You get bored with Fallout 3 so find your old Fallout 2 disk to play.

You create a new character and as you normally do for whatever reason pick your own age.

You find out the 'allowed' ages don't go high enough for you :sadvaultboy:

Age is a sign your doing something right, or you'd be dead my friend

I feel for you, man.

I fear for the day when that happens to me...

I reckon I have about 10 years...

I have to say you know you are old when you realize that alot of the stuff in this game was suppose to come to be.
That is, the Nuclear Powered 20 year car battery. (Which was built and used in secret)(But it did last and worked great - no fuel needed)

The Nuka Coke. This was an idea of the 40's, 50's where they felt that nuke material was the cure all for everything. They actually had watches that were eradiated to help cure arthritis, etc.
They also had watches that glowed at night - all night.

The refrigerators looked exactly like that in the game and were going to be power by nuclear powered sealed batteries - thus no ac power needed. I do not think there are any around anymore.

The best was the stove pilot light which was power by small mini nuke battery. Last forever. The hot plates though would svck up too much power and might overload them though. BAD..

The best was the cars. I remember their design was like in the game and they also were Nuclear battery powered self sustaining 20 year batteries. No power needed for along time. Most of this stuff now is just used by NASA. The problem was, the powers to be felt there was no long term financial gain as with selling gas powered cars. Also, not to mention the big profits the gas companies make, no one cared or knew of any risks at the time. The batteries survived just about every kind of damage, though. (The cars Blowing Up in the game are neat to watch!!)

The game brings to mind of the Tech that was to be here and now but never quite got there, today!

Age is a state of mind.
It's the state of the rest of your body, too.

You have one computer for the sole purpose of playing old games that can no longer be played on the higher-end machines?

You know you are old when...

...when you tire of the dazzlingy superb graphics of Fallout 3, and then search for your old Nintendo console and get hooked to Super Mario 3 all over again.

:P

:shakehead:

2.4ghz dual core
4 gig corsair dominator ram
2 8800 GT's SLIed
1 TB toshiba HD
Asus striker extreme mobo
Samsung 226bw monitor.

Runs fallout 2 like a charm. I did download a patch that lets it run on higher resolutions, but otherwise it plays just fine.

Same set up plays Fallout 3 at max without a problem.