I always remember the boxes being really trippy.

I was there, 3000 years ago.

My shelves still feature two 12MB Voodoo 2 in nostalgic reminder of the good old times.

The marketing was catchy and everywhere. I remember doodling the logo in class without understanding or really caring what a graphics card was. Same for Amiga advertising…

After inheriting the family PC and taking it apart years later, I discovered it had a TNT-based card. It was such a solid piece of hardware for a long time in computer years. Used it until it failed and replaced it with an MX400 that wasn’t much different.

Back in the day, 3dfx was like magic. I had a PC with the horrible S3 Virge card and when I got a cheap 3dfx card, suddenly my old PC was good enough to play the newest games smoothly!

the passthrough cable setup is so weird looking back. a second card just for 3d with a vga cable looping out the back, and it still felt like magic

Nice write-up. At the time I only had a N64 and never realised how short this era was. Must have been quite exciting for hardware enthusiasts, nowadays 2 years come and go and nothing's happened.

Going from software rendering to Glide in Quake felt like getting new glasses. Wild that the whole run was only about four years.

A friend of mine had one and he was so proud of it. At the time I didn't have the notion of it, or how groundbreaking they were.

The site just touches on it a little, but the Nvidia TNT that came out in 98 (but what felt like forever after the Voodoo 2 was already out) was supposed to be MUCH faster than it was. The original specs ended up being what the TNT2 card had, and it was a large difference and would have trounced the Voodoo 2. I bought the first TNT on the market, ironically released by STB that 3DFX bought right after, and it had the original specs on the box. If that had happened today I am sure there would have been a lawsuit.

I had the voodoo 2 card.... I played quake, quake 2, quake 3 all on the same card.

That’s something I’ve wondered about occasionally. I remembered them being the big thing, and then they just disappeared.

I remember playing carmageddon 2 for the first time with 3dfx graphics and i was blown away. Thing was crazy good for the time.

Dang. That Voodoo card was my gateway drug into upgrading my PC. Such awesome memories...

I always wanted one of those. From what I remember it was tied to the CPU speed so the faster your processor the faster the card was able to render.

I missed out on 3dfx, but I was exposed to it indirectly when I needed a glide wrapper for N64 emulation back in the day.

This feels like a ai generated article

The language is very claudeish

I never had a 3D accelerator card, nor did I ever see one in action in person to know what the differences were. My first GPU was a GPU; I think a Radeon 9800? I know it was an ATI card, and it would have been around... 2001/2002 or so? Freshman or Sophomore year of highschool is when I built my first PC entirely from parts I purchased instead of getting some prebuilt office machine from my parents.