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 ...

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 may dominate modern tech, but some of its biggest ideas became spectacular failures. In this episode of The Gadget Show ...

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 ...

Today is a day a lot of folks will be remembering the good, the bad and the downright inspirational from the company Steve Jobs helped found all the way back in 1976 ...

It’s hard to deny that Apple’s got a hell of a track record. From the original Macintosh computer, to the iPod, to the iPhone, the star of Silicon Valley is constantly innovating. And with each new ...

Send in the clones The Pippin games console came out of this initiative. As part of it, Apple planned to license the Pippin's design itself out to third parties who would then create sell their own ...

It's a bit of a misnomer that Apple never supported gaming until recently. Sure, most of this sudden burst of gamer-friendly content has come from the incredible successes Apple's seen with the iPhone ...

There's an excellent article over on Gameological about the Pippin, Apple's failed video game console from the '90s. At the time, Apple was the largest computer manufacturer in the world, but was ...