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Top Hat Gaming Man Can you do a video on the Konami Picno? Previously you did a video on a unreleased Konami game system so it might be interesting to see one they actually made.
I'm surprised that the Pippin was even mentioned in an anime at all, considering how few Pippins were sold in comparison to PSXes. Had Apple and Bandai either released the console a couple of years earlier or waited a couple of years, the Pippin might've had a chance. Also, I'm surprised that Konata didn't mention Windows Vista, although it's clear that she uses Windows XP.
It wasn't just Europe's schools being Mac dominated. In southern Oregon every class computer in every school I went to, until about 2002 was a Mac. Most computer labs were packed with Apple IIs and Macs as well. This was largely the story for most of the US too. While IBM was dominating the home and business markets, Apple ruled the educational market in the 90s. Neat to see that, at least in the UK, it was kind of the same story too.
Apple? Open standards? Now that is two things I would never have thought could go together! This console seems like it failed for a lack of software support and, more importantly, a lack of customer awareness. Pretty much no-one heard of it until long after the Pippin had been discontinued.
They have some on the software front. I actually considered LZFSE as an option for my game engine's data compression format, but decided to go with Facebook's Z-Standard, partly because the more widespread use of the latter, partly because Apple decided to throw out OpenGL and similar technologies from MacOSX my engine depends on.
Thanks for the brilliant retro failed video. I have so far with this watched four videos and there are facts I didn't know. The videos are very educational and it's easy to listen to your voice. Well done mate, now I have to get back to this video.
Great idea, poorly implemented. Check out my list of System 7 games that could have ran well on the Pippin below. - Great CPU - Great stripped down OS system 7.5.5 - More capable than a Sega Saturn and PSX Detractors to the console: - Terrible marketing, packaging, name and logo. - It didn't leverage the powerful image and brand recognition of Apple. - It couldn't distinguish itself from other similar multimedia solutions on the market like the 3DO, CD32 and generically marketed CDi. - It couldn't clearly define its strengths over other consoles and consciously didn't focus on the critical gaming market. Instead it tried a similar failed approach to Philips with the multimedia boom and intentionally offered a generic under powered multimedia hub as a 'catch-all' solution. - Bandai had a poor overall strategy for marketing with no clear focus on console gaming. Bandai tried to offer a lifestyle machine for the new interactive home. Music, video, interactive edutainment, the Internet etc were also new territory that the Pippin tried to offer to the family communal living space without any sufficient demand for it in a console. - It offered too much and confused the general consumer. - Bandai priced itself out of the market immediately with the Pippins initial release. - It had a great potential library of games that it could play straight from the Macintosh home computer library but neither bundled nor advertised this to consumers. - From a design point of view it had an array of physical multimedia buttons located on the unit that could have been reassigned to the controller and operated through software. It also sported a joypad that couldn't compete with its rivals. Games List for System 7.5.5. Compatible with 68030/68040 CPU's and PowerPC 601 and above: 3-D Ultra Pinball 3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night (68K) 3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent (PPC) 3-D Ultra Pinball: Thrillride (PPC) 9: The Last Resort (68K/PPC) The 7th Guest The 11th Hour A-10 Attack! (68K/PPC) A-10 Cuba! (68K/PPC) Absolute Zero (PPC) Abuse (68K/PPC) Actua Soccer (68K/PPC) Afterlife (68K/PPC) Age of Empires (PPC) Al Unser Jr. Arcade Racing (68K/PPC) Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire (PPC) Alley 19 Bowling (68K/PPC) Alone in the Dark (68K/PPC) Alone in the Dark 2 (68K/PPC) Alone in the Dark 3 (68K/PPC) Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (PPC) Another World (Out of This World) (68K) Apache Longbow (PPC) AstroRock (68K) Atlantis: The Lost Tales (PPC) Bad Mojo (68K/PPC) Battle Beast (68K/PPC) Bedlam (GT Interactive) (PPC) Battle-girl (PPC) Blackthorne (68K/PPC) Blood & Magic Blood Bath at Red Falls (68K/PPC) Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (PPC) Burn:Cycle (68K/PPC) Carmageddon (PPC) Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now (PPC) Caesar (68K) Caesar II (68K/PPC) Caesar III (PPC) Castle of Dr. Brain (68K) Chaos Overlords (68K/PPC) Chessmaster 4000 (68K) Chessmaster 6000 (PPC) Chess Mates (68K/PPC) Chex Quest (PPC) Citadel of the Dead (68K) Civilization: Call to Power (PPC) Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far (PPC) Colt's Wild West Shootout (PPC) Command & Conquer (PPC) Congo: Descent into Zinj (68K/PPC) Creatures (PPC) Crystal Caliburn (68K) Curse of Dragor (68K/PPC) Cythera (68K/PPC) Damage Incorporated (68K/PPC) Dark Colony (PPC) Dark Seed (68K/PPC) Dark Seed II (68K/PPC) Dark Vengeance (PPC) Day of the Tentacle (68K/PPC) Deadlock: Planetary Conquest (68K) Descent (PPC) Descent II (PPC) Diablo (PPC) The Dig (68K/PPC) Discworld (68K) Doom - The Ultimate Doom (68K/PPC) Doom (68K/PPC) Doom: D!ZONE MAC (68K) Doom: Demon Gate (68K) Doom II: Hell on Earth (68K/PPC) Doom: Total Ruin (68K/PPC) Dragon's Lair (68K) Duke Nukem 3D (68K/PPC) Duke It Out in D.C. (68K/PPC) Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep (68K/PPC) Eight Ball Deluxe (68K) Enigma (Freeverse) (68K) Entomorph: Plague of the Darkfall (68K/PPC) Elite Air Hockey (PPC) Escape Velocity (68K/PPC) Escape Velocity Override (68K/PPC) F/A-18 Hornet (68K/PPC) F/A-18 Hornet 2.0 (68K/PPC) Fallout (PPC) Firefall Arcade (68K/PPC) Ferazel's Wand (PPC) Flashback: The Quest for Identity (68K/PPC) Flying Nightmares (68K/PPC) Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist (68K/PPC) Forgotten Realms: Unlimited Adventures (68K) Full Throttle (68K/PPC) Full Tilt! Pinball (68K/PPC) Fury of the Furries (68K/PPC) Future Cop: LAPD (PPC) Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (68K) Game Parlor (68K) Golden Logres (68K/PPC) Gridz (PPC) Heroes of Might and Magic (68K) Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars (68K/PPC) Hexen - Beyond Heretic (68K/PPC) Hexen: Deathkings of the Dark Citadel Holiday Lemmings (68K/PPC) Ice & Fire (PPC) Imperialism (PPC) Imperialism II: Age of Exploration (PPC) Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (CD version) (68K/PPC) Ishar 3 (68K) I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (68K) Lode Runner On-Line: The Mad Monks' Revenge (68K/PPC) Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (PPC) Lode Runner 2 (PPC) Killing Time (PPC) Kingdom: The Far Reaches (68K/PPC) King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow (68K) King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride (68K/PPC) Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards (1992 remake) (68K) Leisure Suit Larry: Love for Sail! (68K/PPC) Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work (68K) Leisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out! (68K) The Legend of Kyrandia, Book One: Fables and Fiends (68K) The Legend of Kyrandia, Book Two: Hand of Fate (68K/PPC) The Legend of Kyrandia, Book Three: Malcolms Revenge (68K/PPC) Legions (68L/PPC) Locus (PPC) Loony Labyrinth (68K) Links Pro (68K/PPC) Lunicus (68K) Mad Dog McCree (68K) Marathon 2: Durandal (68K/PPC) Marathon Scenario Collection (68K/PPC) Marathon Infinity (68K/PPC) Marathon RED (PPC) Marathon Rubicon (PPC) Marathon: Tempus Irae (PPC) MDK (PPC) Mars Rising (68K/PPC) Master of Orion (68K/PPC) Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares (68K/PPC) MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat (PPC) Might and Magic: World of Xeen (68K) Monopoly CD-ROM (1996 Westwood Studios) (68K/PPC) Mortalus: The Quest for Immortality (68K) Myst (68K/PPC) Myst: Masterpiece Edition (PPC) Myth: The Fallen Lords (PPC) NASCAR Racing (PPC) Nethergate (PPC) NetherWorld (68K) Out of the Sun (68K/PPC) Pac-In-Time (68/PPC) Pandemonium (PPC) Phantasmagoria (68K/PPC) Pirates! Gold (68K/PPC) Police Quest: SWAT (PPC) Police Quest: Open Season (68K/PPC) Power Pete (aka Mighty Mike) (68K/PPC) Postal (PPC) PowerMonger (68K) Prime Target (PPC) Prisoner of Ice (68K) Pro Pinball: The Web (68K/PPC) Pyst (68K/PPC) Quake (PPC) Quake 2 (PPC) Qwirks (68K/PPC) Racing Days R (PPC) Racing Days (PPC) Railroad Tycoon II Gold (PPC) Rama (68K/PPC) Red Baron (68K) Real Pool (68K/PPC) Realmz (68K) Redneck Rampage (PPC) Remington Top Shot (PPC) Return to Zork (68K/PPC) Riven: The Sequel to Myst (PPC) Robinson's Requiem (68K) Sam & Max Hit the Road (68K/PPC) Rocky Mountain Trophy Hunter: Interactive Big Game Hunting (PPC) Railroad Tycoon II Gold (PPC) Railroad Tycoon II: The Next Millenium - Special Edition (PPC) Scrabble CD-ROM (68K/PPC) Shadow Warrior (PPC) Shattered Steel (PPC) Shockwave 2: Beyond the Gate (PPC) Shanghai: Great Moments (68K/PPC) Shanghai: Dynasty (PPC) Shockwave Assault (68k) Sid Meier's Civilization II (PPC) SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest (68K) SimCity Enhanced (68K) SimCity 2000 (68K/PPC) SimSafari (PPC) Space Ace (CD version) (68K) Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier (68K/PPC) SPQR: The Empire's Darkest Hour (68K/PPC) StarFighter 3000 (PPC) Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (CD-ROM) (68K/PPC) Star Trek: Borg (PPC) Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Harbinger (68K/PPC) Star Trek: Judgment Rites (68K/PPC) Star Trek: Captain's Chair (PPC) Star Trek: The Next Generation - A Final Unity (PPC) Star Trek: The Next Generation - Klingon Honor Guard (PPC) Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (PPC) Star Wars: Dark Forces (68K/PPC) Star Wars: DroidWorks (PPC) Star Wars Episode I: The Gungan Frontier (PPC) Star Wars: Pit Droids (PPC/G3) Star Wars: TIE Fighter (68K/PPC) Star Wars: Rebel Assault (68K/PPC) Star Wars: Rebel Assault II (68K/PPC) Star Wars: X-Wing (68K/PPC) Super Wing Commander (68K/PPC) System Shock (PPC) Syndicate (68K/PPC) Tempest 2000 (PPC) Terminal Velocity (PPC) Theme Park (68K/PPC) The Crystal Key (PPC) The