Apple's Console!

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did you know that apple had a console beofre they started out with computers?

Apple's first and only attempt at a video gaming console, the Pippin, has been known to sell for as much as 400£ (786$ / 534 euro), for apparently it's quite the rarity. Then again, besides being a pure collector's item, the Pippin also was an innovative for the time multimedia platform that even sported a modem and above average game-playing capabilities. Having to face both the PlayStation and the N64 it spectacularly failed.

The Pippin, known in Japan as Pippin @ (ピピンアットマーク, Pipin Attomāku?), and marketed as Pipp!n, was a multimedia platform designed by Apple Inc. (then Apple Computer Inc.) and produced by Bandai in 1995. The apple bandai pippin is comparable to the worst computer with a very bad console. It was based off of a 66-MHz PowerPC 603 processor, a 14.4 kbit/s modem and ran a stripped version of the System 7.5.2 operating system.

The goal was to create an inexpensive computer aimed mostly at playing CD-based multimedia titles, especially games, but also functioning as a network computer. It featured a 4× CD-ROM drive and a video output that could connect to a standard television display.

The platform was named for the Newtown Pippin, an apple cultivar, a smaller and more tart relative of the McIntosh apple (which is the namesake of the Macintosh).

Apple never intended to release Pippin on its own. Instead it intended to license the technology to third parties; Bandai was looking at entering the console video game market, and chose the Pippin as its platform. Much later Katz Media also entered production, planning to use the platform as a low cost PC with web ability.

By the time the Apple Bandai Pippin was released (1995 in Japan; 1996 in the United States), the market was dominated by the Sega Saturn, PlayStation, Nintendo 64 and PC. In addition there was little ready-to-use software for Pippin, the only major publisher being Bandai itself. It cost US$599 on launch,[1] and while touted as a cheap computer, the system, in reality, was commonly identified as a video game console. As such, its price was considered too expensive in comparison to its contemporaries.

Bandai manufactured fewer than 100,000 Pippins (reported sales were 42,000) before discontinuing the system; production was so limited that there were more keyboard and modem accessories produced than actual systems.[2]

Katz Media Productions produced an unknown number in Ireland for Europe, labeled it the KMP 2000; it is the rarest of the Pippin models. The images here are of the KMP developer unit, which include the 50 pin SCSI connector for external devices used for developing new software.

In May 2006, the Pippin placed 22nd in PC World Magazine's list of the "25 Worst Tech Products of all Time",[3] and in 2009, ScrewAttack.com ranked it #10 on their Top 10 Biggest Busts.

here are some pics...

 

[rodga]

i wanted to read this, but its such a mission

 

[FarligOpptreden]

Geez... ever heard of the QUOTE tag before?

That's a srsly ugly console...

EDIT: I wonder if there were ever any games developed for it?