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6346607 No.6346607 [Reply] [Original]

How do you do it? You can change anything except the launch year and hardware specs. Branding, software, controllers, anything else is up to you

>> No.6346720

>>6346607
It's free and comes with a unicorn that shits wishes. Checkmate zoomer.

>> No.6346735

>>6346607
I have a better alternative video game console history idea. Have Microsoft make a console in the gen before the Xbox.

>> No.6346792

>>6346735

I sometimes imagine what a 486 Xbox that plays DOS games with a Sidewinder gamepad would have been like

>> No.6346817
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6346817

>>6346792
The Microsoft DOSBox.
What games or /alternate/ games would have been on it?

>> No.6346824

>>6346607
Just make it easy to run Doom.

>> No.6346953

>>6346607
>Get rid of the god awful name Pippin and call it THE KING
>Aggressive marketing
>Market this shit as Mature and EDGY
>Make it easy enough for a toddler to develop games on it
>Make the controller look C O O L E R
>Make the console look like it's not a PC tower on it's side
>Change it's 90s office ass colors to Satin Matte Blood Red with gold and silver trim and engravings, and controller too

>> No.6346956

>>6346607
Booth babes! Booth babes everywhere!

>> No.6347012

>>6346735
Microsoft was so universally hated in the 90s that it'd a bomb even if they had the best specs at the lowest price.

>> No.6347019

>>6346817
A shit load of pilot sims and space shooters.
God it would be beautiful.

>> No.6347539

>>6346607
>1996
>Apple makes the Pippin
>huge failure

>2020
>Apple makes wheels for the Mac Pro
>$699 (six hundred and ninety-nine dollars) for a set of four wheels
>big success

Really makes you go hmmmm.

>> No.6347559

Pull the licensing strings that get them put in every high school's computer lab with internet access and a bunch of "whoops we accidentally made it super easy to low-key install games and look at porn"

>> No.6347692

>>6346607
There's no way it could have been saved with its Dorito chip processing power and amazing 3/4kb of RAM.

>> No.6347809

>>6347539
After the iphone steve jobs decided that apple should be a premium brand. Hence it sells well in china where wealth inequality is the biggest in the whole world and prestige is pure materialism. Those wheels were not intended for white consumers.

>> No.6347837

>>6347809
But that's the only Apple zoomers know

>> No.6347858

>>6346607
I would change the controller, make it similar to the Mad Catz Dreamcast controller. I would call the console the Apple Gaming Media Center. I would advertise on a massive scale. I would get third party developers to help make games for it. I would price the console at $299.

>> No.6348051

>>6347837
Nah, we do remember the colorful iMacs and MacBooks, too.

>> No.6348063

>>6347837
That's the only Apple that ever existed.

>> No.6348071

>>6346607
In 1996 you needed to follow a simply formula. Make it run Doom, and make sure it had some exclusive levels or features you couldn't get in the the version of Doom that was sold on other systems.

>> No.6348790

>>6347539
>>2020
>>Apple makes wheels for the Mac Pro
>>$699 (six hundred and ninety-nine dollars) for a set of four wheels
>>big success
i thought you made a dumb joke but then i looked it up and it turns out the entire fucking world is nothing but a dumb joke holy shit the virus better take me soon

>> No.6348810

>>6348790
Fear not, if you are on a tight budget and lack of mobility of your Mac Pro™ is not an issue, they also sell feet for it for only $299.

>> No.6348821

>>6348790
Don't confuse graphic designers who live in Connecticut with "the entire fucking world".

>> No.6348834

>>6346607
Add proprietary keyboard/mouse ports, market it as an educational device, sell it to schools and libraries around the country. bundle it with carmen sandiego. hard sell typing & encyclopedia software.

>> No.6350197

increase price x 5
remove controller ports and disc drive
make it a white box with rounded edges
name it iPLAY
proprietary power cable 399$

>> No.6350213

Have one complete in box, need to try and burn games again, didn't work the first time but I know it can be done. I'd like to know how powerful it really was, supposedly it was more powerful than the PS1, but alas, we'll never know.

>> No.6350220

>>6347539
Bandai is largely responsible for the Pippin. They just decided to base it on the Macintosh hardware. While it was available from the Mac oriented mail order companies, Apple had little to do with the marketing the system. Their name is not on it, even the boot up screen featured the Pippin logo.

>> No.6350242

>>6350220
Not quite. Bandai was responsible for publishing the Pippin in Japan because nips wouldn't give a single shit about an American console.

>> No.6350251

>>6350213
>supposedly it was more powerful than the PS1
What are you talking about it's weak as fuck.

>> No.6350275

>>6350251
Powerful enough to rape Nintendo so hard they never recovered to this day, though.

>> No.6350391

>>6350275
This new meme isn't funny.

>> No.6350516

>>6348810
Shit is literally so cash

>> No.6350518

>>6346735
MSX3.

>> No.6350568

>>6350518
>MSX3

>Console
>Microsoft (okay, partly true)
>3

>> No.6350578

>>6348063
Not really. When I grew up Apple computers were heavily associated with the education system.

>> No.6350580

>>6350568
MSX 2+1 Turbo RRR