Crystal Skull (68K/PPC) The Riddle of the Maze (68K) The Labyrinth of Time (68K) Time Gal (68K) Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (PPC) Tomb Raider (PPC) Tomb Raider II (PPC) Torin's Passage (68K/PPC) Transarctica (68K) Triazzle (68K) TriTryst (68K) The Settlers II (68K/PPC) The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield (PPC) The Untouchable (PPC) Total Annihilation (PPC) Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency & Battle Tactics (PPC) Tristan (PPC) Ultima III: Exodus (1995) (68K) Unreal (PPC) Unreal Tournament (PPC) Vikings: The Strategy of Ultimate Conquest (68K/PPC) Vitamin (68K/PPC) Virtual Pool (PPC) Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (68K/PPC) Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (68K/PPC) Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal (68K/PPC) Warcraft II: Battle.net Edition (PPC) Wheels! (68K/PPC) Wing Commander III: Heart of the Tiger (PPC) Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (PPC) Wolfenstein 3D: Spear Of Destiny (PPC) Worms (68K/PPC) X-Mas Lemmings '92 (68K) The Zork Anthology (68k) Yoot Tower (aka The Tower II) (PPC) Zork Nemesis (68K) Zoop (68K) ZPC (PPC)
I bought one a few years back since I heard it could play burn ios games on cds... I only got 1 game to work one time, so I went to search original games to buy and they were more expensive than the pippin console itself... So I sold it lol
I remember it at the time. Part of the issues I think was the fact that many people didn't understand what it was supposed to do. Apple had their clever marketing people and their clever ads that were so clever they never explained the purpose of the device. Reviewers made the same comments, it's supposed to do a bit of everything but not clear what its main purpose was. Kids drove the video game market and so adult oriented ads were also off target.
But imagine if this console did succeed tho. I would have been a high class console for mature people, something Sony was doing with the playstation, and It would have looked way more powerful than the Nintendo 64, and playstation if the developers knew how to make games for it and pushed it to its fullest potential.
Not bad, but you didn't get the history of Bandai right. It was Makoto Yamashina, the son of founder Naoharu, who made the risky technology bets on Playdia and Pippin (the wrong person is pictured in your video).
I mean, at this point you don't need a Mac anymore because the engine was ported to Windows I don't free games were released with it as freeware. I believe it's called the alphe one engine
I suspect the reason it failed (and the 3DO, and other early MM consoles at the time), was that it was freaking expensive. Not as much as a PC or Mac, but once it hits it's limit, it's a paperweight, while PCs and Macs can be upgraded over time. The strange thing is, you can find them on eBay new in box for less than the original pricing, adjusted for inflation. ($699 today, as opposed to $599 back then, which would be $998 today). Then again, what exactly could be done with them today, other than as a display piece?
Well they couldn't compete. The industry is to blame as much as the consoles themselves, for better or for worse. The video game industry is an oligopoly, which means it's a business with only a few big players, and they preclude anyone else from entering the market. It's like a few giant trees that prevent any smaller trees from growing. Now this could very well be better overall for the consumer, the best survive while the rest don't, and we get the best quality, but maybe that's not always true either. In any case, this specific console had a terrible controller, and obviously Apple had no idea what they were doing when they tried to get into the video game market. If anything I think they are better capable of entering the market now, but they've decided not to. I suspect that if one of the Big 3 dies, Nintendo is the most likely to get killed off, a new player would enter to fill the void, which is exactly what happened when Sega failed and Microsoft entered to fill the gap.
5:30 I have actually seen that video!!! lol dude in glasses talking about Pippin being so great. It was priceless. It all failed so hard I wonder if anyone at Apple got fired 6:27 I have never seen that prototype pippin controller. freaking awesome find
You're top hat gentleman yes, but puting anime gals as clickbait. But whom am I to judge. so long i got full vidoe about these console. good reason why I like your video. because of the thumbnail.
Thanks for your using some of my video in this video (starting at 8:35) - I reused in that video some material by others as well :P. However, I did make a small mistake: The footage of the game 'Dazzeloids' is of the original Mac (English) game, as it turns out that game was only released in Japanse for the Pippin. I hope you can require some of the games and do a review someday (too expensive for me...) Furthermore, a suggestion for your video's on handheld consoles: can you do a video on the 'Nikko digiBlast' some day? It's a failed handheld from relatively recent times (2005) with little info online... It was released in the Benelux, France and Italy, but I don't think it made it to the UK. Yyeeaahhhh!
