What is Diablo?

Diablo is a top down 3D isometric point and click, hack and slash, action game that totally defined/started the genre back in the late 90's.  Diablo was very well received and altough a repetitive game, its randomly generated concept almost makes sure that you discover new items or ennemies when you start over after defeating Diablo, making it a high replay value game.  Diablo instantly hooked millions of players worldwide grinding the game for unique items to complete their sets or perfecting their speedruns until Diablo II came out a couple years after and was twice as good.

From Wikipedia:

Diablo is an action role-playing hack and slash video game. The player moves and interacts with the environment primarily by way of a mouse.  Other actions, such as casting a spell, are performed in response to keyboard inputs.  The player can acquire items, learn spells, defeat enemies, and interact with non-player characters (NPC)s throughout the game.

The dungeon levels are randomly generated, although they follow parameters according to their type; for instance the catacombs tend to have long corridors and closed rooms, while the caves are more non-linear. The players are assigned a random number of quests from several tiers; these quests are optional but help to level up the character and/or reveal more of the backstory. The final two quests, however, are mandatory in order to finish the game.

 

Download Diablo for Mac

Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.5 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

Architecture: PPC

At least 8MB of free RAM (recommended 16MB)

Mac OS 7.5 - Mac OS 9.2.2

Note: The HELLFIRE expansion CD is only for Windows PCs, and playability w/ a Mac is only thru Wine+Wineskin on Intel Macs!, as the expantion was never released for mac)

 

Emulating this? It should run fine under: SheepShaver