History of PC Gaming

PC Gaming History. How PC gaming evolved and where it's going. PC Gaming industry leaders discuss the global gaming landscape and how it has affected their lives.

[Kaos]

Seeing Grant Imahara in this hurts with his passing. I am sure when he recorded this he did not think in less than 10 years time he would no longer be alive. RIP Grant, I enjoyed watching you on Mythbusters.

[midnightshade]

This is so wrong.... the part about inventing the gpu... 3DFX invented the PC hardware accelerator add-in card, it required a 2d card as well.. Ever hear of Voodoo graphics.  The voodoo banshee was their first all in one card... but it was a gpu and this was before nvidia came on the scene. 3dfx also invented SLI, which nvidia now uses the name, it involves having two grfx cards hooked together rendering alternating pixel rows.  Voodoo used an Api called glide which most games at the time ran flawlessly on.. It was essentially an Open-GL like api that had 3dfx specific instructions.  It rocked for any Unreal based game and games like Thief and Deus ex, need for speed etc.. ran better on glide. DirectX was crap until DX7, which didn't hit until 2000. 3dfx made a bad investment, bought STB and started making thier own cards instead of letting other companies make the cards, like they did for the voodoo 1, and 2. Nvidia and Ati let others make the cards for them. This investment killed 3dfx and they missed releasing the 4 gpu 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 (I owned a 2gpu voodoo 5 5500 at the time)..  They ran out of cash, and went bankrupt in winter 2000. Nvidia then bought all their assets and their engineers, as well as the rights to their technologies. It's why nvidia uses SLI and ati ues the phrase crossfire and not SLI.  

Everything else about this video is right but the part about nvidia inventing the gpu, as they did not. It's disingenuous for them to say that, and disregard the history that 3DFX started all those years ago... I remember because I just got out of high school when the first voodoo card came out to market. Voodoo 2 was a killer for GL Quake and Quake 2 back in the day!

[darknezz]

3dfx started those gpus, and before that there were others. Nvidia simply bought them out later down the road.

[lemagreengreen]

SGI invented the GPU.

3dfx brought it en masse to the PC.

[irwiss]

History of PC Gaming

"Aug 31st 1999 NVIDIA invents the world's first GPU..."

Sigh... I know this is advertisement and marketing bullshit, but you can say "one of the world's first GPUs" and still it would sound fine, because otherwise it is factually incorrect.

[RujenBajracharya]

Bring backs memory of mine first game in PC

[Jpelley]

8:16 Blizzard released WoW on November 23, 2004. Not 2005.

[VariantAEC]

Ok I ge PC the centric history, but this seems historically inaccurate.

[Neutrinoce]

9:23 "a new genre", says the guy who ripped of DayZ :P

[temptor]

honestly, i thought we'd be further along in PC gaming technology by now.

[gowensbach]

I knew a guy who would tell his wife he had to work late so he could play Doom, as she didn’t approve of him playing it. I remember the early days when PC gaming had a bad rap

[duncangibb]

The Voodoo Gfx card came out 11 months before the Nvidia Riva. Glide was the main API for ages. your video has it wrong, oh, and its pronounced "ZED-X 81", not "ZEE-X 81". 2/10 for effort.

[temptor]

I began with Quake 3 and Return to Castle Wolfenstein and haven't looked back since

[DeathBringer]

People raided in Everquest.. Don't know why they are saying WoW was the birth of raiding.. it just turned millions of people onto its existence and organized it further than any other game had before then.

[Icenfyre]

i started with UT99 then CS 1.6 and never looked back ever since

[AzakaSekai]

Okay, am I the only one who went 'wat' after seeing Grant here

[dreadlordstu]

this is more of a marketing video than anything else. I am an Nvidia user but the history is very selective and quite innacurate.  0 mentions of ATI/AMDs very real contributions to the industry and some would say larger contributions to the industry, and 1999 was nowhere NEAR when the 1st gpu came out. it may have been the first to coin the term GPU but dedicated graphics accelerators had been available for nearly 15 years previously.

[Danq]

Not enough Battlefield series scenes shown in the video! :( And Command & Conquer Generals for example, one of my first games (my first game actually was Prince, 2D and much blood lol I was scared). Then Toy Story etc. and finally saw Battlefield 1942, Vietnam etc.

[fredtflail]

Not one mention of Diablo. It was multiplayer in what 1996?

[DestructiveBurn]

PC gaming is here to stay.  Console gaming is a if. Oculus Rift is the future.