In a rare collaboration with Nintendo, Apple released Final Cut Express for the Nintendo DS in late 2009. The software allowed users to edit the footage they captured with the DS Lite’s plug-in camera accessory and share it with friends over the Internet. At $199 sales were slow.

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

The Tiger Electronics handheld LCD game version of The Secret of Monkey Island

Designed to be a promotional tie-in for the 1993 MS-DOS release of Day of the Tentacle, the Tiger Electronics handheld LCD version of the game never shipped. According to die-hard Day of the Tentacle fans, its unexplained disappearance is still a mystery to this day.

You’ve heard of the Apple iPod+HP line of Hewlett-Packard-branded iPods, but have you heard of the Microsoft Zune+Sun line of Sun Microsystems-branded Zune digital media players? Built on its own RISC-based SPARC processor architecture running Solaris 9, battery life was abysmal.

HomePod G4

(Bring back the classic visualizer you cowards.)

I don’t know about you, but I don’t think Horizon Worlds for the Nintendo Virtual Boy is going to turn around Meta’s fortunes anytime soon…

True story, Mark Zuckerberg once played the Nintendo Virtual Boy too long.

Move over Siri, HAL 9000 is coming to a HomePod near you.

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

Released on October 12, 2011 iMessage for BlackBerry was quickly discontinued after Apple found BlackBerry users were sending iMessages faster and with fewer typos than iPhone users. Old BlackBerry models with iMessage still installed are prized by CrackBerry addicts to this day.

Introducing HomePod Pro

Move over Macquarium it is now time for the iMac Ant Farm!

Who else wanted to keep editing their Macintosh resource forks while on the go?

Released in May 2000, Napster for the Game Boy Color allowed user’s to playback up to 100 MIDI songs stored on the catridge’s 8 MBs of internal storage. Songs could be shared with other users over the Game Link cable. Sales were slow due to the GBC’s poor audio capabilities.

The 1995 release of GeoCities for the Nintendo GameBoy allowed users to create and browse websites for free. A game link cable was required to connect to another user’s GameBoy in order to see their site. Communities were slow to grow as groups waited in line to share one cable.

My volunteer, student run Mastodon instance is down due to flooding.

SIPB Services down due to W20 flooding - Scripts, Mastodon, SIPB AFS cellSubscribe Identified - As a consequence of the closure and flooding in building w20, a number of services operated by MIT’s student computing group (SIPB) are currently unavailable. This includes:

• Mastodon instance mastodon.mit.edu
• Websites on SIPB Scripts that require database access (the database at sql.mit.edu is unavailable)
• The sipb.mit.edu AFS cell

Recovery depends on building access, and we have no ETA at this time.

The iPod Shuffle SE 2021 was a reintroduction of the iPod Shuffle’s original 2005 “chewing gum stick” design but with an integrated single-use SARS-CoV-2 antigen test. (Optional lanyard sold separately.)

Despite its attractive yellow cartridge and smart portrait of Jeff Bezos, Amazon Web Services for the N64 was marginally less successful than GoldenEye 007. The Nintendo 64s lack of networking was a serious setback that should have foreshadowed its eventual recall from the market

NeXTSTEP 3.3 for the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer was a short lived project to expand the reach of NeXT’s software in February 1995.

Microsoft Windows ME Upgrade for the Sega Dreamcast