Duck and Cover

I was reading the Fallout 2 manual the other day (despite the fact that I know it all by heart anyways and I'm not actually playing Fo2 at the moment) and was, for some reason, looking at the conversion tables on the inside front and inside back covers.

It's full of mistakes.

Check it out:

-On the length table, it says that 1 kilometer = 2,500 meters. I thought kilo meant 1,000...?

-Weight: Apparently, a kilogram is now 2,080 grams. I know this metric stuff is tough for Americans, but come on!

-A leap year apparently has 492 days in Fallout, according to the time measure table.

This is ridiculous. I know they were rushed, but they could at least take the time to proofread the manual.

Considering the ludicrous and blatant nature of the "mistakes" I think they might have been intentional.

The interplay website denounced those errors a while ago, stating that the tables were merely there for laughs, and didn't really study up on the matter.

Do you know if there is a way to buy the original Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 manuals?

Buy the original Fallout 1 and 2. In other words, eBay.

I already bought them twice and I dont want another copy.

My versions had an hebrew unoriginal manual.

And the one I bought from amazon was a nice package of fallout 1 and 2 but didnt have any manuals.

The CDs you get in the jewel case package have the manuals in PDF format.

eBay?
I just got it on Amazon.

Do they have original copies with the full printed manuals on Amazon?

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/st ... 85-2740854 this is it, right?

That's it indeed. Hopefully, it includes manual/jewel case/box with cover page dealie/1,000,000 ads and registration cards.

So I guess i'll buy it again.

Edit: If you type fallout manual in amazon you get some wierd shit.
here, see for yourself:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/ ... out_manual

You can order all kind of stuff from that catalog including a real component for a fallout shelter:

Creepy.

i lost my FO1 manual.
hehe, i gotta look at those tables.

19$ for a nice Fallout shelter sign like that..
Where's my creditcard??

I want to buy the cool watch!

some friends and i snuck into this Tennesee (where I live) disaster emergency shelter (cant remember the real name) awhile back. It was used for emergancy broadcast and shelter during times of war or disaster. you guys might not believe me, but it was real fallout stuff. in one room there was a box of those fallout shelter signs stacked up. there were government property signs posted on the outside (not tresspassing, fines jail etc) so we had a rule of not taking anything. it was right off the side of the road back in the hills so we were constantly worried about the either the cops or some meth smoking rednecks to bust in there. The place had been deserted back in the early 90's and had been broken into along time before we got there, this made it twice as creepy. It was full of old tech, military spec stuff, mil spec soap, parachutes, boots, cots. boxes of 51/4 floppies and old telephones that hooked up to computer terminals. Old motorolla radio control towers the size of refrigorators. It was pitch black in there cause all the windows were boarded up so we came back later with latex gloves and giant cop maglites. We used to gloves because (we found out later) there had been a large fire (and everything was very sooty) in the middle of the next room which was hanger-like and full of misc crap like boxes of environmental disaster manuals, plastic binders, barrels of sunnoco machine oil. metal shelves stacked with what looked like VHS, and boxes of 8mm video, when I held the frames up to my flashlight I read "decontaminating personel". People had been living in there, even storing their crap in there, there were a few Dell boxes full of junk and recent beer cans. No one had really taken anything because its so damn creepy (always feels like there is someone in there) and all of the stuff is so old. The creepiest thing we found there was a yellow lead cylinder with handles welded onto it slapped with a radioactive sticker and a half-life number. I set that one down easy, I dont know why they had that because the place was to keep out radioactive stuff (im sure a few grams of plutonium or whatever is in there is safe behind four inches of lead though) and also there were manuals on paraquat (a deadly poison) and other chemicals and lots of documents stating the sale and purchase of the place to the Tennesee Highway Patrol in 74, and then a log book of the Highway Patrol's inspections of trucks and the like (real boring stuff) but there was also a list of 1995 hotels in Nashville near the front door, and all the military stuff, so I guess that the mil moved back in during the Gulf War, or after for other crises. Umm also there is a second floor, a basement floor which is the creepist place Ive ever been in my whole life. In the back of the hanger area there is a spiral staircase that leads down to a hallway with a big generator room a weed and lots of empty rooms. We didnt scout these too much, it was really really really scary. We got out of there after that. We always suspected a third basement floor but we didnt get that far back, not even to the bottom exterior door (which is chained shut with the biggest chains Ive ever seen in my whole life and a giant lock....has an intercom system). My friend went back with other people (like i told him not to) and was going to try and tag the place (stupid, stupid stupid) but he says that when we looked inside that everything was gone, creeps the hell out of me. so they left. I dont know if he's telling the truth or not so i really want to go back. When I remember the name of that place Ill post it too...wish I could have taken pictures or something.

it just came to me, its the "Middle Tennesee Emergency Operations Center" I think its controlled by FEMA.. im going to go see what the outside looks like today.

You were there and didn't loot anything? at all?!

Have you learned nothing from playing fallout?

It's funny that the fallout 2 manual errors theard is actually a much darker and EVIL theard.

Well. we were weighing the chances of getting caught. there are giant signs saying "state property, no tresspassing" etc, and my friend was 18 so we were thinking that if we got caught it would be alot better if we didnt have stuff in our hands that didnt belong to us. It was really scary because we had to park on the side of the road right next to the place and people drove by so we were just waiting for a cop to drive by and come get us. I was going to go back and get stuff the second time, but havent been back. I drove past it today and someone has knocked the fence down, but it doesnt look like anyone has done anything else to it. I really aught to go and take pictures, The whole time I was there I kept repeting "this is sooooo fallout, this is so fallout" it was crazy.