For one thing, not everybody is in US or other First World country. But also, yes, I remember 3D accelerators - and how expensive and coveted they were. Few 3D

For one thing, not everybody is in US or other First World country. But also, yes, I remember 3D accelerators - and how expensive and coveted they were. Few 3D games before 2000 shipped without software 3D rendering support for this reason; I remember Quake 3 (1999) being the first big title like that, and it was one of the big reasons why Unreal Tournament was more popular in my circles back then - you could play it in software mode at 320x240 on fairly meager hardware.