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Power Pad

NES-028 · Nintendo · 1988

Released1988
Typemotion
RarityRare
Whywe don’t factor in prices yet: we’re watching the market 1 days, for games and accessories you need 30; units produced 500,000 - Rare

The Power Pad (known in Japan as Family Trainer, and in Europe and briefly in the United States as Family Fun Fitness) is a floor mat game controller for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is a gray mat with twelve pressure-sensors embedded between two layers of flexible plastic. It was originally developed by Bandai. Bandai first released the accessory in 1986 as the Family Trainer pack for the Famicom in Japan, and later released in the United States. Nintendo released it in 1988 as the Power Pad, along with the game World Class Track Meet, which was a rebranding of an earlier game.

For now, in English only. Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

How to tell them apart

Grey mat, side A 8 buttons, side B 12 numbered buttons.

Details from sources

Nintendo bought NA rights from Bandai in 1988 (was Bandai 'Family Fun Fitness' in NA 1987, EU 1988; Bandai 'Family Trainer' JP 1986 - those are Bandai products, not listed). Launched with World Class Track Meet.

Data source: en.wikipedia.org

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