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    Real sources for the Fallout Universe

    Well, I guess the thesis will never be published as I am going to use screenshots. But who knows, maybe I can convert this sometime into something which will be published. @Grayswandir: Not only will NMA be quoted, but YOUR NAMES will be quoted. Good think noone has chosen "mutant master...
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    Real sources for the Fallout Universe

    Very very good! That is undergirdening (spelling?) my thesis which I have developed concerning counterfactual history and computer games. Good Post, Now I just have to get that into my paper :) Thank you very much
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    Real sources for the Fallout Universe

    As we Germans might say: wunderbar! Great answers and I thank you girls and guys very much for answering me. That's all a part of my big final paper for the university, counterfactual history in modern computer games :) And Fallout, though not intended, seems to be a very intriguing...
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    Real sources for the Fallout Universe

    Hey sea, good post indeed and I think you made a good point with the aspect of human behavior. But, that was not really an answer to my question, or I do not get your point. First, you say: "Fallout's world isn't inspired by the actual 1950s." and then "Fallout is an alternate...
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    Real sources for the Fallout Universe

    Hey, thanks for the link and the good explanation. I surely DO know the 50s (german STUDENT :wink: ). That still could exclude stuff that people in the US know, which is not common to someone abroad. The same could go vice versa. You might know much about Germany in the 70s, but a German...
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    Real sources for the Fallout Universe

    Hey folks, okay, common sense is that Fallout is basically depicting a retro future from a point of view of a person living in the 50s. I got that, as it isn't actually difficult (and well written in the manual of Fallout 3). But my question is: is it so that the presented world in...
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