Post by @TechTangents@dialup.space

2026-05-09 00:26 UTC

And speaking of "Got it", the Sound Blaster Live X-Gamer which I found an example of in the box pretty recently! https://dialup.space/@TechTangents/115517101108958956 Also, some video card by a company that I'm sure won't go bankrupt 4 months after this ad was printed. Definitely not. (I would buy so many Voodoo 3 PCIs at $70 in the box now lol)

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@TechTangents@dialup.space 2026-05-09 00:30

Well, that was all the stuff that jumped out at me as interesting. It's a shame it was crumpled up and torn or I would try to archive it but I don't really think it's worth it. I'll end with this though, look back through at how many things had manufacture rebates as part of the discount price. Holy moly, I forgot how bad and scammy that was. At least that has basically died off now.

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@GamesMissed@mastodon.social 2026-05-09 00:49

@TechTangents@dialup.space That Voodoo3 card made such a huge difference because it was PCI. There were a ton of low-end computers being sold back at the end of the '90s with integrated video (I had friends with the horrifically bad Intel i740 on the motherboard), and no AGP slot. A PCI card that you could pop into a Celeron 333 to play Quake 3 with an acceptable frame rate was nearly miraculous.

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