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It's hard for people who didn't live through that era to understand the impact the Voodoo had on PC gaming. When I got my Diamond Voodoo 1 card and ran GLQuake for the first time, my and my friend's jaws almost hit the floor. It was like everything you thought would happen in games, some day in the distant future, was happening right now in front of your eyes.

I was late to the 3DFX revolution (sort of). I had a frankenstein K6-2 350@400 system with a basic 2MB PCI graphics card. A co-worker of mine asked me one day if I wanted his old voodoo 1 card since he just got the new voodoo 2. I said sure, popped it in my PC that night, loaded up Half-Life and melted my brain. This is why 3DFX will forever have a place in my heart.

This era is still so special to me. Grew up as it happened.

Excellent video, like! Back then the PC games running in Glide with the Voodoo cards looked so much better than on the Playstation 1. For years the PC + 3dfx Voodoo combination was the number one option for every gamer.

Too many great memories of my first 3DFX card, one title that needs to be mentioned "NEED FOR SPEED 3: Hot Pursuit" 🙂

I had most of these games and spent all my pennies on the Righteous 3dfx when it came out. What an amazing time that was in PC gaming. The joy of having solid 3D flashy graphics was a real game changer.

I still have the Unreal title screen fly past burned into my memory. Even though it wasn't the one game I played the most it certainly made the biggest impact as an graphics upgrade.

The best box art of a graphics card ever is the Creative Voodoo 2, imo. Literally a witch cooking 3D objects

Changed from 486 DX4 100mhz to AMD K6 200mhz which the legendary ASUS board allowed to clock to 250mhz though massive 83.3mhz bus clock (it was undocumented, but designed and worked depending perhaps on the quality of the board). Then I also bought 3DFX card to play Tomb Raider and that was the biggest jump on gaming ever IMO. Doom comes close second and Quake perhaps third. It was just amazing!

I experienced it in the summer of 1998 when my dad impulsively bought a Voodoo 2. Unreal had blown my mind even in software rendering, but it blew my mind once again with glide grafffix.

Wow what a great episode! I've played all the games expect the creterion game. Some of them with or without 3dfx like interstate 76, wow that game was heavy but i finished it. Was so good I had the same monster 3d and Omg incoming!! Lol i loved that obscure game 😂 hahaha. Felts like real arcade at home.

I believe it was seeing Unreal & Hexen that had me hooked on getting voodoo. Half-life & Quake II had me soooo glad I did get my 1st 3dfx card spring of 98! Of all my PC hardware Ive hung onto since my youth, from my 486 rigs to my Geforce 1 card, I didnt hang onto my 3DFX cards. My Diamond monster fusion pci and Voodoo 3 3000 are no where in sight and i'm relegated to paying almost the original retail price to get another used one. So kicking myself now, lol

I started PC gaming in late 1996 with a Pentium 100 and a S3 Vision 2MB vga card. When I got a Voodoo1 add-on that was such a blast.

Oh, great memories. I remember me having a P166 with a Voodoo1, and my brother with a P250 with a Voodoo 2, great times. Mine at 640x480 and 60fps smooth gaming and his at 800x600. Not like the peasants ;) with a Ps1

I had a Voodoo5 5500 AGP that I got as soon as it was out in early to mid 2020. I got it exclusively for Unreal Tournament and (of course) ran UT in Glide. I have never, even to this day felt anything more immediate, smoother, more responsive than UT on that card on a high end CRT monitor with a quality ball mouse. It was incredible.

