Fallout (computer game)

Trivia

• The song that plays during the intro sequence in Fallout is entitled "Maybe" and is sung by The Ink Spots. The song in Fallout 2 is Louis Armstrong's "A Kiss to Build a Dream On". The original theme to Fallout was going to be "I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire", also by The Ink Spots, but apparently Black Isle was unable to get the license, so it was scrapped.
• Three key members behind the original Fallout (Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky and Jason Anderson) left Interplay in 1998 and founded Troika Games. Troika was closed down in February 2005 due to financial problems.
• "RadAway", in Fallout, was a medicine that lowered the game characters level of irradiation. Supposedly it worked by bonding itself with radiation particles making it possible for them to "pass" through your system.
• "Mentats", a drug in the series that temporary raises your intelligence, is named for the human computers in the Dune universe.
• "Brahmin", the two-headed cows, share their name with the Hindu priestly caste. The possibility of this name usage being purely coincidental is diminished when considering that cows are sacred in Hinduism. The name is also similar to the Brahman breed of cattle which are found in India.
• In Fallout 2, the reason why Vault 13's water chip malfunctioned is "explained" in a random encounter, in which the Fallout 2 character discovers a portal similar to the Guardian of Forever. If he enters it, the player is transported to a small section of Vault 13, devoid of any other characters. When he interacts with the only computer he can, he breaks the Water Chip, ensuring the events of the player's past continue as they should. This encounter, like all special encounters, is only a joke and is not considered canon. Also Vault 8 contains several thousand water chips, which explains why no spare was available in vault 13.
• Fallout games feature well-known actors as NPC voice-talent. Notable appearances include:
• Richard Dean Anderson (Killian, Fallout)
• David Warner (Morpheus, Fallout)
• Tony Shalhoub ((credited as Tony Shalub) Aradesh, Fallout)
• Michael Dorn (Marcus the Mutant, Special Agent Frank Horrigan, Fallout 2)
• Ron Perlman (Narrator, Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics)

The mission briefings in Fallout Tactics are barked by R. Lee Ermey (Also "Gunnery Sergeant Hartman" in the film Full Metal Jacket) and Kurtwood Smith, who is best known from his work in That 70s Show and Robocop.

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R. Lee Ermey - Full Metal Jacket - Kurtwood Smith - That 70s Show - Robocop

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• ' by Troika Games, has a reference to two-headed cows, that appeared originally in Fallout. They are said to come from a "far away desert".
• "War. War never changes" is the infamous phrase uttered in the intro of Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics by Ron Perlman.... The phrase is one of the most forefront icons of the game.
• "Nuka Cola" is a blue cola in a coca cola shaped bottle, in the game, and obviously a reference to the real and actual Coca Cola.