---
title: Bandai Pippin @World
categories:
- Consoles
params:
  name: Pippin @World
  company: /companies/bandai
  company_name: Bandai
  tabs:
  - photos
  - hardware
  - software
  - links
  photos:
  - title: BANDAI @WORLD
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: 'PICTURE #2'
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: 'PICTURE #3'
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: FRONT
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: REAR
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: 'REAR #2'
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: 'REAR #3'
    subtitle: ''
    text: This model has a printer output (far right)!
    image: null
  - title: PIPPIN @ATMARK
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: 'PIPPIN @ATMARK - PIC #2'
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: PIPPIN @ATMARK LABEL
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  - title: REAR
    subtitle: ''
    text: We find the same connectors as on the @World... It seems however that there is here a printer connector (far right) not found on the @World.
    image: null
  - title: '@ATMARK BOX'
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: null
  hardware:
  - title: 16 MB MEMORY CARD
    subtitle: ''
    text: This one is quite rare!
    image: null
  links:
  - title: ASSEMBLER
    url: http://assembler.roarvgm.com/Apple_Bandai_pippin/apple_bandai_pippin.html
    text: Assembler has also a nice Pippin page with plenty of pictures
  - title: Bandai Pippin Museum & Archive
    url: http://www.macgeek.org/museum/pippin/
    text: Pictures, FAQ and more info
  - title: Computer Closet Collection
    url: http://www.computercloset.org/BandaiPippin.htm
    text: KC has a put up nice Pippin page!
  comments:
  - author: norton
    date: Sunday 14th June 2020
    text: ready for windows 4.0
  - author: Tyler E (Pennsylvania)
    date: Monday 7th October 2013
    text: This is the exact reason why there hasn''t been a Mac OS-XBox
  - author: s3o (track)
    date: Friday 8th April 2005
    text: it does sound like a mac xbox... 5 years before microsoft's version.
  - author: MR._LCIII (USA)
    date: Wednesday 5th January 2005
    text: It kind of sounds like an over priced, outdated, junky mac version of the Xbox.
  - author: Elisha (male) (USA)
    date: Monday 9th June 2003
    text: Gosh...... This thing is expensive !!!!!!!!!
  software:
  - /software/hashitte-asobou-kikansha-thomas
  oc_id: 855
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230604141310/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=855
    date: '2023-06-04'
---

The Pippin @World (black model) is the US version of the Pippin Atmark (white model), which was sold in Japan. Apart from the different colored case, both systems are identical.

In the early 90's, several companies tried to market videogame systems based on their computers' technology as those were not selling as much as they should have to. Apple was one of them and designed the Pippin upon the hardware of their second generation Macintosh, like Commodore did with their CD32 based on the Amiga hardware.

The Pippin was first marketed as multimedia / game a machine, but after the flop of the 3DO, they re-launched the Pippin as an an internet appliance that also played games. That didn't work either, because, by the time the Pippin was ready to go, PC prices had dropped a lot.

By the way, pippin is a type of apples.

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