3dfx is legendary. Either the rize and its fall. Buying their own card manufacturer was the final nail in the coffin. Bad decisions, expensive parties, crazy payments, ditching partners. They were the rebels of pc gaming. One sentence: You can't go wrong with glide

Awesome video 😊

I vividly remember my dad driving me and my buddies to get Voodoo cards and me thinking I was going to get one (paid for by my dad because I didn't have the money for it). But after my friends bought theirs, my dad just headed back to the car. I wasn't exactly thrilled riding back from the store, with my friends happily describing just how many cool new games they were going to play with their newly purchased hardware. Still, I couldn't complain since my dad only promised to drive us to the store and back, but I can't say I wasn't disappointed that he didn't surprise me by buying a Voodoo card for me too! When I finally got a Voodoo card it was the Voodoo 2, bought with the money I'd earned picking strawberries during early mornings for most of my summer school break. But, to give my dad credit, he did drive me to the store and back! =)

Hell yeah! I’m at the age where living and gaming through this felt like witnessing the dawn of a new age, and it turned out to be true! Never forget when I saved up enough money to buy the original voodoo card

the era of the Accelerator cards was crazy, somehow every month the magazines would show off some new card or some new trick. Matrox and 3DFX were kings at that time, and then suddenly they were gone and cards like the ATI Rage and the early Nvidia products dominated and well, they still do.

My first 3DFX was a 3000 with TV. It was great having streaming back in the mid 90s!

The late 1990's were such a magical time with respect to computer graphics and computers in general with breakneck advancements being made and innovation.

Ah the feeling when I see that 3dfx logo. Fifa had snow in 3dfx mode, Unreal was amazing too.

This company is the perfect example of being on top of the world and one wrong business decision made everything come crashing down in record time.

I loved 3dfx I had a original add in card then next was voodoo 3000 and then I got a voodoo 5500 my next purchase was a big one physics add on card. Which was phased out after Nvidia had it built in in its new cards

Took me back to late 90s and it seemed we played all the same games...thank you for the trip down memory lane

Screamer, Moto Racer and Red Line Racer they were some great games and worth getting the 3DFX for. Great Video

I remember my Voodoo card !!it was soo fun and new to me to play new cool games :D incoming was one of them!!thank you mate !!hope you are well!!

These voodoo cards were a game changer . Gobsmacked back in the day the quality increase when I got my first one . Think like most people i put quake on and was stunned

These were some wild times, but I got into PC gaming pretty late - back in 98', when Celeron 300Mhz CPU has been released and opened up a market of budget PCs for those who couldn't afford Pentiums. My first GPU was 3DLabs Permedia 2 with 8MB of memory - it was a mixed bag, some games ran good, others had texture issues, some haven't ran at all. Interestingly, I remember that Ultimate Race Pro ran pretty well on it, even though it refused to launch on GeForce 2 MX we had in another PC two years later. Many games shown in the video were added as full versions to one of the biggest gaming mags in my country (it was also like 4 times more expensive than others). Some of course through less legal means. Me and my pal were playing MK4 to death and it was the only fighting game I've got decent at through my gaming years - I've destroyed everyone at school with Sub Zero. Loved Incoming - it was great arcade shooter and additional levels unlocked via cheat codes were super fun, with vehicles you couldn't play in normal campaign. Half-Life blew me away and it is still in my top 10 games of all time list. There was nothing like it. I've played it before Unreal and couldn't understand the hype for the latter - it felt inferior. Yeah, it looked the part, but more like evolution of Quake 2 graphics with coloured lights everywhere making it looking like a rave party. Guns kind of sucked, too... My least favourite fps game of that period, but at least it gave birth to glorious Unreal Tournament! Total Annihilation - a game I've spent hundreds of hours playing! Awesome music and the gameplay was mindblowing, with terrain that could obscure units' lines of sight, protect from enemy fire and give you a high ground advantage. This was the first time when I've played RTS game where positioning right kind of troops carefully has been crucial. It even had ballistics, with shells having curved flight, dropping to the ground. When really long range shot hit the target, it felt like winning a lottery. Also - something akin to supply line, where you would want to have construction mechs and vehicles following your army, for rotating the damaged units to the back so they can get repaired. BUT you couldn't left these utility vehicles without protection, as they would be an easy prey for aircrafts. So anti-air units came into play. And when it came to air warfare, there were multiple units, with each filling the niche of their own. I used to send air to ground aircraft first because they had relatively high health and were good at avoiding fire of anti-air defenses, while cheap and fast ground units kept anti-air vehicles occupied. Then following with bombers! Done right, to losses to more expensive units were minimal and damage to enemy's buildings was insane. Then a whole different world of naval warfare, with massive destroyers that could level whole bases, corvettes, light and fast boats that could avoid fire of larger units and chip away their health... Nuclear warfare, too. I remember building silos which launched weaker, less destructive and cheaper ICBMs (they destroyed units only, leaving buildings intact), launching a bunch of those, so enemy used up their anti-missile measures and then following with a proper nuke. This game is simply insane. In my eyes, no RTS ever matched Total Annihilation. Sure, StarCraft was more balanced, demanded less from your PC as it was sprite based, had better lore, skirmishes were intense - but when it came to scale and complexity of it all, it was no match to TA. Moto Racer 2... oh boy. It was my favourite racing game for a good while, until I've got my hands on a copy of Wipeout 2097 (XL for you North America folks) which made me fall in love with the series. Wipeout is a reason why I own Sony's consoles. Nothing tops second half of 90's when it comes to PC gaming. Also, it felt like major technical leap happened every two months. It is insane to see that it took only four years from release of Quake (also one of my top 10 games) to games like Deus Ex, No One Lives Forever, Counter-Strike and Soldier of Fortune. Also Freespace games... damn, nothing came close to give me a feel of being a starfighter pilot in great conflict. I could go on and on. It was a great time to be a PC gamer.

