Abusing a PowerGlove

[@michaelmarks1391]

I think you managed to recreate the disappointing experience of every kid who got one of these things for Christmas.

[@Doniroux]

I don't think it is broken.This PowerGlove works about as well as I remember from my childhood. Flailing gets you nowhere. Move at a painstakingly slow pace and you just might get it to do something, but good luck ever repeating it.

[@JB-mk4ry]

That and he's way too close. Slow movements from about 5-6' away.

[@stevencarlson5422]

@@JB-mk4ry this for sure

[@joshuaanhalt3180]

My recollection is that there needs to be at least 3 to 6 feet between the sensor bar and glove. Any closer and the ultrasonics cannot triangulate the gloves position.

[@NaoPb]

That makes sense.

[@Sam-m1y6d]

This

[@cobrag0318]

AVGN discovered the paradox of pairing with the impossible to land Top Gun, and that the power glove actually made it easier (for him) to land.

[@minty_Joe]

"I love the PowerGlove...it's so bad." ~ (Lucas in the 1989 movie "The Wizard")

[@illustriouschin]

The random flailing shows you got some funny ideas about how it works but even if you used it perfectly it would still be nostalgic landfill material.

[@georgeh6856]

"Yeah, well, uh, just keep your Power Gloves off her, pal, huh?" -- Fred Savage in The Wizard

[@RowanBird779]

I like how they only accounted for arms the width of a twix bar

[@joshuaanhalt3180]

There were different sizes of the glove. It looks like he has the small version.

[@ActionRetro]

Hah nope this is the large. I just have giant hands

[@vicmac3513]

Welcome to the club, Action Retro. I didn't became a car mechanic simply because my hand wont fit anywhere in the engine compartment even if they made safety gloves for my size (12,5-13")

[@yacobgugsa2524]

@@ActionRetroBig hands, you say? Time traveler: *moves chair* The timeline: Prelude in C sharp minor, op 3, no. 2. Composed by S. Rachmaninoff, performed by S. Malseed

[@BrianMaddox]

We need the behind the scenes of you being filmed flailing around from a distance and your spouse laughing ;)

[@EmberBlitz]

I'd love to see you try to play Quake with that thing. Playing 90's MS-DOS/Windows FPS games with the Power Glove would be... interesting, to say the very least.

[@Pentium4Proto]

That's quite the "normal" monitor.

[@scottthomas3792]

Usually that foam crumbles into dust...I've never seen the stuff turn into chalk...many gross possibilities come to mind here..

[@DanielMReck]

2:37 THONK I really enjoy your goofy visual gags. I expected this THONK to be delivered with the Power Glove!

[@SalMinella]

This setup would’ve been considered MINT in 1989. 😂

[@bjy128]

I converted mine to work as a mouse with my amiga2500. It’s really not great. But moving farther away from the sensors helps. And turning off anything that may interfere with the sensors will help too.

[@JohnTitor_0]

the guy that animated robot chicken uses one of these to control the camera

[@geekwithsocialskills]

I love the Power Glove. It's so bad.

[@carltonleboss]

I love the PowerGlove, it's so bad.

[@gavincurtis]

Coolest looking though…

[@orektez]

i love the powerglove it's so bad

[@Miasmark]

I had an old book that talked about hacking the power glove to use it in DOS. making it more comfortable, etc. need to hunt that book down. edit: (EDIT* The book's name was Garage Virtual Reality*EDIT* I know we have enough information now but the information was available in the 90s to hack this device and create programs for it on old DOS computers back in the 90s. wished I had one to hack when I got the book.

[@KatriceMetaluna]

I vaguely remember an article in Byte magazine about doing this sort of thing?

[@I_am_Allan]

Shenanigans! How dare you! 😆

[@CodeProfessor]

Admiral, we have found the nuclear wessel!

[@vonmatrices]

"I'll test it on my regular nintendo. " that's some classic slang right there. When you had to differentiate between nes and snes

[@crimsonlion100]

Been here since 400 subs, keep it up!!! love this channel.

[@JoshColletta]

"Now you're playing with POWER!" That commercial should have led to a false advertising lawsuit. 😂

[@DimNussens]

The glove got tired of trying to strangle your forearm, it wanted to strangle your neck! I'm so excited for the Toshibas!

[@TheCongressman1]

I like how close this video is to the scene of peter parker trying to figure out how to shoot his web, "go web go, fly!"

[@msthalamus2172]

I feel your pain. In the last six months, I've received two items from Amazon that were wired incorrectly! A floppy extension cable and a case fan. When you factor in the time required to rewire these cheap things, I find myself wishing to pay more for something that actually works!

[@carpespasm]

Not to mention the outright lie cables they stock and ship via amazon warehouses. I got one that was advertised as a HDMI to VGA cable and when it didn't work i found it's wiring went from completely random pins from one connector to the other with no active electronics or hope of doing anything but maybe damaging devices it was plugged into.

