Thank you so much for the amazing reception to this video! As promised, I've checked out some newer games on the same PC to see how it holds up in subsequent years. ua-cam.com/video/ZB53To4Inf4/v-deo.html
Reminds me of meeting up with a friend of a friend who 'built computers'. My friend wanted one built and his friend told him "You can get a 450mhz cpu, but nobody will ever need one that fast!". Good times.
oh my god the nostalgia from this video was so powerful it made me feel really sad for some reason. Being a kid and exploring computers and video games was so exciting.
@@imetzl9340 but now you're an adult with responsibilities and the magic and innocence is gone, now you've seen where all that excitement led to and there's nothing better to look forward to. what people are nostalgic for is the not knowing, the naive hopes and dreams and unfulfilled possibilities. they're gone for us, now it's our turn to create those lies for the new generations.. supposedly.. you know what, screw them, I'm going to go play with AI
ironicaly, not single person had voodoo1 in my surroundings. It was overpriced, and many people didnt have computer at all, just was sparing for first one (usually Pentium 166 MMX, or K6-166). We had still DX2/66 during wholer 1997, 90% of my middle class friends, didnt have computer at all. Those who bought something new in 1997, usually had only some S3 Virge or Rage II inside. Never good 3d accelerator. So this is how in reality most of people played games in 1997... not like that 1% of enthusiasts, that put lots of money into it. The Pentium 166MMX-233MMX + voodoo1 build is out of the reality. It wasn't human-like computer. It was GOD-like computer, along with Pentium II 233-266. Only maniacs had it at home, or rich people, spoiled kids of rich businessemen. It's pity, that 90% content of retor computer, doing these maniacs. That's why everyone always build only Pentium 233 + Voodoo1 , in 90% cases. Only those maniacs, those 5% of population, remained maniacal about this hobby, and doing all retro stuff. Which isn't suprising. Normal people usually dont care about this hobby.
also, about overclocking. Not single person, in my surroundings, know about overclocking in 1997. It was only for biggest PC nerds and maniacs. It wasnt supported even by computer sellers, computer manufacturers, they always trying get rid of it. The people had fear from it, and there wasn't almost information (in 1997, still most of people didnt have internet, so computer pages as tomshardware, wasn't option). But even he started about overclocking in article in late 1996. So in 1997, 99,9% people don't know, or don't want to heard about overclocking. That's it. Overclocked machine, marked as "1997 build", is completly out of reality and historical correctness. I remember, the term overclocking I've heard first time in my life, in late 1998, when Celeron 300A was thing. But I didnt care about it, I only heard it like 2 or 3 times. I didnt have good feeling from it, so I never asked more about it, or trying to find out. (which was pity, now I know). Just saying, how it was in 1997.
I still have my old pentium 120Mhz @133 from '96 and it has the same case as yours. I could never afford a 3D accelerator so I was stuck with a Virge S3 with 2MB for several years. Thank you very much for this video, it brought back good memories especially watching GTA.
@@blackterminal Cool, mine had OC and it was the only PC I did that to. A few months ago I threw away several P2, P3 and a P4 even a pentium 120 with a beautiful retro box, I had to get rid of them because I was running out of room unfortunately.😭
Also Virge S3 user from that time here, what a time it was. To bad I had to sell my first rig because otherwise I could not afford my next upgrade. Now having RTX 4090 I like to make a thought experiments on how many orders of magnitude there is a difference between the two, if one can only compare them in at least one discipline .
This video reminded me of several games I played as a child and had forgotten the names of. It also brought me a nostalgic feeling mixed with a certain type of sadness, but it's not a bad thing, it's more like melancholy... Or a longing for something or a time that won't come back. Thank you for that! This video made my day! 🥰
Wow, you gave me so much Nostalgia, the megatrends bios screen, the engerystar logo.. and then you started the cop game, i had the first beginner stage as demo, so many memories. Thanks!!
The wild west days of early 3D acceleration were awesome since every solution looked really unique. I really loved the smooth but still sharp image that CIF drew. PowerSGL was also really nice to look at.
Heh, the cursor icon in Theme Hospital is a syringe. Try getting away with that these days 😁Thanks for the video... I played a lot of these back in the day.
First PC I gamed on back in 97 was almost this exact same build, including the case. I loved that PC and wish I still had it. From the moment I gamed on it, I was sold on PC gaming, and done with consoles.
The nostalgia from this video is incredible. I played quite a few of these games back in the day. Some notable mentions not in the video were: Big Red Racing, Duke Nukem 3D, Death Rally (Duke Nukem was a playable character in it), Monster Truck Madness, Hexen II, Carmageddon, Blood, Postal, Redneck Rampage, Total Annihilation, MDK, Diablo, F22 Raptor, Joint Strike Fighter, Microsoft Flight Simulator 98', POD (Also one of the first games to leverage MMX), and Subspace. I played so many games back then and consider the late 90s as the golden era of PC gaming.
