With everyone going stark raving over Amazon's new TeeVee adaption of Fallout, a pertinent question arises. Just how proto-industrial was the PC back when the OG Fallout game launched in 1997? After all, we're talking glass-tube CRT screens, ribbon IDE cables and less processing power than your bank card, right, something barely better than the monochromatic, diegetic Pip-Boy wrist computer from the game itself?
Pretty much. The minimum requirements for Fallout from 1997 make for fun reading.