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One reader's walk down memory lane unearthed
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One man’s PC gaming history (and some of ours, too)
Reading your superb article delving into the early 3D market (January, page 37) brought back some incredible memories for me from the mid '90s. I started with the S3 Virge card, which was an amazing card for gaming; nearly bought a DX486, but it was over £2,000 at PCWorld at the time, so I decided to get my first gaming PC built and understand it better. I skipped the first Pentium 75 and 90, and got the P100, 32MB EDO RAM, and a 140MB Quantum Fireball HDD. Then I had the Diamond Monster 3D, which pretty much defined me as a PC gamer, and truly got me into 3D gaming.
When I got a Matrox Mystique (2MB, if I remember), it came bundled with MechWarrior 2, Scorched Planet, and Destruction Derby 2 ‘Mystique Editions’. To say I was in heaven was an understatement. I still have the games, but not the card. This was going to be my hobby for life, I said.
I then saw the Matrox Millenium card demoing Nexus: The Jupiter Incident at my local PC builder shop. I found out it was made for the Matrox Parhelia card. I can’t remember how the demo got out, but I played it to death, and it stands out as some of the best audio and effects I've seen.