When Steve Jackson himself saw this scene, he cancelled the deal to licence GURPS to Interplay. It is a fiendish and oppressive game, but still an impressive one, even today.įallout also had a memorable moment in its opening cutscene, in which a prisoner is shot in the head, before his executioner waves at the camera. Fallout is a difficult game, and it doesn’t help that you have a limited number of days to find the chip and return it to the vault, otherwise you simply cannot finish the story. That original game saw you sent out from your vault into the harsh wastelands to find a ‘water chip’, as your vault is running out of water. The team licenced a system called GURPS, standing for ‘Generic Universal Role Playing System’, from Steve Jackson Games, a company specialising in publishing role-playing, card and board games. Far from being the action RPG we know and love today, 1997’s Fallout was a 2D, isometric RPG with a tabletop inspired turn-based battle system. Many of today’s Fallout fans have never played the earlier games in the series. It would go by the name of Fallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game.įallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game Fallout 1 Led by Feargus Urquhart, Black Isle focussed on developing RPG games, and its first game would be a spiritual successor to Wasteland. With Brian Fargo unable to licence the Wasteland IP, Interplay would form a division within the company called Black Isle Studios. Interplay wanted to work on a sequel, but EA had other ideas. Wasteland was a success as it shifted 250,000 copies, which was a huge amount for the time. Its success led Interplay to try something different - instead of a traditional fantasy role playing game, they’d attempt to create a post-apocalyptic, Mad Max inspired RPG called Wasteland. In its infancy, the company would work with a couple of today’s biggest video game companies, creating games for Activision and Electronic Arts.ĭuring the mid-1980s, Interplay found their niche with role-playing games, and created the three part series The Bard’s Tale, published by EA. With the help of investor Chris Wells, former Boone Corporation staff Brian Fargo, Troy Worrell, Jay Patel, and Rebecca Heineman formed Interplay Entertainment in 1983. When the Boone Corporation, a California based video game developer, folded, four of its employees banded together to form a new company.
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