How did you discover Fallout ?

Mikey enters his brother's room. Mikey asks his brother "What's that you're playing." Mikey's brother replies "This game called Fallout. It's pretty good." Mikey says "Can I have a go?" Mikey's brother says "Maybe later."
 
I found this game sitting on my cousin's computer desktop. I got curious, begins playing and got hooked. Later that day I bought it in my neighbourhood game store.

I lost the manuals and boxes when I moved to another place... Darn... :cry:
 
The way I discovered Fallout is kind of interesting, or ironic depending how you look at it.

I was at this pawnshop looking around, they had some PC games, specifically a old boxed copy of System Shock I.

Now I truly loved SS2 and dearly wanted this game.
Alas I had spend my cash already that day.

I came back a week later when I had both the time and some cash.
Wouldn't you know it. Just my luck. It was gone.
So somewhat dissapointed , I looked at what else was on the shelf.

A square little brown box with the logo: "Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game", caught my eye.

Some guy in power armour on the cover. I looked at the back and saw a small screenie.
The Vault-13 PC toasting a radscorpion with the flamethrower ...

That was it.

IMO its still to be surpassed for crpg role-playing goodness.
 
You know what's really weird? I have no idea. I remember playing Fallout for years, i must have got it pretty soon after it came out, but i have no recollection of buying it or finding it or borrowing it at all.

There was just a time when Fallout simply was, and no time before that. Then there was another one. Of them. And then there were no more, and mulluk was sad.

I'm afraid.
 
I must have bought fallout 2 (F2 was my first) at least a year after it came out. I vaguely knew it existed having seen some bits in magazines but never payed any attention. Then one day i bought a 2nd hand copy and never looked back.
A wierd thing happened though when i arrived at the graveyard outside New Reno - I had a deja vu - I'd been there before and i knew where the grave i was looking for was , but i had simply never played the game before. Very wierd!
 
At the first time I saw the game on my friend's computer. And I found it very bad. "It's turn-based. Oh, God..." - I said :) Only two or three years later when my computer became totally useless for new games I tried to play Fallout 2. And dissapeared in this world for two weeks.
I was totally absorbed you know :) Now I've played (and finished) f2 more than 15 times. I've opened all the endings and so on... ;) And of course I was interested to play the first part of the game.
And I did. I liked it but not so much as the second.
 
Well, a few years ago, I was looking for some good RPGs to play, and was told about Fallout by a friend of mine. I heard mixed reports about it, but decided it was worth a try, so I bought both Fallout 1 and 2 from some guy on a gaming forum.
 
I FIRST discovering it when reading a preview of it in Gamepro back in mid 1996. I was initially excited because, at the time, the game was being designed as the first "GURPS Computer RPG" and was supposed to use the GURPS pen and paper RPG system, which you can read more about at www.sjgames.com. I was excited about this, since me and my friends were into GURPS and played it a lot (along with D&D and such). I heard later that they switched to another format which they did because the GURPS system wasn't working out optimally for the game, but I kept up with the game and it looked like it was coming along good. A few months after it came out, I ordered it from the Columbia House CD-Rom Club (yea, I remember that, whoever mentioned something about it) along with Total Annihilation, Balls of Steel, and a couple other games (Forgot what they were, but if I did forget, they probably weren't that special or they got stolen long ago and so I probably didn't have a chance to play them much). I was hooked on it, and a year later one of my friend's bought Fallout 2 for 20$ but he gave it to me since his computer wouldn't run it for some reason. I was so excited about the Fallout series that Fallout Tactics turned out to be the FIRST EVER videogame that I have preordered. It may not have been as good as the others, but the way that particular game played was very nice, and I loved how it added to the Fallout Universe. I miss my Fallout Tactics T-Shirt...

I only beat Fallout 1 two times, then let a friend borrow it. He borrowed it in late 1999, and I still haven't got the game back LOL(Although I know he still has it since he mentioned something about playing it just a couple months back, I told him last week to find it for me if he can). Fallout 2 I probably beat at least 4 or 5 times. I just started a save of Fallout 2 a while ago, and I'm going to start a Fallout Tactics one soon, but I am having a very hard time finding the 1.27 patch of the game, and I know that the game is pretty buggy without that patch release, so I'm not going to play it until I get that patch. I used the link on this site for 3Ddownloads.com but the download froze at about 63%.
 
A quite boring way: My brother bought Gold Games Vol. 4 which included Fallout and Fallout 2 , I tryed out Fallout and got addicted within 3 hours.
 
Short story. One day I simply bought a Polish "CD-Action" magazine with the full version of Fallout. In those times I was collecting them and Fallout was just a "next game in turn". I didn't know what it really is until I sat on my ass and got addicted after a few hours of play (like buddy from above ;)). It was in 1999, as far as I remember...
 
About 4 years ago i was stumbling around the electronics section at wal mart in Selinsgrove, Pa. I was bored out of my mind and needed a cheap pc game (was almost broke at the time). Luckily I saw a sweet deal Fallout 1&2 for $10. Picked 'em up and have been addicted ever since 8) Picked up FOT last year for $10 shipped on ebay new.

I just finally beat FO2 and FOT for the first time this month
 
I actually discovered the Mac version of FO first. Back when Macs were computers, and not fruity artschool projects.

That was when it was brand new, and I played it at a friends house for a few days. Then, years later, I was browsing through PC titles and came across FO2, and was like "oh YEAH that game where I slaughtered everyone in shady sands."
 
I snatched it off my older brother who got the original fallout, umm five years ago, played through it in a day cause it was so cool I couldn't stop =D and then played through fallout 2 but that took more like a week, and tactics which was cool but I didn't enjoy as much...
 
I'm a target practice enthusiast, and my favorite hand gun has always been the Desert Eagle .44. When I first heard about the gun, I did a search online to get it's specs, and I happened by accident to come across a little web page mentioning the gun. The web page was some kind of mini stratagy guide for Fallout 1, talking about where to find particular weapons (IE kill a raider to get a DE 44). I figured any game with a Desert Eagle must be half decent, so I kept an eye out.

About a year later, I happened across a battered old copy of Fallout 1 on the clearance wrack. And we've all know where it went from there :)
 
In a clearance bin at Sam Goody, it was a game I hadn't played and it looked neat plus it was a duel jewel case. Best game buy ever :D.
 
about 5 years ago.. a friend of mine told me about it..hate it at the begining... addict after a few days..
 
played a bit of it years ago... but i actualy bout the $10 dual jewel and played it in full a few years ago and thought, "holy shit! why did i not play this when it was released"

best $10 EVAR
 
i remember reading about fallout in various gaming magazines since it came out, but i never paid much attention to them...then i learned about the game's devout following and that made me more interested in the game, but i still didn't try it.

recently, though, i played a (bad) attempt to get the fallout experience into ofp, which is a game i've been addicted to since it came out in 2001. in the boredom of summer i decided to start learning more about fallout, got very interested in the concept, and tried to get the demo; it wouldn't work on win2k, so i decided to just buy the jewel f1/f2 pack off amazon. it came last friday, and i've been playing it since!
 
Rev. Layle said:
played a bit of it years ago... but i actualy bout the $10 dual jewel and played it in full a few years ago and thought, "holy shit! why did i not play this when it was released"

best $10 EVAR
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I did the same thing... twice... Plus the time I borrowed FO2 from my buddy a few years before the dual Jewl... so, I lied... Sort of.
 
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