How did you discover Fallout ?

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(That means no posting anything saying "okay" or anything like that as well)

So....

How did YOU discover Fallout?
 
my story has to be the bizzarest of all:

I read al local computer magasine that i was subscribed to and saw "fallout tactics"the firs thing that made interested was the word "mutants".i played the demo,and it was so cool that I ordered the full version *EDITED OUT BECAUSE WE DON'T LIKE WAREZ TALK, M'KAY???? - OZRAT* played that and fell in love.
when i was visiting my friend once and was bored i looked at his cd collection and saw fallout 1/2.I remmemberd tactics and borrowed them.needless to say I fell in love once again and played them.later when I was feeling nostalgic I went looking on the internet for fallout 3.I ended up on nma and saw the grim truth of fallout 3 being killed and black isle dissbanded,feeling anger I joined the forum with the ultimate goal of nuking IPLY.

PS:a month later,i decided to play F:tc once again and almost found miself throwing the computer out the window for it not beeing fallout-like
 
Once upon a time there was a place called MegaTech. It was a dark evil fortress that kept its employees locked inside a dirt dungeon repairing computers. :evil: One day a guy come inside that dungeon saying that his computer met the requirements for a game called Fallout. :ugly: After minutes trying to explain to that guy that minimun requirements does not mean the game is going to run properly, the boy left leaving the game over a desk. He just forgot that and i left the dungeon trying to catch that guy. But he just vanished. :?: Since it was the end of my long shift of 8 hours of brutal torture installing windows 98, I left the fortress to my home with the game. A installed the game and played it :obsessed: and I returned that to the boy in the following day. So i decided to buy the game. Now Megastore does not exist but Fallout remains ( well after FOBOShit its difficult to think about FO3).
 
Fallout is my curse... and enlightment...

i´ve played demo in ´96th and since then...
 
well, it all started about 6 years shortly after the release of fallout 2... at the time i was only 8 and i had absolutely no clue what games there were. my brother and his friend always hung out together they were always playing games and when we FINALLY upgraded from a 486DX. they started installing some games on our new comp... i had recently been playing some of them such as unreal and diablo(both which i loved), but then one day in the start menu i saw a strange folder called Black Isle. i curiously looked in it and saw the odd looking fallout 2 pip boy icon. so i clicked on it watched the intro and was interested enough to give it a try. i played for about 10 minutes in the temple of trials and i HATED it because the turn based combat system was just awkward to me and i wasnt used to that type of gameplay. so i closed it and then later that week i saw my brother playing it so i sat down and was watching him. after seeing things in the game i saw that there were things beyond the temple of trials MUCH MUCH better things that i didnt expect. so my brother asked me if i had played it yet and i said yes and then he asked me if i liked it and i said no. but i kept watching him and it sparked my interest even more. i played it for a few hours and fell madly in love with it. so for 6 years almost i've been playing fallout but it wasnt until about 4 years ago that i got fo1 when i finally saw it at gamestop. and at the time i was absolutely fallout starved because my brother had uninstalled it about 6 months earlier. so i saved my pennies for the great day that was the day i would buy fallout 1 +2. so for 6 years i've been playing fo2 and i've done almost everything LITERALLY trust me i could write an entire detailed walkthrough of fo2 off the top of my head. i could even draw you maps of the world map and cities... i can even just tell you peoples names in towns as if i know them personally
 
I've bought Fallout the week it came out. I went over to my sofware vendor, and he had some very cool cardboard figure of power armor standing in his store, so I dediced to buy the game that matched it :D

Later, I bought a collection box of Interplay containing Fallout 2, Planescape:Torment and Baldur's Gate. And now THAT was the best spent 50€ in my life...
 
Hehe, that Interplay collection was just 20 dollars here where I live. :P

I first started out with Fallout 2. A friend of mine had a copy of it (illegal) and talked about it a lot. He got a lot of my friends (and me) interested, so we all got copies of it.

It was still illegal, and I eventually started thinking "My God, this is such an awesome game. I should get a legal copy of it." and so I did. Somehow, the local store still had it, and I bought it. Sometime later, I also decided to check out Fo1. I have no idea where I found that, though..but I did. I also bought that Interplay collection, and that's how I got into PS:T and BG as well. I also got Tactics shortly after it was released here.

Now I've just recently bought the Fallout-collection, which sums up to: two copies of Fallout, three copies of Fallout 2, and two copies of Fallout Tactics. :P
 
I must've been 10. I was new to PC gaming and completely clueless about RPG's. I saw the Dual Jewel reviewed in a PC mag and liked the look of it. I also played the demo. I bought the Dual Jewel set for a £10 and hurried home to play it. It blew my mind.

Quite literally I was introduced to a whole new world. It was like I was frog living in a tiny pond. I rounded the corner and found that the world was larger then the pond. And to think- If I hadn't bought it, I'd be one of those teenagers that play F:POS...
 
