The 90s were a time of complete madness when it came to peripheral development, as many companies were encouraged to develop all kinds of ways to control video games. To which more original and crazy. From rings on the ground that we had to get into to kick the air in fighting games (SEGA’s Activator), to occurrences like this Power Glove for the old Nintendo NES that concentrated all the power of a gamepad in our fist.
It will fit you like a glove
The fact is that if we ask the most veterans of the place about which NES accessory from the 90s they hate or want the most, in a very high percentage of the occasions it is very possible that Power Glove will appear as an answer. In short, it was a futuristic glove with a series of built-in controls , such as A and B buttons, Start and Select, as well as a whole series of shortcuts that we could configure to program more complex actions.
But the great secret that he kept was that with the movements of the hand in the air, it was possible to move the character on the screen to the left, right, up or down. An advance as sophisticated and surprising as it is often useless for the type of games that were used within the NES.
Still, a youtuber who goes by the name of Will it Work? , has dared to connect one of these Power Gloves to his Nintendo Switch , hoping that movement control would make sense almost 30 years later. After all, the Joy-Con of the Japanese machine uses a very similar concept, directly inherited from the Wiimote of Wii. Do you remember them?
How do you connect to a Switch?
The truth is that you don’t have to have knowledge of electronics or buy components or solder them to the Power Glove to make it work with a Nintendo Switch, since there are some accessories on the market that make the job easier. This is the case of the so-called USB NES Retroport that converts the proprietary connector of the 80s console into a USB that we can now plug into the laptop thanks to the ConsoleTuner Titan One.
In this way, it is possible to make the Switch identify the Power Glove as you can see in the video, to even calibrate it and adjust its sensitivity to what we need in the game. Although it is true that, at least from what can be verified from the tests they do, the glove has a small lag from the moment we tell it to do something and the exact frame in which it executes it.
In any case, although these types of mods are more of a curiosity than anything else, we recommend using them in games like Nintendo Switch Sport s, which has just arrived, and to which this type of movement control suits, never better said, like a glove.
Did you try the Power Glove on your NES 30 years ago? Do you keep the original at home? If you answer yes to both questions, what are you waiting for to connect it to your Nintendo Switch?
