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The retail box design [1] of the Voodoo 3 2000 is still burned into my memory even after 23 years. The purple woman's face, 6 million triangles per second... just, sold. 1999 was just an amazing time.

[1]: https://archive.ph/BNLiX/f3757388e1ee7008f0bad22261c625f1dcf...

>>mk_stj+(OP)
Same

>>mk_stj+(OP)
My brand-new Voodoo graphics card in its shiny package was the only thing I took with me as a teenager when I was leaving the flat in a hurry after the big earthquake in 1999[0]. I remember noticing the missing silhouettes of distant buildings with some fires burning behind where they used to stand and thinking, oh boy we surely won't have electricity soon.

You tend to have different priorities in those ages, I guess.

It's a dark memory, sure, but probably the packaging somehow made me get attached to a "stupid computer part" (not my words) and that's interesting.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_%C4%B0zmit_earthquake

>>mk_stj+(OP)
1999 was such a good tech year.

>>mk_stj+(OP)
The design of their second logo (the one in that image) held up pretty well.

>>dehrma+CA2
In retrospect, it reminds me of the Amazon logo [0]. The orange swoopy thing evokes the Amazon A-to-Z "smile" (2000 onwards, although they had a more generic orange swoopy thing before that). Never noticed that similarity before.

I also had a Voodoo 3 with that box design back then, but different colors (Voodoo 3 3000 model). Actually still have the card...

[0] https://blog.logomyway.com/history-amazon-logo-design/