Thread for true Pippin fans

[jojo2k]

Welcome to a thread for TRUE PIPPIN FREAKS. I had the pleasure of being able to fiddle around with one at a convention I helped at last year. Unfortunately the only game we had for it was that Gundam strategy game which requires a lot of reading Japanese that I don't know how to do. I didn't get a ton of time to mess around with it, but let's just say if I won $10 million in the lottery, the twelfth thing I would buy might be an Apple/Atmark Pippin, so we would never be separated again B)

We were running a little game museum and on the wall pictured below, we had a "failed consoles museum" with things like the Phillips CD-I, Virtual Boy, 3DO, etc., set up for people to play.

But man is that hardware fascinating. It's literally just an Apple computer with a different boot sequence lol. You can hear the proverbial gears of QuickTime grinding away to play some short little videos.

Anyone else been in the awesome presence of a Pippin before?

 

[Gial Ackbar]

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Anyone else been in the awesome presence of a Pippin before?

Thanks for starting this section. I am looking at my Pippin now sitting on the shelf (hoping there are no angry capacitors in it). I have one controller and the keyboard/stylus pad. Pippin units were on eBay in 2008 or so for very cheap (as usually happens with hardware "just past its prime"), and I managed to find a source with CDR images. My kid played and won Gus goes to Kooky Carnival (he won an adventure game far younger than I ever did ha), muddled through some of the Power Rangers and Dragonball apps, but they had a lot of Japanese language so we were mostly lost. Overall, it is a great example of how Apple could have dominated a segment if it had the will.

 

[Nitram78]

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