I had two Matrox cards back in the day and it worked quite well with 3DFx graphics. The company was in Quebec, Canada. One card came bundled with a game called "Scorched Earth" which was more or less a 3D arcade game where you had to save the inhabitants of a planet while simultaneously fending off an alien enemy that was destroying the planet's surface. Upon completing the rescue the game went to a new planet where everything was notched up even harder. Rinse and repeat. My first experience with 3D graphics and great fun in the late 90's. A few years later my last card came bundled with the game, "Evolva" which I still play occasionally to this day.

Remember needing a Matrox card to be able to use Bumpmapping early on?

I had the Matrox Millennium, Millennium II, G400 and G400 Max back in the day. Actually, Matrox gave me the G400 for free after accidentally shipping that to me by mistake - thanks Matrox!

Matrox cards were pinnacle of 2D quality.

I had a Matrox G400 Max and also a 3Dfx Voodoo 2, good old memories where gfx cards were affordables

TheDeeGee:

Remember needing a Matrox card to be able to use Bumpmapping early on?

Expendable? Can't be sure, it was in last millennium 🙂 Played lot of that game backthen co-op with my brother, but not on a Matrox card, not quite sure what card(s) we had then, think it was S3 Virge + Miro 3D Voodoo 6MB or S3 Virge + Creative Voodoo 2 12MB combo. No bumpmapping on these of course.

mbk1969:

Matrox cards were pinnacle of 2D quality.

Indeed, Matrox cards were quite expencive here backthen tho, way more than semi-crap produced by S3, Cyrus Logic, Trident...

Never had one myself. Didnt care about having an actual pc myself until a proc went past 1ghz (thanks AMD), and already came with Nv..