It’s called the Pippin. Originally developed by Apple to be an early type of media center. Bandai licensed the platform in 1994 and called it Bandai Pippin @World player. Just 42,000 units were sold, at a cost of $599 each, before the console was discontinued in 1997. Katz Media Productions made 5,000 consoles in Ireland for European distribution. They called their verion the KMP 2000 and is considered the rarest of the Pippin models. PC World Magazine gave the Pippin 22nd place in it’s list of 25 worst tech products of all time.
The cool thing about the games is that they will place on the older Macs of that era. So if you wanted to play Gundam Tactics or tinker with the Dragonball Z Anime Designer, you can do it on an old computer as opposed to trying to obtain of the the original Pippin systems.
You can sometimes find the console and games on eBay. Here’s a few currently available:
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This post was written by admin on January 20, 2012