I remember going to the computer store in the mall with my dad in the 90s. Every time a new game came out he had to get a new graphics card and a new sound card, the simple task of playing a new game consisted of almoat a week of rebuilding, configuring, and updating the computer. When we finally got to the point of playing the game... It had to install for three days.
I had 486DX2@66 that I upgraded, overclocked, etc and later (because of Quake and Starcraft) I upgraded it to a P1@90 that I upgraded a lot too (classic upgrades: RAM, Video, Sound, CDROM, etc). At one point, when I had the 486 I got a Voodoo 1 card that I tried to use with Win95 and some dos games. However, for my games it proved not too interesting and I saw no huge improvemet in graphics. So, I passed , also because of the price, maybe. Glad to see one building an retro PC without a Voodoo card, like most mortals used. Software rendering and DirectX were good for Trident TGUi and S3Trio at resolutions of 800x600. Also I do not get the OPL3 mania when there were many other sound cards like ESS Audiodrive, ALS 100/100+/120, Aureal Vortex, Ensoniq and others that sounded well or maybe better than some Creative sound cards with OPL3, in my opinion.
Having 1 video card certainly simplifies the setup, not having to bother with as many resource conflicts, not to mention the video quality benefits. I love the ESS Audiodrive too! Great card, I use one in my Pentium 3 build. Super good compatibility and great sound quality. I just so happened to have this SB16 sitting in my cupboard as I've never even used it since I got it. So it was a good opportunity for me and something a lot of people and OEMs would have picked back in 97.
Reminds me of the good ol days. I remember my grandfather's 40 mb hard-drive and it wasn't long before he was rolling with a 20gb hdd. I was born 1 week after the release of the first windows os and since my grandfather was sort of geeky I got to watch all this technology come and go. He still has all of his old nightowl disks and I kinda want to build a system to run them. That win 95 sampler was also a highlight.
Ah, the times when you had to delete a game to play another game. My first pc was 166mmx with 16mb of ram, and, i think, 1 GB hdd. The space was a struggle.
In late 97 my dad bought me and my brothers a PC with Cyrix 686MX CPU, 32mb of RAM memory, 1.2GB hard drive and 3DFX Voodoo 1 on board. Oh man, I will never forgot how shocked I was when playing Cyber Gladiators, Shadows of the Empire and Turok... Later on Quake 2, Hexen 2, Jedi Knight and Unreal.... Such a wondeful time.
Thank you for 500 subscribers! I suppose I did forget to "talk more about the USB card". Essentially I wanted to get USB working on Windows 95, but I didn't even get as far as installing the usb thumb drive driver for 95, as my USB card itself was not supported by Windows 95. Oh well. I use another CF card with a different OS to copy files over from USB for convenience. Also I don't think I've said Super Socket 7 once in the video, though this is a Super Socket 7 motherboard. To me the two always just felt the same, the only difference being the AGP port and higher bus speed support.
I had the same issue, my Opti USB card is supported starting from Win98. I have an Aladdin onboard USB though which is supported by W95, but I did not have a header and back panel to actually test it apart from installing the drivers...
Wow this video is jam packed with '97 classics... International Rally Championship, Ignition, NFS2, Theme Hospital played them all! I wish I knew about GTA low color mode though. A few honourable mentions of '97 classics: Constructor, LBA2, The Curse of Monkey Island.
Kudos and glad you had that chunk of nostalgia back! I remember back some years my first ever computer was a Windows 3.1 machine with barely any games, but I still remember from there the 2d Duke Nukem series (pixelart hehe)
Awesome friend, remembered my childood, my first computer was a Pentium II, 350mhz with Windows 98, and i played some of these games you showed. Thanks a lot. Greetings from Brazil.
I see retro pc's of the 90s more and more in my social streams. And there I am: are we vintage now? This was 'just' my teenage years playing with this kind of stuff :D
Like! 110 FSB on a Pentium MMX is really impressive. And 275 mhz at stock voltage is also very nice. I guess at 275 mhz (2.5x110 FSB) it should have a similar performance to the P2 233 mhz.
@@3dfxvoodoocards6 That Pentium MMX model was internally called "Tillamook", had a smaller manufacturing process, lower voltage, and 266Mhz from factory. There are some info and some videos available ;) ua-cam.com/video/fqB4yCssUCM/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Atheatos
Tomb Raider, Croc, Ignition, Quake, Star Wars Jedi Knight, Dark Forces II... Fantastic games. Played some of them on a system as low as a Cyrix 133 Mhz with a Matrox Mystique 2 mb (later upgraded to 4 mb, yes you could by an memory upgrade for the card!). Great video! Thanks!
