[egfx]

Believe me I know, I also loved my monster voodoo card but Nvidia changed the game with GeForce 1 and the record breaking scores in 3Dmark. Nothing really was able to deliver spectacular graphics a̶p̶p̶r̶e̶c̶i̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶g̶a̶m̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶p̶e̶r̶f̶o̶r̶m̶a̶n̶c̶e̶ particularly the frustratingly popular rage and embedded intel cards.

[qwerty456127]

That's such a pity people mean spectacular 3D graphics under "appreciable gaming performance". IMHO that's very far from the most important part of a game.

[dualboot]

This is a highly subjective opinion.

I played a considerable amount of 3D games on the cards listed prior to the Geforce256's release.

Hardware Transform and Lighting was nice but it wasn't as if the industry didn't exist prior to it's release.