Quote (soul-keeper @ Sep 6 2010 03:05am)
The "Secret Cow Level" is the result of a running joke from the original Diablo that spawned from an Internet rumor about a cow that appears in the game, seemingly without purpose. Supposedly, if the cow was clicked on a certain number of times, a portal to a secret level would open. The rumor turned out to be a hoax, but the legend was born, and player after player asked Blizzard about how to access the level.
In Diablo: Hellfire, an add-on for Diablo created by third-party developer Synergistic Software, it was possible to change a parameter in a specific text file, so that the farmer was dressed in a cow suit, with appropriate new dialogue ("Moo." "I said Moo!"). To stop the rumors, Blizzard included a cheat in StarCraft that read "There is no cow level", adding to the official denial of the cow level.
On April 1, 1999, a Diablo II Screenshot of the Week featured cows fighting. People wondered if the screenshot was an April Fool's joke or if there really was a Secret Cow Level planned for Diablo II. It turned out that there was a cow level in Diablo II.
also is related to baal... i've read somewhere but i cant find right now ;/
thats why u can only acess cow lvl by killing baal... but it has a story behind it ^^
I am sorry to burst your bubble. Unfortunately it has absolutly nothing to do with baal. Where ever you read that its a lie. Simply because Diablo 2 (not exp) you killed diablo and the game was over. (there was no baal yet) and you could make cow level. Thus nothing to do with baal. However the whole clicking of the cow in Diablo 1... I used to do that way before I ever got on the internet. I simply did it to do it lol. Moo Moo MOOOOOO xD