Left handed power glove?

[Elvis8Atari]

Was there ever a left handed power glove?

[+Psionic]

It's been rumored, but has never been proven to exist.

[fdurso224]

Hi Guys:

 

I'm still patiently waiting for it to exist. Love to see it..

 

Anthony....

[JimmydelaKopin]

Yeah, why shouldn't southpaws (like me) be plagued with an awful controller? Why should righties have none of the fun? We lefties deserve misery too!

 

...or we could just regret that there was one made for righties in the first place...

[Andrew Davie]

Yeah, why shouldn't southpaws (like me) be plagued with an awful controller? Why should righties have none of the fun? We lefties deserve misery too!

 

...or we could just regret that there was one made for righties in the first place...

 

I was fortunate enough to use the prototype powerglove. The thing about this device is that it has (had) two modes. One mode, a "gesture" mode, had pre-programmed movements you could make which would then return a simple joystick direction. So, for example, you lift your arm up and down, and you get joystick "up" sent. The problem with this is that there's significant lag between when you start the gesture, and when it's finished/recognised. Not a great control system at all.

 

However, there's a second, 'raw' mode. This mode had 1/16th of an inch accuracy over a 6 foot range (all this is from memory, of course, but I'm pretty sure). This reported the actual position of the glove in real time. That allows the application itself to do all the nice trickery. It's actually quite an interesting, GOOD device. It was just hamstrung by having to use gesture mode for the NES game backward compatibility.

 

So, don't 'diss' the powerglove, because you clearly don't know much about it

 

Cheers

A

[JimmydelaKopin]

Now now, it's not that I don't know much about it.

It's that I never cared for anything Nintendo.

What can I say? At the time when others were raving about the NES, I was having fun with my 7800.

 

I didn't go Nintendo until the SNES--and even then split time on it with a Genesis we also had...

...and then, once we got the Playstation, I didn't care for either.

 

Just not a big Nintendo fan, and just offering a little playful razzing.

 

...and, to be honest, I think all these unusual controllers, from the third-party Unroller Controller for the 2600 to the chainsaw controller for the PS2 are pretty cool. They're definitely collector items, in the very least, definitely conversation starters for gamer gatherings.

[gdement]

However, there's a second, 'raw' mode. This mode had 1/16th of an inch accuracy over a 6 foot range (all this is from memory, of course, but I'm pretty sure). This reported the actual position of the glove in real time. That allows the application itself to do all the nice trickery. It's actually quite an interesting, GOOD device. It was just hamstrung by having to use gesture mode for the NES game backward compatibility.

 

Interesting. All this time I figured it just had simple binary directionals, not analog. But I do remember it having calibration routines, so what you're describing makes sense.

So it sounds like maybe that "super gloveball" game might actually have good analog style controls, since it was programmed native for the glove.

I picked that game up a while back sort of out of amusement, but I don't actually have a power glove anymore to torture myself with. I think I threw it away several years ago.