I was lucky, when my mom and I went to K-Mart to purchase the Power Glove -- the salesman actually talked us out of buying it. He cited the problems and difficulties in programming it to use for games as a reason not to buy, but the biggest thing he did to convince me that I would not like it is that he showed me a stack of returned Power Glove boxes behind the K-Mart electronics section counter...he must have had 4 or 5 opened boxes that had been brought back to K-Mart for refunds (as he said "if it is so great, why are so many kids returning them to get their money back?"). I was so thankful I didn't waste the time and money on it...and a few weeks later, another kid in my neighborhood DID buy the Power Glove and I actually got to try it for myself...I then found out just how right that saleman at K-Mart really was. This was a great video, I really enjoyed it. You just earned a new subscriber. I am looking forward to watching more informative and interesting videos like this.
+Reality Check Thanks and thanks for the story. My friends and I only got the power glove to work really well one time. Thing was way too difficult and not user friendly.
I should have returned mine, but didn't realize I was able to. I knew it sucked and knew I wasted $80 of my scrimped money within the first 10-15 minutes of playing around with it. I was so embarrassed and was aware I just wasted real money for the first time in my life as a 10 year old, and didn't want my parents to know. They knew though.
Don't ever stop making videos. I've watched a ton of videogame documentary videos and only watched two of yours so far (just discovered your channel last night), and you're leaps and bounds better. Your articulation, presentation, and your material all coalesce perfectly. Thanks again for the great videos. I'll be binge watching the rest of your material tonight.
+Shawn Thanks man! It's been a rough day so this was actually really nice to read. You might change your mind when you get to some of the older ones! Lol. I actually have a new video coming out tomorrow on the Atari Jaguar. It'll probably be published around 2pm EST. Thanks for checking the channel out and for the kind words. Really appreciate it.
Taking a $10,000 piece of space age equipment (at the time) and producing a version that sold for well under $80 is just pure engineering brilliance. Too bad they weren't able to sort out the calibration issues. I am pretty sure if they were given enough time they could have fixed it.
this one had nintendo people directly involved and aware of it though. bit different from "this game is playable so it gets the seal of approval by default"
Antiform I would have thought that people would have realised by now that the Nintendo seal of quality merely refers to the fact that the product is officially licensed and that it meets objective standards, aka those 10 million finger bends and won't explode on your arm, not that it's a product of subjective quality, aka it being a good product worthy of five stars from reviewers.
There are two types of TH-camrs. Those who interact with the comments section, and those who don't. You are in the first category, and that's a good thing.
+PSI Seven Thanks for taking the time to watch man. I try to reply to everyone. If someone took the time out to type a comment replying is really the least I could do. That and I genuinely appreciate it when people comment. I'm blown away people have been checking my stuff out lately. This video has gotten way more attention today than my videos normally do so unfortunately I think I've missed a few comments. Thanks again.
Always nice to relive that history. One technical correction to your narration, starting at 3:40. Referring to Fig 1 of my patent, ultrasonic transmitter (17) on the glove (12) sends a 40kHz signal to three microphones (20) placed around the monitor (22).
Thanks, I'm trying! lol. I'm really hoping to get to spend some time in After Effects soon so that I can really make some really cool videos from a visual perspective. I just need to find the time. The power glove definitely has an interesting history. One thing I kind of glossed over was how Chris Gentile (from A.G.E) kept annoying the hell out of the Mattel engineers and programmers. Also, Will Novak from Mattel thought the thing was going to suck from the start. It always blew my mind that these guys had the balls to say, "yeah, we can take a $10,000 piece of equipment and turn it into a $75 video game accessory. No problem." As a kid, I remember having a really fun time playing Super Glove Ball the one time we magically calibrated it perfectly. Every other time was a disaster. Reply · 1
hahah, the 80's+90's cringe worthy nostalgia, it's bad really bad, I don't know how we ever thought this was 'cool' but it is 'campy' as hell and I love it lol XD
+Nick Parbs Thanks! I'm glad you like them man. It'd be cool if those subs come one day but I'm just happy people have been checking the videos out lately.
This is my first time watching a video of yours, but I want to commend you on a fantastic job! This video is informative and interesting. It is evident a lot of research went into this, and I enjoyed the editing style. Keep up the great work!
Thanks man! I feel like I've been saying, "it'll be out next week" for like a month. Oh wait, I was lol. Might do some drunk streaming tomorrow night btw.
I feel like the moral of the story is that a new product doesn't need to actually be cool in order to sell well, people just need to want to believe it's cool.
+cloudtx thanks! If you were binge watching you probably went through all the videos already ha ha. There's more on the way. A little trailer/preview for my next one will be up today or tomorrow.
6:10 "... asked Mattel CEO to play (Punch-Out!!) using the Data (Power) Glove, and on her first attempt... she knocked Glass out." And this was never ever repeated by any future Power Glove owner, ever.
+Corey Trevor Thanks! Appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment. Next new video should be out in a week or two. It'll be on the Atari Jaguar.
stumbled upon your vids yesterday, i subbed right away, very nice voiceover and pictures man, you are very good at what you do. Keep it up i really enjoy it thx!
Awesome editing as always. I never had the power glove but I did have the laserscope helmet. The bend sensor they used was interesting it seems to be the same sensor that came with my arduino kit, I ended up using it to make my own sensor glove. it's interesting to hear how the invention of that sensor is tied to the power glove.
+Useless Duck Company Thanks man. I reeeeally want to start doing some fancier editing with After Effects but just have a hard time finding the time. Yeah, it's interesting how many things spawned off the Power Glove and Data Glove. When looking around at patents I found several other VR and motion related applications that actually referenced the gloves. I didn't even realize that patent applications referenced other patents.
