Fallout

1991 Kenneth Eriksson, Per Lindgren Platform: Amiga 500 Fallout by Interplay may be a world hit these days, but already in 1991 a game by that name was created for the Amiga. The game was written in AMOS, and was the winner of an AMOS programming contest in Swedish magazine Datormagazin. Issue 16 1991, page 36, presents the results. Apart from a screenshot of the game, its creator Kenneth Eriksson is briefly interviewed: “Kenneth Eriksson was the winner with an original 3D game, where you steer a robot through a nuclear power plant having run amok.” “The winning entry, Fallout, was created in a week together with [Kenneth’s] friend Per Lindgren.” Kenneth was awarded a week in London, visiting the offices of Mandarin Software. So what happened to the game? Was it ever released? 20 years later, a Swedish journalist started following the trail. His article focuses mainly on the fact that the name Fallout was used long before Interplay adopted it (actually, the same name was used for a…