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Vault Boy, the mascot of the series.
For detailed information about this series, see: The Vault
Fallout is a series created by Tim Cain, originally published by Interplay Entertainment and later by Bethesda Softworks.
Video Games[]
- Fallout (October 10th, 1997) for MS-DOS, PC, and MacOS
- Fallout 2 (September 30th, 1998) for PC and MacOS
- Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel (March 15th, 2001) for PC
- Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (January 14th, 2004) for PlayStation 2 and Xbox
- Fallout 3 (October 28th, 2008) for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360
- Fallout: New Vegas (October 19th, 2010) for PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360
- Fallout Shelter (June 14th, 2015) for Android, iOS, PC, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 4
- Fallout 4 (November 10th, 2015) for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4
- Fallout 76 (November 14th, 2018) for PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4
- Expeditions: The Pitt (September 13th, 2022)
- Expeditions: Atlantic City (December 5th, 2023)
- Fallout Shelter Online (June 1st, 2020) for Android and iOS
- Fallout 5 (TBA)
TV[]
- Fallout (April 12th, 2024 - Present)
Links to Other Series[]
Mascot Link: Official Funko Pop! Vinyl merchandise was released that featured Freddy Funko dressed in a Vault Boy costume.
Vault Boy appears in Youtooz promotional art alongside other characters.
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Doctor Who | September 30, 1998 | In Fallout 2 you can find a phone box looking like the TARDIS, and if the Vault Dweller approaches this strangely-located object, the light on top starts spinning, and the box slowly vanishes into thin air with a whooshing sound, leaving behind only a motion sensor. | 3 |
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Short Circuit (TriStar) | October 29, 1998 | A robot says "number five is alive" in Fallout 2. | 3 |
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Run Like Hell | September 30, 2002 | In Run Like Hell, the "PIP Boy Protein Bars", icon contains the image of a muscular Vault Boy on. | 3 |
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World of Darkness | November 16, 2004 | In Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, on the entry for Michael "Muddy" Durbin, the player can read that he had put up a Corvega for his bond. | 3 |
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March 20, 2007 | In the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, the data for weapons from Fallout 2 such as the Bozar, M72 Gauss rifle, and .223 pistol exist in the game files of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, but remain unimplemented. The Gauss rifle was implemented in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky as the EM1 rifle, however. | ||
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Sam & Max | November 8, 2007 | Stimpacks and radiation chems are mentioned in Sam & Max: Beyond Time and Space. | 3 |
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Them! | October 28, 2008 | In Fallout 3, there is a side-quest involving giant mutated fire ants titled "Those!" in homage to the film Them!. | 3 |
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V for Vendetta | October 28, 2008 | The Fallout character "Fawkes" and the "Finding the Garden of Eden" quest contains minor references to V for Vendetta. | 3 |
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Indiana Jones | October 19, 2010 | The Wild Wasteland trait adds an encounter with a refrigerator containing a fedora and skeleton. This is a reference to the scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull where Indiana Jones saves himself from an atomic bomb explosion by taking cover in a lead-lined fridge. | 3 |
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Brink | August 23, 2011 | Brink released cosmetics based on the Fallout series as part of the Fallout/SpecOps Pack. | 2 |
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Team Fortress | August 3, 2011 | Team Fortress 2 features a promotional item from Fallout: New Vegas and unlocked by pre-puchasing the game. | 1 |
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Rage (Bethesda) | October 4, 2011 | In Rage, a Charisma Bobblehead is found in the town of Wellspring on the mayor's desk. In the Subway Town, a picture in a magazine is a freeze-frame of a nuclear explosion seen in Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game game with the tag line, "War, war never changes." The player can also see the explosion and an eyebot in the surrounding area. | 1 |
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BioShock | October 27, 2011 | Fallout: New Vegas - Gun Runners' Arsenal features a reference to BioShock. | 3 |
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Fred's World | February 5, 2012 | Pip Fred costume from Running Fred and Vault Fred from Clicker Fred are based on Vault Boy. | 3 |
