Diablo 3 arcade cabinet built by passion for the game

It is safe to assume that a fair number of us grew up in arcades, feeding those machines quarter after quarter as a rite of passage, where we pick up all the different skills along the way in order ot master a particular game, moving on to other different titles afterwards. When it comes to dungeon hack and slash titles on the PC platform, the preferred mode of control by many would be the classic keyboard and mouse combination, something which has long been taken as the de facto standard. How about transforming your Diablo 3 experience, character exploits or not, into a totally different one? What you see demonstrated in the video above is a DIY project that sees Dave Niewinksi to transfer the essence of Diablo 3 into an old-school arcade machine, and I would say that his efforts have been pretty much successful from what we could see.

Made out of plywood and emblazoned with decals that were borrowed from Blizzard and cgtextures.com, Dave’s very own arcade cabinet relied on a VB.NET-powered program it order to have the physical controls and the game work in tandem without any hold up whatsoever. There were no modifications made to the game files, and according to Dave himself, “Everything works outside of the game.” There does not seem to have any opportunities to throw in quarters into this machine for sure.

Edwin Kee
Categories: Computers, Gaming
Tags: Diablo 3