From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson)
Subject: Demise of the Mattel PowerGlove?
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1991 06:00:46 GMT
Organization: Human Interface Technology Lab, Univ. of Wash., Seattle.



This was posted on The WELL, in the   vr   conference.  I think it's
worthy of discussion.  What happened?  Is this the long dark night of 
garage VR?


Topic  67:  PowerGlove a goner?
By: James C. Barnes (jamesb) on Tue, Apr  2, '91
        1 responses so far
 
 Hello all,
 It looks like the PowerGlove is dead.  Can anyone confirm it?   was in Toys R
 Us about 1 month ago and they were selling the glove for $59.00 (too cheap to
 be making money) and last week they no longer carried it.  Is it gone?
 
1 response total.
 
Topic  67:  PowerGlove a goner?
#  1: John Nagle (nagle)      Tue, Apr  2, '91  (17:16)       8 lines
 
      Fry's still has it, but the clientele is different.  What didn't
 happen, apparently, was the appearance of Power Glove games.  This
 may have been deliberate.  The Power Glove came from Atari but attached
 to Nitendo units.  Atari lost a lawsuit with Nitendo on the right to
 make Nitendo-compatible cartridges.  The Power Glove is thus an orphaned
 product.
 
      I'll bet we see it again with the new Apple game machine.