Windows 95 game could hit 5,000 FPS by accident

3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet was one of the first games I ever played. My brother and I used to take turns seeing who could get the higher score while enjoying the classic title on our family’s Gateway computer. It turns out that we could have played the game at a blistering 5,000 frames per second if we had just had a time machine, a PC from the future, and a monitor that still hasn’t been invented in 2025.

Dave Plummer, who worked on several key parts of Windows such as the Media Center, Task…