![]() This was apparently too much for Oilers owner Bud Adams to take, because before the start of the 1980 season, he traded longtime Houston quarterback Dan Pastorini to the Oakland Raiders for their own longtime starting quarterback, Kenny Stabler. The 1979 Houston Oilers finished their season by losing to the eventual Super Bowl champs, the Pittsburgh Steelers, in the AFC Championship Game, for the second year in a row. Steelers, September 7, 1980, Three Rivers Stadium You deal with factions the xenophobic islanders, the Synths, and the “Children of Atom”, who worship the atomic bomb as if its God.Oilers vs. There’s something wonderfully fascinating about the story of a young woman struggling with whether she’s a real person or a “synth”, a manufactured being who’s completely replaced her. I recently re-played Fallout 4 just so I could get back to the Far Harbor DLC. The DLCs in Fallout 4 were the best of the series. Piper, the Nick Valentine story, finding Billy stuck in a fridge for 200 years and bringing him home to his parents. Who knew wandering the Mohave desert listening to old timey music could provide such joy and terror as you discover the Legion.īy Fallout 4, the story had gotten just a little worn, but there were still amazing characters. The combination of story and game are the best of the series. “War Never Changes”įallout 3: New Vegas added another great story and another part of the country. Had I tried to get them to listen to it by itself, they would have shrugged it off as old timey music - in others words, as shit they wanted nothing to do with. My kids came to love that music, a fact I found even more fascinating. Three Dog and his radio station playing real music from the 1930s, 40s, 50s. I bought into the story of the Lone Wanderer, but it was the music that brought it all together. The wonder of today’s video games is how well you can become immersed. The setting beautiful the combination of 50s architecture and cultural references, but with an advanced civilization with atomic cars! Here was an open world into which I could escape. Then add the Cold War, and BOOM, you’ve got a world in which nuclear holocaust has to happen at some point.įallout 3 introduced me to the Lone Wanderer. I grew up loving the cheese of Sci Fi, movies like “The Blob”, or “Green Slime”, or “Colossus: The Forbin Project”.Ĭombine that shit with the Gemini and Apollo projects, man landing on the moon when you’re seven years old and your world is built around outer space. I was like, “WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?” and at my first opportunity bought the game on the Xbox. It was from Fallout 3, the game set it Washington, D.C. I don’t remember the exact moment I first saw a Super Mutant attacking the Lone Wanderer, but I remember my reaction to it. Jon’s 4th Place Game - The Fallout Series Maybe some of you have other memories of this game than I do. To give her credit, it appears that she might have an 80 inch vertical jump and she also never runs out of ammunition. I mean, maybe it was all about Lara Croft and my 12 year old brain/hormones? Watching some of the video of Tomb Raider 2 is making me question Tomb Raider 2 being on this list. It was the best boating in video games until Jet Moto on PS1. I still remember the first time playing the game in Venice where you start diving into the water and you end up finding a boat. ![]() I mean who wouldn’t want to travel the world as well! In the beginning you run into a T-Rex under the Great Wall of China and then the next scene is in Venice. ![]() But there was more to it than just the attractiveness of a fictional character to a 12 year old.
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