Bandai / Apple · 1996–1997 · ~42,000
An Apple-designed multimedia platform licensed to Bandai that sold 42,000 units at $599 — one of the lowest-selling named consoles in history.
Apple licensed its Pippin platform — a stripped-down Mac OS system on a CD-ROM base — to Bandai, who manufactured the @WORLD unit for North America and @MARK for Japan. The device was intended as an internet appliance and gaming platform simultaneously. It launched at $599 — more expensive than a PlayStation and Saturn combined — with a trackball controller and a handful of mostly educational and multimedia titles. Apple's then-CEO Gil Amelio cancelled the Pippin programme in 1997 as part of the cost-cutting that accompanied Steve Jobs's return.