Ah the nostalgia... This is what a true PC looks outside and inside! Looks just like mine back in the day. This was before cable management was invented. You just plugged in the cables and they landed where ever they wanted.
I had a Pentium 166 (not MMX) which was a dumb purchase at the time since MMX CPUs were the better choice, but I remember it had an S3 Trio 64/UV+ with memory upgrade and a Matrox M3D. I would definitely love to have it again so I could upgrade it with a 233 MMX, Riva TNT AGP, 3Dfx Voodoo 3 PCI and M3D PCI. One can only dream...
@@PROSTO4Tabal Since then I moderated my expectations for the hardware I can get and the space I can afford, so I reduced my retro machines to only two: a Pentium 3 1Ghz with FX 5600 + Voodoo 2 SLI (and maybe a M3D if the opportunity presents itself) for DOS/98 games, and a Xeon E5450 3Ghz + GTS 450 for XP/7 slightly less retro games, both installed on old cases that I used throughout the years for nostalgia points. They both use only one keyboard, mouse, monitor and stereo speakers through a Belkin KVM switch for even more space saving.
nice video ! I rememeber playing Internationa Rally championship on my p1 system (which I still own) in 1997 )) Also liked to play Jedi Knight/Dark ForcesII in PII-PIII era - preferred it to QuakeI-II series)
I like how passionate you are about the voodoo magic :P I am a fan of the 3dfx cards but i think they have their place Sometimes i actually prefer how software rendering looks!
Yeah, I've been following the retro pc community on youtube for quite a while now and the landscape is definitely saturated by voodoo builds and detailing how magical they are. 😂 I do also have a soft spot for how some games look in software renderer mode. Don't get me wrong, the Voodoo 1 was an impressive card for the time, especially when paired with a lower end machine, and there are some DOS games to this day that can only be enjoyed in their full glory on one of them. But I do think the cult following they have is a bit over the top. Not to mention, that later cards were easily outdone by the competition. I do plan on doing a more in-depth video taking a look at the phenomenon and good alternatives.
I had the exact same computer case in my first PC of my own. It was a 486DX4/100 Mhz, ZIDA 4DVS 8MB RAM board, 245MB Seagate drive, Avance Logic ALS120 sound card clone SB16 Pro + WaveTable module and Cirrus Logic GD5428 1MB VLB graphics card.
No Brasil foram vendidos vários PCs com esse modelo de gabinete, eu me lembro de ter visto um gabinete desse mesmo modelo, ATX com 3baias frontais para drives de CD/DVD-ROM.
Saw the thumbnail on this video and I immediately clicked on it. This is the same PC case of our first computer 486dx33 and would like to build a sleeper PC using this case if ever I could find one
I had a PC with the same case in the past, surprising to find someone who had the same case. I mean, at the time I didn't know the model or brand of it, excellent to find it
Interstate 76 seems to run with no Z-Buffer. That leads to this ugly popping textures in the landscape and also the tyres sticking through the car´s bodywork. But I doubt that is also related to the low FPS in 1st person view.
I had a non-3DFX computer in 1998... for a few months... I was a kid and didn't know I was supposed to connect the Voodoo2 to the primary graphic card. 😭 After studying by myself computers in magazines (I didn't even have internet), I connected the Voodoo2, and when I played games again, the difference was mindblowing. Redline Racer, Ultimate Race Pro, Need for Speed 3, Speed Busters, Rogue Squadron... They all looked so great.
Nice video! Well everyone likes the 3dfx cards because they were simply the best from late-1996 to late-1999. Anyway the overclock to 275 mhz with such a high fsb is really amazing, most probably the performance increased by around 30%. It is a very nice 1997 retro system but with a Voodoo 1 it would have been fantastic.
OMG, you even got one of those Elipse cages. They were everywhere, and they were terrible. A friend of mine had it and working on the computer was synonymous of bleeding and scratches 😄 Tons of Pentium 90, 100 and 120 were sold with them. Also, it totally fascinates me that you find our old PC monstrosities charming 😁 I am an 80s kid and for me the cool machines are the microcomputers, hehe.
I wish i could remember exactly what specs my old $2,500 Gateway 2000 17" from Gateway store had. Came with a fancy add on subwoofer tweeter system. All i remember is it had Vodoo 3DFX something and I remember beating the game Driver with stunning smooth graphics. I played that game forever about the same as a N64s whole existence
omfg I finally get the chance to know the name of this hidden gem of my childhood memories, yes I'm talking about Interstate 76. Lol i remember playing the heck out of it on my cousin`s PC back in the day and never remembered its name till seeing this video 😂
Still played games in software render at the time but there were games coming out that only worked with a 3d graphic card. I remember Redline Racer the next year coming out and it was a big FU to users who still had pcs without a 3d gpu.