Jobs never wanted to touch the gaming market. Even when the iPhone was announced, he would show how gaming wasn't that big at all (according to his numbers). Funny how phones and tablets was their in into the gaming world.
A quick and dirty way to convert Yen is just to drop a dot before the last to digits. Japan has long tried to keep ¥100 = $1 US. A $650 game console in the late '90s? That's fail.
Next up I'd love to see a video on the Car Marty. I loved your Marty videos and don't really know much about their Car Marty standalone unit, GPS crossed with a game console. It's one of the rarest platforms ever too.
If Apple wanted a game console, they had the hardware to do it *10 years* before then, way back in 1986. Some minor tweaks would have made an affordable game console version of the Apple IIGS computer, and served to further support the full computer version of the Apple IIGS. The hardware was easy to program for. Also, it would have been *5 years* ahead of the market. It has the same CPU as the Super Nintendo, which wouldn't come out until 1991. The competition would have been the Nintendo NES, Sega Master System and Atari 5200. Sadly Apple was hard at work marking sure the Apple IIGS computer would fail: (over pricing it, under-clocking it, failuring to develop software for it, ect.) A real shame too, imagine a computer and a console being able to play the same games... It would have been like Japan's computers. (Famicom, Sega SG-1000, MSX,ect., ect.) But Apple doesn't know how to to affordable. As a matter if fact, it has always marked *up* the price of their hardware... you know, to give the impression of it being higher quality. The consumer thinks "if it cost more, it must be high quality!" No, seriously, look it up. This has been part of apple's market strategy since the days of the Apple III, LISA, and first Macs.
@@QJ89 Right? FRom the video, sounds like she and the others had nothing to do with the Pippin. Unless they had a game on there or she was the Pippin Mascot, then yeah.
Justice being blind is one of the true innovations to make sure this society had ordered. I like the effort this guy puts in his video. The first part of the comment was just a general truth and nothing's wrong with telling the truth
...The Pippin is not a game console. It is multimedia interactive device and among one and only devices that implemented a set of multimedia standards set out from Apple.
The apple Pin Pin was never been sale here in the Philippines due to the growing markets of the 3DO, Sony PlayStation and SEGA Saturn in 1995 and in 1996 when the Pin Pin never sale here in the Philippines. This a failure for the Philippine market when Bandai didn’t know they never sale the Pin Pin in the Philippine market. 1996 is a big console history
A svga or Sxga video output is much suited than the outdated vga the pippen used. It should've been marketed as a MAC OS 7 living room computer. Also, system 8 for KMP 2000 model.
That's the rub with all those PC substitute platforms, still expensive. Apple to deliver gaming software, the Bandai president was off his rocker, I'll just refer to that Gus Sorola Mac Switch Parody heh. Nice trackball but why cram the bumpers into the center near the cable, that boomerang shape kept coming up too Eg. PS3 original controller. :P
Apple i still think to this day was hoping to aslo emulate the microsoft delevoped MSX 1&2 and turbo bases which was delevoped into so many different console forms by many different manfacturers
0:14 " I am a retro gaming connoisseur, who is looking to cover every nook and cranny of console history, no matter how obscure." Did you mean to make that rhyme or was it just a coinkydink? Cuz that should be your channel slogan.
An absolutely atrocious product, hamstrung by Apple's arrogance and Bandai's naivety, wrapped up in an unappealing, overpriced, undersupported disaster of a package. Top vid, though.
Sup dude? I like your channel however I have noticed an extremely cool and rare system in the PC ENGINE line you have over looked, especially having a video on the shuttle! The freaking shuttle !?!?;it's cool and all but the PC ENGINE LT is the real deal! Not just a simple redesign but an honest to God mobile version of a pc engine with controller Incorporated into the body of the system and a screen! It's a shame they are very uncommon being so cool! Not to mention a working system starts at like $2000. get a video on the LT asap while they are still underground! Youd be the first "mainstream" TH-camr to feature such a video on the LT! All vids on it now are simple 2 min. Reviews
Apple should have endeavoured to make a gaming console to expand their customer base full stop. Especially as Today's Console Gaming Kids Are Tomorrow's Apple Computer Customers If We Can Capture Their Loyalty. Make and market it themselves, forget about all the expensive extra stuff, even the online component was too ambitious for the day, bring the price right down. Microsoft made the Xbox work. Call it the iPlay
I think we can lump in all those early-mid 90s 'multimedia/gaming systems' as the worst consoles of all time. Sony ended up doing it right with cd and dvd playback on the ps1 and ps2 respectively (and the bluray is probably what saved the ps3 for its rough first few years)
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Top Hat Gaming Man Can you do a video on the Konami Picno? Previously you did a video on a unreleased Konami game system so it might be interesting to see one they actually made.
Hey Big Daddy Top Hat!
I'm wondering, what are your feelings on the Turbo GraFX/PC Engine Mini announcement?
@@GeekHero_Bubba I shall reveal this all in next sunday's content!
@@TopHatGamingManChannel And I look forward to seeing it.
your hat is prestigious
That controller looks somehow aweful and awesome at the same time.
Looks like you something you have to a child prodigy to use
Do I know you?
The first time I heard about the Pippin was the Lucky Star Anime. It was Konata's reward for getting into a lower ranked class.
I'm surprised that the Pippin was even mentioned in an anime at all, considering how few Pippins were sold in comparison to PSXes. Had Apple and Bandai either released the console a couple of years earlier or waited a couple of years, the Pippin might've had a chance.
Also, I'm surprised that Konata didn't mention Windows Vista, although it's clear that she uses Windows XP.
It wasn't just Europe's schools being Mac dominated. In southern Oregon every class computer in every school I went to, until about 2002 was a Mac. Most computer labs were packed with Apple IIs and Macs as well. This was largely the story for most of the US too. While IBM was dominating the home and business markets, Apple ruled the educational market in the 90s. Neat to see that, at least in the UK, it was kind of the same story too.
I never saw a Mac in my schools. At least until college. I live in France
Schools in my area (Rhode Island) were the same and all the Apple IIs had Oregon Trail and all the Macs had Math Blaster
Apple? Open standards? Now that is two things I would never have thought could go together! This console seems like it failed for a lack of software support and, more importantly, a lack of customer awareness. Pretty much no-one heard of it until long after the Pippin had been discontinued.
They have some on the software front. I actually considered LZFSE as an option for my game engine's data compression format, but decided to go with Facebook's Z-Standard, partly because the more widespread use of the latter, partly because Apple decided to throw out OpenGL and similar technologies from MacOSX my engine depends on.
If Oregon Trail ain’t the pack-in game, I ain’t buyin it.
They never ported Oregon Trail to the Pippin. It was never even thought of.
That's the real reason why it failed
In 1993 all computers in my school were Microsoft MSX, I’m not kidding, our educational PCs in school were video game consoles.
You think that's bad, my school system required purchase of Texas Instruments handheld gaming consoles.
Thanks for the brilliant retro failed video. I have so far with this watched four videos and there are facts I didn't know. The videos are very educational and it's easy to listen to your voice. Well done mate, now I have to get back to this video.
I can't imagine TP's search history
Great idea, poorly implemented. Check out my list of System 7 games that could have ran well on the Pippin below.
- Great CPU
- Great stripped down OS system 7.5.5
- More capable than a Sega Saturn and PSX
Detractors to the console:
- Terrible marketing, packaging, name and logo.
- It didn't leverage the powerful image and brand recognition of Apple.
- It couldn't distinguish itself from other similar multimedia solutions on the market like the 3DO, CD32 and generically marketed CDi.
- It couldn't clearly define its strengths over other consoles and consciously didn't focus on the critical gaming market. Instead it tried a similar failed approach to Philips with the multimedia boom and intentionally offered a generic under powered multimedia hub as a 'catch-all' solution.
- Bandai had a poor overall strategy for marketing with no clear focus on console gaming. Bandai tried to offer a lifestyle machine for the new interactive home. Music, video, interactive edutainment, the Internet etc were also new territory that the Pippin tried to offer to the family communal living space without any sufficient demand for it in a console.
- It offered too much and confused the general consumer.
- Bandai priced itself out of the market immediately with the Pippins initial release.
- It had a great potential library of games that it could play straight from the Macintosh home computer library but neither bundled nor advertised this to consumers.
- From a design point of view it had an array of physical multimedia buttons located on the unit that could have been reassigned to the controller and operated through software. It also sported a joypad that couldn't compete with its rivals.