Man this is great, thanks for sharing all these great games!

My first card was a Nvidia Riva TNT 2 and 2 years later a S3 Savage 4. Those where the days!

Damn I played all those games on my 1rst gaming computer👍 I remember how unbelieveably powerful the 3dfx seemed at the time 😮

Incoming !🥰🥰🥰 It came with my Voodoo II and I remember to play it like hell !

The fact that I could know that you are portuguese just because of your accent, is amazing :D ( I confirmed it in the end when you showed "Distribuído por Ecofilmes" - memory unlocked!!)

This brings back so many good memories. 13 year old me put all his savings and christmas money into a K6 233MHz and because I had some change left into a Diamond Monster 4mb. This was the winter of 97/98. I don't know where I got the idea for the Voodoo and I had no idea what to expect. My best friend at the time had dabbled in some other 3d accelerators (I think one was a Rage II and the other one a Matrox Mystique), but they were such a disappointment, we began to call them decelerators (I don't think we were the only ones). Imagine my surprise when I fired up Tomb Raider 2. It was truly breath taking. However, the true graphical revelation will always remain Unreal. Unfortunately, the Voodoo 1 was already at its limits, so I replaced it with a reasonably priced Banshee. And after that I even had a Voodoo 2 (unfortunately never a second one, paired with ar Riva TNT, which saw barely any use), a Voodoo 3 3000 (which absolutely kicked ass in Counter Strike) and I still have my Voodoo 5 5500 in its original box with the receipt.

I can only add to other folks' comments. I saw image-to-image comparisons in print magazines regarding Psygnosis F1 with and without 3dfx. I was instantly hooked. I screened local hardware sellers in search of this magic add-in card. On Saturday, I finally found a dealer, rang him up, asked for a reservation, jumped into my car, and made it just in time before the shop closed to enjoy my weekend. It was 450 Bucks at the time, but worth every penny. To this day, this was one of my fastest drives ever for a 50km ride on a German Autobahn, no animals or humans got harmed. 😂

Wow, the memories! Voodoo2, what a time to be alive.

The Diamond card is what everyone in the USA had because it was the most readily available. My Pentium 133 and Trio32 were a decent pair with the card. To be fair the PS1 was a godly 3D machine for it's time. Those of us who bought first gen Voodoo cards were kind of stuck with them far into the adoption of AGP. I didn't get a new graphics cards until the Geforce 2 launched combined with a sweet 866Mhz Pentium 3. The money spent on the 3DFX card was monstrous for me.

