Apple made a game console back in 1996, and it was terrible

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Way back in 1996, Apple thought it could make a game console.

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Ten months before Steve Jobs came back to Apple, the company collaborated with Japanese toy and video game company Bandai to make the Pippin game machine. It turned out to be a tremendous flop. Apple sold only 42,000 units between when it released the Pippin in 1996 and when it discontinued the device the next year. 

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Pippin Atmark Console Set

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By comparison, when it launched its N64 game console in 1996, Nintendo sold between 350,000 and 500,000 units in just the first three days, according to the Nintendo 64 Wikipedia entry, which cites a 1996 Newsweek article. 

Check out Apple's Pippin game console: