Diablo III: And the heavens shall tremble

Well, it’s not exactly retro gaming, since Diablo III hasn’t even been launched yet. But its predecessors, Diablo, Diablo: Hellfire, Diablo II, and Diablo II: Lord of Destruction, are already classics in their own right.

For now, though, let me focus on Diablo and its expansion Hellfire. These two are probably two of the most played games on my old Pentium 200MMX. Yeah, not Pentium 4, not even 3 or 2, but just plain Pentium, and I owned two of them back in the late 1990s to early 2000s. Why Diablo? Well, for starters, it’s the only game, aside from Dungeon Keeper that is, the runs on the bucket of bolts. Fortunately, it was enough to keep me busy during boring nights without my stalkers bothering me on the telephone.

Anyway, I found out soon after installing it on the, yes, Pentium 200MMX that the game was short. So I got a copy of Hellfire and slapped it on Diablo. I don’t remember much from the time I spent, however long it may have been, playing Diablo: Hellfire except the fact that I loved wearing cow armor.

Cow armor? Yeah, it’s called the Bovine Plate and it was the best (at least for me) armor available back then. Consider the following stats: Armor Class 150, Indestructible, +50% Light Radius, Resist All +30%, and -5 Damage from Enemies. It’s only drawback is the reduction of spell level by 1. Sigh. Those were the days.