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I believe Jensen Huang said Doom was the game that launched NVIDIA?

So NeXT -> Doom -> Nvidia -> AI

Doubtful. Doom was fully software-rendered. Quake, maybe?

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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