Who remembers the Power Glove? Who still has one? Yeah, that’s what I thought.
Back in the day, Nintendo had plenty of strange and rather useless peripherals created and pushed onto consumers, in an effort to gain even wider share of a burgeoning home console market in the 90s. You probably had a few of these things yourself… tried them once or twice, and stuck them in a closet, only to sell them at a yard sale ten years later (or maybe they’re still in the closet, behind your little sister’s BeDazzler and Cabbage Patch doll).
Well, guess what? Even though it existed only as a rumor for several decades, last week ex-Nintendo employee Howard Philips confirmed the existence of the Nintendo Knitting Machine via a scanned image on his Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=279935495445300&set=a.278466528925530.52299.270274519744731&type=1&theater) page. The description reads “not a game, not a toy; not something a young girl can outgrow in three or six months or even a year”.
Huh. Well, isn’t that something.
