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Favourites - what are yours...?
28.02.10 at 06:56:12

Here's three basic questions for everyone (yeah, so the last is not 3Dfx related...but I'm curious...)

What's your fave 3Dfx based game? Huh

(i.e. has a GLiDE option) Wink

My Answer: Unreal / Unreal Tournament + Addon content Cool

What's your fave Voodoo card? Huh

My Answer: Basically, any of the Quantum 3D stuff - they are weird and cool tech (just too dang pricey to own!) Shocked

Do you have a games console? Huh

My Answer: All games consoles - too many to list, all customized and modded by hand. Cool

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razrx God Member Offline 3dfx Addict Posts: 839 Great Lakes, Canada Gender:	Re: Favourites - what are yours...? Reply #1 - 28.02.10 at 07:12:20 3Dfx game - Descent II Voodoo card - Canopus PURE3D 6MB Game console - Colecovision with the Atari expansion module and a modded Xbox
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Reply #2 - 28.02.10 at 09:32:51

Even though I haven't played it in years I have to go for Need For Speed Hot Pursuit as my alltime Glide favourite.

My favourite Voodoo card is a bit harder to determine. Of all the cards I own:
Nostalgia; Voodoo5 5500 AGP (My first 3D card)
Looks; Canopus Pure3D & Canopus Pure3D 2 (and LX variants) and the Quantum3D Obsidian2 cards.

Of all the cards I know, I'd have to say the best looking is the Meditech Crash Voodoo4 4500.

Game console; I have a SNES but it's non-functional, took it apart Cheesy

Best console ever!

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Reply #3 - 28.02.10 at 14:34:30

Glide Game - Unreal + Return to Na Pali / Unreal Tournament + Addon content (Tactical Ops, Strike Force, Infiltration)

Voodoo Card(s) - Voodoo2 SLI

Game consoles -
•Nintendo - This came out when I was born, but I still played it as a child and enjoyed it to its fullest.
•Nintendo 64 - This was my first true console.
•Modded XBOX - It has a 250GB HDD w/ tons of XBOX ISO's and a ton of other emulators for NES, SNES, SEGA, etc)
•Modded XBOX360 - Modded to play backups (burned games)

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Reply #4 - 28.02.10 at 19:02:40

Game: Unreal, no doubt about it. Can remember installing and loading it up for the first time as it came bundled with my V3 3000 AGP back then. Awesome feeling !

Card: the V5 for sure. Kickass memories about it !! I remember the time when someone came up to me on a lan and said "pff, my GF2 beats your V5 man" so I launched NFS:Porsche and turned on FSAA and the image sharpener to -1.00. His jaw dropped. Mine didn't Cool

Console: NES 8 bit system laying around in basement somewhere, along with N64 system.
Playstation 2 in the living room with singstar, buzz, other family games for the holidays only.

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Retro gaming rig: V5 5500 AGP on MSI KT3 Ultra-ARU, XP3200+, 1.5GB DDR, Aureal Vortex SQ2500 sound (A3D !!), 400GB IDE

Main game rig: FX8350 @ 8x4.7Ghz, 2x GTX580 Matrix SLI

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Reply #5 - 28.02.10 at 22:14:39

Final Fantasy VII was the glide game I loved more

Preferred Voodoo Card ever: Voodoo Graphics, Helios3D for the black PCB, was my first 3D accelerator. I like very much Canopus PURE3D for adding extras features on PCB and the SkyWell Magic3D for the cool layout compact design.

The most attractive: Voodoo2 SLI setup (X-24 from Q3D is the preferred one)

At that time I was playing on my SEGA Master System II by few years already. I still own this machine with other console

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RaverX God Member Offline Voodoo2 fan Posts: 533 Oradea, Romania Gender:	Re: Favourites - what are yours...? Reply #6 - 28.02.10 at 23:17:38 Game : Carmageddon 1 with 3dfx patch. Card : Diamond Voodoo2 SLI Console : Well, I own a XBOX 360 for more than one year, planning to get a PS3 soon to play Uncharted and Uncharted 2.
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Reply #7 - 28.02.10 at 23:48:42

Game : Unreal Tournament
...Reason : awe-inspiring stylish gameplay meets awesome graphics meets awesome add-ons. Played it for many years.

Card : Voodoo5 5500
...Reason : I guess cause it was a powerhouse and ran Unreal Tournament so well at deluxe image quality

Console : N/A
...Reason : never liked their input limiters, ehm. "controllers" and the resulting child-friendly difficulty

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edmundoab God Member Offline Settling down back in Malaysia Posts: 651 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA Gender:	Re: Favourites - what are yours...? Reply #8 - 01.03.10 at 00:24:29 I enjoyed my Voodoo 3 2000 AGP back then simulator games and RPG (Tomb Raider) much better than what Nvidia could offer Later on continued with Diablo and Command and Conquer (tiberian sun) on it LOL
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Reply #9 - 01.03.10 at 00:49:18

edmundoab wrote on 01.03.10 at 00:24:29:

I enjoyed my Voodoo 3 2000 AGP back then....

Oh this smells familiar... V3 2000 AGP was my second 3dfx and I literally loved it!! So compact layout, delicious design, easy overclock; It was the 3dfx entry-level V3 card, but already so fast it was kind of ridiculous to me! I played with that card a lot first to shutdown V3 system and get my V5.

V3 2000 was a tiny beast Wink

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sb306 Full Member Offline I hate Nvidia! Posts: 154 Fresno ca, U.S. Gender:	Re: Favourites - what are yours...? Reply #10 - 01.03.10 at 02:15:49 Id have to go with Unreal. The first time it booted up and did the castle flyby thing my jaw dropped The first 3d card I bought was a Orchid righteous 3d. So Id have to go with that. Even though the 5500 is badass. I have a 360. Only usually buy 2 or 3 games a year since they mostly all suck.
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AzzKickr Junior Member Offline I'll be back Posts: 70 Belgium-Europe Gender:	Re: Favourites - what are yours...? Reply #11 - 01.03.10 at 04:50:31 RaverX wrote on 28.02.10 at 23:17:38: Game : Carmageddon 1 with 3dfx patch. Coincidence or not; I'm currently replaying it on the V5 machine
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Drakan Player Full Member Offline Lick dat boot boy! Posts: 103 Tank Town Texas Gender:	Re: Favourites - what are yours...? Reply #12 - 01.03.10 at 16:52:17 A 5500 as always and the other I like showing off is a 7900gtx duo (its size) while I have a V3 2k and a 3500.
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: Favourites - what are yours...? Reply #13 - 01.03.10 at 17:09:27 Correct me if I'm wrong... But wasn't Final Fantasy VII a Direct3D game that simply "supported" the Voodoo 2? I don't think it had a specific GLiDE option... EDIT: spotted THIS, but it's STILL not the final version... Final Fantasy VII (Early 3dfx-only demo)
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Reply #14 - 01.03.10 at 19:37:00

Game- UT, Unreal, Diablo 2

Card- Voodoo 2 for pure nostalgia; my first 3D graphics accelerator back in the day. Voodoo 5 5500 for being the highest powered glide beast without buying the expensive 6000.

Consoles-saturn, nes, genesis, psx, ps2(broken),360(broken),gamecube(broken). I appreciate both the real console experience and emulation experience. Emulation is cheaper so it usuallly wins.

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