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It was a promotional "big box", not really a press item. This was back when PC boxes were big, and retailers let you produce even bigger promo boxes that they could put in store windows, etc. I think they still have promo boxes for the more popular games - especially at places like Electronics...

Ah... but first you need to understand it is a game counter... And then you need to name the game. It was (is) a classic - the first of a genre. And in the theme, it IS a post-apoc game. :)

Last one... A framed piece of production art for the Fallout2 launch spread ad (no nasty folds or creases to mess up a cool ad)

Here's some framed artwork. The one on the left is a press sheet of the large Fallout promo box (no folds). The one on the right is a cover of the large Fallout2 promo box. I assume all the other copies of the press sheets, etc, are long gone. Interplay used to keep stuff like this in...

Chicks dig guys with Fallout collectibles...

I give it a 7 - campy post-apoc kinda in the Warhammer frame. I little trite (the skull thing has gotten really overused) but quality of execution gives it plusses :)

It was a press item they used for a press mailing to all the game editors pre-release. Krys Card was the PR Manager for Black Isle for a number of years. (Look in your Fallout2 manual) I think they actually featured it in a PC Gamer or CGW article back in '98 (tchochke of the month). I seem...

Tough to photo the copy on the back of the "Gecko in a Can". Here's what it says: Tastes great hot or cold, breakfast, lunch, or dinner! Gecko in a Can(TM) is the meal for you Serving Suggestions: open can using pull-tab (Tip: save razor-edged lid for use as a nifty survival weapon). Our...

Here's another rare one:

You want a collector's item? How about this one. Anyone on this board who can tell me what it is? (BTW I know what it is - I have it - I am curious how many of the other "faithful" there are) Unopened, no less...

They haven't been in the business of making games in a looooooong time. At best, they have licensed other peoples' work. At worse, they have been playing musical chairs with development licenses and skimming money on the turn. There is value left in the company, but not much. The shell...

What is Fallout, really? Is it a name? Or is it a type of game? In my opinion this is all alot of gripe about nothing. First, let's hope that Bethesda makes a game. Given the state of the PC game industry and independent developers in general, the odds are against it (far fewer than...

Sadly - and I mean this, Fallout and Fallout2 were not big sellers. I think Fallout got to 100K unit sales in its first two years. Fallout2 was less than that. If you were real generous, and after all these years, maybe both titles combined did 250K units. Not really something to write home...

Interplay doesn't HAVE a building. All they have is old rented office space in a big corporate park - office space that they owe about $450,000 on. Nope - the only assets they have is the Fallout IP and their employees' body parts. And since they stopped paying their employees, they have...

You are very true. IPLY was never a master of cash flow management, and in fact, it is cash flow that has been their nemesis ever since they went public. All of these little games you can play with receivables, trade returns counted as revenue, rights licensing, etc, fall apart when you...

You guys must think about it differently in Europe. Over here, the general sense is that there is a company that needs money to do X, and they ask the public for funds to help them do it. The public says "what's in it for me" and the company responds with business plans, projections, and an...

Guys, if you liked X-Com, you HAVE to pick up Silent Storm. It is EXACTLY X-Com, but updated for 2004 with incredibly better graphics, and a story / setting in WWII. A good character development system as well. Not a perfect game, but very, very, good, and much better than anything else out...