My dad bought a PC with the exact same case except the one we had was a 486 of some variety running Windows 3.11. Afaik they bought it back in 1995 as part of a complete PC bundle. Lasted until 2002 at best.
omg I became nostalgic seeing the old PC which is similar what I was using back then And I completely don't miss these times. I never understood, even in 1997, why PC have to be so big, heavy and complicated. I think the case was made out of 1mm robust metal. And of course I had a big tower case, a huge big beige monolith under my table that sounded like a washing machine is going to explode when the CD drive started to work. oh dear... back then computers gave a feeling of adventure and when building one on your own, it was like building the DeLorean from Back to the Future lol
Thank you so much for the amazing reception to this video! As promised, I've checked out some newer games on the same PC to see how it holds up in subsequent years. ua-cam.com/video/ZB53To4Inf4/v-deo.html
Nice to see retro stuff around this time that does not need a 3dfx Voodoo.
Reminds me of meeting up with a friend of a friend who 'built computers'. My friend wanted one built and his friend told him "You can get a 450mhz cpu, but nobody will ever need one that fast!". Good times.
I remember the salesman at pcworld in 1994, "4 meg of ram is good, 8 meg is a luxery"
@@Mortalfarmerfor the price it maybe was 😅
a expensive and fast computer in 1997 was a 233mhz, 64mb ram, 8gb hard drive, voodoo rush video card.
They still say this dude. That's why i got angry and got the 13900k instead of 13700k 😂 some things never change.
I was told when buying a 2GB HDD it'd be like trying to fill a warehouse with match sticks.
oh my god the nostalgia from this video was so powerful it made me feel really sad for some reason. Being a kid and exploring computers and video games was so exciting.
It still is!
@@imetzl9340 but now you're an adult with responsibilities and the magic and innocence is gone, now you've seen where all that excitement led to and there's nothing better to look forward to. what people are nostalgic for is the not knowing, the naive hopes and dreams and unfulfilled possibilities. they're gone for us, now it's our turn to create those lies for the new generations.. supposedly.. you know what, screw them, I'm going to go play with AI
Bruh thats a great topic! Almost all videos focus on 3dfx and thats what has been imposed on us, retro gamers. Late 90s = 3dfx voodoo.
ironicaly, not single person had voodoo1 in my surroundings.
It was overpriced, and many people didnt have computer at all, just was sparing for first one (usually Pentium 166 MMX, or K6-166).
We had still DX2/66 during wholer 1997, 90% of my middle class friends, didnt have computer at all.
Those who bought something new in 1997, usually had only some S3 Virge or Rage II inside. Never good 3d accelerator.
So this is how in reality most of people played games in 1997... not like that 1% of enthusiasts, that put lots of money into it.
The Pentium 166MMX-233MMX + voodoo1 build is out of the reality. It wasn't human-like computer. It was GOD-like computer, along with Pentium II 233-266. Only maniacs had it at home, or rich people, spoiled kids of rich businessemen.
It's pity, that 90% content of retor computer, doing these maniacs. That's why everyone always build only Pentium 233 + Voodoo1 , in 90% cases. Only those maniacs, those 5% of population, remained maniacal about this hobby, and doing all retro stuff. Which isn't suprising. Normal people usually dont care about this hobby.
also, about overclocking.
Not single person, in my surroundings, know about overclocking in 1997.
It was only for biggest PC nerds and maniacs. It wasnt supported even by computer sellers, computer manufacturers, they always trying get rid of it. The people had fear from it, and there wasn't almost information (in 1997, still most of people didnt have internet, so computer pages as tomshardware, wasn't option).
But even he started about overclocking in article in late 1996.
So in 1997, 99,9% people don't know, or don't want to heard about overclocking. That's it.
Overclocked machine, marked as "1997 build", is completly out of reality and historical correctness.
I remember, the term overclocking I've heard first time in my life, in late 1998, when Celeron 300A was thing.
But I didnt care about it, I only heard it like 2 or 3 times. I didnt have good feeling from it, so I never asked more about it, or trying to find out. (which was pity, now I know). Just saying, how it was in 1997.
I still have my old pentium 120Mhz @133 from '96 and it has the same case as yours. I could never afford a 3D accelerator so I was stuck with a Virge S3 with 2MB for several years.
Thank you very much for this video, it brought back good memories especially watching GTA.
Perfect for all build engine games. Blood , Duke, shadow warrior, heretic, etc. Boot into dos ;D
I still have a p133. It was a p100 but i swapped the cpu many years later. I never had a 3dfx either.