[@Sam-m1y6d]

​@@carpespasmdamn :/

[@yacobgugsa2524]

He's the angriest gamer you've ever heard He's the Angry BeOS Nerd He's the Angry Apple II SE30 Nerd He's the Angry Action Retro Nerd

[@sv650touring]

I can't believe how few subscribers you have. i thought you'd been over 6 figures for years. your content sure isn't holding you back. hard to believe but im sure its an algorithm thing

[@MrDeelightful]

Just clicked in, and I can already tell every piece of hardware involved in this is screaming for us to end their suffering. Can't wait to see how you torture more vintage tech!

[@jan_harald]

oh boy oh boy oh boy always loved that concept

[@JoelRosenfeld]

I never really understood how to really use that power glove. We had one when I was growing up, but it was just so awkward.

[@Maxtraxv3]

your to close the the sencer bar the whole time remember it was made for a tv, you kinda need like a meter between you and the screen.

[@laurensnieuwland4657]

Is the control box okay? The glove might have had bad caps, but so might the controller.

[@therobb5738]

Doesnt the IIe output in color? mine did, composite video to a VCR then coax to TV, found out mine came with the green screen monitor, but the Apple IIe had color!

[@TheSulross]

no doubt the familydog was relieved when kids gave up on this thing in frustration. Though it would make a pretty reasonable costume prop for a rousing pretend game of the Borg Collective vs the Star Trek Federation.

[@tschak909]

Freddy says, "That's more than I got out of it!"

[@TommyCrosby]

10:23 man, I wasn't expecting how the song turned into after that random PowerGlove and retro 8 bits intro to turn into death metal or something like that...

[@NightimeDemon]

I genuinely would have been tempted to try that hardened foam out on that paper, just to see what would happen. It would probably just turn to dust then, but I still wonder. Glad to see shenanigans as always.

[@AppliedCryogenics]

That shirt is spot-on for a TAM lover! That //e is gorgeous though. *Swoon

[@LaCorvier]

still got my poweglove...... still complete with the thingi that you stick on top of tv... and the foam,, soaked with dried sweat

[@mcbeav]

hahah holy shit horse the band. i think i saw them with bear vs shark in lansing MI once.

[@colinstu]

I wonder if your studio lighting is interfering with the sensors.

[@BigBadBench]

I’m impressed the hulk hands fit in that thing!

[@AIexanderthefake]

You know, like bowling, baseball, ping pong, with the power glove, that reacts to hand gestures and inertia, motion etc

[@ristopoho824]

My guess is that studio lighting messes with the sensor. It doesn't seem IR but whatever it has it's getting blasted with interference.

[@gavincurtis]

AVGN goes into detail about power glove responsiveness and predictability.

[@DiestroCorleone]

I haven't laughed so much with an Action Retro video ever.

[@zaxchannel2834]

I'm impressed it worked at all

[@jan_harald]

this is stupid YOU CAN'T JUST FLAIL IT AROUND AND EXPECT IT TO WORK it's not a modern device with builtin accelerators and stuff, it has to talk with the ultrasound sensors and stuff, it takes time to do the locating, once you slowed down the frantic swinging, it worked pretty well, originally I wouldn't be surprised if not only it needed extra data lines, but your replacement caps might not have the correct characteristics the circuit expects, it certainly performed noticeably worse after you took it apart and swung it even more wildly than before

[@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs]

WoW I don’t know what to say I guess thats one accessory I didn’t miss out on that is a crazy thing Sean

[@Mark_Williams300]

Why was there a game for the Apple II called Shoplifter?

[@smartperson1]

You brought the Grade A schtick to this video. Bravo.

[@Gunstarrhero1]

why dont you turn the power glove into a modern vr glove to work with a head set, you know ardrino ( or whatever its called :) ) and some haptics? im sure theres a little more to it like catching IR signals and stuff, that would be a cool project

[@iamvulgar8188]

Bro, the fact that you referenced Horse the Band earned a sub right there. I was just listening to them today.

[@powerseostrategy]

Love the Start Trek IV reference!

[@Lilithe]

13:00 as a kid and probably as an adult I was always able to hear the Power Glove working.

[@Lilithe]

It also worked really well as long as you didn't expect too much from it.

[@DragonUltraMaster]

Do you have the small kid version of the glove? It seems waay too small for your hand

[@handlandj]

You're NOT FAR ENOUGH AWAY! It was meant to be used on a CRT from the couch! Think about it, those sensors on the display are pointed straight. You need to at least have the sound from the glove register! That means there has to be Line Of Sight to some extent between them. Try further back!

[@Dr.-Smart]

the base station (blinking led thing) has capacitors that go bad and make it not work

[@95Comics]

Awesome there was a sonnet card in this episode! Lol. Can pcb reproduce those sonnet boards? We need a show on building a new sonnet card 30 years later!

