GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Earlier this month, Fallout creator Tim Cain noted that the source code for the original Fallout and Fallout 2 was lost and thought to be destroyed.

Earlier this week, we released a story that the source code and in-development assets for both Fallout and Fallout 2 were lost. According to series creator Tim Cain, and as far as he knew, the source ...

It turns out that the source code for Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 was not lost, even though it was once ordered to be destroyed. Tim Cain, the creator of both games, had previously stated that, to the ...

TL;DR: The original Fallout 1 and 2 source code was never lost; Interplay founder Rebecca Heineman preserved backups by archiving all projects on CDs in the 90s. Despite common belief, she retained ...

While Fallout is Bethesda's baby these days, it wasn't the original creator of the iconic RPG series. That was Interplay, the company that infamously told departing employees to destroy any remnants ...