HappySqurriel on 16 June 2007
I think that the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tnt2">TNT 2</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo3">Voodoo 3</a> graphics cards changed everything. Roughly speaking, both of these graphics cards were similar in performance to the Dreamcast and survived for years as the minimum requirements for many of the best PC games ever created.
The reason I believe this is that most modern games on the PC, PS3 and XBox 360 are prettier versions of these games; the ammount of actual improvement in physics, AI and gameplay has been minimal over the past 8 years even though processing power on both the GPU and CPU has grown by over 20 times.