@@oldschooldude8370 Of course, I played all of them and also a lot of quake to this day.😄
@@blackterminal Cool, mine had OC and it was the only PC I did that to.
A few months ago I threw away several P2, P3 and a P4 even a pentium 120 with a beautiful retro box, I had to get rid of them because I was running out of room unfortunately.😭
Also Virge S3 user from that time here, what a time it was. To bad I had to sell my first rig because otherwise I could not afford my next upgrade. Now having RTX 4090 I like to make a thought experiments on how many orders of magnitude there is a difference between the two, if one can only compare them in at least one discipline .
This video reminded me of several games I played as a child and had forgotten the names of. It also brought me a nostalgic feeling mixed with a certain type of sadness, but it's not a bad thing, it's more like melancholy... Or a longing for something or a time that won't come back. Thank you for that! This video made my day! 🥰
I never had a 3dfx Voodoo in the 90s and i had a good gaming Experience, i had a Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT) 16 MB Card.
I love the look of the low color mode in GTA 1, it kinda looks like autumn.
Wow, you gave me so much Nostalgia, the megatrends bios screen, the engerystar logo.. and then you started the cop game, i had the first beginner stage as demo, so many memories. Thanks!!
1997 was a great year, probably my favourite, was a year of complete positivity..
❤
Depends where in the world you lived.
The wild west days of early 3D acceleration were awesome since every solution looked really unique. I really loved the smooth but still sharp image that CIF drew. PowerSGL was also really nice to look at.
Heh, the cursor icon in Theme Hospital is a syringe. Try getting away with that these days 😁Thanks for the video... I played a lot of these back in the day.
First PC I gamed on back in 97 was almost this exact same build, including the case. I loved that PC and wish I still had it. From the moment I gamed on it, I was sold on PC gaming, and done with consoles.
I still have my 1997 PC with a Maxi Tower. Room for 5 DVD drives.
Ah, the good old days! Quake, Blade Runner, Age Of Empires, Resident Evil and so on, that was our wonderland and all we needed.
International Rally Championship is so nostalgic for me, lots of memories.
same :(
Wow this was a perfect nostaliga trip back to my childhood. Awesome video!
Great choice of games. A lot of my favs from back-in-the-day there
The three main racing games of my early teens.
Thank you.
IRC, F1 '97 and NFS2SE
I find that it's rare tech-tubers use those games as presentation.
Interstate 76 have always been a challenge, back then and even now in the retro-game era.
INTERSTATE 76, first pearson view frame drop because at that time it was only smooth on the 3dfx but only with 8mb ram. cheap comercial deal!
insane how well games were optimised
@Agamaz5650, just like now :(
yeah you get drss on default xd@@eichi24
Its not insane, it is normal, what is insane is how badly games are optimized these days.
Now games run like shit on beast hardware XD
@@BuXnAMaN Dude. Exactly
I never thought I will ever see Ignition played these days on UA-cam. Played it a lot as a kid so it extremely nostalgic to watch.
The nostalgia from this video is incredible. I played quite a few of these games back in the day. Some notable mentions not in the video were: Big Red Racing, Duke Nukem 3D, Death Rally (Duke Nukem was a playable character in it), Monster Truck Madness, Hexen II, Carmageddon, Blood, Postal, Redneck Rampage, Total Annihilation, MDK, Diablo, F22 Raptor, Joint Strike Fighter, Microsoft Flight Simulator 98', POD (Also one of the first games to leverage MMX), and Subspace. I played so many games back then and consider the late 90s as the golden era of PC gaming.
I remember going to the computer store in the mall with my dad in the 90s. Every time a new game came out he had to get a new graphics card and a new sound card, the simple task of playing a new game consisted of almoat a week of rebuilding, configuring, and updating the computer. When we finally got to the point of playing the game... It had to install for three days.
I had 486DX2@66 that I upgraded, overclocked, etc and later (because of Quake and Starcraft) I upgraded it to a P1@90 that I upgraded a lot too (classic upgrades: RAM, Video, Sound, CDROM, etc). At one point, when I had the 486 I got a Voodoo 1 card that I tried to use with Win95 and some dos games. However, for my games it proved not too interesting and I saw no huge improvemet in graphics. So, I passed , also because of the price, maybe.
Glad to see one building an retro PC without a Voodoo card, like most mortals used. Software rendering and DirectX were good for Trident TGUi and S3Trio at resolutions of 800x600.
Also I do not get the OPL3 mania when there were many other sound cards like ESS Audiodrive, ALS 100/100+/120, Aureal Vortex, Ensoniq and others that sounded well or maybe better than some Creative sound cards with OPL3, in my opinion.