Power glove could returned with the same technologies that was supposed to be used in the first place and better technology(optics fiber, sensors,etc...)since most of them are now cheap and could be use for VR related games.
Once again great editing and a good story as well,I really enjoy how you stick to the thesis (how the power glove originated from NASA research) and intertwined relevant ads of the day. Keep it up - surprised your subscriber count isnt going up quicker - you have a post with 3k upvotes on reddit and soon these views will translate intro subscribers! Liked.
+jblsucks321 Thanks man. Unlike that bully JBL, you don't suck lol. I wanted to spend a bit more time on the backgrounds of Zimmerman, Lanier, and Chris gentile but there's another video out there that does that so I decided to go a different route. I wish my sub count would go up quicker too haha. TH-cam is a marathon though man. I just gotta keep plugging away making the next stuff I can. I didn't know about the 3K Reddit post. That's crazy. What sub Reddit is it in? It explains why this video has gotten so much attention. The count hasn't fully updated on here but according to TH-cam Analytics it's at 12K views in 24 hours. I'm floored... and a bit buzzed but that's not relevant. Good hearing from you.
+skanlessdago Thanks! My next one is going to be on the Atari Jaguar and should be out in a week or two. It's actually going to be my longest video to date, coming in right around thirty minutes.
Wrestling With Gaming I was just thinking about the Jaguar. I wanted to get it just for one game. Alien vs Predator or something like that. Played demo in Wal-Mart back in the day. Saved up enough money to buy one. Went to go buy it and guess. My luck. None. Lady at the counter said something about they sold last one and were discontinued.
Excellent video on the Power Glove--I enjoyed the presentation and "kinetic flow" of your editing here. It's something I strive to do myself in my videos. Also, it was good talking to you for two seconds or so over on Ian's stream Hopefully we'll have another chance next weekend.
+Jimmy Hapa (Import Gaming FTW!) Thanks man! Coincidentally my gf and I just watched your video on Sailor moon famicom games last night. It was really well done. We were both quite jealous of your mastery over Japanese language as well.
I've been avoiding this channel for the longest time based just on the name, I thought it was gonna be about WWF games, but man, video essays like this are my shit. Subbed
I've used the power glove 5 times, and it never once worked properly. But, like fmv in cd games, we accepted the idea because it was such a cool thing.
You could do a video compilation of all of the old videogame tech that has way outlived its design intent. I know people have done some crazy stuff with wiimotes and kinects also. The military may have a lot of hand-me-down tech, but so do videogames, and we're better for it.
The Power Glove was released in 1989, and according to dollartimes.com, its price of $75 had the same buying power as $150.27 in 2017. Fantastic video, I subscribed immediately.
+adamlundq Thanks so much. As much as I didn't like the Power Glove as a kid it really is pretty impressive that they were even able to put it together in such a relatively short period of time.
Given the extreme market demand for this kind of product, it's surprising that later generations of consoles made at a time when technology had made this much more achievable - such as as the Xbox or Playstation 2, that they never tried again. There's something inherently cool about wearing something on your wrist that allows interaction with a digital device. Games like Fallout with the HUD being an accessory, and so on.
I don't understand why nobody has ever made a Zapper with a D-pad where your thumb would go, especially with all the first person shooters out there. Use your thumb to move around using the D-pad and aim and shoot at stuff on the screen using the Zapper. It seems so obvious, but nobody has ever made one to my knowledge.
I had one as a kid, was so excited and it really was unfortunately crap. Just basically made games unplayable, to say nothing of the set up time before you played. I should have immediately returned it to the store, but when you're young and stupid, you think the problem is you and not the product the adults sold you. Companies like Nintendo and Mattel should have been ashamed to have let it been sold at all.
I was born in 1988 so I obviously don't remember the release of the Power Glove but one thing I do know about the Power Glove is that it was featured in The Nightmare on Elm Street series which is probably why I know it
When will manufacturers understand that gamers don't really want virtual reality? We just want to live through incredible adventures without leaving our couch, and a simple gamepad is more than perfect for that.
Great videos, hinest titles, talking in a regular voice with reasonable volume..... What's not to like? Well worth the upvotes and subscriptions you've earn. Thank you.
+Able Magawitch Thanks! I'm not a fan of ridiculous, over the top, screaming TH-cam channels myself so I try to just be me and make videos that won't risk destroying ear drums and speakers 😁 . Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with those kinds of videos but they're just not my thing. Glad you're enjoying the videos. Next video is going to be on the Atari Jaguar and it'll probably be out in one to two weeks. Probably lol.
+ziatonic yeah I think so too. The guy in the power glove commercials and the glove master are two different guys. They're both Tom cruise doppelgangers. Had to be on purpose.
I think it's probably the three-dimensional location of the hand (left/right,up/down,forward/backward) and then the tilt of the hand left and right (I think that is called yaw) and the tilt of the hand forward and backward (pitch?). The last two aren't really dimensions, but I think that is what they are talking about.
Not having games for it is what probably cooled it off. For me I had a hard time getting it to work right but that was because I was a kid I had no clue about calibration I assumed you just plugged everything up and let it rip. Even when someone would set it up for me some of the games were a pain in the ass to play.
I just discovered your channel and it's awesome! Very well researched and being a kid that grew up in the 80's and 90's I love this stuff! Keep 'em coming, hittin that little bell....
+Sean Corcoran thanks! I really appreciate it. Next video is going to be on the Atari Jaguar and it'll probably be out in one to two weeks. Probably lol.
Wrestling With Gaming I've been binge watching all of your documentary series this week. If you do all the research and editing on your own, this must be extremely time consuming. Truly well done though, you have a future in this for sure! PS my employer says you owe them about 10 hours of time this week...