[@faenethlorhalien]

"The Power Glove. It's so bad. No, really. It's so bad. Can't believe we're releasing this shit" ------ Someone at Nintendo of America, circa 1989.

[@nickynikos]

« Conversion techno-sorcery » 😂

[@georgeboyd4172]

i have one and you have a crt tv that is color and calabrit the glove too my still work.

[@meetoo594]

I had a similar glove for the original playstation except it didn't track hand position it just registered wrist twists and finger movement. It was so very painful to use, after 10 mins it felt like you had sprained your wrist. It was also just as useless as the power glove for actually playing games.

[@todddixon1549]

Ahhh! I thought it looked like one of the TossOffa 3000 series. Not very successful. The later models had the Taptic feedback vibration system that enhanced the experience. (Not that I would know of course)😬

[@shaggy5777]

I had Super Glove Ball and a PowerGlove when I was a kid.

[@Allgone-b4k]

So much work, and wires wow. Thank god for MS kinect ha

[@sandmanxo]

As a NASA contractor, i can assure you it doesn't take that much to get hired. Plenty of smart people are around but its government work, so sitting around waiting for paperwork is a big part of the job.

[@Tweaker420666]

Ok so the trick is to put it on, then shoot the finger at the screen, struggle for a while, and then end up using the controller on the glove.

[@christopherdecorte1599]

Could you do a future vid on the g4 1.45ish emac I been playing with this thing on and off for a year I bought 4 sets of Mac os disks so far and 2 gigs of ram only 1g is registered this is my first ppc and I want to use it for mainly word processor and a few games to experience the dark side of computing. Also I have own owned many computers over the years but to me this is the most beautiful pc I have ever seen. It doesn't even have rgb but everything about screems simplicity and elegance and now gaudy like the g3s just white.

[@jeromethiel4323]

I love the power glove! I forget what movie that was from, but it was a really BAD 80's movie about video games.

[@proxythe1337]

The Wizard! As mentioned on the little card with the manual

[@jeromethiel4323]

@@proxythe1337 Yep. Spotted that after i commented. Is my face red... ^-^

[@mdrake42]

Powerglove = Wii Remote - Prototype. Same concept, same Sensor bar, but more compact on the Wi 20 years later.

[@cursethemountain]

Works as well as i remember

[@ericwood3709]

I see you've used the box for your upcoming iMac upgrade as a prop in this video. I see what you did there!

[@andresbravo2003]

Man this looks quite awkward to use with a Power Glove that was designed for the NES but on Other Computers.

[@Lilithe]

I don't think you can wildly wave it like that and expect it to work. Also the lights indicate what button it's pressing. :D

[@RudysRetroIntel]

Neat!! I think you should wear the glue and then use a joystick;) Thanks for sharing

[@christopherdecorte1599]

Power glove has always had its alure but once you try it you think I should have just got more games.

[@snow69413]

Great video but you should get adult size Power Glove.

[@yusef3132]

Lmao! Your channel is awesome! Thank you! 😂

[@SomePeopleCallMeWulfman]

Wow, I wonder why the power glove never took of.

[@ricardojpinheiro]

I think the right name of the video would be "Being abused by a PowerGlove".

[@ml.2770]

I remember reading about the Power Glove in the Nintendo magazine. Boy did I want one. I remember my Dad saying "It won't work." He got me and my brother a Laser XT PC with an Adlib card and a 20MB hard drive and a instead. I love you Dad.

[@tigheklory]

Way too close and you have to keep the glove pointed at the sensors. You only need to move your hands a tiny amount.

[@archivis]

I owned a powerglove back in a day. :)

[@ScarlettStunningSpace]

This video was quite hilarious

[@TJDownchurch]

You should put an m1 mac into a retro macintosh like the one ur pfp is based off of

[@SenZjo]

fly!!.., FLY!!.. ... wingardium levioSAH!!..

[@SasaPaunkovic-camplus2]

And ... that's the power of (g)love!

[@pooooo52]

Still look cool. .

[@nomadic_shadow]

I’m sure nasa will get back to you on your qualifications lol

[@ProgVirus]

Yikes, man you lucked out with that adapter - it that could have fried something!

[@Scyth3934]

5:36 Oh my god

[@cappaculla]

🎶🎶🎶🎶 The power of Glove a Farce from above

[@Gunstarrhero1]

i wanted one of those, i had ideas as a kid for VR. BRING BACK WHITEBOARD GUY!!!!!!!!

[@ctrlaltrees]

What on Earth is he up to now 🤣

[@SuperNicktendo]

As a power glove apologist. I think you're too close to the sensors for it to work. The power glove has a very specific sweet spot which is something that's not 100% advertised (hooray for 80s advertising standards)

[@hessex1899]

I seem to recall there being a power glove driver for NeXT. You should check the peanuts ISOs for it. :)