Please allow me to undo years of rehabilitative memory exercises you've put forth to block this piece of gaming history out of your prefrontal cortex (why yes, I do love Brain Age). The Nintendo Power Pad - a device years before its time, supported by games so poor and marketing so embarrassingly dorky that buried it as an overnight failure forever... until some dude put the damn video online again. Nobody liked this thing. Why? Because it was the exact opposite of trying to act like Corey Feldman, so how could it succeed? Just watch the video and brace yourself. In the middle of the shot, there's some guy with a mullet SMELLING THE CHILD'S FOOT IN AMAZEMENT. We could have been playing DDR in our childhood had it not been for this device which simultaneously pioneered and regressed footloose joysticks for nearly a decade. BODY POWER!!! Sigh. Its arguably worse than the first Nintendo commercial. Check out these hilarious retro scans of this product. In Japan they called it The Family Trainer. That explains a lot, actually. Click to zoom in:
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1:34 PM on 08.07.2006
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Please allow me to undo years of rehabilitative memory exercises you've put forth to block this piece of gaming history out of your prefrontal cortex (why yes, I do love 
