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The Nintendo Power Glove may have been a commercial dud, but its technical innovations changed the gaming industry. “The Power Glove was not a failure. Sure, the licensed accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System from 1989 remains an infamous piece of retro tech — a game controller made into a right-hand glove, as if an Apple keyboard were stitched to an oven mitt — and was sold at retail for less than a year. But it still made money for those who invested in it, and its technical innovations paved the way for the next 30 years of gaming.” Read…