What is included in the Fallout 1 Box?

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I apologize if this has been asked before, but I felt this question to be oddball enough that it may not have been. Plus, I'm really not sure what search parameters would show it to me.

Anyways, I originally purchased the Fallout game through the dual jewel. That was for me a bad idea, since I'm a completionist. I've since purchased a box version of FO 2 and acquired it's manual, and now I'm looking to get FO1 in a box. So my question is, is it worth it? Does it have a manual, and other spiffy stuff?

Thanks in advance.
 
It has a jewel case of the game, but otherwise nothing truly special except for the manual.

A wire-wound Vault Dweller's Guide, one of the BEST manuals ever made. Well-illustrated, the wiring even suits the style, and the manual will last for years over the cheaper crap used for FOT, which smudges illegibly if you even breathe on it, which is also commonly used for modern games. That was another major point of Fallout - it had the traditional Origin/Sierra/Sir-Tech manner of having good game supplementals in the box.

And "Remember Wasteland?" on the inside flap of the box. :D
 
The UK edition manual was glued, not wire-bound. Was the same for Baldur's Gate II, I remember, the manual was of slightly lesser quality and a cloth map from the US package was missing.
 
yep, the uk manual was glued, but I'm pretty sure it's possible to find an original US version with everything inside it, I recently found and b ought a Fallout 2 box with everything including the official strategy guide(weheew :roll: ), quite a buy eh? :wink: (/brag end)
 
Rephrase that to "Every manual except for the US one was glued and no other version than the US one came with any swag other than a thick, yet glued, manual".

Bastards.

Even Orion at least had the decency to add the poster-quality four pages "newspaper" to the international versions of Crusader (both parts).

Nowadays we don't even get cardboxes, let alone decent manuals. With the slight exception of GTA San Andreas, which came as a hardcover book in a cardboard DVD box slide.

These teeny-weeny DVD boxes are seriously pissing me off.

And you Americans have the nerve to complain about us not producing international versions of a crappy game within less than a year after its original release.
So much for tasting your own medicine.
 
Roshambo said:
A wire-wound Vault Dweller's Guide, one of the BEST manuals ever made...
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Besides being completely informative of all the game info needed by the player (What all booklets must say.) it feels like part of the game just looking at it and reading it with all the perspective given of you actually being in a vault.

Seriously nostalgic.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
There's more in the box than the manual and game. Also included was the Vault Dweller's Quick Reference Card. It included instruction on how to install the game, a diagram of quick keys, and what you should find in the "Fallout survival kit."

While the card was pretty pointless, it was a nice touch.
 
fallout 2 had recipes in teh ring bound manual. for cakes and shit.
never tried any, i hope while im at college no one threw out my manuals for fallout 1 and 2. I remember looking through them with such delight at a younger age, lets see, i got fo1 in about 98 or 99, i mustve only been 12 or 13, how nostalgic.

seriously though, i've yet to see a modern game which has a manual that could ever come near fo1 or fo2's. if they do, (which i hope STALKER does), i will be pleasently surprised and i'm certain that it'll compliment the quality of the game.
 
Ashmo said:
These teeny-weeny DVD boxes are seriously pissing me off.
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seconded, and thirded, fourthed, fifthededed, sixhtedededed, and so on :badmood:
 
We're supposed to be the Master race, for crying out loud.

DVD Boxes? This wasn't what we invaded Poland for!
 
samuraisam said:
i've yet to see a modern game which has a manual that could ever come near fo1 or fo2's. if they do, (which i hope STALKER does), i will be pleasently surprised and i'm certain that it'll compliment the quality of the game.
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Arcanum had a truly great manual as well, also full of atmosphere and feeling like a true part of the game, and the game came with a map. Arcanum also came in a cardboard box.
In fact: it was the last game I bought that came in a cardboard box. I think that the DVD cases were already used by then, but Arcanum didn't yet follow that awfull trend. All the games I've since bought, though, came in DVD cases. Which sucks, although one tends to save valuable space in the cupboard.
 
The Icewind Dale Übar Collection came in a cardboard box, with its 7 cds and 2 reference cards. That was in 2003 or something.
 
I was... upset... when I bought several games off the internet without realizing they were DVD style third party pieces of crap.

Never again! I insist on the box and manual if it exists. Otherwise I will accept a "on the CD" manual, if it is MY ONLY CHOICE.

Grrr.
 
I had a jewel case one I got from the blackmarket in Moscow. Its also translated into russian with an attached essay on how hard it was to translate because the dudes who started to never finished. It's pretty funny and I can post this evil abomination here if you want to see..its gold!

there are also a few repackaged Korean, original boxed Korean, original USA/europe boxes/jewels, here in Seoul. Its kind of crazy how much fallout is here...but...none of the store owners know what it is! I really wonder why so many copies of fallout are in korea...they have awfull good taste!
 
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