Having 1 video card certainly simplifies the setup, not having to bother with as many resource conflicts, not to mention the video quality benefits.
I love the ESS Audiodrive too! Great card, I use one in my Pentium 3 build. Super good compatibility and great sound quality. I just so happened to have this SB16 sitting in my cupboard as I've never even used it since I got it. So it was a good opportunity for me and something a lot of people and OEMs would have picked back in 97.
Reminds me of the good ol days. I remember my grandfather's 40 mb hard-drive and it wasn't long before he was rolling with a 20gb hdd. I was born 1 week after the release of the first windows os and since my grandfather was sort of geeky I got to watch all this technology come and go. He still has all of his old nightowl disks and I kinda want to build a system to run them. That win 95 sampler was also a highlight.
Ah, the times when you had to delete a game to play another game. My first pc was 166mmx with 16mb of ram, and, i think, 1 GB hdd. The space was a struggle.
In late 97 my dad bought me and my brothers a PC with Cyrix 686MX CPU, 32mb of RAM memory, 1.2GB hard drive and 3DFX Voodoo 1 on board. Oh man, I will never forgot how shocked I was when playing Cyber Gladiators, Shadows of the Empire and Turok... Later on Quake 2, Hexen 2, Jedi Knight and Unreal.... Such a wondeful time.
The desktop and those video game icons just took me down on a memory lane. God i miss my childhood. Thanks for video. Made my day
Thank you for 500 subscribers!
I suppose I did forget to "talk more about the USB card". Essentially I wanted to get USB working on Windows 95, but I didn't even get as far as installing the usb thumb drive driver for 95, as my USB card itself was not supported by Windows 95. Oh well. I use another CF card with a different OS to copy files over from USB for convenience.
Also I don't think I've said Super Socket 7 once in the video, though this is a Super Socket 7 motherboard. To me the two always just felt the same, the only difference being the AGP port and higher bus speed support.
I had the same issue, my Opti USB card is supported starting from Win98. I have an Aladdin onboard USB though which is supported by W95, but I did not have a header and back panel to actually test it apart from installing the drivers...
Windows 95b or 95c I believe has USB support
@@HDbacon That's not enough alone. You also need drivers for the USB host chip.
Wow this video is jam packed with '97 classics... International Rally Championship, Ignition, NFS2, Theme Hospital played them all! I wish I knew about GTA low color mode though. A few honourable mentions of '97 classics: Constructor, LBA2, The Curse of Monkey Island.
Nostalgia overdrive. 1997 - 1999 were the golden years gaming wise for me
IRC and Croc?! Thanks for a joyful bit of nostalgia!
Kudos and glad you had that chunk of nostalgia back! I remember back some years my first ever computer was a Windows 3.1 machine with barely any games, but I still remember from there the 2d Duke Nukem series (pixelart hehe)
Takes me back to the time when I used to work in an independent games and pc store in the mid to late 1990’s.
I was there Gandalf, I was there.
nice reminder of the visual progress jumps games like Quake and Unreal offered , it was jaw dropping ...
Awesome friend, remembered my childood, my first computer was a Pentium II, 350mhz with Windows 98, and i played some of these games you showed.
Thanks a lot.
Greetings from Brazil.
Geez, my childhood memories kicked in so much! I played every game from this
This is food for thought. Most PC owners didn't bother with a graphics card, didn't know what they were.
Awesome stuff sir! Thanks! Games back then just worked without microtransactions.
I see retro pc's of the 90s more and more in my social streams. And there I am: are we vintage now? This was 'just' my teenage years playing with this kind of stuff :D
Yes, especially technology has accelerated quickly.
I remember being able to go underground with the tank in early GTA. I don't know if it was a bug or a feature but this game made my childhood.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Those were some good times.
Like! 110 FSB on a Pentium MMX is really impressive. And 275 mhz at stock voltage is also very nice. I guess at 275 mhz (2.5x110 FSB) it should have a similar performance to the P2 233 mhz.
have a 233MMX what runs @300Mhz :P
@@analog303 300 mhz for a P1 233 MMX is really impressive. It would be nice to see some gameplay and banchmarks with it :)
I have a Pentium MMX 266 running at 400 Mhz. A PII 300 is faster but not as cool ;)
@@Romerco77 a Pentium MMX at 400 mhz ?!? I never heard about that. Would be nice to see a video.
@@3dfxvoodoocards6 That Pentium MMX model was internally called "Tillamook", had a smaller manufacturing process, lower voltage, and 266Mhz from factory. There are some info and some videos available ;) ua-cam.com/video/fqB4yCssUCM/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Atheatos
Tomb Raider, Croc, Ignition, Quake, Star Wars Jedi Knight, Dark Forces II... Fantastic games. Played some of them on a system as low as a Cyrix 133 Mhz with a Matrox Mystique 2 mb (later upgraded to 4 mb, yes you could by an memory upgrade for the card!). Great video! Thanks!
