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points by mentos 3 days ago | 0 comments
I believe Jensen Huang said Doom was the game that launched NVIDIA?

So NeXT -> Doom -> Nvidia -> AI

[–] MrDOS 3 days ago
Doubtful. Doom was fully software-rendered. Quake, maybe?
[–] thewileyone 3 days ago
There was also 3DFX that led the way, before NVIDIA, with their Voodoo cards. The night and day difference of gaming on a Trident card vs a Voodoo card made grown men cry.
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