When 3dfx fans was born?

I now feel very old as my date is below your lowest on the pol, LOL

Is this a joke? 3dfx was founded in 1994, how can you put in the poll older dates?

I believe that the first "fans" appeared in 96 when the Voodoo Graphics was launched. But the real fans appeared much latter, after 3dfx was gone, I assume that this happened in 2003-2004, then the collector's began to show interest in 3dfx cards and the value of 3dfx cards started to rise.

RaverX wrote on 09.11.11 at 20:46:19:

Is this a joke? 3dfx was founded in 1994, how can you put in the poll older dates? I believe that the first "fans" appeared in 96 when the Voodoo Graphics was launched. But the real fans appeared much latter, after 3dfx was gone, I assume that this happened in 2003-2004, then the collector's began to show interest in 3dfx cards and the value of 3dfx cards started to rise.

The poll refers simply to the age of the people that grew up with 3dfx and not when they were born as "3dfx fans" ;)

In 1996-97 they could be 14 years old (class 1982-83), like 24 years old (class 1972-73), like older (1969 or earlier)...

Ah, I see now. Then they couldn't be born before 1986 or else they would be less than 10 years old when Voodoo1 appeared, so they would be too small to understand it and really appreciated it.

And very few could have more than 30 years old (at that age very few people were gamers - during that period, remember that in 96 computers were not so spread like today).

1996-30=1966.

A 3dfx fan could be born anytime during that interval : 1966-1986. But most of those fans were probably born during 1974-1982.

I am sorry, it wasnt my plan to offend anybody. I was just curious, becouse i saw some very young ( below 17 y.o. ) persons around at these days.

Geri wrote on 13.11.11 at 00:28:31:

I am sorry, it wasnt my plan to offend anybody. I was just curious, becouse i saw some very young ( below 17 y.o. ) persons around at these days.

It's strange, in 2000 he had 6 years and already 3dfx wasn't such a big thing. But it's not impossible, if he has an older friend who teached him about the golden era of 3D (96-98).

And don't worry, I wasn't offended, I just didn't uderstand the poll  ;)

RaverX wrote on 09.11.11 at 21:35:43:

Ah, I see now. Then they couldn't be born before 1986 or else they would be less than 10 years old when Voodoo1 appeared, so they would be too small to understand it and really appreciated it.

I disagree- one can be a fan of the card just because of, for instance, the technique they use. Of course at the time (1996-1997 for the V1) it was booming as both performance and image quality were good but if a 16 year old person would have interest in hardware, this person could still like the 'old' 3Dfx cards ;-).

I also like the Mercedes C123 (or W123) with M110-engine ... even though it was build before I was born! It's just a matter of what you like and not "if you were there, at the time" :).

I am feeling old in that vote ;)

IMHO every technical oriented kid could turn into a Hardware oriented Gamer. Don't know how many say Quake I in full glory on a 3dfx card, but I assume many did - and enjoyed it all all ages across...
(especially when viewing the competition try it, i.e. on an Aplha OpenGl Driver equipped Riva128, lacking speed and even rudimentary Gamma control *g* , not to mention all those poor S3 card owners realizing their performance shortcoming after waiting months! for any compatible Drivers)

Frankly, I don't know if these brilliant times could be ever repeated with new Hardware.
After witnessing the groundbreaking work of 3dfx, only the mighty ATI Radeon 9700pro managed to give me similar fascination (UT2003/2004 , FarCry) after that...

But I also assume it was the combination of excellent Hardware with extraordinary Games. Latter seem to lack lately - buy a Game, throw tens of Patches at it, Register at useless Spying services, then just throw expensive enough 3D hardware at it...
Times sure have changed and I'm afraid even sensational Hardware couldn't bring the old times back.

FalconFly wrote on 13.11.11 at 22:49:38:

Frankly, I don't know if these brilliant times could be ever repeated with new Hardware. After witnessing the groundbreaking work of 3dfx, only the mighty ATI Radeon 9700pro managed to give me similar fascination (UT2003/2004 , FarCry) after that...

I think that Geforce3 was better than 9700 Pro, it was very fast and it was the first to introduce pixel shader(DX8). DX9 was just DX8 on steroids... 8800GTX was also very good and Crysis was really nice.

