This controller - devloped bu PAX - was released in 1989 for the Nintendo Entertainment System and promised to revolutionise how players could control games by using the movement of your hand rather than pressing buttons. The device had a huge marketing effort, including a central role in the film The Wizard and had a cameo in Freddys Dead: The Final Nightmare. Appearances in The Wizard and commercials made the Power Glove look incredibly capable and like something NASA might use to control spacecraft remotely. Unfortunately it simply didnt work. The motion control was imprecise and it made playing games much harder than they were with a standard controller. Remember this was a time of hellishly difficult platformers, shooters and adventure games were precise movement was essential. As a final indication of the controller's quality, it was an outright commercial failure and led to PAX going bankrupt.
