How did you discover Fallout ?

My friends hired Fallout 2, then Fallout from the local games shop, and I instantly fell in love with it (Platonically, of course...)

The Retro theme, the fact it was a RPG that wasn't based around fighting Dragons and shit, all of it. To this day, the original is still my #1 game of all time :D
 
I got the Fallout 1 demo in a gaming magazine and decided to install it, having read some news about it. I must have fought my way through that little farm about 20 times. I got the game as soon as it came out. I remember playing it on my old pentium 75 machine. On that system the loading times were horrible, 2 or 3 minutes each. Good times..
 
Back in 1999, my grandma, yes grandma, bought my brother a copy of good ol' fallout II and me Redneck Rampage (also a very good game). I enjoyed Fallout II better than Rampage though, but meh. To me that is a historical turning point in my life, *sniff* and that is where my Fallout career (nerding it up in my basement) began...
 
I remember my dad mentioned something about Fallout. So, on my birthday, I bought at two-disk Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 package. I gave my dad one and just let Fallout 2 gather dust. Then one day I was incredibly bored adn I popped Fallout 2 in. My first guy sucked, but hey. I've been addicted like Jet since.
 
In 1998, I had recently switched over from being a console gamer, to being a PC gamer. I was looking for a good RPG, and I read PCGamer's reviews for both Fallout 2 and Balder's Gate. Balder's Gate got a higher score, but Fallout 2 looked different to me, so I decided to buy that. After playing the game hundreds of times, I began my search for Fallout 1, and found a copy in the original box for $10 and bought it.
 
I went to my friends house bored (before he left my villiage) I saw the pic on the front of the FO2 case and thought hmmm then hmmm then I asked him if i could borrow it, 'no' please 'no' why because he didnt like it he couldnt get over the turn based right at the start but I could I completed 2 barely i always majorly mess up on the fist way through and had to switch to all easy + other nifty tricks. I want the first loads and my own versions so I ordered them off of amazon, sposed to arrive for christmas dammit now theyre comin for the 1-14 Feb.
 
Ermm , general browsing in a games shop. I liked the concept as it seemed differant at the time and in fact it is differant lol. And i bought both Fallout 1 and 2 on a special pack and i think i became a hermit for few months due to overplaying the thing. I must have entered the real world and wondered where the Brahmin were lol.
 
I snathed it from my freind...

Well the got pissed of the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...
the 73:d time in a ROW that Mr. F fried his ass and trew it out the window...

Later uppon returning home I saw it in the bin and took it home and loved it since then...

p.s. I´m still freinds with him...
 
One of my friends said, "Oh man you gotta check out this demo!!!"

I said, "I don't download demos... they take too damn long" (Mind you, this was back in the dialup days and we have terrible phone service here so my connects were about 14.4 speed if I was lucky)

He waved his arms and screamed and yelled and threw fits until I finally said, "Fine... I'll check the thing out. Leave me alone dammit."

About a day later I'd finally managed to stay connected long enough to DL the damn thing... about 3 days after that, I think I actually saw daylight again. I was utterly hooked.

Joined the Iplay forums (and the Unwashed Villagers), bought the FO1 CD the very day it hit the shelves, played it over and over again and spent a LOT of time on those old forums..

Heh.. I remeber well all the worries we had when FO2 was announced -some of which had basis, some did not. Bought the second game the day it came out, played it to death and then some.

They're easily the two games I've played more than any other in my rather large collection, no contest. The only other ones that probably even come close would be Jagged Alliance 1/2 and Vampire The Masquerade: Redemption (the first one) -because I and some friends used it to more or less give us an online Pen and Paper style game with some HEAVY modifications.

Ah the memories...

-Wraith
 
I once played a demo of some game, with a guy in a blue suit... it was really cool. Think I played it over and over couple of hours...

Then in a cd-store I saw a game with the same name as the demo: Fallout. I didn't buy it back then (no money, crappy computer).

Then a while ago (year or two) I saw it again in a mall in Germany. And I bought it. Soon after that, I found Fallout 2, bought it immediately. And luckily I also found Fallot Tactics. So my life was complete.
 
