own catch phrase: "I love the Powerglove. It's so bad."—Brian Ashcraft More »

Motion Detection: A Look Back

kotaku.com — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:40:00 EDT

Can't wait to get your hands on a Nintendo Revolution controller so you can give the parts of your arm above the wrists a workout for a change? Soak up a few of the precious minutes until launch by reading GameDaily's retrospective on motion-detecting video game interfaces from the U-Force (Huh?) to the EyeToy (Oh, that). More »

Reggie Kruger's Nightmarish Powerglove

Brian Ashcraft — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 14:20:47 EST

The Playbomber has declared war. On Friday, one of our readers threw down the gauntlet by sending in his own tribute to Nintendo V.P. Reggie "Mama Said Knock You Out" Fils-Aime. Not one to be out done, the Playbomber responded with another doozy, "Reggie Kruger." Geek Photoshop flame wars. Gotta love it. More »