AUSRETROGAMER

The Pop-Culture E-Zine

You are here: Home / Archives for Powerglove

Powerglove

Luftrauserz Cleared For Landing On The C64

By

Change your soiled trauserz peeps, as RGCD is busily flashing C64 cartridges with Paul Koller’s Luftrauserz game. Yep, you read that right, the awesome shoot’em up Luftrauserz is coming to the venerable 8-bit micro! Work is also being done on the game’s manual and case inserts which we must say, look absolutely amazing. We’ll hopefully get word on the release date very soon – we’re betting that this game will sell like crazy!

While we are on the C64 news bandwagon, RGCD are also relaunching their out of stock games, which is great news for all of you that missed out on awesome games like Powerglove, C64anabalt, Super Bread Box and Bomberland. These relaunched titles will have improved cartridge labels (see below) and newly designed printed manuals. We reckon we’ll have to hit up RGCD for a few C64 carts for the Classic Gaming Area at PAXAus 2017!

source: RGCD

So Bad, But Oh So Cool Retro Gaming Peripherals

By

The Power Glove, it will go down in video gaming history as the epitome of a peripheral being so bad that it is actually quite cool! The Power Glove is a useless piece of kit that you can’t go without (Ed: Relax, put those pitchforks down, we love the Power Glove).

This oxymoron is not lost on gamers – there have been a number of terrible peripherals released over the years, some worse than others, but all equally desirable to have (Ed: who could also forget the unreleased Atari MindLink and the doomed Konix Multi-System!). We have managed to scrape the bottom of the peripheral barrel to bring you the coolest bad peripherals to add to your collection. Put on a bib and wipe that drool!

Peripheral: Sega Action Chair | System: Mega Drive / Genesis | Use: Control gameplay via leaning
CoolBad_SegaActionChair

Peripheral: Power Glove | System: Famicom / NES | Use:Super Glove Ball & Bad Street Brawler
CoolBad_PowerGlove

Peripheral: Quickjoy Foot Pedal SV-129| Systems: Atari, Commodore & Amstrad | Use: Programming joystick functions to a pedal
CoolBad_joystick_quickjoy_sv_129_01

Peripheral: Virtual Cushion | System: PC-Engine | Use: In game (b)ass force feedback
CoolBad_VCushion

Peripheral: R.O.B. | System: Famicom / NES | Use: Gyromite & Stack-Up
CoolBad_ROB

Peripheral: Game Boy Pocket Sonar | System: GBP | Use: Sonar to locate fish
CoolBad_GBSonar

Peripheral: Sega BH-400 | System: Sega Mark III | Use: Hang-On handlebar
CoolBad_SEGA_BH-400_Bike_Handle

Peripheral: Menacer | System: Mega Drive / Genesis | Use: T2: The Arcade Game, Mad Dog McCree, Body Count, Who Shot Johnny Rock, Mad Dog II, Corpse Killer, Crime Patrol, Menacer shooting gallery
CoolBad_Menacer

Peripheral: Aura Interactor | System: Various 16/32/64-Bit | Use: wearable force-feedback vest
CoolBad_interactor_kit

Peripheral: Sega Activator | System: Mega Drive / Genesis | Use: infra-red motion detector for fighting games
CoolBad_sega-activator

image source: provided on demand

Mario And The Power Glove

By

Mario_PowerGlove_PG

Add Mario, a successful video gaming character, and then add the Power Glove, the coolest and most useless peripheral on the NES, or is it? This silent serial film (by Nerdist) finds a cosplay Mario thrust into a wild adventure when he is given an enchanted Power Glove by a mystical hobo (Parenthood’s Jason Ritter) and must do battle with an overzealous security guard and an evil Luigi (Alphas’ Ryan Cartwright) after sneaking into the San Diego Comic-Con to win the heart of his cosplay princess, Peach.

Mario And The Powerglove – Part 1

source: nerdist (part 1 of 2)

Mario And The Powerglove – Part 2

source: nerdist (part 2 of 2)