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From: jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
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Subject: Re: Demise of the Mattel PowerGlove?
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Date: 3 Apr 91 20:27:04 GMT
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In article <1991Apr3.062154.9030@milton.u.washington.edu> cyberoid@milton.u.wash
ington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes:

>#  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 Nintendo units.  Atari lost a lawsuit with Nintendo on the right to
> make Nintendo-compatible cartridges.  The Power Glove is thus an orphaned
> product.

I wouldn't trust this article, since at least the companies involved are
totally wrong. Atari never had anything to do with the PowerGlove. The
glove was marketed by Mattel. Mattel seems to be in extremely good terms
with Nintendo (at least in the US).

This doesn't mean that there are games for the PowerGlove, so if the
PowerGlove isn't dead now, it will probably soon be.

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