11 Video Game Consoles You Never Knew Existed

5. Apple Bandai PIPP!N

There's often debates still today about whether or not Apple will turn their attention towards the console market - especially given the amount of publisher swing they'd surely have in taking some flagship app franchises to home console versions, as well as the amount of developers who would jump-ship for the sake of latching onto some free hype around a launch lineup. For 1996's Pippin, Apple basically took one of their already reputably-inferior Macintosh systems and bunged it into a console-sized shell - something that as the company's standing at the time wasn't the world-enslaving behemoth it is today, meant the entire release window and lineup went by pretty much unnoticed. Despite a pretty slick wireless controller, the console itself ran about as smoothly as surfing a wheelchair down the Himalayas, something that with launch titles having names as evocative as 'Racing Days' helped bring the whole thing crashing down.
 
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