Lost Levels Forums

The time now is Thu Mar 28, 2024 4:54 pm

Two Power Glove Games from an old NES Guide

 
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Lost Levels Forum Index -> Unreleased Games
View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
The Green Meanie



Joined: 01 Mar 2004
Posts: 218
Location: The New Wave

PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:37 pm    Post subject: Two Power Glove Games from an old NES Guide Reply with quote



From "Compute!'s Guide to Nintendo Games", in the section where they talk about the (not yet released) Power Glove, this blurb appears:


"The Power Glove is scheduled to be released in Fall 1989. Several games (Super Glove Ball, Glove Pilot, and the Terror of "Tech Town") are being developed specifically for the Power Glove and should be available at about the same time."


Did anything ever come of these two? Protos, screen shots? Frank, do you know anything about them?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website AIM Address Yahoo Messenger MSN Messenger
Skrybe
Staff
Staff


Joined: 28 Aug 2003
Posts: 1610

PostPosted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 11:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nintendo Power published this screen in an early blurb on the Power Glove, but they didn't specify what game it was from. It might be Glove Pilot, since one preview of the game described using the Power Glove to operate your spaceship's control panel.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
TheRedEye
The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
The Internet's Frank Cifaldi


Joined: 26 Aug 2003
Posts: 4192
Location: Oakland, CA

PostPosted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 3:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Skrybe wrote:
Nintendo Power published this screen in an early blurb on the Power Glove, but they didn't specify what game it was from. It might be Glove Pilot, since one preview of the game described using the Power Glove to operate your spaceship's control panel.


I think I have an issue of GamePro or EGM with that exact same photo that attributes it to Glove Pilot.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail AIM Address
nesworld



Joined: 14 Oct 2007
Posts: 22
Location: Denmark

PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 8:23 pm    Post subject: unreleased PG games Reply with quote

http://www.nesworld.com/unr-glovepilot.php

and

http://www.nesworld.com/unr-terroroftechtown.php
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message MSN Messenger
TheRedEye
The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
The Internet's Frank Cifaldi


Joined: 26 Aug 2003
Posts: 4192
Location: Oakland, CA

PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Man, I doubt either of those are actual NES screenshots.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail AIM Address
nesworld



Joined: 14 Oct 2007
Posts: 22
Location: Denmark

PostPosted: Fri Apr 09, 2010 11:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yeah, they look too good don't they?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message MSN Messenger
BMF54123
Staff
Staff


Joined: 28 Aug 2003
Posts: 743
Location: Henderson, NV

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 1:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, the characters are way too big in the first one, and there seem to be too many colors in the second one (not to mention the colors aren't very NES-like). Was a Power Glove-like device ever planned for other consoles, or maybe the PC?
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
TheRedEye
The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
The Internet's Frank Cifaldi


Joined: 26 Aug 2003
Posts: 4192
Location: Oakland, CA

PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2010 2:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't think Mattel planned to make an official Power Glove for anything else, but the tech itself was made as a virtual reality device for computers if I'm remembering right.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail AIM Address
lehua768
BANNED


Joined: 15 Apr 2010
Posts: 1

PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 5:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It might be Glove Pilot, since one preview of the game described using the Power Glove to operate your spaceship's control panel.


__________________
(links removed.)
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Tongueman



Joined: 27 Feb 2004
Posts: 631
Location: Japan

PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 9:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Jeez lehua, replicating another person's post without its original italicization will draw suspicion as to the quality of your other replicas.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
Xkeeper



Joined: 04 Nov 2005
Posts: 327
Location: Henderson, NV

PostPosted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

He should've edited it to instead remind everybody that it was actually his post all along.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail AIM Address
lonesomewise
BANNED


Joined: 16 Apr 2010
Posts: 1

PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 6:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's so good!
link remoooooooooved
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
kap
Minister of Paranoia
Minister of Paranoia


Joined: 28 Aug 2003
Posts: 2103
Location: I hate you.

PostPosted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 6:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Who is wasting their time registering manually on niche forums to get the numbers up for blinds online? Jesus.

I actually need some blinds too.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
MikeMika



Joined: 29 Dec 2010
Posts: 2

PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 12:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

In case no one has posted it yet, the second game is actually Jim Sach's Time Crystal. Originally developed for the C64 with even more of a limited palette.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ7UDnJF3kk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

The power glove shot demonstrates a more developed version of the game.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
gilbert cheung



Joined: 25 Nov 2010
Posts: 33
Location: Hong Kong

PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hmmm Research (i.e. teh Almighty Google) showed that the author of the C64 Time Crystal Demo (the game was never finished) Jim Sachs went on to develop Amiga games, so he might be at some point developing an Amiga version of it (or a tech. demo of it, and it's possibly abandoned too), and so that's where the shot came from.

Edit: All right. In his art page (link to original page was dead and this is an archived one) if you look for the Time Crystal entry the image is a more refined version of the time pod (compared to the C64 version as seen in the video), so he probably had drawn some of this game's art in Amiga.

The description of the (unreleased?) Power Glove game doesn't seem to match though, so I think the screen shot was either misplaced or just a place holder at that time.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message Visit poster's website
MikeMika



Joined: 29 Dec 2010
Posts: 2

PostPosted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think you're right. It definitely *feels* like the Amiga from that shot. Jim went to work on titles for Cinemaware (Defender of the Crown, etc.). He's an exceptional pixel artist who I think now does aquarium screensavers. We should be able to end this mystery with an email to him.

EDIT: That's not the first time that a similar shot was used in reference to the power glove. Different screens of this game were used in magazines to promote the power glove. My guess is that you're right, it is a misused shot, but still intended for Power Glove as an entirely different game.
Back to top
View user's profile Send private message
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic   Reply to topic    Lost Levels Forum Index -> Unreleased Games All times are GMT
Page 1 of 1

 
Jump to:  
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

RSS


Powered by phpBB 2.0.23 © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group