Thanks for watching them all man. I'm sorry there's so few of them. The Atari Jaguar will be up soon, possibly as early as this weekend. I'm in Florida and Hurricane Irma is going to dictate whether or not I'll get to finish it or need to evacuate. It's very close to being completed though. I do all of the research and editing myself. It's definitely time consuming, some more than others, but I really enjoy doing it. It's been great seeing that people are interested in this stuff too. I'm hoping to get back on my schedule of releasing a new video every 2 weeks after the Jaguar video. The 3DO, Power Glove, and Jaguar video have all taken much longer than I expected to research and edit and just really threw off my whole schedule. I'm lucky I had the Famicom video pretty much ready to go so I was at least get some new stuff out. Ok, I'm ranting now :-) Thanks again for watching man. I know I said it a few days ago but I really do appreciate it.
Wrestling With Gaming I will definately keep watching...I dont reach out often or comment too frequently but the quality of your channel does not reflect your subcriber count : ( , yet..if you keep on pushing out good quality videos like these you will have a truly successful thing going here :). I will continue to follow your channel and look forward to future posts! Stay safe from Irma, she"s gonna be a bitch!
+Dakkon Blackblade Thanks, appreciate it! I actually do have LJN on my list of topics to cover. It's a long list so I'm not sure when I'll get to it but I definitely will. I'm pretty sure they came from deepest recesses of hell.
The Gaming Historian has a video on LJN, as well as one on the Power Glove, I enjoy watching both channels as you get a bit of information here that GH misses and vice versa.
Oh wow. I remember Track and Field with that huge game pad. That was the first game (I think) that involved body movement. Definitely way ahead of Wiis time!
They ought to make a new power glove. I'm sure that with all the technological advancements since, Nintendo could potentially make an impressive device today that actually works like it was intended.
"I love the Power Glove. It's so bad!" "The Wizard" Yes, Lucas, you were so right! It was so bad! Glass Joe's only win was against anyone who fought him with the Power Glove.
+jandastroy Thanks! Yeah, I was disappointed by it too. We got it to calibrate perfectly ONE TIME and we actually had a good time playing Super Glove Ball. We never got it to work properly ever again.
I wonder how the Power glove would work presently, if it was fitted with the parts it was meant for. Considering those parts wouldn't be as expensive as they were back then
Thanks man! Haha, that's funny. As a kid I wanted a Sega CD and I didn't own a Genesis so I get what you mean. As a kid, I remember having a really fun time playing Super Glove Ball the one time we magically calibrated it perfectly. Every other time was a disaster.
I love this channel and Gaming Historian! History, my favorite subject in school, and Video Games, one of my favorite things ever! Could this get any better? You deserve to be more popular than PewDiePie!
I always wanted one of these, but when I went into the store to get one, it wasn’t really a glove! It was kind of a shell with straps to go around your arms. It was also incredibly frustrating to use the keypad. The motion/gesture capability wasn’t too good either.
I just came across your channel I'ma a gamer and I love all your videos I have watched so far... Keep up the GREAT work! EDIT: You got me as a subscriber!
+Steven Ashley Thanks so much! I should have another video up in the next couple of weeks or so. It's going to be on the Atari Jaguar. I actually got some input on it from Leonard Tramiel from Atari. It's probably going to be close to a 30 minute video. Never as a kid did I think I would ever spend so much time researching the Jaguar lol. Thanks again for checking the channel out
All this talk about AGE and toy companies, and not even a tiny mention of Mego? They were a massive toy company in their own right. "In 1986, Martin Abrams co-founded Abrams Gentile Entertainment (AGE),[17] in order to retain and manage Mego’s licensing contracts, rights and deals. " -Wikipedia
+Daniel Stanford Funny you mention the jaguar. I don't know if I mentioned it to you on one of my other replies but the next video is going to be on the Atari Jaguar. I was able to get some input on it from Leonard Tramiel and am getting some assistance from a guy that works for a gaming magazine with research verification. All of that has made the video take longer to complete bit I think it'll be well worth it. Most of it is already edited. I just have two more pages worth of material to edit but then I'll have it checked for accuracy and add or remove as needed. I should have it up in a week or two
+Daniel Stanford here's a preview I had posted of the Atari jaguar video last month. th-cam.com/video/GQEdB1U4B9c/w-d-xo.html It's currently unlisted so it doesn't show up on my video list. Once I realized I wasn't going to make it anywhere close to my deadline I took the preview down and posted the Famicom modem video since it was pretty much ready to go.
Loved the history behind this one. The shame is what could have been if they took more development time and bundled it with a game designed specifically for the Power Glove.
I wonder how successful the P-Glove would've been used as a multiplayer accessory, so one person has a normal controller and other the glove. It would've been cool to see a megaman game where one controls movement and glove is shooting/actions
i LOVED the NES Advantage. i broke so many of those. LOL thats how i learned how to solder. and if i couldnt fix it, i would get a new one and swap that out and return it. :)
+Jenovi just two as far as I know. The regular size almost everyone used and a smaller size. I recently picked up a small one. It's not impossible to get into but it's extremely tight. Like a compression glove for your nes.
Small , Large, and XL, I had all 3, and the XL was really hard to find since very few stores had any of them shipped in because the NES was "for kids". Only the XL fit my hand comfortably, so that one got the most use. The other two I ended up chopping up for use with GlovePIE back when "VR" was the big thing. The XL also had another problem, it used the same size flex sensors as the other two (obviously for MFG costs) but because the knuckle was not in the same position on the XL one, it suffered from less flexible range, so in glovepie, you obviously had 0 to 255 for detecting digit position, the XL kind of capped out around 200 without finger gymnastics.
