When did HHH show up on your radar as a potential major player/serious character?

Of course he has been here since 95, but when did you really begin to view him as a potential player?

For me it was mid 1999 when he was in the Corporate ministry.

Something about his Black pants with the silver designs really drew me in. It was a different serious look for him.

Then when he switched to the trunks I really started to take him as a more serious character