After Sega dumped 3Dfx Interactive, its previous partner in developing graphics chips, 3Dfx sued Sega, NEC and VideoLogic.

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By chance Lewis also met a former engineer from videogame maker Atari, Bruce Rogers, who was developing a new graphics engine and was working on a game of his own.

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Later he also said that developing software for the Apple Macintosh computer led Microsoft into graphics-intensive software, setting the stage for Microsoft applications and its breakthrough Windows 95 operating system.

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At the time, these games were still rudimentary in terms of graphics but exceptional in terms of participation, community building and developing goal seeking behaviors.

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