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Apple’s Pippin Game System booting to Marathon

One of Apple's dazzling failures, the Pippin @World or Atmark, produced by Bandai (the Power Rangers people) and briefly by Katz Media, was to be a TV set-top box/game system with Internet connectivity. It was a barely disguised PowerPC-based Mac, with modified (ruggedized) ADB ports, and flash memory in place of a hard drive. It ran a modified version of Mac OS 7.5.2 which was contained, in its entirety, on each game CD.

Here's a Pippin booting to the classic Bungie game, Marathon...