How did you discover Fallout ?

Got Fo:1 for christmas the year it came out. Me father bought it for me so I would stop complaining about how boring learning english was. So far I forgot most of the french I knew... damn addictive rpg...
 
I remember when I walked to the corner store to buy the latest issue of CGW and they had the Junktown demo on there, needless to say it was the beginning of the end, I had begged my father to take me to get it soon as it was released
 
Strangely mine Fallout 2 came on a magazine that i just bought for fun...Later then i was addicted to the game and i looked all stores to buy Fallout 1, a little more rudimentar but still my kind of game. I've played a bit of FO Brotherwood of steel and i didn't like much...still i'd like to own it :roll:
 
i was at an eb store pondering whether to get Postal, Sanitarium, or Fallout. What made me choose Fallout was because I remembered my cousin playing a game called "Syndicate" which was also turn-based and isometric. The game looked cool and Fallout reminded me of that game (eventually i realized that Fallout was totally different).

The box looked so cool also, it stood out from the rest. The way it was packaged including the manual was of high quality. That gave me high expectations of other games, which then I realized only few actually give attention to. At that time it cost me around $70 canadian for the game!

Thankfully, i am proud to say that fallout was the first ever video game i bought. :) It introduced me to the genre of rpgs and set the standard for rpgs. Thereafter, I bought Fallout 2 the day it came out. :)
 
I was bored with traditional fantasy RPGs, so I dug around in my file cabinet one day and found "Fountain of Dreams", which I had recieved as a gift from a friend whose name I don't even remember anymore. I played it on my wheezing, coughing 486/25 for about an hour before I decided I liked the "post-apocalyptic" setting but utterly hated Fountain of Dreams. So I got on my REAL computer, which is really fast and stuff, and asked around about Fallout. Bought Fallout 1 & 2, and then Fallout Tactics. I have never regretted any of those purchases. I wondered to myself why more people hadn't tried creating RPGs in a post-apoc setting for a while, but then I reasoned it was just as well - we don't need Fountain of Dreams all over again.
 
Fountain of Dreams is a horribly balanced pseduo-sequel to Wasteland. In fact, try out Wasteland, the spiritual ancestor to Fallout and, for the time, a truly great game (WAY better than FoD in any respect).
 
As of Aug. 28, 2005, 7:38 PM, my POS/2 has given up the ghost (after which I mourned the loss of F-19, Wolfenstein 3D, and then took a baseball bat to the monitor/CPU. Really.)

Gonna have to find some kind of emulator if I want to run something like Wasteland on my computer... be kinda funny, running UT2K4 one day and Wasteland, and maybe Gold Box AD&D if I can find them, the other.

I miss DOS. :/
 
I played a demo included with a Gamemagazine ... I believe at that time it was a single town thing using 1 map of junktown. was hooked immediately
 
A while ago, not sure when, getting old, can't remember dates anymore, or maybe I'm just frying my brain with this game. Anyways, I was getting tired of FF7 and wanted something new.
Went down to the local video game shop and came across FO and FO2. Picked up FO, should have gotten both at the time, liked what I saw and bought it. At that time I didn't have internet access, and kept getting stuck on the game. Then my son was born and it got put on hold. Now years later I dug out FO and started it up again. I managed to finish the game a few times, and had a flashback of the FO2 box sitting next to FO1. So I went on a quest to aquire FO2. My only hope was EBAY, until my younger half-brother showed me the art of downloading. Now I am hooked up to FO2 and having a ball. Needless to say some things around the house are being neglected, OHWELL, priorities. Am i wrong??? LOL.
 
I had a $10 gift certificate for Kmart and wanted a computer game. My choice was the Fallout 1/2 jewel case(which ive never heard of before)

What brought me in was the fact that the descriptions for things were too much and they had censor stickers over how you could kill your enemy by making him explode and how you could get married, and pimp out your spouse for some extra change.