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Monica's Gang | June 2012 | Jacoren appears in Clássicos do Cinema - Turma da Mônica #32. | 2 |
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Adventure Time | June 25, 2012 | In the episode Princess Cookie, the sign in the hospital saying "You're Special!" has a reference to the book in the post-apocalyptic Fallout 3. | 3 |
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Primordia (Wormwood Studios) | December 5, 2012 | In Primordia a character has a Water Chip and proposes trading it for a G.E.C.K.; this references items from Fallout and Fallout 2. | 3 |
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Henry Stickmin | May 27, 2013 | The armor used in one path from Infiltrating the Airship is based on the T-45 power armor from Fallout. | 3 |
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Wasteland | December 13, 2013 | The original Wasteland inspired many of the original and later developers of the Fallout series, and the two IPs have alluded to each other several times. | 3 |
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Wolfenstein | May 20, 2014 | In Wolfenstein: The New Order and Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, the soda machines feature the Nuka-Cola logo among other in-universe brands. | 1 |
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The Evil Within (Tango Gameworks) | October 14, 2014 | Posters based on Fallout can be found in The Evil Within. Additionally, one of the Mysterious Objects in The Evil Within 2 is based on Fallout | 2 |
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Plok | June 19, 2015 | The comic Plok: The Exploding Man features a reference to Pip-Boy. | 2 |
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Rocket League | November 9, 2015 | An Antenna based on the Vault Boy was included in Rocket League patch v1.08. | 2 |
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Serial Experiments Lain | November 10, 2015 | In Fallout, one of Codsworth's recognized player character names is "Lain" referencing Serial Experiments Lain. | 2 |
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Pitfall | November 10, 2015 | Fallout 4 features a fictional game called "Pipfall", partially based on Pitfall. | 2.5 |
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Donkey Kong | November 10, 2015 | Fallout 4 features a fictional game called "Red Menace", partially based on Donkey Kong. | 2.5 |
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Papers, Please | November 10, 2015 | EZIC's symbol from Papers, Please can be found in Fallout 4. | 3 |
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Dota | November 12, 2015 | Mr. Handy from Fallout 4 is an announcer in Dota 2. | 1 |
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Random Encounters | November 27, 2015 | Random Encounters has made a Fallout song. | 3 |
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Emily is Away | November 20, 2015 | A Fallout themed icon can be unlocked in Emily is Away. | 2 |
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Rock Band | December 8, 2015 | Outfits based on Fallout 4 appear as DLC in Rock Band. | 2 |
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Watchmen | March 22, 2016 | In Fallout Zoe's diary contains the entry "Who Protects the Protectron?" This is a reference to Juvenal's "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?", a phrase popularized as "Who Watches the Watchmen?" from the Watchmen series. | 3 |
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Doom (ID Software) | May 13, 2016 | There have been multiple crossovers between Fallout and Doom. |
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Forza | April 14, 2016 | The Chryslus Rocket 69 from Fallout is featured in Forza Motorsport 6. | 1 |
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Pinball FX | December 6, 2016 | A pinball table based on Fallout was added to the Pinball FX series starting with Pinball FX 2 that features characters from the series. | 1 |
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Prey | August 29, 2017 | Morgan Yu's spacesuit is available as part of Fallout 4's Creation Club. | 1 |
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Quake | August 29, 2017 | The Quake Thunderbolt is available as part of Fallout 4's Creation Club. | 1 |
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The Elder Scrolls | August 29, 2017 | There have been multiple crossovers between Fallout and The Elder Scrolls. | 1 |
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Minecraft | December 21, 2016 | Minecraft features a Fallout mash-up pack for the Bedrock and Legacy Console Editions. | 2 |
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Operation (Hasbro) | 2017 | Operation - Fallout S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Edition is a format crossover between the two series. | 3 |
