with all the talk of how the iPhone’s going to change everything, it’s important to point out apple’s many, many past failures. and by important, i mean fun.

meet pippin, the cousin your family doesn’t talk about. it cost $599 dollars back in 1996, which adjusted for inflation, should put the whole playstation 3 cost debacle into perspective. why so expensive?

because it was actually a pared down computer - it came with a 14.4 modem, a 4x speed CD-ROM and the mac OS pre-installed. the idea was it would be just as good a gaming platform as it would be a family computer. and it was, because it was shitty at both.

also: i want one. i want one terribly badly. you think having a record collection or a genuine 80s track jacket makes you cool? well i’ve got a video game system so shitty, they only made a few thousand of them. it plays bandai games like cool crafts and gus goes to kooky carnival. now who’s ironic, judah freelander?

and because we at overtime comedy love you, here’s a bunch of pippin links off wikipedia.

this is the pippin’s 1997 website, preserved forever by archive.org

list of pippin games

thanks to engadget for telling me what the hell the pippin was.