and I can already have a picture in my mind who would be the first to obtain it, 

Thanks for sorting out Gary 

Maybe some of the boxed Velocity 200 slipped through and ended up in a shop.
Or someone made false Velocity 200 boxes or janskjaer dreamed about the Velocity 200

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Don't know about that, 3dfx sure didn't pay to have any Velocity 200 boxes made and only a limited number of engineering samples of the card were done.

wonder what janksjaer think about this.

its of course more then convincing that the 200 velocity retail box did not exist

Didn't realise people were still posting to this thread, so that's the reason for my delay in replying.

I can only suggest that 3dfx USA was seperated with 3dfx Europe over the Velocity 200.
After all, the majority of US based boards were produced in Mexico post-STB/3dfx merge era, and Europe's in Taiwan.

It can only be suggested that a number of Velocity 200's were produced in Europe and not the USA.  This is possible.

GAME are an official licensed UK market seller of PC and console games including console and PC hardware.  It would be illegal to falsely advertise or sell such items in their stores. 

I spoke to the store manager who currently works there since the stores opening, AND the head of dispatch at Electronics Boutique, and they BOTH remember stocking the cards, where EB's shipment also got transferred to the GAME store.

EB showed me a back catalogue of orders under section 'IBMPC_STOCK_HRD', and under the listing is an order for a quantity of 10 items labelled '3DFXVC200_16M_AGP' and 15 items labelled '3DFXVC100_8M_AGP'.  However, there are no sale records so I cannot tell you how many were sold.

I asked for a photocopy of the order sheets so I could scan them and show you but as I'm not an employee, it's against their policies to outsource their companies market history as it could be advantageous to rival companies if in the wrong hands. 

So there is proof, as well as what I have seen with my own eyes, as it is formally recorded within market documentation.

I rest my case. 

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Only problem is 3dfx no longer had cards made in TW, they purchased STB so they could have a plant remember?

Almost without exception all boards were made in the Mexico plant.

You need two things- Product and a box, people at 3dfx state that no V-200 boxes were signed off in the marketing budget and only sample cards for in-house use were made.

I place my trust with the head of marketing and other people who worked at 3dfx rather then some manager of a chain store who sells thousands of different products a year.

If you come up with an ad or documentaion, I'd be happy to pass it along. I have checked the EB sites via webarchive.org and they show nothing.

Heck even the main 3dfx site showed 5000 & 6000 boxes but no V-200 box.

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I agree since with the addition of 32 bit 3D rendering 32 MB of ram is almost a requirement for any higher resolution to be run without massive data paging across the AGP bus.

That's why 16MB was fine for the Voodoo 3, even at the highest resolution there was enough for 16 bit rendering.

I'd really like to see if anyone made a Voodoo 4 with 16MB, that would be rather cool.