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Probably doesn’t quite count as retro, but I recently purchased a mini PC pretty much exclusively to play Diablo 2 single player.

Prices were quite low so I wanted to make sure the specs were adequate. Looking into it, I got a laugh that the game requirements were less than Windows 10 itself.

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Diablo 2? That takes me back. I remember running it on a 600 MHz machine with a gigantic, 75 lb CRT monitor, and a Voodoo 5 card. That video card gave me a real advantage playing on Battle.net, because I could pump more frames through that card than most people could in Glide mode than most people could with the shiny graphics cards of the time. There could be 100 mobs on the screen, and I wouldn't lag.

Good times.

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