How did you discover Fallout ?

Bought it brand new off the shelf, fondly remembering my ol' Commodore 64 and Wasteland. :)
 
When I was sixteen I got hit by a car pretty bad and was in a wheelchair for about six months so I spent a lot of time in my room reading and playing computer games. One day my brother gave me a copy of Fallout 2. It was the first rpg I played and needless to say I almost instantly fell in love with it. Fallout2 made the days go faster and before I knew I learned to walk again :D
 
I found Fallout 2 at a garage sale. I had no idea if it would work with my computer, since my computer is a junk heap, but it ended up working, somehow. I got into the game quite easily, and eventually downloaded a character editor so that I could tear the towns apart at my own leisure.
 
I had heard about Fallout 1+2 briefly through friends for years, and I tried the demo once back in the day.. but it never caught my attention long enough to actually try it out fully.

So last year I convinced myself it was time to check it out, and so I did. Safe to say, I was pretty thrilled about the games and the atmosphere of it all.
 
...one day i saw mad max. the very same day i came out with "that's it, i'm fed up with the usual crappy fantasy book/comic/movie/game [that is not ultima VII, my other greatest love].
i started fancing about a post nuclear comic, that i began drawing during classes from the day after as a pasttime activity...
...about literature, that i began writing as a break between episodes of my comic
...about every post apocalyptic movie out there, from the day after, to the postman, to waterworld (well...), to anything that had a nuke within, to get inspiration for my comic.

...then one day, reading a local magazine i found out a little paragraph concerning gurps and a madmaxish crpg... i've been drooling since that.
 
...discovered it almost ten years ago... and years after years , I keep on playing! For those who never played Fo, Fo2 or Fot before, here is a prevention message for ya=>

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I just found out about this site, it's magnificent!

I discovered Fallout 1&2 very recently. I had loved the old Baldur's Gate games, Deus Ex, and some others, and someone suggested I try something called Morrowind. Well I did, and found it very enjoyable. So when a 4th one in that series came out called Oblivion, I bought that, and was bitterly disappointed. There was a huge list of reasons for this, but at the top was that I felt it was severely "dumbed down". In my search for - by my standards - better games, Fallout was recommended repeatedly and from all sides. I got really interested, and after a few days got both together for a reasonable price from a famous online auction site which shall remain nameless.

So finally, I'm on to the highly-praised Fallout 1! The first hour or so was a tad frustrating, but I could just feel that this was my type of game. The second hour became engrossing. I had to go to bed, got home from work the next day, and couldn't wait to crank it back up, but I really wasn't sure why. I was having a hard time getting along, having created my own character very ineptly. I ended up staying up an hour too late that night, and knew I maybe had found my new favourite computer game ever.

This was only last year. I've often been told that my taste in games is based purely around nostalgia, and that I wouldn't love the older games I do if I'd come to them now. Fallout 1 & 2 prove that untrue. These are truly timelessly Great (yes, with a capital "G"). I'm delighted to find this website, and intend to try unofficial patches and a few mods (not ones that make the game easier or give equipment, &c, though!). Some people have been playing these games for nigh onto 10 years, and I'm absolutely positive that in a decade's time, I'll be able to say the same!
 
I was on my gandma house when my cousin told me that his friend has discovered a great game, after that day he borrow me a copy of Fo2, and since the i love the Fallout Series
 
Ctrl-Alt-Del.


Of course, it would be years until I saw Fallout and Fallout 2, in a bargain bin, for a 1.99 each, in a dollar store. (Shall I continue, or is this enough? Notably, there a lack of manuals in the game boxes.)



NOTE: My family was having money troubles when I first heard about Fallout (11 at the time), I was 14 when I saw the two games.
 
I remember watching my dad play Fallout 2, killing pig rats and wanamingos in Redding when I was a little kid. So I eventually installed it on my own computer and played it, always getting to vault city/gecko and then quitting cause I didn't know where to go next. Eventually I discovered the rest of the game, beat it multiple times, and received Fallout 1 for Christmas the next year and Tactics some other time.
 
GanymeDes- said:
I played a Fallout (1) demo that came with a PC magazine. That demo, btw, was totally different from the original game. It had just one town, which was made just for that demo... it was really cool.
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I really enjoyed the demo; I remember playing it dozens of times. Until my brothers friend at Interplay shipped us a copy of Fallout 1. We bought Fallout 2 for 60 bucks though. It was worth it!
 
I first discovered Fallout when my brother bought both Fallout and Fallout 2 back in about 2000 and I sat and watched him play it for hours until he taught me how to play it. I was about 8 then. I stopped playing it for a few years and then I decided to install it and start playing again and now I understand it a lot more than I used to.
 
Similar story to a lot of people around here, was in a computer store one day in 2000 looking for a new game to install on my then new computer, saw the artwork for Fallout 2 and picked it up.
 
For no reason whatsoever AT ALL.

It was bizarre looking back. I was incredibly young too.

In fact, it was around 1999 and they hadn't even released the two-for-one jewel cases of the game yet. All I remember is seeing a terrible ad for the game (a picture with no information) and getting this massive urge to buy it.
I ended up doing so and bought both of them at the same time because they were pretty cheap (Fallout 1 was jewel case, number 2 I bought in the box).
 
I was over at a friend's house, I think it must've been New Years Eve of '97, actually. He was playing the game, and had gotten to the basement level of the cathedral. I watched him play with the utmost concentration and I still have that picture edged into my mind when he opened the secret door and walked past the mutants in his robes.
So awesome, especially to the mind of a ten year old. ;)

I didn't think much of it after that, never bought it, but some years later I found Fallout 2 in this random market while I was vacationing in Thailand and thought "Why the hell not?". A couple of years later still, I find a bundle of Fallout 1+2 in bookstore for cheap. Lucky me!
 
Time:2002
I got a 10 dollar gift card for Kmart or some other Ugly American whateverstore. In the game section they had some weird 3d mech game and Fallout 1/2 for PC. I chose Fallout because of the "Fifty or so side quests" thing(and my computer was 333mghz P2 with 256 RAM and no video strength to speak of, so the mech game would have raped my CPU like an asian teen in San Quentin). Ive been thanking my good choice ever since.

I still play it from time to time. I beat both at least once a month.
 
I heard about Fallout 1&2 from my college room mate last year. Since then I have beaten both many times because, just like so many others, I LOVE THESE GAMES.

My first character was 100% melee and I love to punch people in the eyes.

Good day!
 
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