Will we get a LEGO version of the 3dfx Voodoo?

Twenty years ago, one of the most iconic names in the video card industry was 3dfx. The company was at the forefront of 3D acceleration but lost its edge in the late 1990s. NVIDIA gobbled up 3dfx in 2000 to gain access to the intellectual property (IP) but many enthusiast still have fond memories of 3dfx.

Now there's a 3dfx Voodoo product suggestion on LEGO's Ideas. This is a website from LEGO where fans can suggest ideas for future LEGO collectible sets. To be considered by LEGO, a product needs 10,000 votes. At the moment, the 3dfx Voodoo card has 1853 votes. It would be fun to see this enter production, but would you buy it?

3dfx may have vanished from the industry decades ago, but one creator has had the idea to bring the GPU back in Lego form. For those of you don’t remember, the 3dfx Voodoo was the first mainstream 3D accelerator for gaming systems. The Voodoo family implemented a simplified version of OpenGL that 3dfx called “Glide.” It wasn’t capable of displaying a 2D desktop — you actually connected the Voodoo or Voodoo 2 directly to your existing 2D GPU by an external monitor cable, then hooked your monitor to the Voodoo card.

Via: ExtremeTech