Fallout creator Tim Cain recently shared that the source code for the first Fallout game had been lost, as Interplay apparently did a poor job of preserving the games it put out. He said that the retail version of the first game had since been recovered, but otherwise, so much from this period of RPG history was gone.
However, it turns out that more had been preserved than initially thought. Speaking to VideoGamer, co-founder and lead programmer of Interplay, Rebecca Heineman, said that she made an effort to back up everything, despite orders from management that those leaving the company had to destroy their work.
“I have the source to all my projects, so most games I got running on the CD without issue,” says Heineman. “I made it a quest to snapshot everything and archive it on CD-Roms. When I left Interplay in 1995, I had copies of every game we did. No exceptions."
She adds that this includes Fallout 1 and 2, so there may have been more preserved than initially believed. However, Heineman does admit that she doesn't have Cain's files, such as mid-development notes or earlier builds of the game that used GURPs, not...
