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Blast from the past. I have extremely fond memories of moving into my first apartment in 1999 and having friends come over to play Quake on the “voodoo box”. I had three PCs, a 10BASE-T LAN, and one machine that had been upgraded to a 3dfx card. We would play rock, paper, scissors to determine who got to play on the 3dfx box and spend many an all nighter playing till the sun came up. Those were the days...



I still have my original Voodoo card. It's the one piece of computer hardware I've never been willing to throw away. I still remember spending 8 hours downloading the Quake demo and having my mind blown. The only other time that holds a candle to that is when I got the GLQuake version. No other game has ever taken me on a ride like that.


Same w/ my Voodoo2. I keep meaning to frame it.


I remember screaming when those giant polar bear type creatures would surprise me. It was such a step up over DukeNukem3D..


I’m pretty sure 1999 summer I spent playing Quake III Arena all day every day (the full game or demo) on my @Home broadband connection.


@hoom


Oh I remember those days; black coax crisscrossing rooms, loose terminators, deciding whether to go on a Quake or a thrash metal spree in the garage.




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