Very informative video indeed! I'm gonna check a few more here soon, but I have a funny feeling I'm gonna end up subscribing to your channel. We'll see. As for the Power Glove, this thing never did catch my appeal as a kid. I remember thinking it looked clunky and asking logical questions like, "why can't I just use the controller like I always do? Is it *that* hard to push buttons??" Now that I think about it, I'm kinda wondering who this product was really made for.
my brother and i got one for christmas that first year but before we could even use my dad used it first said it didn't work and took it back to the store i never seen another one in my life i didn't even get to touch it.
+DoctorBlankenstein thanks for checking out the video. That's actually a good idea. I've always been curious about the u-force but never owned one myself. I'll probably try to track one down first just to have a little bit of first hand experience to give my research some personal context.
I got the power glove when it released and I don't remember thinking it was crap at all. If I couldn't play a game with the gestures, I'd use the gamepad on the glove itself. That thing was awesome. I still think the Nintendo Wii got it's gesture game play inspiration from the power glove. I love the power glove.
+Yubby Yubby The Virtua Boy is on my long list of topics to cover so I'm sure I'll get to it at some point. Might be a while but I'll get to it one day.
Yeah but those use controllers, we need to put Wii remotes into a glove! Also you're reaction time is one point! You replied 3 minutes after I posted that!
+The Banana Melon haha. Yeah man, I think that's where VR controls are going to move to. I know I'd love to see it. Haha, yeah man. I tend to try to reply to every comment or as many as I can. I'm a bit obsessed with it lol
I was lucky, when my mom and I went to K-Mart to purchase the Power Glove -- the salesman actually talked us out of buying it. He cited the problems and difficulties in programming it to use for games as a reason not to buy, but the biggest thing he did to convince me that I would not like it is that he showed me a stack of returned Power Glove boxes behind the K-Mart electronics section counter...he must have had 4 or 5 opened boxes that had been brought back to K-Mart for refunds (as he said "if it is so great, why are so many kids returning them to get their money back?").
I was so thankful I didn't waste the time and money on it...and a few weeks later, another kid in my neighborhood DID buy the Power Glove and I actually got to try it for myself...I then found out just how right that saleman at K-Mart really was.
This was a great video, I really enjoyed it. You just earned a new subscriber. I am looking forward to watching more informative and interesting videos like this.
+Reality Check Thanks and thanks for the story. My friends and I only got the power glove to work really well one time. Thing was way too difficult and not user friendly.
Reality Check I wish the salesman talked me and my mom out of it☹️.... I feel bad she wasted so much money on it
@@251Trioxin if you have the box and everything you can sell it for more than u spent for it
Salesman: don’t love the power glove. It’s so bad.
I should have returned mine, but didn't realize I was able to. I knew it sucked and knew I wasted $80 of my scrimped money within the first 10-15 minutes of playing around with it. I was so embarrassed and was aware I just wasted real money for the first time in my life as a 10 year old, and didn't want my parents to know. They knew though.
Don't ever stop making videos. I've watched a ton of videogame documentary videos and only watched two of yours so far (just discovered your channel last night), and you're leaps and bounds better. Your articulation, presentation, and your material all coalesce perfectly. Thanks again for the great videos. I'll be binge watching the rest of your material tonight.
+Shawn Thanks man! It's been a rough day so this was actually really nice to read. You might change your mind when you get to some of the older ones! Lol. I actually have a new video coming out tomorrow on the Atari Jaguar. It'll probably be published around 2pm EST. Thanks for checking the channel out and for the kind words. Really appreciate it.
Taking a $10,000 piece of space age equipment (at the time) and producing a version that sold for well under $80 is just pure engineering brilliance. Too bad they weren't able to sort out the calibration issues. I am pretty sure if they were given enough time they could have fixed it.
The Power Glove is also proof that the "Nintendo Seal of Quality" since even 30 years ago, has not always been super reliable.
+Antiform Very true.
Superman 64 has the seal of quality
this one had nintendo people directly involved and aware of it though. bit different from "this game is playable so it gets the seal of approval by default"
Antiform I would have thought that people would have realised by now that the Nintendo seal of quality merely refers to the fact that the product is officially licensed and that it meets objective standards, aka those 10 million finger bends and won't explode on your arm, not that it's a product of subjective quality, aka it being a good product worthy of five stars from reviewers.
I see far too many people who act like Nintendo can't make a bad product or have always been a beacon of high quality.
There are two types of TH-camrs. Those who interact with the comments section, and those who don't. You are in the first category, and that's a good thing.
+PSI Seven Thanks for taking the time to watch man. I try to reply to everyone. If someone took the time out to type a comment replying is really the least I could do. That and I genuinely appreciate it when people comment. I'm blown away people have been checking my stuff out lately. This video has gotten way more attention today than my videos normally do so unfortunately I think I've missed a few comments. Thanks again.
Every once in a while the algorithm helps me out lol
Always nice to relive that history. One technical correction to your narration, starting at 3:40.
Referring to Fig 1 of my patent, ultrasonic transmitter (17) on the glove (12) sends a 40kHz signal to three microphones (20) placed around the monitor (22).
"I love the power glove, it is so bad"
At least he was right in the last part.
+Zack lol
Zack no imitation in its innovation and lack of response is sad because.. it's so bad.
You just knew it wasn't gonna live up to the 8bit hype. Already was looking forward new systems.
Your editing has gotten even fancier man! Awesome video! I had no idea all the info on the power glove!
Thanks, I'm trying! lol. I'm really hoping to get to spend some time in After Effects soon so that I can really make some really cool videos from a visual perspective. I just need to find the time. The power glove definitely has an interesting history. One thing I kind of glossed over was how Chris Gentile (from A.G.E) kept annoying the hell out of the Mattel engineers and programmers. Also, Will Novak from Mattel thought the thing was going to suck from the start. It always blew my mind that these guys had the balls to say, "yeah, we can take a $10,000 piece of equipment and turn it into a $75 video game accessory. No problem." As a kid, I remember having a really fun time playing Super Glove Ball the one time we magically calibrated it perfectly. Every other time was a disaster.