In those times (1998), having a Voodoo 2 was a luxury. There truly was nothing comparable; games looked incredible for that era compared to software mode, not only in quality but also in FPS, with smooth textures-perhaps, too smooth, but without jagged edges and pixelated elements. It also helped that the games were super colorful, and with Glide, they looked spectacular. Back then, I didn't have a PC capable of running games that way, and I never owned a Voodoo 2. I recognize that I would have liked to have one, but in a developing country like where I live, it was more expensive and harder to come by than in other countries. Putting fandom aside, in those times, everything evolved rapidly within a span of 6 to 12 months-new technologies, new graphics cards, CPUs, etc. It was a frenetic race. The Voodoo 2, for example, performed twice as well as the Voodoo 1 or even more. Then came the TNT and the brilliant TNT2 Ultra (just a year after the Voodoo 2, in 1999), eclipsing everything before it. The Voodoo 3 was quite good (only 16 bits), but by then, in my opinion, the era of Glide had passed. All games now also supported OpenGL or Direct3D. While it still served to run old Glide games better than with the Voodoo 2, Glide's reign was very short-lived-a truly brief period of time (2-3 years). Out of approximately 30-35 Glide-only games. Of those games, many are a spectacle of effects and color, but as games, they are repetitive or boring to me (like Incoming, Expendable). There aren't many games that personally appeal (again: to me) from that era; there are a few I like though, Screamer Rally, Screamer 2 (both were awful in software mode and great with Glide), Need for Speed 2 (although it only adds car reflections and some minor effects like rain and some logical performance enhancements, it's worth noting that the software mode is very good and retains the cockpit view lost with Glide mode), Test Drive 5, it's newer but is another one I like with Glide support, also has good Direct3D support for Riva TNT (in Glide cars look better but that's a minor detail). The Turok games looked beautiful, but as games, they aren't that good; the first is limited, fog too close... and the second is better but is a maze with all the maps looking the same, supporting Direct3D also. Unreal was never to my liking; while it was a graphical revolution, with Glide, you could see reflective surfaces and very good effects for the time, but the game seems more like an adventure than an FPS to me-it's boring. Well, that's my opinion; nobody has to agree. It even has some rough edges like the huge levers/buttons to activate doors or bridges, the size proportions aren't well cared for, I don't like the weapons at all; they're mostly "pew pew" energy weapons or very sci-fi, with exceptions. The bullets or rays don't have a visible effect on the enemy model like in Quake 2, for example. The levels are monotonous, boring, it's not frenetic, many puzzles-it's not for me; for me, it's a tech demo. As games, I infinitely prefer Quake and Quake 2 (it's glorious, excellent music, frenetic action, good weapons, etc.) After that, other Glide games don't appeal to me. Tomb Raider I don't like, is slow and boring. I played Carmageddon 1 and 2 in software mode at a few FPS; they didn't quite appeal to me either, just for casual play. In conclusion, I believe 3DFX with its Voodoo was the innovation that took games to the next level. It was spectacular for its time but ephemeral-a very brief period in an era where everything progressed at a frenetic pace, and everything quickly became obsolete. There are very few games that take advantage of Glide and are good games in my personal taste. Perhaps for about 4 or 5 games, I'd build a Pentium 2 with a Voodoo 2 to play Screamer 2, Screamer Rally, but there are so few that interest me that I'm not sure if it's worth it. For now, I have a retro PC with a GF6200 where I use nglide, and they look perfect, at least the ones I've tried on Win 98. For those that support OpenGL and Direct3D, it doesn't make sense to use Glide, in my opinion. In 1999, I bought my first decent PC with a TNT2 Ultra, and I was happy. Every game I wanted to play ran with excellent performance. However, I do acknowledge that there were some games from previous years that I had to play in software mode, and I missed out on experiencing them in all their glory due to not having a Voodoo card.

