Aw yeah, I saved up for a VooDoo 3 just for playing Tribes on my 56k modem, fall 1999 - running windows 98 on a Packard-Bell that we got from Circuit City…
Truly the golden age of gaming. It leapfrogged everything at the arcade and consoles of the time.
I played way more TFC than Tribes, but man, Tribes had a certain quality to it that I have never found in again in a game.