This is true!  ;D

Orchid Righteous 3D (Voodoo1, 1st model):
"3D So Real It Must Be Righteous".

Creative 3D Blaster Voodoo2 12Mb:
"The Fastest Gameplay.Ever!"
"...Do you dream of sustained frame rates of 30, 40, or even 60 frames per second?"

The 3dfx STB boxes don't have much of the gratitous phrases on them as the third party ones.  The third party ones had a cool play on words!  ;)

Yes, I look back on all my 3dfx boxes and see the 10 year warranty and it makes me laugh sometimes  :) but then I get upset, because I still wish they were there to support us!  :(

The shortest warranty I have seen is on my Orchid Righteous.  It's only a 2 years 'Parts & Labour' warranty!  :( Still, won't make a difference now!  :D

best data arcadefx 4mb pci
"That's right, Best Data's ARCADEFX is just what the game doctor ordered! Blistering, in your face 3D graphics that bring mind-blowing arcade quality gaming to your pc"

powercolor evilking voodoo2
"king of voodoo empire"

fun to look at those boxes, always looking for more :)

marketing was more funny 20 years ago  :D

http://www.silicium.org/images/pubs/pcjr_pub.jpg

http://www.silicium.org/images/pubs/osborne_Flyer.jpg

nice laptop  ;D

The Osborne Personal Computer looks quite heavy. Bet that was a b*st**d to carry to and from work, day in, day out!  ;D

You can bet now that the Osborne Personal Computer is the technical equivalent of a modern wristwatch by today's standards. ::)
I bet even our microwave's have more memory and processor speed than them! ;D

isn't "lifetime warranty" shortened to 10 years?
(like "confinement for life" last only about 15 years or so...  ;D )

I believe that many of today's vendors who produce graphics cards for the likes of ATI and nVidia, inherited their designs of their boxes from 3Dfx.

3Dfx boxes were some of the first to feature faces of people (mostly focused on the eyes on some boxes).
Since then, I look at today's graphics cards and there are still a lot around who adopt the strategy of designing a face and highlighting it as the main image on the front of their boxes, whether it be humans, animals or made up characters.
I think 3Dfx's marketing design stuck with a lot of other companies.

The InnoVision Mighty 3DII has to be the best:

"3 million triangles per second"

- A true fact. :)

" 180 Mpixels/sec with scan line"

- Again, another true fact. They could have elaborated on what 'Mpixel' was for the layman, and scan line is obviously the incorrect term if they are referring to SLI.

But this is the best ;) :

"90 million dual-textured"

- dual textured WHAT? ??? Processess? Pixels? Operations? Sheep? Cats? Hamburgers? ::)

I wish this unnamed Voodoo2 box had some quirky comments, but not one!  :-/  Very un-Voodoo like!
Not even a company name, logo or details on it either!

I'll post a seperate topic about this card in a moment.  :)

wrote on 31.10.04 at 14:03:37:

And this is the Best : Skywell Magic 3D (Voodoo 1)

I totally agree as I am a Skywell Fan :D

my newest adition is a boxed Skywell Technology Magic 3D II 12MB 100% complete, I bought it from an old man, he kept everthing nice and neatly, bought it for 17 euro's though, that'spostal services included , I suppose that is alright. It even has the PC GAMER EDITORS Choice Gold Award on the box, that sticker still looks new!

I'll make some pics of it shortly, but my wierdest Magic 3D II 12MB has 110Mhz ram on it, and if I'm not mistaken ther eis als a 121 MHz card, spotted that one in denmark, but the sad thing I had no ebay experience then :-/ jaaay.

So here thevery Long Discription on the Skywell Technology Magic 3D II 12MB Box :D

Front Moto:

old 3dfx --> http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~sschroed/3dfx.gif
12MB Inside  Voodoo2

Get Voodoo.


back Motto:

Introduction

The Magic 3DII use the 3Dfx Voodoo2, the fastest, most amazingly fluid 3D 3-chip chipset, with one Pixdlfx2, and two Texelfx2, offers a totally imersive enviroment for a mindblowing 3D game experience, always sustains the highest level of performance even with every radical 3D effect turned on, once again raise the limit for desktop 3D acceleration.
The Magic 3DII is compatible with any graphics card,  including AGP cards, by means of an included pass-through cable, and full software compatible to Voodoo GraphicsTM, Voodoo RushTM, can get to double performance by SLI Technology.