Games List for System 7.5.5. Compatible with 68030/68040 CPU's and PowerPC 601 and above:
3-D Ultra Pinball
3-D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night (68K)
3-D Ultra Pinball: The Lost Continent (PPC)
3-D Ultra Pinball: Thrillride (PPC)
9: The Last Resort (68K/PPC)
The 7th Guest
The 11th Hour
A-10 Attack! (68K/PPC)
A-10 Cuba! (68K/PPC)
Absolute Zero (PPC)
Abuse (68K/PPC)
Actua Soccer (68K/PPC)
Afterlife (68K/PPC)
Age of Empires (PPC)
Al Unser Jr. Arcade Racing (68K/PPC)
Sid Meier's Alien Crossfire (PPC)
Alley 19 Bowling (68K/PPC)
Alone in the Dark (68K/PPC)
Alone in the Dark 2 (68K/PPC)
Alone in the Dark 3 (68K/PPC)
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (PPC)
Another World (Out of This World) (68K)
Apache Longbow (PPC)
AstroRock (68K)
Atlantis: The Lost Tales (PPC)
Bad Mojo (68K/PPC)
Battle Beast (68K/PPC)
Bedlam (GT Interactive) (PPC)
Battle-girl (PPC)
Blackthorne (68K/PPC)
Blood & Magic
Blood Bath at Red Falls (68K/PPC)
Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (PPC)
Burn:Cycle (68K/PPC)
Carmageddon (PPC)
Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now (PPC)
Caesar (68K)
Caesar II (68K/PPC)
Caesar III (PPC)
Castle of Dr. Brain (68K)
Chaos Overlords (68K/PPC)
Chessmaster 4000 (68K)
Chessmaster 6000 (PPC)
Chess Mates (68K/PPC)
Chex Quest (PPC)
Citadel of the Dead (68K)
Civilization: Call to Power (PPC)
Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far (PPC)
Colt's Wild West Shootout (PPC)
Command & Conquer (PPC)
Congo: Descent into Zinj (68K/PPC)
Creatures (PPC)
Crystal Caliburn (68K)
Curse of Dragor (68K/PPC)
Cythera (68K/PPC)
Damage Incorporated (68K/PPC)
Dark Colony (PPC)
Dark Seed (68K/PPC)
Dark Seed II (68K/PPC)
Dark Vengeance (PPC)
Day of the Tentacle (68K/PPC)
Deadlock: Planetary Conquest (68K)
Descent (PPC)
Descent II (PPC)
Diablo (PPC)
The Dig (68K/PPC)
Discworld (68K)
Doom - The Ultimate Doom (68K/PPC)
Doom (68K/PPC)
Doom: D!ZONE MAC (68K)
Doom: Demon Gate (68K)
Doom II: Hell on Earth (68K/PPC)
Doom: Total Ruin (68K/PPC)
Dragon's Lair (68K)
Duke Nukem 3D (68K/PPC)
Duke It Out in D.C. (68K/PPC)
Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep (68K/PPC)
Eight Ball Deluxe (68K)
Enigma (Freeverse) (68K)
Entomorph: Plague of the Darkfall (68K/PPC)
Elite Air Hockey (PPC)
Escape Velocity (68K/PPC)
Escape Velocity Override (68K/PPC)
F/A-18 Hornet (68K/PPC)
F/A-18 Hornet 2.0 (68K/PPC)
Fallout (PPC)
Firefall Arcade (68K/PPC)
Ferazel's Wand (PPC)
Flashback: The Quest for Identity (68K/PPC)
Flying Nightmares (68K/PPC)
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I only clicked cus I saw Sailor Mars in the video icon and i'm a big Sailor Moon fan lol.
I bought one a few years back since I heard it could play burn ios games on cds... I only got 1 game to work one time, so I went to search original games to buy and they were more expensive than the pippin console itself... So I sold it lol
Wasn't Bungie's "Marathon" released on the Pippen? That should have been the killer app. What happened?
Always love to see another video from you, Sir!
I remember it at the time. Part of the issues I think was the fact that many people didn't understand what it was supposed to do. Apple had their clever marketing people and their clever ads that were so clever they never explained the purpose of the device. Reviewers made the same comments, it's supposed to do a bit of everything but not clear what its main purpose was. Kids drove the video game market and so adult oriented ads were also off target.
But imagine if this console did succeed tho. I would have been a high class console for mature people, something Sony was doing with the playstation, and It would have looked way more powerful than the Nintendo 64, and playstation if the developers knew how to make games for it and pushed it to its fullest potential.
Not bad, but you didn't get the history of Bandai right. It was Makoto Yamashina, the son of founder Naoharu, who made the risky technology bets on Playdia and Pippin (the wrong person is pictured in your video).
Yamashina? That's literally Iamamachine in Russian :D
The Pippin’s a beautiful console. She’s got a great retro design. Someone should bring her back into production.
Maaaan I love your videos. Honestly subbed to 10+ gaming channels and you're easily my favorite
#Points for Sailor Mars on the thumbnail even though no Sailor Moon games ever appeared on the crApple Pippin.
The Atmark received great ports of two of the Marathon games made by Bungie of Halo fame =) I keep a Mac around solely to play them!
I mean, at this point you don't need a Mac anymore because the engine was ported to Windows I don't free games were released with it as freeware. I believe it's called the alphe one engine
I suspect the reason it failed (and the 3DO, and other early MM consoles at the time), was that it was freaking expensive. Not as much as a PC or Mac, but once it hits it's limit, it's a paperweight, while PCs and Macs can be upgraded over time. The strange thing is, you can find them on eBay new in box for less than the original pricing, adjusted for inflation. ($699 today, as opposed to $599 back then, which would be $998 today). Then again, what exactly could be done with them today, other than as a display piece?
Well they couldn't compete. The industry is to blame as much as the consoles themselves, for better or for worse. The video game industry is an oligopoly, which means it's a business with only a few big players, and they preclude anyone else from entering the market. It's like a few giant trees that prevent any smaller trees from growing.
Now this could very well be better overall for the consumer, the best survive while the rest don't, and we get the best quality, but maybe that's not always true either. In any case, this specific console had a terrible controller, and obviously Apple had no idea what they were doing when they tried to get into the video game market. If anything I think they are better capable of entering the market now, but they've decided not to. I suspect that if one of the Big 3 dies, Nintendo is the most likely to get killed off, a new player would enter to fill the void, which is exactly what happened when Sega failed and Microsoft entered to fill the gap.
