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    "a 1950s nuclear holocaust"? Fallout happens in the far future, not the past. There's power armor, AIs, computers, GECK, plasma weapons, and fusion batteries. The intro for the first even tells you it's in the future if I remember right.
    Apr 10, 2008 9:39am PDT
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    "a 1950s nuclear holocaust"? Fallout happens in the far future, not the past. There's power armor, AIs, c... : mroizo40

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    • yeah, america annexes canada, we fight a world war for oil, earth reduced to cinders, that sort of thing. : ucanbfuzzyThis person is cool!
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      The games are set in the future but the nuclear holocaust actually happened in an alternative universe 19... : Mad Brahmin DiseaseThis person is cool!
      • This is true - and thats why all the tech has a sort of retro futuristic look. It's like one of those "Wh... : avatar_58
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        According to the Fallout Wiki, the war occurred in 2077. I'm not sure where that date is sourced from, t... : ArcanumThis person is cool!
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          I believe this is correct. It does give the dates in those logs you get from the destroyed bunker in Fall... : Dr_Tran
          • Could be. It's been several years since I played. : ArcanumThis person is cool!
          • The glow i think : deadfish
        • correct as read in "The Glow" ... yes i still remember that. fallout 1 rocked. : deadfish
      • It occured in the future, but the kind of future that was imagined back in the 1950s. Full of Cold War pa... : SpaecKowThis person is cool!
    • Maybe in 2070 there will be a '50s retro style revival : razorblade79This person is cool!
    • Yeah, the date in F1's intro was 2071 or something to that effect, but the art direction in the games def... : Orange Pylon
    • It's the future... looking out from the 1950s. : SpaecKowThis person is cool!