Windows 95 Gaming Promo Featuring Bill Gates and Doom. (1995, Microsoft)

This video is from Microsoft’s Developer conference. It’s not a commercial as you wouldn’t go no TV and call one of your older products (DOS) a “Mess“. This is a message to the game development community who would be working with the (at the time) new DirectX technology. Windows 95 brought tons of technological advancements to the world. DirectX for example, was a brilliant idea. An universal SDK that would allow people to utilize the various 3d/2d Accelleration features of their video hardware across hardware platforms. OpenGL followed suit and introduced these revolutionary features in 1997 with OpenGL 1.1 (bringing them to the open source world and to most other platforms). Subsequently DirectX and OpenGL would be refined, tweaked and improved through the following decades and bring us to where we are today. It’s a beautiful song and dance that is responsible for the state of modern gaming and the sheer awe we can experience from even from games on low end systems. S