Your birth year
2006
Apple Pippin
19961990s
Apple Pippin is 10 years older than you
It's from 1996, before you were born.
- Maker
- Apple & Bandai
- Type
- Multimedia / game console
- Debuted
- 1996
- Sales
- ~42,000 units — a rounding error
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About
As of 2026, it's 30 years old.
Long before the iPhone, Apple tried its hand at gaming with the Pippin, a Mac-based console built with Bandai. It was a multimedia box that couldn't decide if it was a computer, a console, or a CD player — so it failed at all three.
Priced near $600 and arriving as the PlayStation roared, it sold a few tens of thousands of units and slunk away. Steve Jobs's return would soon bury this chapter for good.
Apple's forgotten console: the rare product even Apple would rather you not remember.
