wow so im enjoying the wonderful fallout 3 like the rest of you, and it just gives me awsome flashbacks of my c64 days of playing wasteland, but my all time fav' was fountain of dreams.
does anybody or has anybody played these. if not i'll throwdown some history and some art

now i played fountain and it was awsome, not as good as wasteland, but it was good


OK FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DONT KNOW AND IM SURE ALOT OF YOU DO BUT FOR THE NEWBIES

wasteland: when it came out, just like fallout it was a smash hit, now, graphic's well lol, lets just say that was a long time ago.
now i'll re-edit ths post and add a back story on wasteland





fountain of dreams
story:
The Wasteland Ranger HQ-Grid (web site) sez:
"Plain as the third nose on your face, you're mutating."

In AD 1990 Electronic Arts released Fountain of Dreams for the IBM-compatible PC. Set in post-war Florida, after the "enemy" neutron-bombed the mainland of Florida to preserve its technology (viz., Cape Canavral) but wipe out its inhabitants. However, Florida itself was jerked off the continental United States by nuclear vollies in Georgia! The life that crept out of the armaggedon has rebuilt a Florida much mutated.

The Wasteland Ranger HQ-Grid

In this post-nuclear war game, you and your chums set out to find the Fountain of Dreams and its purifying water because, sorry to say: "Plain as the third nose on your face, you're mutating."

Fountain of Dreams game box Although displaying similar game-play, the Fountain of Dreams game engine is not the same as the Wasteland game engine. There are apparently some bad vibes between the Wasteland programmers and Dave Albert and Banjo Bob (a.k.a. Ojnab the Occultist from the game) Hardy, as the EA programmers didn't capture the essence of the game, Wasteland, by creating a game with only about 20% of the depth and breadth of the Wasteland game.

Visit the End Status Page to view the end statuses of some Floridian Rangers who've survived to tell their victorious tales.

I last trekked it through back in 1997 with Jakkin Redd, Carey Smacki, Junior [Redd], Enrique Ochoa, and Imelda DeSoto. Poor ol' Ignatz Crebs met his demise at the jowls of a hungry Dobermutant, and B.L. Astor just wasn't pullin' her weight in .556 ammo so I dumped her. The Clown Compound was foremost on their minds when I had to put the game on a hiatus, and I never got back to it.

Following on the popularity of Wasteland, (?????????) released this unofficial "sequel", using a modified version of the Wasteland game engine

Fountain of Dreams takes place several decades after a nuclear bombardment has caused the state of Florida to break off from the mainland and become an isolated island community. The survivors of the war have split into several opposing factions, and life on the island of Florida is constantly threatened both by the ever present threat of radiation-induced mutation and by the Killer Clowns, a group of deranged and heavily armed marauders descended from circus performers stranded on the island by the war.

When the Clowns murder the only man with the knowledge to stop the spread of the mutation, it becomes your task to locate a cure to the mutation before it overtakes your group of survivors as well as what's left of humanity on the island.

Killer Clowns descended from circus performers is one thing, but that is just silly.

I rember' these games. I have always felt that Fallout owes something to Wasteland for a number of reasons. Wasteland was like its unofficial Prequil in many respects. I loved Wasteland and feel loyal to it.

Fountain of Dreams will always have a special place in my heart. Maybe a future generation playing Fallout Eight on the Xbox 720 fighting Killer Clown in a Florida carnival DLC will debate whether it is canon or not with absolutely no idea what a treat they have.