I was a hardcore console gamer, from 1989 till late 1996. But as late 1996 and early 1997 arrived, I started to notice something going on in the PC world of gaming.

Something called a 3DFX chip. I had the game Tomb Raider on the Playstation, and I liked it a helluva lot, but a budy of mine had a tricked out PC (for that time period, anyways) with a 3DFX card in it, and I saw Tomb Raider running on his PC, and I was totally and completely blown away by it.


At the time, I was a proud owner of a Sony Playstation, and I had just recently got a Nintendo 64.

After seeing that Tomb Raider game running on his PC though, I began thinking that PC gaming was the way to go.

I still played Playstation games, and N64 games, but I slowly but surely started going to the PC side. I built a decent PC, with a 3DFX chip, and I started to get lost in games like Unreal and SIN, and the sports games running in super high resolutions on the PC.

By late 1997, I was spending probably 80 percent of my game time, playing PC games. It got to the point, where I actually got rid of my Playstation and my Nintendo 64, to help finance the building of a new faster PC with a better 3DFX card.

I basically disapeared from console gaming, until the Dreamcast first was released. Up until then, I was a total PC gamer. Then when the Dreamcast hit, I ended up switching back to console games.

I was curious if anybody else did a similar thing. Discovering the 3DFX games on the PC, building a PC, starting to play more and more PC games, and then ultimately playing nothing but PC games for several years, until the Dreamcast rekindled your love for console gaming.

Anybody else experience this in 1996 and 1997?