I'm new to the fallout games fallout 3 was the first one I played so I think it would be cool if bethesda or whoever has the rights to the fallout franchise make fallout 1 and 2 downloadable for Xbox live arcade or playstation 3 network let me know what you think

Given the mostly point-and-click nature of the games, I don't see this working.

It could work, but I'm not sure how good they would be.

Just get them for your computer, I mean any computer can run these games.

What I think would work better, and I'd love to see, is Fallout 1 and/or for iPod touch/iPhone. The point and click would suit the platform better, and I'd love to be able to play Fallout on the go, or at downtime on the job.

I find this topic comes up every few months, around here. I doubt it's very likely to ever happen, either way. I don't have any idea of what the sales figures for the old games are right now, but I'd imagine they're moderately decent enough for a ten-year-old game - I don't think you'd see enough of a huge upswell in purchases if you put it out for Live Arcade (or something like the IPhone either,) to really justify the work needed to make something like that happen.

Hypothetically, however, I don't think the whole point-and-click thing would be that huge of a boundary. We're talking about a turn-based game where it's not like you're ever going to need to be terribly fast at clicking on things, after all. And people who say that it wouldn't work with a game controller and anolog sticks seem to be forgetting about all the myriad console titles that are controlled pretty much by moving an on-screen cursor around with the anolog sticks. If it worked for those games, I don't see how doing the exact same thing for Fallout 1 and 2 would be any different.

(ie, they ported Diablo to consoles way back in the day, and it played perfectly fine without a mouse. I've also played the console version of Civilization just fine with anolog controllers. As well as any number of RTS titles, etc.)

It would be possible, but I doubt it will happen. The fact that even the most down-end computers can play them means its pretty pointless porting it for Xbox or PS3. I would like to see one ported to the PSP though.

It's unlikely.

It's not a simple undertaking that involves just uploading them to XboxLIVE or the PSN after a few tweaks. They have to be recoded, optimized, tested, new bugs fixed and THEN ported (Itself a problematic process) and that takes time and money. Considering any computer that can connect to the internet these days can play them, it may not be seen as a profitable venture since the sales may not even cover the costs it took to port them.

Plus Bethesda a while back said they have no intention of doing anything with the older games.

As for Interplay, they only hold rights to sell the games through previously agreed mediums. In fact, they couldn't even release a patch even if they felt inclined to do so. Not only that, all their cash is/was sunk into the Fallout MMO, so I doubt they could afford the undertaking.

Everyone's saying that any computer can play both of these games, but I beg to differ. My computer svcks more than a cheap hoker. It literally takes half an hour to just start up. It has 128 MB RAM. It freezes occasionally whenever I check emails. And it isn't the internet connection, I have decent connection with Xbox Live. The only way I use the computer is to turn it on once I get home, and use it about an hour later, to give it time to load or whatever the crap it doesn't do. I'm not entirely convinced that "even the most down-end computers" could play Fallout 1 or 2. And even if it could, where would you find it? It's not like you could go to Wal-Mart or Gamestop and buy it. Maybe Amazon, but then you have to deal with the computer freezing, and the hassle of delivery, which rarely works for places that resemble the Capital Wasteland.

THIS is what i would absolutely love. I think it would work great on the touch OS. the iPhone needs a great RPG!

Yeah I tried installing it over my cousins house on his computer but it wouldn't run and my computer is worse than his so I not gonna try it on mine but i figured it was would be worth a try like when half life was remade for the playstation 2

Probably a software issue, not hardware. Your mobile phone probably has hardware good enough to run the original games.

You do not need a powerful machine to run Fallout. I ran it on an old laptop, not a new one, back when I first got the game. That was ten years ago.