Excellent and enjoyable overview on 3Dfx. Still use a Pentium III with a Voodoo3 for my retrogaming. I could stick a faster Nvidia card in the system but for now I keep going back to 3Dfx / Glide game. Voodoo1 then Voodoo2 and Voodoo3 3000 was quite something. To think that if Sega did go with the US design we could have ended up with 3Dfx powered Dreamcast back in the day.

My 3DFX memories start from 1998. Bought the cheapest Voodoo1 card from store, it was Trust branded if I remember right... PC was Asus P55T2P4 with P-MMX overclocked to 250MHz. Played Unreal non-stop until it was through. And Motocross Madness, Moto Racer, Battlezone was also fun with multiplayer.

3dfx was the choice for almost all in my friend group at LAN parties, I remember uprising, hexen2, heretic2, quake, GTA, as good 3dfx games to do at LAN and all those you mentioned.

This video was awsome thank's master 😊

omg i had incoming. so fun!

Redline Racer is to this day my favourite bike racing game. (:

Great stuff.

I had one.....game changer.... Thx 4 this ..

Eish desbloqueaste-me umas memórias tão boas a jogar MotoRacer 2. Excelente vídeo, como sempre.

wow había olvidado totalmente el Ultim@te Race Pro y el Redline Racer, que recuerdos.

when half life came , it changed everything with glide . When they saw it , my friends thought it was just a cutscene then realized it was actual gameplay . S3 Virge combined with diamond monster changed our lives and perception . Suddenly need for speed 2 had weather effects . Snow was raining , dust was flying . 3Dfx truly changed everything...

Excellent video. I still have my 3DFX 8MB VooDoo2 just waiting to be used again someday when I stumble across an old Pentium desktop again. I had upgraded from the original VooDoo card I passed on to my dad. You are correct, I hardly played console games during the VooDoo era. They could not compete. My PlayStation and N64 did not get much love from me then except for exclusives like FF7 or Mario and Zelda. As I and others say, you had to be there in real-time to truly appreciate it on a deeply visceral level. I get motion sickness from PC games with a lot of action, but for some reason, I never did on my PCs with Voodoo cards in the 90s. Sooooooo Smoooooth!

The remake of Battlezone and the Independence War and Wingcommander Prophecy space games were big turns for me, but I admit to buying my first 3DFX after seeing GL Quake for the first time ... I'd actually bring friends to a computer shop in my town, just to show them the demo running on an in-store demo machine, we'd just drool over it!!

I'd already had a Matrox Mystique for quite a while back then, playing Motoracer and Tomb Raider super smooth, and the bundled version of Mechwarrior 2 was amazing. But to be honest, I wasn't really blown away till I grabbed a VooDoo card and played Carmageddon 3Dfx, and Screamer Rally looked great too! My friends who owned Playstations would come over and just stare at the screen in amazement. All of them ended up building PC's that year! :D

Já à espera do novo episódio acerca dos jogos que suportam 3Dfx, aqui por casa a minha primeira acelerador 3D foi uma Matrox Mistique que para fazer as animações usava uma técnica tipo interlaced pois a tecnologia não era por aí além, mas deu para jogar os primeiros títulos que exigiam uma aceleradora, mais tarde comprei uma Creative 3D Blaster Banshee que era baseda na Voodoo2 mas já com gráfica incluída deixando de ser necessária a utilização do cabo de passagem. O jogo que mais me marcou nessa era foi o Need for Speed Porsche Unleshead.

