Before he was the big Bethesda Game Studios boss, Todd Howard worked as a producer for the company – and during that time, he discovered the beauty of Fallout's post-apocalyptic wasteland … all thanks to a copy he snagged off his brother.
Yep, that's right. Todd Howard was introduced to Fallout via his sibling in 1997, as he tells Game Informer in a recent interview on the history of the series. It wasn't a Bethesda title at the time, having been developed and published by Interplay Productions, so Howard found out about it through his brother after his high praise of the RPG.
"I was at Bethesda at the time when [Fallout] came out. It's my brother who actually played it first," he recalls. "He's like, 'Have you played Fallout?' And I said, 'I haven’t had the chance yet.' He said, 'You've gotta play it.'"
That's when Howard did what any one of us would probably do to our brother: "I actually stole his disc and never gave it back to him." It's amusing, but Howard was infatuated with Fallout – a premonition of things to come for him and Bethesda, really, if you ask me. "I loved the vibe of that game," as he puts it.