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I love this video. Its so bad.
+What What haha!
hahah, the 80's+90's cringe worthy nostalgia, it's bad really bad, I don't know how we ever thought this was 'cool' but it is 'campy' as hell and I love it lol XD
Wrestling With Gaming
Dude, how da fk do you only have 17K subscribers?? You should be at 1.7M just for posting this video. Loll
+Carlo YapQA lol maybe one day, one day.
Actually it's a quote from James on the AVGN Power Glove episode
Keep up the great vids man! No idea how you don't have 10-100x the sub count, your videos are great!
+Nick Parbs Thanks! I'm glad you like them man. It'd be cool if those subs come one day but I'm just happy people have been checking the videos out lately.
This video made me want a Powerglove
Now you play with Power.
Now you play with SHIT!
This is my first time watching a video of yours, but I want to commend you on a fantastic job! This video is informative and interesting. It is evident a lot of research went into this, and I enjoyed the editing style. Keep up the great work!
+cool cool Thanks so much, I really appreciate the kind words.
Awwww yiss. I've been waiting for this video! It did not disappoint :) Awesome job, man!!
Thanks man! I feel like I've been saying, "it'll be out next week" for like a month. Oh wait, I was lol. Might do some drunk streaming tomorrow night btw.
Sweet! I'll probably be there.
I feel like the moral of the story is that a new product doesn't need to actually be cool in order to sell well, people just need to want to believe it's cool.
+Thomas Pleacher Yeah, and Lord did we want to believe it was going to be cool.
You’ve accurately described the concept of “marketing”. Most things that a human ‘needs’, they’ll find, and for everything else, there’s marketing.
Your stuff is so well put together. I've been binge watching them all night, haha. You've earned yourself a subscriber sir!.
+cloudtx thanks! If you were binge watching you probably went through all the videos already ha ha. There's more on the way. A little trailer/preview for my next one will be up today or tomorrow.
Very informative! I love learning abt things that helped make my childhood and LOVE the retro commercials! Great video! Subscribed!
+Brad Hodges Thanks! Glad you liked it. I have both fond and terrible memories of the power glove lol.
6:10 "... asked Mattel CEO to play (Punch-Out!!) using the Data (Power) Glove, and on her first attempt... she knocked Glass out."
And this was never ever repeated by any future Power Glove owner, ever.
Great video! So fascinating to see how close this tech came to us decades ago.
Totally digging your documentaries. Couldn’t have subscribed sooner. Keep em coming!
+Huntor27 thanks man! There's definitely more on the way.
this is only my second video of yours and I'm hooked, awesome job
+Corey Trevor Thanks! Appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment. Next new video should be out in a week or two. It'll be on the Atari Jaguar.
stumbled upon your vids yesterday, i subbed right away, very nice voiceover and pictures man, you are very good at what you do.
Keep it up i really enjoy it thx!
+dn lamp Thanks! Really appreciate the support. Definitely have more videos to come!
Awesome editing as always. I never had the power glove but I did have the laserscope helmet. The bend sensor they used was interesting it seems to be the same sensor that came with my arduino kit, I ended up using it to make my own sensor glove. it's interesting to hear how the invention of that sensor is tied to the power glove.
+Useless Duck Company Thanks man. I reeeeally want to start doing some fancier editing with After Effects but just have a hard time finding the time. Yeah, it's interesting how many things spawned off the Power Glove and Data Glove. When looking around at patents I found several other VR and motion related applications that actually referenced the gloves. I didn't even realize that patent applications referenced other patents.
Wrestling With Gaming yeah with patents can't you make "improvements" on something already invented and get a patent for that new product.
I did have a power glove, and man did it suuuuuuck
@@matthewcornish3086 Was it really ...so bad? :P
Power glove could returned with the same technologies that was supposed to be used in the first place and better technology(optics fiber, sensors,etc...)since most of them are now cheap and could be use for VR related games.
Your videos are awesome, haven't seen such a quality videos on youtube for a while if i have ever did! Just subscribed, well done.
+Pavlo Lysak Thanks! I appreciate the kind words.
When I was a kid and watched The Wizard I wanted a Nes, Super Mario 3 and a Power Glove so badly LOL
Once again great editing and a good story as well,I really enjoy how you stick to the thesis (how the power glove originated from NASA research) and intertwined relevant ads of the day.
Keep it up - surprised your subscriber count isnt going up quicker - you have a post with 3k upvotes on reddit and soon these views will translate intro subscribers! Liked.
+jblsucks321 Thanks man. Unlike that bully JBL, you don't suck lol. I wanted to spend a bit more time on the backgrounds of Zimmerman, Lanier, and Chris gentile but there's another video out there that does that so I decided to go a different route.
I wish my sub count would go up quicker too haha. TH-cam is a marathon though man. I just gotta keep plugging away making the next stuff I can. I didn't know about the 3K Reddit post. That's crazy. What sub Reddit is it in? It explains why this video has gotten so much attention. The count hasn't fully updated on here but according to TH-cam Analytics it's at 12K views in 24 hours. I'm floored... and a bit buzzed but that's not relevant. Good hearing from you.
+jblsucks321 oh never mind, I commented on the thread earlier. It just didn't have nearly so many up votes then.
Great channel bro, only wish these vids were longer. Great work!
+skanlessdago Thanks! My next one is going to be on the Atari Jaguar and should be out in a week or two. It's actually going to be my longest video to date, coming in right around thirty minutes.
