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Power Glove es un mando de accesorios para Nintendo Entertainment System El Power Glove vendió más de 100,000 unidades en los Estados Unidos. Sus ventas brutas ascendieron a $88 millones de dólares. Los juegos que eran especialmente hechos para el Power Glove se vendieron poco y el Power Glove fue un fracaso crítico y comercial. El Power Glove no era muy popular y fue criticado por su imprecisión y dificultad para los controles de uso. El editor Craig Harris de IGN clasificó al Power Glove como el séptimo peor mando de videojuegos.

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Primer mando de interfaz periférica para recrear movimientos de mano humanos sobre una pantalla de televisión o computadora en tiempo real.

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R.O.B. (acrónimo de Robotic Operating Buddy) fue un accesorio creado por Nintendo para la consola Nintendo Entertainment System. Se lanzó en 1984 en Japón como Famicom Robot, y un año después apareció en Estados Unidos con el nombre de que más se le conoce, R.O.B. Tuvo un corto período de existencia, debido a la poca utilidad que hacían los videojuegos de este accesorio; únicamente dos. Con los años ha llegado a convertirse en un icono, debido al uso como personaje que la propia Nintendo le ha dado en varios de sus juegos.

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Gyromite y Stack-up fueron los dos únicos juegos que hicieron uso de este accesorio. A pesar de ello, este accesorio sirvió para despertar el interés por los videojuegos, tras la crisis sufrida en 1983. Los vendedores eran reacios entonces a vender videojuegos, pero pronto vieron que la NES junto a R.O.B. se vendía bien anunciándolo como un robot de juguete.

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permitía jugar a juegos como Gauntlet, Kings of the Beach, Bomberman 2 o Nintendo World Cup con varios amigos a la vez y alargaba el metro de cable de los mandos de la consola hasta un total de cinco gracias a una conexión por infrarrojos

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El U-Force es un mando creado por Broderbund para la NES. Utiliza un par de sensores de infrarojos paralelos en perpendicular para transformar el movimiento de las manos del jugador en señales para el controlador. Considerado uno de los peores mandos de la historia.

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Modifications to the standard Quick Disk format include the NINTENDO moulding along the bottom of each Disk Card. In addition to branding the disk, this acts as a rudimentary form of copy protection - a device inside the drive bay contains raised protrusions which fit into their recessed counterparts, ostensibly ensuring that only official disks are used. If a disk without these recessed areas is inserted, the protrusions cannot raise, and the system will not allow the game to be loaded. This was combined with technical measures in the way data was stored on the disk to prevent users from physically swapping copied disk media into an official shell. However, both of these measures were defeated by pirate game distributors; in particular, special disks with cutouts alongside simple devices to modify standard Quick Disks were produced to defeat the physical hardware check, enabling rampant piracy. An advertisement containing a guide for a simple modification to a Quick Disk to allow its use with a Famicom Disk System was printed in at least one magazine.

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Shigeru Miyamoto (pronounced [mijamoto ɕiɡeɾɯ]; born November 16, 1952) is a Japanese video game designer, producer and game director at Nintendo, where he serves as one of its representative directors. He is the creator of some of the most acclaimed and best-selling game franchises of all time, including Mario and The Legend of Zelda. Born in Sonobe, Japan, he graduated from Kanazawa Municipal College of Industrial Arts. He originally sought a career as a manga artist, until developing an interest in video games. With the help of his father, he joined Nintendo in 1977 after impressing then-president Hiroshi Yamauchi with his toys. He became the companys first artist and helped create art for the arcade game Sheriff, and was later tasked with creating a new arcade unit for the company. This eventually led to the 1981 game Donkey Kong. Miyamoto went on to create both Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda, which became massive successes for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The games helped Nintendo and the NES to dominate the console game market, especially after the video game crash of 1983. His games have been flagships of every Nintendo video game console, from the arcade machines of the late 1970s to the present day. He managed Nintendos Entertainment Analysis & Development software division, which developed many of the companys first-party titles. As a result of Nintendo president Satoru Iwatas death in July 2015, Miyamoto took on the role of acting president alongside Genyo Takeda until being formally appointed as the companys Creative Fellow a few months later.

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The NES game StarTropics included a letter from the main characters uncle. To get past a certain point in the game, a player needed to dunk the letter in water to get a secret code. Players lost the letter or bought the game secondhand often enough that the code (747) was even printed in an issue of Nintendo Power.