Fallout

The year was 1997 and Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game had just been
released by Interplay.

This book looks back at the entire Fallout saga, tells the story of the
series' birth, retraces its history and deciphers its mechanics.

The perfect book to discover and understand the origins of Fallout, with the
saga's genesis and the decryption of each of his episodes !

EXTRACT

"The intro music and the end credits were the final main components of this
hybrid post-apocalyptic/50s ambiance. Initially, Brian Fargo wanted to signal
Fallout’s inspiration with Warriors of the Wasteland, by Frankie Goes to
Hollywood, but when he heard The Ink Spots, he changed his mind and loved the
result. The first choice was I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire by this
group of crooners from the 1930s/40s, but unfortunately the high cost made it
impossible to acquire the rights. But while browsing an extensive list of
tracks from the era, the team found that Maybe, by the same group, had almost
the same sound-with the added bonus of being cheap! The lyrics are about a
break-up, from the point of view of the person being left behind: "Maybe
you’ll think of me when you are all alone/ Then maybe you’ll ask me to come
back again". Leonard Boyarsky notes that, "It worked with the intro [and the
ending]", referring to the ending with the betrayal and lonely exile of
Fallout’s hero. "It felt like it was this genius plan we had [...] but it was
only later that we decided to kick [the player] out of the Vault. I feel like
this is a metaphor for the whole game: it looks like we had a better picture
in mind than we did, it just came out of the things we were doing"."