Classics Reclassified

Well, I got the videogame of Dante's Inferno and of course, the disk seemed to have a major glitch on it that prevented me from getting into the main portion of the game, even though I had successfully (or rather, Dante had successfully) beaten Death in a stand-up battle on an asteroid floating in space and taken his scythe away from him. I don't remember that being in the original book. Nor was the part about Dante being able to save souls and later trade them in to upgrade his equipment...