My friend told me about Fallout 2. So i borrowed it from him. And soon after that i bought Fallout 1 from the store.
 
I first saw Fallout on a Demo CD over at a friend's house. I believe the demo only let you wander around in JunkTown a bit...we both fell in love with it, and have been looking for it for almost 3 weeks back then. Pretty hard to come by when it just came out in the Netherlands. We both rushed through like madmen, the coolest thing was we both started at the same time and had completely different characters, so we could compare events we stumbled upon.

For example; we finished about the same time. He shot the Overseer i the back bc he killed about everybody he could without getting in too much trouble, and I'm one of those types that rather saves ammo than spending it ;)
 
In 200...3? my brother got me Fallout 1 for Christmas because it looked like an old DOS game I loved (Crusader). He didn't get them confused but he thought they would play similair. They really aren't much alike but I was hooked on Fallout ever since.
 
Tcfkal said:
I first saw Fallout on a Demo CD over at a friend's house. I believe the demo only let you wander around in JunkTown a bit...we both fell in love with it, and have been looking for it for almost 3 weeks back then.
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I played the same Demo. I still have the cd-rom that it's on lying in the pile of cd-roms behind me :P.

Tcfkal said:
Pretty hard to come by when it just came out in the Netherlands.
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After I played the demo I found it in the Free Record Shop in Enschede (where I live) but I didn't buy it. Some years ago I found it in a mall in Germany. On a table with a lot of other old games. It was only a couple of euros :D.
 
In ~2003, I accidentally came across Deus Ex. (That's "Deus Ex", and yes, it IS a computer game, not a band, a movie, or a storytelling technique or something. If you haven't realized that yet, then you should go and buy it. Trust me. Heh.)

Anyway, since then, I don't buy new games anymore. I get myself either a "Best games of all time" list or a "Best overlooked games of all time" list, start at #1, and see what I haven't played yet.

The funny part is that all of those things cost around five dollars. This industry, truly, is completely mad.
 
Yep, thats the gaming industry for you.

I first experienced Fallout from a demo CD a friend brought over. This was long before the days that I had internet. I enjoyed the demo a lot, and always kept thinking to buy Fallout. Finally, I'm walking through a Best Buy to get my younger brother Dark Cloud (don't ask), I see a Fallout 1 and 2 Jewel for $10. That was the best $10 I ever spent on games. Then, a couple years later I find a Planescape: Torment game there for $10 dollars, with something called Soul Bringer. I gave the dreck to my brother and played one of the best. Yeah, there is way to much focus on the latest and "greatest". Of course, whats the point of being a developer if no more games need be made?
 
I was stuck with an Office job in the Army 1 year ago.
And all I had for entertainment was a crappy old 400Mhz Laptop, that could not run anything at all.
So I was stuck playing old games with no graphic requirements.
Then one day the guy that shared the office with me brought over Fallout 2 on a cd. I installed the game, started it up, ran straight into the temple of trials and died hard.
Died really hard. I eventually figured it out, and I have loved it since.
Now I cannot wait for F3.
 
Somtime in 2000, a friend of mine told me about a game called Fallout 2. I'd never heard of it before but the premise of an RPG set in a nuked-world sounded interesting. Anyways, he lent me a copy of FO2 he got while he was in Canada, and I fell in love with it.

Found my own copy sometime later and eventually tracked down a copy of the original FO.
 
I discovered Fallout when I was about 14 and I was downloading demo's for my Imac computer and I came upon the Fallout demo I first hated it because I didn't know the control but then read the read me and was hooked I played the demo for not kidding about 3 months straight doing the demo millions of different ways it became a new religion to me and then got the full version for $5 at best buy the best five bucks i ever spent and got both versions.
 
I saw Fallout 2 in the store, vaugely recalled reading great reviews about it, and picked it up (it was fairly cheap). When I opened up the box, Fallout 1 was in there too. Wasni't expecting that. Ahhh, good times.
 
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