I had a Voodoo 3 card. It changed everything. I loved it❤

I had the 3dfx made by Diamond, good times :) The first thing I ever tried was the pactch for Tomb raider, awesome

Hmm Picking up the Unreal box at the end when talking about what videos to do next? Subtle nod to what's coming next month... especially with a certain... anniversary 🤔😋

As for me I never have seen a PCI based Voddo1 in action. Back then My first PII machine was already with AGP card and when I began to collect classic computers - I never happen to find a working device of that kind - all were broken( So I have only AGP based PII/PIII machines now)

Part 2 ,please

Matrox & riva128 were the go-to. V2 sli had its moment of dominance, followed by v3 & 4. By this time, Nvidia had a firm grasp on the market with tnt/2 & the 256. I enjoyed a v2 12mb with a tnt for a moment. Technology was shifting so fast in this exciting age.

first few times i ran POD i didnt even figure that acceleration was turned off... it didnt even matter on mmx 200. it looked same and it ran fine

I remember those days, we had a 486 Cyrix i think. My Father wanted to fly use a RC Flight Simulator from a brand called Simsprop. Didnt work. The End of the Story was, we got a brandnew Pentium MMX 166mhz with a Voodoo 2 i think. I used this PC until 2003 or 2004 i think.

I think the one I had was Monster as well!

I still own Voodoo 1 (MS-DOS) and Voodoo 2 (Windows). I were one of the first in the world to get Voodoo 1. ;) Both of them are Orchid. Anyways. I played all of the games in the video on my 3DFX back in the days. Fatal Racing (Whiplash) is not in the video, but were awesome with 3DFX too.

Ha, I didn't realise the Orchid was the first, it was in my first PC.

nice

Voodoo 1 was my first graphics card, good times

Loved my pentium 350 and my voodoo2 gpu lol

Eu tinha a Voodoo2 de 12mb num Pentium 2 a 333mhz. Bons tempos!! 😁

grande video Toshida Arena para PC tem Earthworm Jim .

I had a voodoo2 and it blew my mind.. I remember getting a 433 celron emachine and picked up a viodoo3 2000 pci and I was playing all the latest games. This was between 1999 and 2001.. good old days..Yes the pci voodoo ran quake3 great. I do not remember the frame rate but it blew away the ati graphic card

amigo isto era top na época tombraider o f1 todos jogos falaste aqui era brutais nessa placa ..:)

also had the monster card...but where´s quake 2and unreal tournament ;)

Voodoo switched the pc gaming from software mode to 3D mode. Who lived that time understand the HUGE difference.

Goddamn someone remembers Redline Racer

Strangely, the Voodoo 1 card was unusable for me, because all the games I loved didn't used it (Grand Prix 2, etc...). The first game that had advantage from 3dFx was NHL 99. So I bought my Voodoo 2 for that. 👍

the first 3d gpu that i had was the riva tnt, i felt god because it was better than the monster 3d that i saw in my cousin's house, it came with a forsaken cd and i was amazed when i started playing it

Honestly the Voodoo 3 cards were the best! 🤩

moto racer i have all 3 of them its great raceing games

Descent ,, one of the best games.

First I thought I am listening to LGR 😁 You forgot about Unreal, best 3Dfx game beside HL

You know what irritates me about 3dfx? They supported bump mapping since voodoo 2, and not only did most games not use it, but the doom 3 patch didn't even attempt it either.

In reality first 3dfx Voodoo dont have a much frames per second, 25 at best (I have a retro PC with Pentium 233 MMX and 3dfx Voodoo, and I tested alot of games), but any other "videoaccelerator" was even slower in that times.

i still have Voodoo 3

Sold my Playstation 1 to buy a Miro Highscore 3D card.

Imagine people were buying dirtcheap CeleronA OCed by 50-60+% FSB, with some CPU's with unlocked MP, 700-900 MHz on cheapest MOBO, and Riva TNT/TNT2 - 2D&3D card that beat the sh!t out of 3DFX. Imagine being that much stupid to buying crappy K6, expensive MOBO, separate 2D card and 3D accelerator with totally sh!t drivers.

I grew up with consoles, I'm only 10 minutes in and now I understand why PC gamers were so arrogant 😂😂😂😂😂

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Bro what is this weird accent you're putting on!??!:DDDD