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It probably doesn't completely depend on your age but could be when you started to take gaming more seriously. Can you even think that far back? I had a flashback to when I was a novice to computer upgrades but very much into PC games. I believe it was Lego Island that forced me into buying a *gasp* graphics accellerator card in order to play the game.
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10/01/12 1:24:26 PM#2
I recall mine being a Voodoo, I think it was a Voodoo3 video card for Asherons Call.
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10/01/12 1:29:48 PM#3
Wow. I don't remember. Maybe The Seventh Guest?
Release a game with a very large established fanbase from 10+ years of bnet history when the market was still emerging and the casual base had not yet been established, thus ripe for harvesting a momentious self perpetuating playerbase people never leave because they have X hours invested in their characters, and their friends and everyone else plays anyway. Not discounting Blizzard quality... but WoW's success is as much about perfect timing as it is quality, if not more so. - Derros |
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10/01/12 1:33:31 PM#4
Was definitely a Voodoo but I'm not sure what for... Unreal Tournament maybe? That was like.. '99 or so. MMO History: |
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10/01/12 1:34:47 PM#5
One of the Wing Commander games if I recall correctly.
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10/01/12 1:35:58 PM#6
I bought my first Voodoo card to run Quake II. Good times.
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10/01/12 1:36:28 PM#7
Bought a Voodoo 3 so I could play Everquest back in 1999.
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10/01/12 1:37:01 PM#8
Half life
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Kyleran
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10/01/12 1:38:19 PM#9
Dark Age of Camelot, back in 2002 because it was only guaranteed to work on about 10 tested video cards so I went out and bought one of them. (my current "Hercules" graphics card was not working on it)
"What gamers want ... is new game play patterns different from what they've experienced before" - Axehilt |
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10/01/12 1:38:57 PM#10
mine was for unreal 1.
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10/01/12 1:45:11 PM#11
First real graphics card I bought for a game was a Matrox Millenium, with a whopping 4 Meg of VRAM. I needed it to make Tie Fighter run better. That was in 94 or there abouts.
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10/01/12 1:49:13 PM#12
Originally posted by mmoguy43 Well it's hard to say i was taking gaming seriously way before that, i begin with The Coleco Gemini and begin my way there with console gaming. For Pc i begin with game like police quest, king quest, hero quest and of course Larry. So now for the question i think my first serious pc built with a good 3d card was when D2 got out approx. The card was a nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400. But i didnt buy it for only D2, there was a lots of new 3d games like Vampire the masquerade and The Sims. Some FPS too like Soldiers of fortune. I remember seeing all these game in some magazine so i bought a new pc for them.
O i almost forgot yeah before that i had a voodoo card but it was part of a pc i bought from a friend but that dont reallly count because i didnt choose what will be in the pc. |
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10/01/12 1:51:31 PM#13
Voodoo 2 for Falcon 4.0 with 12(!) MB VRAM
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Danbacca
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10/01/12 1:53:27 PM#14
1998 Monster Truck Madness 2 it was Canopus 3DFX card. It worked with the video card you already had by using a pass through cable Good times. |
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10/01/12 1:53:35 PM#15
Originally posted by Ghern Ditto.
Can't remember if it was 3Dfx, TNT(nVidia) or S3.  |
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10/01/12 1:54:25 PM#16
GW1. The integrated card made the graphics look like origami.
no GW2 won't kill WoW, but it's time to move on and quit worrying about those people still playing it. - eyelolled |
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10/01/12 1:55:18 PM#17
The first "3D" card I had was an S3 Virge... commonly known back then as a "3D Decelerator" card, since games using the 3D features actually ran slower (and often looked worse) than they did with regular software 3D rendering. First actual 3D card was a 3dfx voodoo that I got mainly for Quake 2.. :) What can men do against such reckless hate? |
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10/01/12 1:57:06 PM#18
AFAIR i bought Voodoo1 for Quake. EDIT: i also had S3 Virge but i didnt buy it for any particular game. To spice things up ill ask what game did you buy your first sound car for. For me it was original Sound Blaster for Battle Isle. Next i bought Monster Sound 3d for Unreal 1. That card costed me fucking pile of money but i never regreted it hehe. Its 3d sound on headphones was unmatched. I have a feeling it could compete with todays x-fi's and such. |
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10/01/12 1:57:09 PM#19
Vodoo something for Everquest 1 :)!
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10/01/12 2:01:17 PM#20
Diamond M Voodoo 1 around 97/98 for Quake. Ran Unreal stuff later on a V3.
Funnily though I always remember Comanche Max Overkill and Strike Commander more as a "wow god like graphics!!" moments lol.
I also recall being quite excited about the 0.5MB upgrade I got for my Amiga 500. Made the old C64 I had seem soo obsolete! |
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