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Arguments over the best video card of all time quickly degenerate into schoolyard shoving matches, but few will argue against the fact that 3dfx's Voodoo3 cards were some of the most important ones ever made. Most notably, they had a virtual monopoly at the time on games that used multiple texturing, including Quake 3, and 3dfx even created a custom API (GLIDE) for developers to use when coding games. The Voodoo3 was a huge success, but 3dfx was soon on the ropes. GLIDE faded from use, follow-up products were disastrous, and the company burned so much cash that it was nearly dead (its corpse picked-over by Nvidia) a year later.