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Diablo

Trivia

In the German gaming magazine PC Player (issue 01/1998) Diablo was named as "Best RPG in 1997".

There was also a shareware version available on CD which featured a fair amount of gameplay including all three classes and even multiplayer. You could buy it for a small amount of money in many stores around the time of the release of the full game.

Contributed by Sicarius (46777) on Sep 13, 2007.

Numerous published novels have been inspired by the Diablo campaign setting, among them:

• Demonsbane (2000) - Robert B. Marks' e-book;
• Legacy of Blood (2001), by Richard A. Knaak;
• The Black Road (2001), by Mel Odom;
• The Kingdom of Shadow (2002), by Richard A. Knaak;
and
• Moon of the Spider (2005) by Richard A. Knaak.

Diablo is one of the few rare games that will run natively on Windows NT. Diablo requires DirectX 3, but the install CD comes with DirectX 5.

Contributed by Santa (847) on Sep 17, 2005.

Diablo was ranked # 6 in the 50 Best Games of All Time list published by PC Gamer Magazine in its April 2005 issue.

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on Mar 19, 2005.

Cain's real name is Deckard Cain the Elder. It may be a reference to Rick Deckard played by Harrison Ford in the movie Blade Runner.

The Diablo art team were fans of Natalie Portman. Embedded in the menu image are messages that are only visible if you capture the image and reduce the image to 16 colors.

Contributed by Santa (847) on Apr 25, 2004.

And in future news, Diablo is still being played by people on battle.net in 2003. This is based on the fact that hundreds of people are still devoted players playing on battle.net in 2002. Though much has changed since robotriot^skp's 1999 contribution, the game remains the same, complete with hordes of cheaters and Koreans and the infamous cow level.

Contributed by kbmb (399) on Nov 23, 2002.

The editors of PC Gamer magazine named the Diablo series #7 in the Top 50 Games of all time in their October 2001 issue.

At one time, cheat programs for Diablo were sold in stores that allow you to obtain special objects, increase levels, and such.

The game treats The Dark Lord (aka Diablo), the final boss, as a regular enemy rather than a boss monster. He has no catchphrase (ala the Butcher's "Fresh Meat"), his name appears in white instead of gold, and if you kill him enough times (by starting a new game with the same character) the game will even show you his stats.

In the 200th aniversary issue of Computer Gaming World, Diablo was named the eighth best game of all time by the readers.

Diablo was voted #3 overall in PCGamer Magazine's Readers All-Time Top 50 Games Poll (April 2000 issue).

Contributed by PCGamer77 (3025) on Jan 21, 2001.

This game is a member of Computer Gaming World's Hall of Fame.

The dungeon itself is randomly generated, so nothing is ever the same, if you quit and restart the game.

There were persistent rumors about a special quest that you had to do with the cows (you had to click on it X time in a special way at certian time of the day after doing so and so and things like that). It's false of course, but it doesn't stop the newbies from asking. Blizzard was so amused, that Cow Quest was officially added to Diablo II.

In most (if not all) Blizzard games, you can get a quick laugh from repeatedly clicking on certain objects. In Diablo, try the cow outside the city.

Blizzard was originally going to make Diablo a turn-based game.

Still being played in 1999 via battle.net against other Diablo players online.

Contributed by robotriot (6380) on Oct 31, 1999.