> and if you were playing computer games in the 1980s in a slow DOS box you could not have even imagined modern GPUs and modern games. I think this bit is real

> and if you were playing computer games in the 1980s in a slow DOS box you could not have even imagined modern GPUs and modern games. I think this bit is really not the case, FWIW. If you look at what computer magazines were like in the 1980s it's very clear that people were already imagining what photorealism might look like, from the very earliest first-person-perspective 3D games (which date back to the early 1980s if not earlier)