Thank you! I went back 26 years in time, in my childhood!
Quite the trip down memory lane! Thank you for sharing!
Ah the nostalgia... This is what a true PC looks outside and inside! Looks just like mine back in the day.
This was before cable management was invented. You just plugged in the cables and they landed where ever they wanted.
It’s so nice to see videos that don’t pretend everyone had a Voodoo1
Interstate '76 was my Jam in 1998. Loved it.
What a nostalgia. This was my first PC case, i believe 1996. Pentium 1 100 MHz, 32 MB SDR, Riva TNT, 14 (ball) CRT Philips....
I also went with the TNT. No agp slot in my motherboard
@@jimjones3482 Yeah, PCI :D
Great video! Made me nostalgic and went and downloaded win95 for virtual machine to play around with it for a bit. Thank you! Cheers!
I loved international rally championship so much
19:43 i used to love this rally game, it had snow, ice, mud ....looked so realistic to me as a kid
Pentium 150 Mhz... Quake, Day of the tentacle, Monkey island 🤩 Ignition lo avevo, lo avevo consumato a forza di giocarci :D
I had a Pentium 166 (not MMX) which was a dumb purchase at the time since MMX CPUs were the better choice, but I remember it had an S3 Trio 64/UV+ with memory upgrade and a Matrox M3D. I would definitely love to have it again so I could upgrade it with a 233 MMX, Riva TNT AGP, 3Dfx Voodoo 3 PCI and M3D PCI. One can only dream...
I do collect pc hardware since 2005 I have all you wrote. You can build your own favourite retro pc. I recommend inwin a500 pc case
@@PROSTO4Tabal Since then I moderated my expectations for the hardware I can get and the space I can afford, so I reduced my retro machines to only two: a Pentium 3 1Ghz with FX 5600 + Voodoo 2 SLI (and maybe a M3D if the opportunity presents itself) for DOS/98 games, and a Xeon E5450 3Ghz + GTS 450 for XP/7 slightly less retro games, both installed on old cases that I used throughout the years for nostalgia points. They both use only one keyboard, mouse, monitor and stereo speakers through a Belkin KVM switch for even more space saving.
nice video ! I rememeber playing Internationa Rally championship on my p1 system (which I still own) in 1997 )) Also liked to play Jedi Knight/Dark ForcesII in PII-PIII era - preferred it to QuakeI-II series)
windows 7 was gd tho I still use the interface on my w10 i hate w10 design i was just playn RiVen on w10 or managed to do so with great difficulty.
so much nostalgia ! im glad to see IRC and tomb raider its all my childhood in my dads office lol
great work and it looks like you had tons of fun
I almost cried when I saw virtal cop 2 damn memories come rushing back. Player one play with mouse and player 2 play with numpad
I like how passionate you are about the voodoo magic :P I am a fan of the 3dfx cards but i think they have their place
Sometimes i actually prefer how software rendering looks!
Yeah, I've been following the retro pc community on youtube for quite a while now and the landscape is definitely saturated by voodoo builds and detailing how magical they are. 😂 I do also have a soft spot for how some games look in software renderer mode.
Don't get me wrong, the Voodoo 1 was an impressive card for the time, especially when paired with a lower end machine, and there are some DOS games to this day that can only be enjoyed in their full glory on one of them. But I do think the cult following they have is a bit over the top. Not to mention, that later cards were easily outdone by the competition.
I do plan on doing a more in-depth video taking a look at the phenomenon and good alternatives.
I had the exact same computer case in my first PC of my own. It was a 486DX4/100 Mhz, ZIDA 4DVS 8MB RAM board, 245MB Seagate drive, Avance Logic ALS120 sound card clone SB16 Pro + WaveTable module and Cirrus Logic GD5428 1MB VLB graphics card.
International Rally, I still play it until today. It's so relaxing!
I had exactly same PC case in 1997. Cyrix 120 MHz overclocked to 133 MHz, 16 MB RAM and 1 GB HDD.
I played the hell out of Ignition. What good times those were.
No Brasil foram vendidos vários PCs com esse modelo de gabinete, eu me lembro de ter visto um gabinete desse mesmo modelo, ATX com 3baias frontais para drives de CD/DVD-ROM.
Eu mesmo tive um desses também kkkk
Saw the thumbnail on this video and I immediately clicked on it. This is the same PC case of our first computer 486dx33 and would like to build a sleeper PC using this case if ever I could find one
I had a PC with the same case in the past, surprising to find someone who had the same case. I mean, at the time I didn't know the model or brand of it, excellent to find it
My late dad bought me a Pentium II 350 Mhz in 1998 in Karachi, Pakistan. I used it mostly to play games like RE2, NBA, Outcast, and others.