Wrestling With Gaming I was just thinking about the Jaguar. I wanted to get it just for one game. Alien vs Predator or something like that. Played demo in Wal-Mart back in the day. Saved up enough money to buy one. Went to go buy it and guess. My luck. None. Lady at the counter said something about they sold last one and were discontinued.
Excellent video on the Power Glove--I enjoyed the presentation and "kinetic flow" of your editing here. It's something I strive to do myself in my videos. Also, it was good talking to you for two seconds or so over on Ian's stream Hopefully we'll have another chance next weekend.
+Jimmy Hapa (Import Gaming FTW!) Thanks man! Coincidentally my gf and I just watched your video on Sailor moon famicom games last night. It was really well done. We were both quite jealous of your mastery over Japanese language as well.
I've been avoiding this channel for the longest time based just on the name, I thought it was gonna be about WWF games, but man, video essays like this are my shit. Subbed
I really enjoy watching these videos you make man! Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much man. I love making them.
I rewatch these videos every couple months they are very entertaining and I like giving more views to support the channel for what little it is doing
Wow, thank you! That's really awesome of you.
Best one so far, you're on the up man!
+Darius Robert Newton Ghazi-Torbati thanks man! Glad I took your advice all those months ago.
this concept can be revisited and done sooo much better than before.
Sick video my dude, it looks professional.
+Warmogs thanks!
I've used the power glove 5 times, and it never once worked properly. But, like fmv in cd games, we accepted the idea because it was such a cool thing.
You could do a video compilation of all of the old videogame tech that has way outlived its design intent. I know people have done some crazy stuff with wiimotes and kinects also.
The military may have a lot of hand-me-down tech, but so do videogames, and we're better for it.
The Power Glove was released in 1989, and according to dollartimes.com, its price of $75 had the same buying power as $150.27 in 2017.
Fantastic video, I subscribed immediately.
+adamlundq Thanks so much. As much as I didn't like the Power Glove as a kid it really is pretty impressive that they were even able to put it together in such a relatively short period of time.
Given the extreme market demand for this kind of product, it's surprising that later generations of consoles made at a time when technology had made this much more achievable - such as as the Xbox or Playstation 2, that they never tried again. There's something inherently cool about wearing something on your wrist that allows interaction with a digital device. Games like Fallout with the HUD being an accessory, and so on.
+Fading Light agreed!
I don't understand why nobody has ever made a Zapper with a D-pad where your thumb would go, especially with all the first person shooters out there. Use your thumb to move around using the D-pad and aim and shoot at stuff on the screen using the Zapper. It seems so obvious, but nobody has ever made one to my knowledge.
I had one as a kid, was so excited and it really was unfortunately crap. Just basically made games unplayable, to say nothing of the set up time before you played.
I should have immediately returned it to the store, but when you're young and stupid, you think the problem is you and not the product the adults sold you.
Companies like Nintendo and Mattel should have been ashamed to have let it been sold at all.
+Mitchell Mann Yeah, particularly Mattel in this case.
Mitchell Mann i had one too, it was complete garbage.
I remember one of my friends had one and i was quite impressed by how well it worked after we found out how to calibrate it...
I got one for Christmas and I didn't have the heart to tell my mom that is was terrible. So I made the best of it.
I was born in 1988 so I obviously don't remember the release of the Power Glove but one thing I do know about the Power Glove is that it was featured in The Nightmare on Elm Street series which is probably why I know it
+Adam Hovey I had a buddy that had one. We got it to work great one time with Super Glove. It was its own nightmare every other time lol.
I love your content, and you're my fave youtuber. I wish you great success. Keep it up!
When will manufacturers understand that gamers don't really want virtual reality?
We just want to live through incredible adventures without leaving our couch, and a simple gamepad is more than perfect for that.
Great videos, hinest titles, talking in a regular voice with reasonable volume..... What's not to like? Well worth the upvotes and subscriptions you've earn. Thank you.
+Able Magawitch Thanks! I'm not a fan of ridiculous, over the top, screaming TH-cam channels myself so I try to just be me and make videos that won't risk destroying ear drums and speakers 😁 . Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with those kinds of videos but they're just not my thing. Glad you're enjoying the videos. Next video is going to be on the Atari Jaguar and it'll probably be out in one to two weeks. Probably lol.
That explains why I saw a regular show episode about the Power Glove.
Am I the only one that thinks the Glove Master looks and sounds a lot like Tom Cruise?
+ziatonic I've seen that comment thrown around quite a bit. Definitely looks like him
Wrestling With Gaming Totally Risky Business era Cruise. It was probably intentional.
+ziatonic yeah I think so too. The guy in the power glove commercials and the glove master are two different guys. They're both Tom cruise doppelgangers. Had to be on purpose.
ziatonic yup I was thinking it was tom cruise but then he ain't that cool to wear that bad ass power glove
Wait! That wasn't Tom Cruise? I totally thought it was him.
The main thing I remember about the Power Glove was having to duct tape the sensors to our wood case console TV to even attempt to use it.
No wonder I had such a hard time using it. My friend cut off the fingers on his glove for some reason.
+radrickdavis lol oh man. That's kind of funny. In preparation for this video I dusted off a power glove and set it up. Still a complete pain to use.
The glove could be detected in FIVE Dimensions?! Sheesh that is some futuristic tech!
I think it's probably the three-dimensional location of the hand (left/right,up/down,forward/backward) and then the tilt of the hand left and right (I think that is called yaw) and the tilt of the hand forward and backward (pitch?). The last two aren't really dimensions, but I think that is what they are talking about.
Not having games for it is what probably cooled it off. For me I had a hard time getting it to work right but that was because I was a kid I had no clue about calibration I assumed you just plugged everything up and let it rip. Even when someone would set it up for me some of the games were a pain in the ass to play.
Great story, seeing those comic book ads brings back memories.
