Some of Kyle's best writing....

Geez, 1999? I would've been 16, and would've been rocking a Celeron-based Packard Bell PC with a SIS-something AGP graphics card. Would've also been the year I started playing Starsiege: Tribes religiously.

I was also a greasy nerdbomber, so there was no skank banging, just lots of videogame playing (and dreams of skank banging).
 
Kyle said:
Well da X is off to find some real strong drugs (no not those drugs, codeine you phreaks) and have a good lie down ... send him your sympathy (or come to think of it your drugs)

Did Kyle just refer to himself as "da X"? Lol.. dafuq is he talking about here? Would be hilarious to see him still writing like this nowadays. :D
 
those were the good times.. started reading [H] reviews/articles that year after my uncle got me hooked on the site since he was an avid reader of kyle's reviews.
 
Was a poor high school kid then who could only read about and not afford any of that stuff. Managed to save up and get a Riva TnT2 when they released though, good times
 
" OC'n manifesto that Kyle spat out for ya earlier last week (maybe this time I'll scoop my man :p) Anywayz take it away DeFrAG"

sounds like a combination of the Unabomber and Jay-Z
 
Everything was taking off as far 3D graphics. Which actually looked better back then.
 
I was 9 at the time. I don’t even remember those times. Probably playing with Pokémon cards or somethin. No clue what a GPU was back then.

Certainly remember playing some Doom and Duke 3Dthough
 
Funny thing is, at this time I was making a decent living selling cars and decided my 233mmx system needed to be replaced. So off I went, picked up a FIC SS7 mobo and a K6-2 350 along with a Creative TNT. after about 2 months of living Quake 2 I went out and bought a Creative VooDoo 2 and boy was the Glide life good. I'm now recapping the FIC board and it's gonna get a K6-3+ 450 that runs fine at 550, and the Riva TNT card. These parts have some sentimental value in that they were from the first system I built myself and while I've sold off some beloved hardware over the years (BH-6, CUSL2-C, NF7 and the list goes on) I don't think I could sell these.
 
Damn this brought me right back to 1999. Banging skanks and playing video games without a care in the world.

This reminds me of someone I used to know. Around this time. Does Falcon Graphics or Net Force Arena(?) ring any bells?
 
If you want an equal or maybe better laugh, check out Kyle's review of the TNT vs G200 vs TNT:

https://www.hardocp.com/article/1999/01/05/tnt_vs_g200

Gotta love the younger unrestrained (and often un-edited) Kyle ;)

So glad treasure like this is still preserved.

Right, love this: "The ram on this card is marked "-G7" for the record. It is a screamer of a card." at 125Mhz... LOL, how far we've come.
 
Now if Kyle would just update the review with Quake II RTX scores on a 2080.... Maybe unclock the CPU down to 500MHz just to keep things fair ish lol
 
Or this: "I am gettin a new sys and wanna pimp the bitch like a cold ice-cream on hot Texas day." Classic!
 
I was 18 years old in 99 and I had a Celeron 300a overclocked and dual Voodoo 2s in SLI. I think that was my setup back then.
 
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I have an OLD Number 9 GPU laying around some where. And just ran across a stack of old USRobotics 14.4's... that were all hooked up to my Amiga4000.

VLSI ftw...
 
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