That was 4 years ago on november
 
There was this store called computer city. They eventually got bought out by Comp USA. When you went in to the place it, you found yourself in this huge warehouse like space. On the right was the computer section with new PC's. The left held the checkouts. And straight ahead were the PC games.

I remember I was by myself when I went in. I was browsing for a new game and I remember seeing this bog with a flip up lid called Fallout. It was an RPG, so the game said on the cover. I picked up the box and turned it over in my hands. I remember there was a picture of Killian's head on it and one of his dialog trees.

It wasn't the first time I had seen the box, I knew that on several previous treks through the store I had looked at it. I really wanted a new RPG, so finally I gave in and walked to the counter and bought it. I didn't have anyone to tell me if it was good or bad. I basically gambled and bought it. And here I am today :D
 
My dad bought it for me when it just came out, the store he bought it from had it for $7.50 because they ordered the wrong version (had a scandinavian manual) and wanted to get rid of the things.

Never really played it, was too busy playing Carmageddon 1 (My dad bought that for me too, we just got our first pentium, my dad was hooked on games even though he didn't play them, he bought a lot).

Then I met a guy who became a really good friend and he saw the Fallout box in my room and started talking about it, it never stopped, we went on a few holidays with his dad, where he even brought his Fallout manuels, I have no idea why :)
 
I get F1&F2 nearly 4years ago in a Game-box (it was the greatest Game-box I ever bought). And my mother bought me the helpbook to it (she want me to read, and she was right). So I started to installing some games, but not F1&F2. Then I read in the Helpbook about them. And I installed them. I was totally festinated. Since then they never left my computer! So thats my story!
 
I seem to remember first hearing about Fallout 2 when my friend told me about his "Jailbait" character...16 year old female with 10CHA, Sex Appeal and Jinxed trait...LOL...tried the game out...now I've been playing it on and off for the last five years. Best RPG ever...though Final Fantasy II holds a special place in my heart :P
 
I had heard a lot about how great Fallout was, and I really wanted to get it. I pay irregular visits to a used bookstore/electronics store called Bookman's (where I usually buy PC games cheap). There on the shelf, in the entire box and everything, was Fallout. "Ode to Joy" started playing as I picked up the box. The game was only $5. I bought it, but when I got home I couldn't install it. I was running XP. My dad had a really old laptop (Win 95) and I managed to play it that way. Now I play it on my main comp, thanks to the guide on how to install it on a XP system.
 
Let's see... as a kid I was into Dragon Warrior on the NES. Went no where with RPG's afterwards. Final Fantasy 7(Playstation) got me serously into RPG's which lead to Final Fantasy Tactics. Not long after my quest to find the next great RPG experience lead to Baldur's Gate 1 . The trailer that came with BG and my love of that game lead me into Planescape: Torment. How exactly I learned that the developers of PS:T were linked to Fallout I can't recall. But I did and descended on all things Fallout immediatly. Picked up a copy of Fallot 2 cheap at my local Wal-Mart and loved it. Sadly I had to wait years to play Fallout 1. I only just this past week got around to hunting down a copy of it.

Oh, and on a side note. I remember having a copy of PC Gamer magazine way back(96 or 97 I think) with a little preview of Fallout. I remeber reading the goofy words GURPS, Post-Apocolyptic, and RPG and dismissing it out of hand. What a fool I was!
 
well me mate lent it to me in 1999 and i thought man this game sucks arse coz i got stuck in temple of trials (not knowing u could open doors etc with a simple right mouse click)



then several years later i saw fallout 1 and thought sweet....as it was only AU$20


from there the addiction started...then found fallout 2 on ebay for a few bucks and still playing it
 
I used to buy alot of demo discs and got one that had the demo on it.
I just played it, had some fun and though nothing of it until I found out a friend of mine got it.

Hehe, Interplay made a mistake putting the HUGE installation feature on there. I LOVED it! Soon after I saw Fallout 2 in my small town's newly opened computer store and bought it the next day.
 
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