5:30 I have actually seen that video!!! lol dude in glasses talking about Pippin being so great. It was priceless. It all failed so hard I wonder if anyone at Apple got fired
6:27 I have never seen that prototype pippin controller. freaking awesome find
You're top hat gentleman yes, but puting anime gals as clickbait.
But whom am I to judge. so long i got full vidoe about these console.
good reason why I like your video. because of the thumbnail.
FBI OPEN UP
Some damn fine background music choices in this video.
great channel format dude, keep goin' !!!
Thanks for your using some of my video in this video (starting at 8:35) - I reused in that video some material by others as well :P. However, I did make a small mistake: The footage of the game 'Dazzeloids' is of the original Mac (English) game, as it turns out that game was only released in Japanse for the Pippin. I hope you can require some of the games and do a review someday (too expensive for me...)
Furthermore, a suggestion for your video's on handheld consoles: can you do a video on the 'Nikko digiBlast' some day? It's a failed handheld from relatively recent times (2005) with little info online... It was released in the Benelux, France and Italy, but I don't think it made it to the UK. Yyeeaahhhh!
Jobs never wanted to touch the gaming market.
Even when the iPhone was announced, he would show how gaming wasn't that big at all (according to his numbers).
Funny how phones and tablets was their in into the gaming world.
I wouldn't call the endless clones of Candy Crush or Clash of Clans that infest the App Store "games".
Alex Snitzer Call them what you will, they are still games.
I don't like them and much less play them, but that's what they are.
Love your material.
Thanks
Had no idea this thing exists. Love this channel.
A quick and dirty way to convert Yen is just to drop a dot before the last to digits.
Japan has long tried to keep ¥100 = $1 US.
A $650 game console in the late '90s? That's fail.
@William Burns yeah, the Neo Geo AES's absurd asking price was definitely justified.
No longer applicable since the yen has dropped around 25% lol
Great choice of OST... The MMPW games from the 90's have incredible, underrated OST'S!
i was psyched for this console when it was first announced lol
The mouse wheel controller is interesting.
Apple needs to give it a round 2!
imagine getting that for Christmas.
Or a CD-I
Dude you are my fucking hero....I love the nostalgia and seeing these rare gem consoles
Next up I'd love to see a video on the Car Marty. I loved your Marty videos and don't really know much about their Car Marty standalone unit, GPS crossed with a game console. It's one of the rarest platforms ever too.
I didn't realise Bandi Namco was toy company, how poetic 😵💫🦊
Hi, Rei-chan, your friend Michiru had appeared in the thumbnail of the Bandai Playdia video.
I love how you put Rei hino in the thumbnail. Kudos
The Thumbnail Sailor Mars is too Gorgeous!!!
Unfortunately, no Sailor Moon game ever shipped for the Pippin platform. Some history appears to have been mixed up with the previous Playdia video.
I love your videos.
Just go on.
Greetz from Germany
Who would have thought that apple would charge more for tech that is behind the current year
You have not seen the new Mac Pro.
Your channle is awsome keep up the good work.
The pippin is pimpin'!
Love your vids Top Hat👌
Great video always enjoy your content
Surprisingly, Apple gaming is a thing now.
i collect rare consoles also (3do, coleco, intellevision, bally astrocade, etc) i would never consider a pipin haha nice upload though
Great stuuf. It would actually be interesting to see what Apple would come up with console wise now. You do hear rumours from time to itme
Sailor Mars 15/10 would smash! Nice thumbnail.
The Tomy Tutor could be an interesting game system/computer for you to do a vid on.
I'm loving the MMPR music in the intro of this video! xD Also Where's Sailor Mars? >_> Don't tease me.
I remember seeing that in an EB games back in the 90s.
That thing was weird and funny looking. Never heard about someone that had one.
If Apple wanted a game console, they had the hardware to do it *10 years* before then, way back in 1986. Some minor tweaks would have made an affordable game console version of the Apple IIGS computer, and served to further support the full computer version of the Apple IIGS.
The hardware was easy to program for. Also, it would have been *5 years* ahead of the market. It has the same CPU as the Super Nintendo, which wouldn't come out until 1991. The competition would have been the Nintendo NES, Sega Master System and Atari 5200.
Sadly Apple was hard at work marking sure the Apple IIGS computer would fail: (over pricing it, under-clocking it, failuring to develop software for it, ect.) A real shame too, imagine a computer and a console being able to play the same games... It would have been like Japan's computers. (Famicom, Sega SG-1000, MSX,ect., ect.)
But Apple doesn't know how to to affordable. As a matter if fact, it has always marked *up* the price of their hardware... you know, to give the impression of it being higher quality. The consumer thinks "if it cost more, it must be high quality!" No, seriously, look it up. This has been part of apple's market strategy since the days of the Apple III, LISA, and first Macs.
They could probably have used floppy discs as the game media in the 80s
I love the entire Power rangers snes soundtrack playing in the background.
Clickbaited by sexy sailor mars thumbnail XD
What does she have to do with the Pippin? Did she and the other Scouts appear in a Pippin game? Is this shameless click/tap bait even warranted???
