Published on: 2025-07-25 12:56:00
Whew: A week after Fallout co-creator Tim Cain revealed that Interplay had ordered him to destroy the game's and its sequel's source code in the late 1990s, new information shows it survived. One of the company's co-founders quietly preserved it decades ago, preserving important gaming history. Rebecca Heineman, a veteran programmer and co-founder of Interplay, told VideoGamer that she made personal backups of Fallout and Fallout 2 while working on Mac ports of the games. Her habit of creating
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Oops: Video game publishers often receive criticism for poor stewardship of the industry's history. Many don't care about game preservation; some make critical errors when they profess to care. Recent comments from the producer of the original Fallout should serve as a reminder that archives should always have redundancies. Tim Cain, one of Fallout's original creators, revealed that the production assets for the first game are probably lost. In a recent video on game preservation, he blamed pub
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