The Pippin was Apple’s first and last foray into gaming consoles. At its heart, the Pippin was a strange ‘multimedia device’ with a CD-ROM, the potential for Internet access, a few neat controllers, ...

You see, the Apple Pippin wasn’t just a failed console. It was a snapshot of a very different Apple, one that didn’t quite know what it wanted to be. Launched in partnership with Bandai as the “Pippin ...

Apple has a stellar hit rate with industry-shaping successes like the iPod, iPhone and iMac as standouts. But it has some misses as well. Big ones. Though Apple’s way-too-early PDA device the Newton ...

The Pippin was Apple’s first and last foray into gaming consoles. At its heart, the Pippin was a strange ‘multimedia device’ with a CD-ROM, the potential for Internet access, a few neat controllers, ...

December 13, 1994: Apple strikes a deal with Bandai, Japan’s largest toymaker, to license Mac technology for the creation of a new videogame console called the Pippin. The device, powered by a PowerPC ...

Apple is not a name you usually associate with the infamous console wars of the early '90s. But way before the era of the iPods and the iPhones, in the age of the PlayStation 1, the Nintendo 64, and ...

On March 28, 1996, Apple's Pippin game console is released in Japan. It flops – but someone else pays the price. It must be included in any article about Apple's biggest failures: the Pippin game ...

Alas, poor Pippin. We knew you not too well. One of the most eagerly-anticipated features of the new Apple TV, set to be unveiled today, is that it will be geared toward the gamer market — maybe even ...