I had a fair amount of shares of TDFX back in the day, rode it all the way to their bankruptcy. NVDA bought the scraps and left retail shareholders like me with nothing. In a different reality, if 3dfx could have survived to the AI-era...

I still remember playing Quake 2 to death in software then finally getting a 3dfx card (I want to say it was a Banshee?), loading up the game and my mind being blown by how much more immersive it was.

Great times, the 3dfx name will always raise a smile for me.

I wanted a 3DFX card so bad when I was 10yo.

And then I wanted a GeForce so bad. But I only got £10 a week from my paper round.

If I’d invested just one week of my paper round in Nvidia shares though, it would be worth over £10 million today.

I remember watching those promos of need for speed 2 SE running on a 3DFX and feeling like a peasant for not having one.