{"id":42812,"date":"2015-04-06T14:28:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T19:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=28987"},"modified":"2015-04-06T14:28:14","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T19:28:14","slug":"robot-chicken-uses-hacked-nintendo-powerglove-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/videogames\/robot-chicken-uses-hacked-nintendo-powerglove-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot Chicken uses hacked Nintendo Powerglove"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28998\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/powerglove1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-28998 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/powerglove1.jpg\" alt=\"powerglove\" width=\"500\" height=\"289\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/powerglove1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/powerglove1-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The blue glow came from the death of children&#8217;s innocence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Power Glove\u00a0was a dismal attempt by Nintendo to bring 1989 gaming into the future.<\/p>\n<p>It failed. Miserably. It makes every list of &#8216;Most worthless video game accessory\u00a0ever created&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Looked cool. Worked like crap.<\/p>\n<p>If it weren&#8217;t for the excellent product placement in the Fred Savage vehicle, &#8220;The Wizard&#8221;, sales would have been even more laughable. But who wouldn&#8217;t want to be as cool as this kid&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I love the Power Glove... its so bad.\" width=\"1290\" height=\"968\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AacoxHFYvZw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But the Power Glove lives on!<\/p>\n<p>Dillon Markey is an animator for &#8220;Robot Chicken&#8221;, a show featuring pop culture spoofs and parodies enacted through stop motion animation with\u00a0various action figures.<\/p>\n<p>His particular style of animation necessitated a more &#8216;hands on&#8217; control system to interact with his camera recording equipment.<\/p>\n<p>His answer was to hack an old Nintendo Power Glove. The result is quite practical&#8230; except perhaps when the glove\u00a0proclaims, &#8220;fucking awesome&#8221; when fist-bumped. That&#8217;s not practical, but it is &#8216;so bad&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Playing with Power\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/116585007?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dead Disney Moms | Robot Chicken | Adult Swim\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jtimZCzmioQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robot Chicken Does... Marvel (Part 1) | Adult Swim UK \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FApRmHPy7_U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/powerad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-28989\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/powerad-1024x700.jpg\" alt=\"powerad\" width=\"750\" height=\"513\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/powerad-1024x700.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/powerad-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/powerad-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/powerad-1536x1050.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/powerad-2048x1400.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Power Glove\u00a0was a dismal attempt by Nintendo to bring 1989 gaming into the future. It failed. Miserably. It makes every list of &#8216;Most worthless video game accessory\u00a0ever created&#8217;. Looked cool. Worked like crap. If it weren&#8217;t for the excellent product placement in the Fred Savage vehicle, &#8220;The Wizard&#8221;, sales would have been even more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22],"tags":[1624,5220,5663,6037,7699],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}