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Strange Accesories
Fabrizo - Nov 12, 2001
   Fabrizo Nov 12, 2001 
Nintendo's first system was used much like a widescale peice of electrical equipment for seeing what would sell and what would not after the gaming crash of 1984. What accesories can you come up with that came out for the NES, which today seam strange or are unheard of in todays consoles? The first that comes to mind for me is the powerglove:

http://www.gaming-age.com/specials/adspeci...cial/...

edit: Oh, and this one looks interesting to:
http://www.gaming-age.com/specials/adspeci...ial/u...

(Edited by Fabrizo at 5:20 am on Nov. 12, 2001)

   CrowTRobo Nov 12, 2001 
R.O.B.

Nintendo were smart to so quickly abandon it. I had one, it was terrible. First, it was really slow, so it seemed to take forever in Gyromite for ROB to open up the 'tubes' so I could move on. And that was only when the thing actually worked.

CrowTRobo

   MasterAkumaMatata Nov 13, 2001 
I remember those two products. I've seen commercials of them when I was young.

BTW, that little <span style='color:#FF0000'>red X</span>. Just a thought.

   Zziggy00 Feb 17, 2002 
I've always wanted a power glove, and I've never found one except one which i purchased at a yardsale, which doesn't even have a NES plug, but yet another that looks like a sega genesis plug... Does anyone know what this power glove was used for? it doesn't really matter i don't have the TV mounts that go with it anyway..

   Supergrom_vbulletin3_import15713 Feb 17, 2002 
there was the power pad (http://www.chartrand.org/juiio/ebay/Powerpad.jpg...) the granddaddy of Dance Dance Revolution. That is the only reason i bust out my NES every now and then, since every other game i can play on my dreamcast.

there was also R.O.B. (robotic operating buddy) (http://abacus.sj.ipixmedia.com/abc/M28/_EB...1b943...) I never had one of these, but he sure looked neat.

(Edited by Supergrom at 12:11 am on Feb. 18, 2002)

   SegaSaturnDDR Mar 29, 2002 
in theory you can play any game with the power glove as a controller, but it dont work too well. also of intrest is that there was another type of motion sensor that looked kina like laptop, dont remember the name though

   ExCyber Mar 29, 2002 
That sounds like the U-Force, which Fabrizo linked to in the original post.

   SegaSaturnDDR Mar 29, 2002 
yeah thats it, dont mind me, i havent slep enough

   VertigoXX Apr 1, 2002 
No one has yet mentioned the Roll and Rocker?