Amazon’s Fallout TV series is pretty good, yeah? Not only is it some darn great television in its own right, this high-budget, high-profile show might just be the most faithful adaptation of a video game ever put to screens big or small. It’s so good that the Fallout video games, the most recent of which is almost seven years old, have been shooting back up the charts.
But if you’re new to the crumbling, irradiated world of Fallout, you might feel a little lost when the credits roll on the last episode. (By the way, you’ll be glad to hear that the TV show has been renewed for a second season.)
What’s this New Vegas place hinted at in the post-credits scene? Why did the pre-war flashbacks look like Marty McFly’s 1955, but have nuclear-powered robots? How did people invent Iron Man-style power armor if they can’t make a computer smaller than a bread box? What’s a New California Republic? How did some people survive the war as scarred, noseless ghouls that live for centuries? What the hell is a Mister Handy?
The Fallout TV show takes place within the world of the games, and for the most part, doesn’t conflict with the canon storyline that’s been ongoing since the original released waaaay back in 1997. But even if you’ve played some of the newer 3D games, there are deep pools of glowing green lore locked in those early games that even some of the biggest fans don’t know about.
Fallout 1 and 2 established a lot of the pivotal story seen in the later games (and as a result, the TV show), but they’re games from a very different world. The 2D graphics and top-down presentation are hard to sink your teeth into if you’ve never played a game off a floppy disk. And that’s a shame, because they have some incredible storytelling, quests, and voice-acting performances, much of which is directly relevant to the ongoing series in both game and show format.
Fortunately for us here in the futuristic wonderland of 2024, you don’t actually have to play hundreds of hours of games from decades ago to learn about the world you’re so interested in. There’s a wealth of information that’s been collated by fans and presented online in easy-to-digest chunks. You can spend hours going on a lore binge to find out what happened, why…and what might just happen next.
Here’s a small selection of info, and a few good places to start. Go on a deep dive for a little while, and you’ll be a Fallout lore expert worthy of a Brotherhood Scribe in no time. Some of the best sources that cover the Fallout series and its fascinating history are linked and embedded below, including Synonymous and The Templin Institute, and of course, the fan-maintained wiki.
The world before the bombs
Fallout‘s sci-fi story technically takes place in the future, but it’s also an example of alternate history, sharing a lot of 20th-century revisionism with series like Red Alert. The world that was destroyed is not the same one you remember, not even before the first game in 1997. As a general rule you can assume that the history in the world of Fallout is the same as the real world, up until the end of World War II and the start of the Cold War, just before 1950.
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