The Power Glove: How Nintendo’s Most Notorious Flop Became a Legend
Quick Answer: The Nintendo Power Glove was a motion-sensing NES controller released in October 1989 by Mattel — not Nintendo. Priced at $75, it used ultrasound technology to translate hand movements into game inputs, and it worked so poorly that most players gave up within weeks. The 1989 movie The Wizard made it a cultural…