The series is set in a fictionalized United States in an alternate history scenario that diverges from reality following World War II. Still wanting to do something in the post-apocalyptic world, Fargo and his team decided to make a new setting and game, determining what aspects of Wasteland were positives, and then wrote and developed this new game around it, ending up with the first Fallout games, released nearly ten years after Wasteland. Fargo wanted to continue to use the Wasteland intellectual property, but could not negotiate the rights back from Electronic Arts. Sometime after release, Interplay decided to shift focus and become its own publisher while still developing its own games.

According to Interplay’s founder, Brian Fargo, they wanted to explore a post-apocalyptic setting and produced Wasteland for that. At that time, Interplay was not a publisher and used Electronic Arts for distribution of the game. The ideas of the Fallout began with Interplay Productions’ Wasteland, released in 1988. A forerunner for Fallout is Wasteland, a 1988 game developed by Interplay Productions to which the series is regarded as a spiritual successor. The series is set during the 22nd and 23rd centuries, and its atompunk retrofuturistic setting and art work are influenced by the post-war culture of 1950s America, with its combination of hope for the promises of technology and the lurking fear of nuclear annihilation. Watch VaultGirls The Complete Webseries Fallout is a series of post-apocalyptic role-playing video games created by Interplay Entertainment.

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