Dude Ignition! Loved that game when I was a teen. I'd love a good switch port of that game, so much fun.
Without any graphic cards! That's the real getto experience we all had haha lovely!!
Software rendering..
Yup. I remember.
I played Half Life for the first time on a 166MHz Pentium with software rendering.
Interstate 76 seems to run with no Z-Buffer. That leads to this ugly popping textures in the landscape and also the tyres sticking through the car´s bodywork. But I doubt that is also related to the low FPS in 1st person view.
that video brought me back. sad & happy. THX
Haha awesome. I had a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI... regular PCI, before PCI-E existed. My motherboard didn't have an AGP slot.
How I grew up, without ever seeing Voodoo/3DFX
I loved you saying "another voodoo card", people that have that card apparently are full of themselves so I appreciate the ones that don't have it...
I had a non-3DFX computer in 1998... for a few months...
I was a kid and didn't know I was supposed to connect the Voodoo2 to the primary graphic card. 😭
After studying by myself computers in magazines (I didn't even have internet), I connected the Voodoo2,
and when I played games again, the difference was mindblowing.
Redline Racer, Ultimate Race Pro, Need for Speed 3, Speed Busters, Rogue Squadron... They all looked so great.
I loved this video. Thanks for making it.
what a choise of games! Basically my childhood in 1 vídeo hahaha
Some of my fonded memories as a kid were playing the original GTA and Doom like this.. Oh and Delta Force with Novalogic online.
Nice video! Well everyone likes the 3dfx cards because they were simply the best from late-1996 to late-1999. Anyway the overclock to 275 mhz with such a high fsb is really amazing, most probably the performance increased by around 30%. It is a very nice 1997 retro system but with a Voodoo 1 it would have been fantastic.
Cool man. Didn't think Model 1 /2 games like Virtua Cop would run so well without dedicated graphics.
My first PC was a Pentium II 233Mhz MMX. Voodoo 3Dfx-card! 32MB RAM And 2GB HD
Played Outcast and Trespasser trough on 10 Frames per Second :D
I still remember the day I installed my 3Dfx Voodoo. I was blind and saw the light.
OMG, you even got one of those Elipse cages. They were everywhere, and they were terrible. A friend of mine had it and working on the computer was synonymous of bleeding and scratches 😄 Tons of Pentium 90, 100 and 120 were sold with them. Also, it totally fascinates me that you find our old PC monstrosities charming 😁 I am an 80s kid and for me the cool machines are the microcomputers, hehe.
NFS2 looks awesome for its time!
Windows 95 nostalgia where era gaming started GTA, Tomb Raider, Resident Evil, Quake, Doom, Hexen, Heretic, Prehistoric etc.
I love how electronics in this pc looks like electronic unlike todays flashy toys.
I wish i could remember exactly what specs my old $2,500 Gateway 2000 17" from Gateway store had. Came with a fancy add on subwoofer tweeter system. All i remember is it had Vodoo 3DFX something and I remember beating the game Driver with stunning smooth graphics. I played that game forever about the same as a N64s whole existence
3dfx Voodoo... now that is a name I haven't heard in a long time.
Awesome !!! Thanks for uploading
omfg I finally get the chance to know the name of this hidden gem of my childhood memories, yes I'm talking about Interstate 76. Lol i remember playing the heck out of it on my cousin`s PC back in the day and never remembered its name till seeing this video 😂
I totally remember trying to play that racing game from the thumbnail as a kid
thanks .. i searched a long time for Internationally Rally Championship
Amazing vídeo and nostalgic excelent games! Thanks and sucess!
Wow... IRC gave me such a nostalgia trip.
Still played games in software render at the time but there were games coming out that only worked with a 3d graphic card. I remember Redline Racer the next year coming out and it was a big FU to users who still had pcs without a 3d gpu.
My dad bought a PC with the exact same case except the one we had was a 486 of some variety running Windows 3.11. Afaik they bought it back in 1995 as part of a complete PC bundle. Lasted until 2002 at best.
omg I became nostalgic seeing the old PC which is similar what I was using back then
And I completely don't miss these times. I never understood, even in 1997, why PC have to be so big, heavy and complicated. I think the case was made out of 1mm robust metal. And of course I had a big tower case, a huge big beige monolith under my table that sounded like a washing machine is going to explode when the CD drive started to work.
oh dear... back then computers gave a feeling of adventure and when building one on your own, it was like building the DeLorean from Back to the Future lol
Wild times. Computers were expensive as hell and they were _completely_ obsolete in 3 years tops.