3DFX Commercial - Proud Workers

[pshalleck]

@BlueIsa7 @BlueIsa7 Nvidia page where they specifically deny having merged or acquired the company 3dfx, and that 3dfx was still responsible for Voodoo product support: nvidia(dot)custhelp(dot)com/ap­p/answers/detail/a_id/111

Of course, 3dfx was just a trustee and some creditors at that point, trying to get what they could out of what was left of the company.

[pshalleck]

@BlueIsa7 Actually, Nvidia only bought intellectual property from 3dfx (and hired some engineers). 3dfx continued to exist as a company, and was even trading stock as late as 2007, because the skeleton of 3dfx was suing Nvidia claiming Nvidia undervalued 3dfx assets. (And so if they won then holders of 3dfx stock would have gotten more shares of Nvidia stock.) The court finally ruled in 2008 in Nvidia's favor, and the TDFX stock ticker has become inactive.

[GriderTornado]

Blast this freaky Head off xD

[Quaker763]

WindheavenX and EspecteoDK I know how u feel. I had two 3d blasters (Very rare now) Sadly they got chucked mid 2004. Can't believe we got rid if them for a new 6600. F**k I was stupid. Even worse, last month I, :sniff: found my 3d blasted driver disk. Oh god f1rs was good on that card. eBay here I come. :)

[412525765]

wow, I guess this is a good way as any to pre-program people to accept the brain chip. clever predictive programming

[xpentor]

i like the music in the background i wonder whether theres a full version of it

[TPSkinny]

I used to have a 3DFX Voodoo3 card. I miss it =[

[commodore256]

@TPSkinny I bought one recently, but I didn't know it was AGP, I thought it was PCI.

[Hiraghm]

@commodore256

I just bought a Voodoo3 2000 board.

I have it running in a K-6 II 300mhz PC, running Dos 6.22 and WFW 3.11 with a Soundblaster Awe32 audio card. I love that machine!

Next project is a more powerful power supply and building a custom case for it.

[commodore256]

@Hiraghm Did you hear Dosbox in working on Voodoo1 Emulation?

Get a SB Live working, Voodoo2, Networking, emulate the Pentium III, have it take advantage of OpenCL and I would be a happy camper.

That would be the end all be all for dos/9x gaming.

[adambgunn]

@Hiraghm sweet :-)

[nfsmwplanet]

fuck the planet let's play games!!

[RingSight91]

At 0:51sec is FIFA99, which I have, but never had the pleasure of playing in a 3dfx machine in its heyday. And it is for that reason (among others) that I sourced a V5500 on eBay. Now if only I could get around to building the rest of the nostalgia gaming PC...

[nooblet911]

ironically it was not long after this commercial when they went bankrupt

[Hiraghm]

@nooblet911

All that suggests is that they got away from the Green nonsense too late.



[matthk]

It's this series of brilliant 3DFX ads which the producers of "Better Off Ted" based their "Veridian Dynamics" ads on.

[Mereo110]

I miss 3dfx, one of the best companies. They revolutionised the computer gaming world.

[pezcore64]

old 3dfx users havent forgotten what nvidia did to them! ill never buy an nvidia card ever again, even if it means not having the 'best' card at that moment in time.

p.s.

everyone go buy 3dfx stock! its only .003 cents a share!

[kless001]

3dfx stock @ .003 cents a share.. I laughed my ass off at that one, you had me thinking 3dfx had just started up again and I'm thinking "sure I'll invest, give em hell 3dfx hit nvidia where it hurts and take your technology back!"

[sticksquash]

@pezcore64 : Yeah, right now it neared 0.0007, people are selling out. What's the point in investing in a penny-stock again? They're not returning much back... I wonder how they pay off there debt... and how the CEO's have moved on.

[firebatas]

3dfx is not dead! I'm gonna have Voodoo2 SLI soon:)

[LordStickMax]

omg i downloaded this back in the day and watched it over and over. its still hilarious.

[TTK12G3]

I lol'd in real life.

[somethingawful01]

BLAST HIS FRIGGING HEAD OFF!!!

LMFAO!!! Absolutely fantastic! nVidia and AMD should learn from this.

[tapo]

Nvidia actually developed an API named CUDA to allow scientific applications to use Nvidia GPUs for processing a few thousand times faster than traditional CPUs.

So I don't think that's the message they'd like to send. :P

[benjojo12]

at 52 is half life 1

[Kynos1]

Their slogan was so true. Back in 1999/2000 I had a Riva TNT for a short time. I had performance problems with every single game. Then I bought a Voodoo 3 and could enjoy games like Utima IX and Unreal in all their splendour with awesome framerates.

[brokenmach1ne]

I wonder what agency did this -- so funny. Thanks for posting.

[windheavenX]

i miss my voodoo 4500 i hate nvidia...i wanna cry now....no really i do...

[thedungeondelver]

Okay, send me your nvidia card!

[EspectroDK]

I miss my Vodoo 1 card ;)

[christpunchers]

looked like michael bay directed this.

[Pylo01]

"That is our most awesome!"

...indeed it was...

[CaptExpendable]

3dfx made some awesome video cards... and I love this ad series "So powerful its kinda ridiculous."

[croclol]

so awesome

[lavbanka]

lmaooooooooooooooooo!!!!!! wow the best commercial ever!!!

[KAW0SZ]

blast his freaky head off !! [;