The Power Glove, a short-lived, infamous peripheral for the Nintendo Entertainment System, was released in North America in late 1989. According to its sad narrator, Jake (Neil Patrick Harris), “8 Bit Christmas” is “1987 or 1988,” but predominantly contains a Glove of Power, whose gruesomeness actually drives the plot. This may sound like a trivial …

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