GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Earlier this month, Fallout creator Tim Cain noted that the source code for the original Fallout and Fallout 2 was lost and thought to be destroyed.

Earlier this week, we released a story that the source code and in-development assets for both Fallout and Fallout 2 were lost. According to series creator Tim Cain, and as far as he knew, the source ...

It turns out that the source code for Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 was not lost, even though it was once ordered to be destroyed. Tim Cain, the creator of both games, had previously stated that, to the ...

TL;DR: The original Fallout 1 and 2 source code was never lost; Interplay founder Rebecca Heineman preserved backups by archiving all projects on CDs in the 90s. Despite common belief, she retained ...