{"id":7958,"date":"2013-06-11T11:15:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T10:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=7958"},"modified":"2013-06-11T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T08:22:00","slug":"pippin-apples-games-console-that-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/06\/pippin-apples-games-console-that-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Pippin, Apple&#8217;s games console that didn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Volk:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, the Pippin is a curious footnote in Apple\u2019s corporate history, a device long since laid to rest alongside the TurboGrafx-16 and the Sega Dreamcast; dug up and enjoyed almost exclusively by a few masochistic hardware modders and eBay traders. And yet, Apple is now a leader in the video game industry, with players choosing from countless titles on the iPhone and iPad&#8230;\u00a0Apple\u2019s rise to the top as a gaming giant, however, has hardly been quick or easy. In fact, the company\u2019s first big foray into video games was a complete disaster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Volk: Today, the Pippin is a curious footnote in Apple\u2019s corporate history, a device long since laid to rest alongside the TurboGrafx-16 and the Sega Dreamcast; dug up and enjoyed almost exclusively by a few masochistic hardware modders and eBay traders. And yet, Apple is now a leader in the video game industry, with players choosing from countless titles on the iPhone and iPad&#8230;\u00a0Apple\u2019s rise to the top as a gaming giant, however, has hardly been quick or easy. In fact, the company\u2019s first big foray into video games was a complete disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[606,12,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-console-gaming","category-link-log","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-24m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}