The original Fallout's lead developer Tim Cain has dropped another in his long-running series of videos discussing the earliest games in the series, and with this one, he's definitively answered one of the big questions about how everything kicked off. Well, kinda.
Cain's latest video is called "Non-expository Fallout lore" and opens with some necessary caveats about what, exactly, he's covering. This is lore from the very first Fallout (not Fallout 2) that the design team "knew was true… but nothing in the game directly stated it." Cain says these were ideas that were supported by narrative and environment design but never stated directly in the game.