But nothing compares to first Unreal in 1024x768 on V2 SLI. That was awesome, I can bet on anything that such a leap will never ever be achieved during my life (except if quantum computers will appear).


FalconFly wrote on 13.11.11 at 22:49:38:

But I also assume it was the combination of excellent Hardware with extraordinary Games.

Quake1 and Carmageddon1. I still play them now and I think they are the best games ever created.


Thandor wrote on 13.11.11 at 22:19:58:

I also like the Mercedes C123 (or W123) with M110-engine ... even though it was build before I was born! It's just a matter of what you like and not "if you were there, at the time" :).

I understand what you are saying, but in computers things are a little different. Who buys computers older than "his time"? For example I started to interact with computers in 94 and I'm not interested on anything older than Pentium.

Sure, I worked on 386 and 486 (I got even a few 286), but Pentium was already launched and I dreamed so much to own one. I have older friends that tell me about commodore, amiga, 286, but I feel nothing. I'm sure that all those computers were great at that time, but not for me.

<--- 1971. Feeling a little old now that it's pointed out. Those were the days though, staying up all night playing Unreal, Quake or DNukem.

jandarsun8 wrote on 15.11.11 at 16:33:19:

<--- 1971. Feeling a little old now that it's pointed out. Those were the days though, staying up all night playing Unreal, Quake or DNukem.

This reminds me when I played Rune until the end for 72hrs consecutively without raise my back off the chair, lol.

jandarsun8 wrote on 15.11.11 at 16:33:19:

<--- 1971. Feeling a little old now that it's pointed out. Those were the days though, staying up all night playing Unreal, Quake or DNukem.

1966

I had several 8 hour sessions of quake online back in the day =)

q-spy anyone? good times, good times.

jandarsun8 wrote on 15.11.11 at 16:33:19:

<--- 1971. Feeling a little old now that it's pointed out. Those were the days though, staying up all night playing Unreal, Quake or DNukem.

I'm a part of the mainstream here, but I did play Duke all night-over with a friend over a 14.400 modem. I remember the lag practically vanished when we both got ourselves 56k modems :)

Because of Duke (I loved playing only on keyboard with no mouse!) I never enjoyed quake... up until Q2 emerged and all shooting games went on using mouse as a main input device so I had to get used to it.

I was born in 1979. 

I'm from the year '77, got to live it all in regards to 3DFX, 1st card I ever had was a Diamond Monster 3DII 12MB for my AWESOME!!!  Cyrix PR200 system with 32MB ram.

I was drooling over Final Fantasy 7 at that time and when UT99 hit the shelves, I had V2 SLI, and had to do some small upgrades to be able to unleash the power that was Voodoo2 SLI :)

ultima wrote on 18.11.11 at 15:48:53:

for my AWESOME!!!  Cyrix PR200 system with 32MB ram.

Nice. My "really" first system was a Cyrix PR233 system. I had other systems before, but they weren't really mine (complicated story).

I had a 1MB videocard with really bad drivers and the hardware wasn't great either, so I had to play UT in 320x200 software in window. It looked nice, but then I saw it in fullscreen and glide on a Voodoo Rush. I was :o

I couldn't afford a 3dfx card then, but I gathered all the money that I've got from my parents and I bought a Voodoo2 about 1 year later.

BTW I'm born in July 80.

'86 and proud of it !
3dfx cards started coming to my country just before I entered High-School.
At the first Computer Games Cafe I went I played Quake 2 and NFS 3. Love at first sight. When I moved at a nVidia based platform, Quake wasn't looking that good anymore.

GL Quake on the other hand, I started playing a couple months ago. Comparing it to Doom, i guess it marked quite a revolution at the time it was released.

Cheers to you all !

1995 :)

Sadly I was unable to experience the glory days of 3dfx. I developed a hankering for retro-gaming and retro-hardware some time ago and am just now getting into collecting 3dfx hardware.

I was born 71 and have been using them since the Monster 3D was out. Had to get it for Quake. It exploded after that.  :D

GrndZero,

haven't seen you before?! Did you fly on over from TechIMO??

I will always remember the LAN parties at my house with my P-133MHz, 2MB Diamond Stealth married to a Diamond Monster 4MB 3Dfx card, Playing Descent II and GLQuake all night long . . .