The Lost Art of Tech Demos

Strap in and take a ride with me to the past, exploring the history and nostalgia of graphics card tech demos made by many of the most famous vendors in the industry! A total of 58 demos from NVIDIA, ATI, 3dfx, Matrox, and more were recorded for this video using my own hardware. In many cases, substitutions were made in place of the intended hardware where it made sense to, for the sake of efficiency and time management. These were the graphics cards used: -3Dfx Voodoo 4MB -3Dfx Voodoo2 12MB -3Dfx Voodoo5 5500 -Rendition V1000L-P 4MB -Matrox G400 MAX -NVIDIA GeForce 7800GTX -NVIDIA GTX 285 -ATI Rage Pro 4MB -ATI Rage 128 Pro -ATI Radeon 7500 64MB -ATI Radeon 9700 Pro -ATI Radeon X1950XTX -AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB 0:00 Intro 2:28 A little history 4:15 3Dfx Valley of Ra 5:10 3Dfx Race 5:27 3Dfx Wizard’s Tower 5:56 Rendition Cartoon 6:52 ATI Knight 7:37 ATI Rage Dawning 12:56 3Dfx Voodoo2 demos 13:09 Matrox G400 EMBM demo 15:44 NVIDIA Smaller GF256 demos 16:02 NVIDIA Crystal 16:32 NVIDIA Smaller GF2 demos 16:56 NVIDIA Creature 17:21 3Dfx Rocketburger 18:06 ATI Radeon’s Ark 22:24 NVIDIA Zoltar 23:11 NVIDIA Chameleon 23:47 ATI Nature 24:19 ATI Rachel 24:50 ATI Island demos 27:17 NVIDIA Werewolf 28:06 NVIDIA Squid 28:42 Matrox Parhelia Reef 29:24 ATI Smaller 9700 demos 30:06 ATI Pipe Dream 34:37 NVIDIA Dawn 36:07 NVIDIA Dusk 37:03 NVIDIA Ogre 37:44 NVIDIA Toys 39:02 NVIDIA Last Chance Gas 39:47 NVIDIA Vulcan 41:02 ATI Chimp 42:18 NVIDIA Nalu 43:17 NVIDIA Timbury 44:20 ATI Smaller X800 demos 44:33 ATI Double Cross 46:49 ATI Dangerous Curves 47:06 NVIDIA Luna 49:49 NVIDIA MadMod Mike 51:50 ATI The Assassin 53:51 ATI Toy Shop 54:33 ATI Whiteout 57:54 Epilogue on ATI demos 58:23 NVIDIA 8800 demos 59:16 NVIDIA Medusa 1:02:25 NVIDIA Supersonic Sled 1:02:58 Epilogue on NVIDIA demos 1:03:34 Conclusion Intro Animation By Ken Gruca Jr — Inquire at kjgruca@ ○Join the Pixel Talk Discord server! ○Visit on Facebook! ○And on Instagram! ○Follow me on Twitter! @pixelpipes ○Email me at pixelpipes@