Published On May 7, 2023
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3dfx was the king of the graphics card world in the 90s, and in a flash they were gone. The Voodoo 5 6000 was the last GPU 3dfx produced, and released – Could it have changed the face of PC gaming?
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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova
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Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High
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Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa / mbarek_abdel
Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/PgGWp
Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/mj6pHk4
Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/Ps3XfE
CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:17 What makes this so special?
2:13 Firing it up and Half-Life 1
4:40 Tribes 2
5:58 3DMark 2001
7:22 The prototype isn't the only way to play
8:04 It was doomed to failure
9:03 Why was 3dfx even successful?
11:52 3dfx got complacent
13:29 Forced to compete without a competitive product
14:11 The doors close and Nvidia takes over
14:52 Conclusion - Competition is good