I remember cutting grass for neighbors during the summer when I was 11 to save up money for a 3dfx voodoo2 8mb card to put into my parents computer (packard bel

I remember cutting grass for neighbors during the summer when I was 11 to save up money for a 3dfx voodoo2 8mb card to put into my parents computer (packard bell 200 megahertz pentium). The driving force behind this obsession was a foldout ad in pc gaming magazine with a screenshot of the game Unreal. I remember my Dad (who was very non-technical at the time) trying to talk me into one of the other cards at CompUSA (a PowerVR if I recall) and I was explaining why I wanted the 3dfx (I'm sure I was regurgitating whatever I read on HardOCP). We got home, figured out how to install it and the drivers ,and booted up Unreal. Amazing moment in my life, and probably one the main reasons I ended up being a software developer. Tweaking settings, learning commands in the 'in-game terminal', understanding basic networking to help pick servers, tinkering with the level editor. PC Gaming was an amazing introduction to 'How Computers work' with a really motivating example. I feel like my kids completely miss that because they just play games on an ipad which completely insulates them from any of it.