Fo3 Easter Eggs

**Slidell** · July 5, 2009

In Tenpenny Tower, on the top floor, resides Irving Cheng. If you look on the computer in his suite, you will find a listing called "Daily Affirmation". One of the affirmations is "Comrade Cheng is Watching You", as opposed to "Big Brother is Watching You" in George Orwell's dystopian classic 1984. Comrade Cheng refers to Chairman Cheng.

Another reference is found in Vault 92, where on the overseer's terminal it notes that he used the quote: "Sanity is not statistical" to stop the crazies for a time.

In Orwell's "1984", room 101 was a torture chamber in which victims were forced to face the physical manifestations of their greatest fears. The popularity of the novel led to numerous and varied instances in pop culture where a room 101 has carried very mysterious or sinister connotations whilst not necessarily containing a direct reference to the novel itself. Examples of this include a locked room 101 in the videogame, Half-Life 2, various references in the movie, The Matrix and, of course, Fallout 3's Vault 101.

The device that resembles a typewriter with an old style microphone attached (found throughout the wasteland in several office buildings) may be an interpretation of the writing device known as a speakwrite. The speakwrite was a dictation/writing tool that Winston Smith used in the Ministry of Truth.

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2001: A Space Odyssey

The iconic image of HAL-9000's glowing red eye is unmistakably present on the lenses of prop security cameras, such as those scattered throughout the Museum of Technology . HAL's image is duplicated exactly, and may be borrowed directly from the Stanley Kubrick film.

A Boy And His Dog

The protagonist of Harlan Ellison's A Boy And His Dog refers to his dog, Blood, on at least one occasion, as "dogmeat ", and the setting contains locations strongly resembling the Vaults. There are other distinctive thematic similarities between this and the Fallout series, which can be expected from post-apocalyptic fiction, but a major element in common is the blending of idealized 1950s America with futuristic horrors.

The hunting rifle also heavily resembles the bolt-action rifle used by the main character in the movie.

There are similiar beings to that of a "Glowing one" as clearly shown in the movie.

A Christmas Story

While in the Rivet City Market, near the dining area, you can over hear the Young family having a conversation at the diner table. Mrs. Young says to her daughter "Eat your dinner, dear", to which C.J. responds by saying "But mom, do I have to". Then Mrs. Young says "Yes, because there are starving people in the Wasteland." This may be a reference to A Christmas Story, a classic vehicle of the idea that children must eat their food because there are starving people in China.

AC/DC

The Devil's Highway perk may refer to the AC/DC song Highway to Hell.

See also Led Zeppelin . (Devil's Highway and Escalator to Heaven have the same function in the opposite direction, and corresponding musical references.)

Apocalypse Now

Mr. Gutsy references the famous napalm quote from the film Apocalypse Now when he says, "There is nothing I like better than the smell of plasma in the morning."

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

In the Museum of Natural History, among the many Abraham Lincoln related items that can be obtained is an action figure of Lincoln holding a katana. This may be a reference to Aqua Teen Hunger Force's character Meatwad who occasionally transforms into what others call "Samurai Lincoln", although he says it's Wayne Gretzky.

Armitage III

Armitage may be a reference to the main character of Armitage III, who is an android struggling with who she is.