@@QJ89 Right? FRom the video, sounds like she and the others had nothing to do with the Pippin. Unless they had a game on there or she was the Pippin Mascot, then yeah.
@@QJ89 Sailor Senshi. And I dunno... I love her though.
Justice being blind is one of the true innovations to make sure this society had ordered. I like the effort this guy puts in his video. The first part of the comment was just a general truth and nothing's wrong with telling the truth
New subscriber here, really enjoying your presentations.
A new vid every week you say? Yeahhhh...
...The Pippin is not a game console. It is multimedia interactive device and among one and only devices that implemented a set of multimedia standards set out from Apple.
Still would've prefered Jupiter or Venus.
great music for a great video from a great man.
What's that Gameboy Advanced console you're showing off at 0:07?
With Playstation on the market already how could this thing have stood a chance when Sega Saturn was already struggling against Sony?
So... what does sailor mars have to do with pippin??
Apple Z: We Bandai Pippin, spending cheese
I would love to hear your take on the Aladdin Deck Enhancer add-on for the NES.
Alternate Reality (where the rabid iSheep of today existed in 1995): "Why the Pippin Succeeded: iSheep"
By the way, where did you get that artwork of Sailor Mars from?
Same place ProJared got his Sailor Mercury costume. 🤣
The BIlly Mitchell photo has aged like milk, with all his lawsuits haha, sill cool though.
The apple Pin Pin was never been sale here in the Philippines due to the
growing markets of the 3DO, Sony PlayStation and SEGA Saturn in 1995
and in 1996 when the Pin Pin never sale here in the Philippines. This a failure
for the Philippine market when Bandai didn’t know they never sale the Pin Pin
in the Philippine market. 1996 is a big console history
A svga or Sxga video output is much suited than the outdated vga the pippen used. It should've been marketed as a MAC OS 7 living room computer. Also, system 8 for KMP 2000 model.
That's the rub with all those PC substitute platforms, still expensive. Apple to deliver gaming software, the Bandai president was off his rocker, I'll just refer to that Gus Sorola Mac Switch Parody heh. Nice trackball but why cram the bumpers into the center near the cable, that boomerang shape kept coming up too Eg. PS3 original controller. :P
Apple Pippin is much worse than Amiga CD32, CDTV and Atari Jaguar. But thx for the video about the Pippin!
If Digimon games released for this system, this can save it
No jokes about Steve Jobs' legendary body odor?
Apple i still think to this day was hoping to aslo emulate the microsoft delevoped MSX 1&2 and turbo bases which was delevoped into so many different console forms by many different manfacturers
I like how he playing the power rangers theme in the background XD
I love the graphic of bandai and apple man shaking hands
0:14 " I am a retro gaming connoisseur, who is looking to cover every nook and cranny of console history, no matter how obscure." Did you mean to make that rhyme or was it just a coinkydink? Cuz that should be your channel slogan.
I remember begging my mom to buy me this 600.00 system
My god I want that WonderMega you have there....
Yeah, Power Rangers SNES background music
As heavy as the Xbox?.. So *capable of crushing a man’s skull.*
Please make a video on the Magnavox Odyssey
Why is sailor mars in the thumbnail?
Apple is making a streaming service Apple Arcade what do u think about it
It failed because it was a fool of a Took.
God you are a weird dude....by the way I love your channel!!
An absolutely atrocious product, hamstrung by Apple's arrogance and Bandai's naivety, wrapped up in an unappealing, overpriced, undersupported disaster of a package. Top vid, though.
Microsoft also worked on the Pippen.....it is the first Xbox.....
Sup dude? I like your channel however I have noticed an extremely cool and rare system in the PC ENGINE line you have over looked, especially having a video on the shuttle! The freaking shuttle !?!?;it's cool and all but the PC ENGINE LT is the real deal! Not just a simple redesign but an honest to God mobile version of a pc engine with controller Incorporated into the body of the system and a screen! It's a shame they are very uncommon being so cool! Not to mention a working system starts at like $2000. get a video on the LT asap while they are still underground! Youd be the first "mainstream" TH-camr to feature such a video on the LT! All vids on it now are simple 2 min. Reviews
You never made the Pippin games video.
Sad
MMPR fighting game music again? Nothing wrong with that. Ooops (clicks buy it now on ebay)
Apple should have endeavoured to make a gaming console to expand their customer base full stop. Especially as Today's Console Gaming Kids Are Tomorrow's Apple Computer Customers If We Can Capture Their Loyalty.
Make and market it themselves, forget about all the expensive extra stuff, even the online component was too ambitious for the day, bring the price right down. Microsoft made the Xbox work.
Call it the iPlay
Or better yet a gaming living room pc.
YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH...
Least it plays Marathon
When people say that the Philips cdi is the worst console of all time.
I think we can lump in all those early-mid 90s 'multimedia/gaming systems' as the worst consoles of all time.
Sony ended up doing it right with cd and dvd playback on the ps1 and ps2 respectively (and the bluray is probably what saved the ps3 for its rough first few years)
@@fattiger6957 and the Playstation store where anyone can play ps2, ps1, psp and arcade games. Lifesavers for the ps3.
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