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For people of a certain age, 3dfx is iconic. As a teenager, you read a bunch of reviews about how great it was. This was before widespread broadband and there wasn't much PC gaming content on TV, so you didn't really know what it looked like. After months/years of saving you finally bought one, put it in your PC, started up Quake 2, and it was f**ing amazing.

GeForce came along soon enough and made it obsolete, but never had the same mystique.

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I still remember being jealous of the kid at computer camp with the two SLI Voodoo 2s playing Unreal.

SLI being "scan-line interleaving" at the time. Not to be confused with today's "Serial Link Interface"

> Not to be confused with today's "Serial Link Interface"

Scalable Link Interface.

And it's not available today either. The last cards that used it was the 1000 series. The 2000 and 3000 cards used NVLink, but that's disappeared from the 4000 series, too.

Yup! And when V2 came out, I had two of them, if memory serves. The 3dfx Voodoo II was awesome for the longest time.

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