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Established 1997
Beautifully built, but spectacularly badly executed. The
first thing you will notice about the Pippin as you pull it
from the packaging, is how deceptively heavy it is. I mean,
this thing is dense. I mean its border line time altering
dense. It’s not important, but it is a fact.
It is, and this becomes very apparent, very quickly, a
regular Apple PC, without having access to the operating
system. The OS is poorly hidden, and telltale signs of the
operating system ruin the experience.
For the gamer, there’s nothing here. If you want to play
Macintosh games from the mid-90s,
If something is pretty but useless, it’s just pretty useless.
This is not a great controller
(Left)
In 1994, this was an iconic moment
for 3DO fans. Making shore in the
very playable Shockwave by
Electronic Arts, and seeing the War
of the Worlds inspired Tripods for
the first time. While the Pippin
version is a higher-resolution, it
doesn’t feel or look any better than
the 3DO original.
(Right)
Easily the best game on the Pippin, is
Marathon. In fact the Pippin version
has Marathon I and II. The sad truth
is though a £100 iMac Mini G3, will
play it better.
(Left)
Marathon was made by Bungie, the
people who later made Halo for the Xbox.
Shooting alien scum is enormously
satisfying. You can almost feel the bullet
impacts. This is a great game.
(Right)
Racing Days looks very promising as the
camera swoops around the starting grid.
Once you start playing, the sorry truth of
the situation reveals itself.
(Left)
The cars handle very badly, it feels like
they’re turning on their centre axis, not
their wheels.
The pop-up would make the original
Daytona on the Sega Saturn smirk