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Beetlejuice | November 14, 2018 | There are two locations that reference to the film Beetlejuice in the Forest area of Appalachia in Fallout 76. Namely, a car wreckage containing the bodies of Adam and Barbara Maitland and the chalk door. | 3 |
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Apocalypse Now | November 14, 2018 | Gunther Jenkins' line "Don'tcha just love the smell of irradiated ash in the mornin'?" is a reference to the quote from Apocalypse Now: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." | 3 |
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Alien (Fox) | November 14, 2018 | In Fallout 76, at the AVR Medical Center, first floor, one can find a Jangles the Moon Monkey doll lying on a stretcher with a toy alien attached to its face. | 3 |
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A Christmas Story | November 14, 2018 | In Fallout 76, one of the Fanatics' generic combat taunts is "Careful! You'll shoot your eye out!". This is a reference to the 1983 holiday film A Christmas Story, in which main character Ralphie Parker is frequently told the same thing when he asks for a BB gun for Christmas. | 3 |
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Breaking Bad | November 14, 2018 | In Fallout 76, the barrel burial site north of Sugar Grove is a reference to Breaking Bad. It references a scene from the show in which Walter White buries barrels full of money driven by a truck to a remote location in the desert. The skeleton of Walter White can be found there, among other references to the scene from the show. | 3 |
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True Detective | November 14, 2018 | In Fallout 76, the mycology notes found at the abandoned Bog Town directly quote Rust Cohle from the first season of the TV series True Detective, stating that "time is a flat circle." | 3 |
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Metro | February 15, 2019 | Liberty Prime is mentioned in the game Metro Exodus. | 3 |
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Super Smash Bros. | June 29, 2020 | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate features a downloadable costume based on Vault Boy from Fallout. | 2 |
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Console Wars | November 11, 2020 | Fallout characters are parodied in Console Wars. | 3 |
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Ghostwire | March 25, 2022 | The vault suit from Fallout 4 can be found in Ghostwire: Tokyo. | 2 |
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Goat Simulator | November 17, 2022 | Goat Simulator 3 contains the quest The Big Red Button which involves detonating an atomic bomb. The quest rewards the player with a Vault 55 suit which is named Fallout Boi. The item description reads "Goat. Goat never changes" in reference to the Fallout Series tagline. | 3 |
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Hi-Fi Rush | January 25, 2023 | In Hi-Fi Rush If the player completes all the bonus doors within the game they gain access to the lair of the main villain, Kale Vandelay. The room has notes considering different business ideas, each referencing games published by Bethesda Softworks such as The Evil Within, Prey, Deathloop, and Fallout. | 3 |
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Tenacious D | May 11, 2023 | "Video Games" by Tenacious D includes a brief segment referencing Fallout 4. | 3 |
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September 6, 2023 | There were plans for locations from Fallout to appear in Starfield, however the idea was scrapped. | ||
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Magic: The Gathering | March 8, 2024 | Characters from Fallout appear in the "Magic The Gathering - Fallout" release for Magic: The Gathering. | 1a |
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Fortnite | May 24, 2024 | The T-60 Power Armour from Fallout appears in Fortnite as a part of the Chapter 5 Season 3 Battle Pass. | 1 |
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Professor Chalk | June 8, 2024 | Professor Chalk sings about Fallout in the music video for Roll Out The Fallout! | 2 |
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Stumble Guys | June 17, 2024 | Characters from Fallout appear in Stumble Guys as part of a special collaboration. | 1 |
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Call of Duty | June 20, 2024 | Vault Dwellers from Fallout appear in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Call of Duty: Warzone as operator skins along with other Fallout cosmetics. | 1 |
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Balatro | February 24, 2025 | Cards based on Fallout appeared in Balatro as part of the "Friends of Jimbo 4" update. | 2 |
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Halloween Horror Nights | June 5, 2025 | in an ad for Halloween Horror Nights 34 an Atomic bomb warning from Fallout appears. | 1 |