First off hi all, im new to the forums (been very lazy and not joined)

Fallout first started for me back in the long long ago, when amd chips were just sand and microsoft was only taking over the galaxcy,

I got fallout when it first arrived at my local games shop, i bought, played and got very stuck with it, after that i found the great site that is NMA, back in its infancy, yes i remember those days, long nights and days when i didn't go to school, playing and working hard trying to find that water chip.

Then 2 came upon us and i was in heaven,

i've followed and loved the game for years now but for a period in in the waiting for 3 i forgot to check the sites and lost interest,, only just recently dicovering that NMA is still alive and kicking and going strong, im right back in to my post apocalyptic world and loving it all over again,

how was the that for first post??
regards :D
 
Well... a friend popped over with a demo-CD which contained a "cool game where you can shoot people with miniguns"
I played the demo, had fun shooting the gangers, and eventually bought the game.

I installed it, and when playing a bit, i realised it wasn't just about blowing shit up.
You can realize how this affected a small boy's view of world.
I was hooked on FO of course :lol:
 
Hrmmm...
I'd say it started about a year ago. When I first picked up that dual pack of FO1 and 2. I pondered buying it then, but I descided not to. I had other things to do. And, so, for at least a year every time I went into either EB or FutureShop, I would see that case. Sitting there. stareing at me. calling my name. Yet each time, something else caught my eye. Until, finally, when visiting some friends in Colorado, I *finally* said to hell with it, and bought the damned thing. I imediatly went back, and lost it. Then, it was another coupla months before I actually found it. And then installed Fallout2. And loved it. And cherished it. The End. :P
 
one day i was walking through the local K-mart, i stoped to look at the discount software shelf and BABOOM there it was, it was a combo fo1 and fo2 for $10.00.

i got home plugged it in, and from that piont on i was hooked :D
 
Played the demo in PC Gamer and...that...was...very creepy.

The demo version of junktown was actually better than the actual version of junktown. I still remember being asked by this Brahmin herder to help him out. And then I was joining the Skulz and convincing the Vipers (yeah, they weren't in the final one *sniff*) to go for a rumble in the streets. The smoke cleared and I was hooked.
 
I discovered fallout after a party at a friends place. It was back in 98 and the first thing he did when he awoke, was to play Fallout. I was addicted the moment I laid my eyes on it. I remember wondering why I hadn't heard of this game before.
 
i was working at Future Shop as a warehouse manager, and when i got the boxes i always looked at the new games. I saw on the side of the box " Remember Wasteland?" that got me hooked.
 
My mom bought fallout back in 97 (I think it was 97). I loved it. Then one day I was taking the disc out of the cd rom and it slipped out of my hand and whent flying across the room and hit lots of things. Luckily it didn't break, but it had a HUGE scratch on it and would not run the game any more. I begged my mom to buy another copy but she would not.

1 or 2 years passed and I bought fallout 2. It was just as great (Except for the bugs). After about a year of having fallout 2 I got a $10 CD-repair kit from a computer store and tried it on the Fallout cd. (Up untill now I didn't know CD-repair kits existed) Fallout ran again. I rejoiced in nostalgia.

See, up untill about 2002 I had always cheated on every game I had played. In 2002 I finished Fallout without cheats. Now, I am working on a fallout 2 game and someday I plan to beat it without cheats. I never cheat on games any more.

When Fallout tactics came out, I refused to buy it out of principle for Fallout 3. But in 2002 I bought it and finally beat it in 2003 after a series of tactics games I never finished.

I swear to god I will NEVER buy BOShit. Not just because its sullying the Fallout name with sex sells garbage, but also because I don't own a ps2. (I own an XBOX, but I still won't buy it)

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Edit: In 1997 I was 11 years old, which is why I was so oblivious about stuff like the CD-fix kit.
 
I saw an ad for it in a magazine and thought it looked and sounded like a kick ass game. At the time i had a Mac :? so i had to make an exodus to a software store to find the game, and when i finally did I happily paid the $50 price tag and brought it home with me. I then lost what little social life i had till it was beaten. :ok:
 
I got a PC for my 18th birthday 2 years ago and went shopping for cheap PC games.

I picked up the Fallout 1+2 dual pack as part of a 3 for £10 offer. The other 2 games, IIRC were Baldurs Gate (Great if a little dull) and Carmageddon 2 (THE most fun driving game ever!).
What a deal!
 
A friend told me about it, I played a bit... and it sucked me in. I couldn't play it on my PC (some kind of error or what?) so I was coming to her... The first time I remember I was playing very chaotically, without understanding :) so I've killed whole Junktown and a part of The Hub. Didn't complete Fallout though. Then I've bought a gaming magazine with Fallout 2. Jeeez! That was great! But had to install a patch to complete the game, so all the savegames were lost. That was a bit good cause I no longer wanted to join the Slavers' Guild :) .
 
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