+FullArmourTracksuit Thanks! Yeah, I like throwing in old print and TV ads into my videos when possible. Really takes me back.
wow i had no idea the power glove had so much history to it, epic video
+chrisbomber101 Thanks for watching! It's too bad the history of the power glove is more interesting than actually using one lol.
I just discovered your channel and it's awesome! Very well researched and being a kid that grew up in the 80's and 90's I love this stuff! Keep 'em coming, hittin that little bell....
+Sean Corcoran thanks! I really appreciate it. Next video is going to be on the Atari Jaguar and it'll probably be out in one to two weeks. Probably lol.
Wrestling With Gaming I've been binge watching all of your documentary series this week. If you do all the research and editing on your own, this must be extremely time consuming. Truly well done though, you have a future in this for sure! PS my employer says you owe them about 10 hours of time this week...
Thanks for watching them all man. I'm sorry there's so few of them. The Atari Jaguar will be up soon, possibly as early as this weekend. I'm in Florida and Hurricane Irma is going to dictate whether or not I'll get to finish it or need to evacuate. It's very close to being completed though. I do all of the research and editing myself. It's definitely time consuming, some more than others, but I really enjoy doing it. It's been great seeing that people are interested in this stuff too. I'm hoping to get back on my schedule of releasing a new video every 2 weeks after the Jaguar video. The 3DO, Power Glove, and Jaguar video have all taken much longer than I expected to research and edit and just really threw off my whole schedule. I'm lucky I had the Famicom video pretty much ready to go so I was at least get some new stuff out. Ok, I'm ranting now :-)
Thanks again for watching man. I know I said it a few days ago but I really do appreciate it.
Wrestling With Gaming I will definately keep watching...I dont reach out often or comment too frequently but the quality of your channel does not reflect your subcriber count : ( , yet..if you keep on pushing out good quality videos like these you will have a truly successful thing going here :). I will continue to follow your channel and look forward to future posts! Stay safe from Irma, she"s gonna be a bitch!
+Sean Corcoran thanks again. I'll definitely keep making these 😊
I cant belive adds like this actually used to exist
great channel sir. you should do a history of LJN, i'm curious which circle of Hell they were summoned from.
+Dakkon Blackblade Thanks, appreciate it! I actually do have LJN on my list of topics to cover. It's a long list so I'm not sure when I'll get to it but I definitely will. I'm pretty sure they came from deepest recesses of hell.
The Gaming Historian has a video on LJN, as well as one on the Power Glove, I enjoy watching both channels as you get a bit of information here that GH misses and vice versa.
Oh wow. I remember Track and Field with that huge game pad. That was the first game (I think) that involved body movement. Definitely way ahead of Wiis time!
Well the VR industry has it all figured out now.
+James Love Yeah, certainly seems that way.
Excellent video, really enjoyed it!
+Pelagic II thanks!
Great video, keep the good work going
+Luis Arturo Velásquez Menéndez thank you so much
I love these videos. Keep up the good work!
+tveye363 thanks, appreciate it!
They ought to make a new power glove. I'm sure that with all the technological advancements since, Nintendo could potentially make an impressive device today that actually works like it was intended.
It was called the Nintendo Wii lol
Another fantastic video!
Can’t believe it’s been 35 years today since this was released and it was ahead of its time long before the motion control gaming like the Wii.
How did I never hear about this great channel. You have a new subscriber here.
+Jeremy Seal Thanks man! I've only been doing these gaming videos for about 8 months so I'm still fairly new. Glad you found the channel!
"I love the Power Glove. It's so bad!" "The Wizard" Yes, Lucas, you were so right! It was so bad! Glass Joe's only win was against anyone who fought him with the Power Glove.
Great summary. I was so disappointed by this device when I was young.
+jandastroy Thanks! Yeah, I was disappointed by it too. We got it to calibrate perfectly ONE TIME and we actually had a good time playing Super Glove Ball. We never got it to work properly ever again.
"I'm the Glove Master" whaaa ha ha ha
I still have my power glove. I couldn't ever get it to work very well back in the day.
+JeffTheLoser Yeah, calibrating it is not easy. We got it to work really well once. ONCE. Lol.
I had the power glove lost the white glove that went on your hand so it was pretty rough just putting it on without it.
gotta do one on the TurboGrafx-16. that crazy ass machine with only 1 good title to its name.
+Vic T it's actually on my list of topics to cover. I'll get to it one of these days.
+Wrestling With Gaming
awesome
Looks like I just found another channel to use up all my free time.
I love how ultra-violent movies like Rambo and RoboCop got toy lines. The 80s were a trip.
I wonder how the Power glove would work presently, if it was fitted with the parts it was meant for. Considering those parts wouldn't be as expensive as they were back then
Great video, man! I remember wanting a Powerglove when I was a kid despite the fact that I never owned an NES haha.
Thanks man! Haha, that's funny. As a kid I wanted a Sega CD and I didn't own a Genesis so I get what you mean. As a kid, I remember having a really fun time playing Super Glove Ball the one time we magically calibrated it perfectly. Every other time was a disaster.
Just goes to show the power of marketing.
Your channel deserves more subscribers. I'm in. :)
+Szabolcs Varga Thanks! I appreciate that!
What’s striking to me is that the tech for VR existed almost 30 years ago. I wonder why people, myself included, tend to consider VR an innovation!
I love this channel and Gaming Historian! History, my favorite subject in school, and Video Games, one of my favorite things ever! Could this get any better? You deserve to be more popular than PewDiePie!
Thanks, really appreciate it! I'm a huge fan of Gaming Historian myself 😊
Wrestling With Gaming No problem!
When I was a kid, if glovemeaster asked me to get in the truck of his car I would've.
+ClintGreasewood haha!
