Feb 27, 2025
Apple Pippin video game console made in collaboration with Bandai 1996 (x)
seen from South Korea
seen from Türkiye
seen from Germany
seen from Netherlands
seen from France
seen from Germany
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Australia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Australia
seen from Netherlands
seen from Russia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from T1
seen from Argentina
seen from Japan
seen from United Kingdom
Apple Pippin video game console made in collaboration with Bandai 1996 (x)
Gundam 0079: The War for Earth
1997 | PlayStation, PC, Mac, Pippin | Bandai Digital Entertainment / Presto Studios
Shout out to the autistic people on tumblr who's profiles exist to solely post about everything and nothing but their special interest, like yes please tell me about your favourite boomer shooter that only released on the apple pipin in Europe 😍
The Apple Pippin? Yeah, it runs Doom.
The Pippin was one of those many failures of '90s Apple before the iMac-led revival - a game console manufactured by Bandai running MacOS classic off of the game CD, with the aim of being a multimedia box like the wildly successful Phillips CD-i. It failed to reach those lofty heights and was snuffed with a terrifying immediacy with the return of Jobs and the end of the "Mac clones" program in 1997, just a year after launch.
This project hooks up a "fake mac-formatted" hard drive that the Pippin was able to recognize, allowing for the Mac port of Doom to be run.
Incidentally, the Mac port of Doom's source code leaked out the other day. Interesting stuff!
Thanks to DeathEgg for hipping me to this!
Kids Box (Aloalo International/Kodansha, Mac/Pippin, 1995/1996)
Posted using PostyBirb
hey @hardwarelecampane did you know that there was a game console/multimedia player called pippin that is made by apple?
and this has macos 7 in it. it is a pretty weird piece of hardware innit?
Do you know Marathon 2: Durandal? (MacOS, Apple Pippin, Windows, 1995)
Yes, I have played it
Yes, I have watched someone else play it
I have only heard of it
No, I don't know this game
Gundam 0079: The War for Earth
Mobile Suit Gundam is one of the most influential anime series ever created, establishing many of the conventions of the mecha subgenre. In the forty-plus years of its existence, there have been dozens of series and spinoffs, but they generally boil down to political drama involving Earth and its space colonies, featuring a super powerful giant robot called a Gundam. Among the many, many video game tie-ins, one of the most unusual is this CD-ROM FMV title, a co-production between Japanese studio Bandai and American developer Presto Studios, the team behind The Journeyman Project titles. It was originally developed for the short-lived Apple Pippin platform, which Bandai was an ardent supporter of, but was also ported to Windows and Macintosh platforms, as well as the Japanese PlayStation.
Read more...