November 1, 201212 yr Author comment_5518481 Captain Lou and Bruno Sammartino plug a 900 line to play wrestling trivia. Win a Nintendo, a power glove and a collection of wrestling's greatest hits!
November 5, 201212 yr comment_5518937 I wonder how much you had to drop on the hotline until you got to the "win an NES" part. More or less than the cost of the actual system?
November 5, 201212 yr comment_5518979 This hotline, or at least the toll free 800 number backdoor to it, existed well into the mid '90s. You couldn't win anything from it, but...yeah.
November 12, 201212 yr comment_5519816 Can imagine bruno answering questions against a kid with a Nintendo on the line.
November 13, 201212 yr comment_5519839 Power Glove! Nice gift there. Too bad Bruno didn’t complete the bodyslam of Albano. Hotline seemed sketchy.
November 28, 201212 yr comment_5521089 What an awesome carny scam. Is that the voiceover guy for Crazy Eddie doing the voiceover here?
June 8, 201312 yr comment_5547214 This is a nice bit of 90's nostalgia with the Power Glove being offered as a prize. I wonder what was on that "Wrestling's Greatest Hits" video.
August 8, 201312 yr comment_5555358 Hands up then, who actually had a power glove? I had R.O.B., but never the glove.
December 31, 201311 yr comment_5578012 I called this numerous times as a kid and it was a complete ripoff. One question I remember was "Shawn Michaels once went by which name" and the "correct" answer was Sean Royal. Ugh. My friend's grandpa won $1,000 on a scratch off around this time and he bought my friend a power glove. It sucked. The movie "the wizard" made it look cool. In reality, the AVGN pretty much summed up our experience with that piece of crap
December 9, 201410 yr comment_5644454 I actually remember this commercial dimly. I wonder if Bruno and Lou had anything to do with it after filming the commercial; I can't imagine Bruno being too happy once he found out what a scam it was. Lou's sporting the Super Mario mustache here.
November 18, 20159 yr comment_5710657 My friend's neighbor had a power glove and the thing didn't work, or we were too little and stupid to work it. I think it only worked with certain games maybe? We tried it with like Mario 2 or something and it didn't do anything. In The Wizard they used it with a racing game.
December 3, 20168 yr comment_5777450 Capt. Lou Albano and Bruno Sammartino are hawking some premium rate wrestling trivia hotline. Cash in your wrestling knowledge to win big bucks! Dial 1-900-246-CHAMP and beat Bruno in a battle of wrestling trivia. You could win $100 a day, a widescreen TV and VCR with the ‘Wrestling’s Greatest Hits’ video or a complete Nintendo Entertainment System including a Power Glove! What on earth was Bruno doing associating himself with this?
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