I always wanted one of these, but when I went into the store to get one, it wasn’t really a glove! It was kind of a shell with straps to go around your arms. It was also incredibly frustrating to use the keypad. The motion/gesture capability wasn’t too good either.
I just came across your channel I'ma a gamer and I love all your videos I have watched so far... Keep up the GREAT work!
EDIT: You got me as a subscriber!
+Steven Ashley Thanks so much! I should have another video up in the next couple of weeks or so. It's going to be on the Atari Jaguar. I actually got some input on it from Leonard Tramiel from Atari. It's probably going to be close to a 30 minute video. Never as a kid did I think I would ever spend so much time researching the Jaguar lol. Thanks again for checking the channel out
Wrestling With Gaming no problem man and I'll turn on the notifications to make sure I get to see it
he was ahead of his time ....
Yeah the dude in Predator War one of those must have been a big fan of it
All this talk about AGE and toy companies, and not even a tiny mention of Mego? They were a massive toy company in their own right.
"In 1986, Martin Abrams co-founded Abrams Gentile Entertainment (AGE),[17] in order to retain and manage Mego’s licensing contracts, rights and deals. " -Wikipedia
I love these videos. I'd love to see one on the jaguar and atari in general. I LOVED my jaguar growing up
+Daniel Stanford Funny you mention the jaguar. I don't know if I mentioned it to you on one of my other replies but the next video is going to be on the Atari Jaguar. I was able to get some input on it from Leonard Tramiel and am getting some assistance from a guy that works for a gaming magazine with research verification. All of that has made the video take longer to complete bit I think it'll be well worth it. Most of it is already edited. I just have two more pages worth of material to edit but then I'll have it checked for accuracy and add or remove as needed. I should have it up in a week or two
+Daniel Stanford here's a preview I had posted of the Atari jaguar video last month.
th-cam.com/video/GQEdB1U4B9c/w-d-xo.html
It's currently unlisted so it doesn't show up on my video list. Once I realized I wasn't going to make it anywhere close to my deadline I took the preview down and posted the Famicom modem video since it was pretty much ready to go.
Loved the history behind this one. The shame is what could have been if they took more development time and bundled it with a game designed specifically for the Power Glove.
Wow, I knew a lot of this, but not the part abut the phony demo at that first CES.
Pay no attention to the Amiga behind the curtain.
I wonder how successful the P-Glove would've been used as a multiplayer accessory, so one person has a normal controller and other the glove. It would've been cool to see a megaman game where one controls movement and glove is shooting/actions
i LOVED the NES Advantage. i broke so many of those. LOL thats how i learned how to solder. and if i couldnt fix it, i would get a new one and swap that out and return it. :)
Just watched this again and it has me wondering how many sizes it came in......
+Jenovi just two as far as I know. The regular size almost everyone used and a smaller size. I recently picked up a small one. It's not impossible to get into but it's extremely tight. Like a compression glove for your nes.
+AnonYmuss90 😂
Small , Large, and XL, I had all 3, and the XL was really hard to find since very few stores had any of them shipped in because the NES was "for kids". Only the XL fit my hand comfortably, so that one got the most use. The other two I ended up chopping up for use with GlovePIE back when "VR" was the big thing.
The XL also had another problem, it used the same size flex sensors as the other two (obviously for MFG costs) but because the knuckle was not in the same position on the XL one, it suffered from less flexible range, so in glovepie, you obviously had 0 to 255 for detecting digit position, the XL kind of capped out around 200 without finger gymnastics.
reminds me of the gaming historian, great video
+Kirby The Meme Man™ thanks so much
Very informative video indeed! I'm gonna check a few more here soon, but I have a funny feeling I'm gonna end up subscribing to your channel. We'll see.
As for the Power Glove, this thing never did catch my appeal as a kid. I remember thinking it looked clunky and asking logical questions like, "why can't I just use the controller like I always do? Is it *that* hard to push buttons??" Now that I think about it, I'm kinda wondering who this product was really made for.
my brother and i got one for christmas that first year but before we could even use my dad used it first said it didn't work and took it back to the store i never seen another one in my life i didn't even get to touch it.
+Christopher Doxtator ha! He probably did you guys a favor.
Man too ahead of its time could you imagine a power glove nownwith todays virtual reality games like the oculus
Damn even Tom Cruise was hyped for the glove
Lmao best username ever
Original owner.. And proud of it. I have a u-force as well. The u-force was rad as well. Do a video on that.
+DoctorBlankenstein thanks for checking out the video. That's actually a good idea. I've always been curious about the u-force but never owned one myself. I'll probably try to track one down first just to have a little bit of first hand experience to give my research some personal context.
I got the power glove when it released and I don't remember thinking it was crap at all. If I couldn't play a game with the gestures, I'd use the gamepad on the glove itself. That thing was awesome. I still think the Nintendo Wii got it's gesture game play inspiration from the power glove. I love the power glove.
What a great channel! I just found it. Keep it up!
Could we get a video like this about the Virtual Boy at some time? Such as, "the fall of Virtual Boy" or something, thanks!
+Yubby Yubby The Virtua Boy is on my long list of topics to cover so I'm sure I'll get to it at some point. Might be a while but I'll get to it one day.
Nice video, and nice information!
+Spade Santana thanks!
The mighty Power Glove! I almost bought one when they were out. Now I wish I did.
We gotta remake the power glove
+The Banana Melon It seems like some prototype VR controls are going in a power glove-like direction. I'm all for it
Yeah but those use controllers, we need to put Wii remotes into a glove!
Also you're reaction time is one point! You replied 3 minutes after I posted that!
+The Banana Melon haha. Yeah man, I think that's where VR controls are going to move to. I know I'd love to see it.
Haha, yeah man. I tend to try to reply to every comment or as many as I can. I'm a bit obsessed with it lol