Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

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I'd owned a PC for a few years in the late 80's, this was just an 8086 clone, getting a more up-to-date one around 91 (CGA initially, but moving to EGA later on). IIRC it was a 286 built by a company in Redditch (might have been Tulip computers ?). Luckily Civilization came out after I'd left college, so didn't do any damage on the grades. Wolfenstein passed me by, but then came Doom and so history was written.

Until my Tomb Raider revelation I hadn't owned my own PC, instead relying on those provided by my employers. Working for a PC manufacturer helped in that respect

In the days before online gaming I used to run the gaming server at Apricot, and we had a large gaming collective where we'd play for up to 2 hours each evening across a couple of site on the office network. This was obviously in the days before kids. Descent, Quake, Quakeworld, Quake II, Carmageddon...ah, the memories. We'd even run analysis on the server logs from each session using Gibstats to produce a league table of players. I don't think any corporate initiative came even close to promoting inter-departmental relations like those gaming sessions.

Happy, happy days, although since then my computer gaming has been restricted to the occasional console session and a handful of PC titles (Civilisation, HL, etc.).

Perhaps we could try our hand at a game of Team Fortress one evening?

3dfx and voodoo rush cards were a revelation for 3d graphics.

Absolutely, and it's a real shame that 3DFX seemed to press the self-destruct button at the height of their popularity.