Comments on: Fallout 3 Vault boy Totally Looks Like Dutch tile-selling boy

By: TheSolx

TheSolx — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:02:06 +0000

The eg-… No wait. Never mind

By: Nody84

Nody84 — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 21:31:34 +0000

The Vault boy is used in all Fallout games. So is the Pip-Boy (which isn’t an actual boy). Not just in Fallout 3.

By: Talio17

Talio17 — Tue, 04 May 2010 21:33:23 +0000

exactly… freakin… alike

By: kelly

kelly — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:50:02 +0000

It’s fallout3, it’s probably intentional, as most of the game is taking the micky out of nicky.

By: PhobicSuperior

PhobicSuperior — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:04:44 +0000

Oh look, Vault-Boy and this poster look similar!

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:55:30 +0000

the Dutch add as shown actually stems from the late 80′s, begin 90′s…. you do the math, sherlock

By: Scoreboard

Scoreboard — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:59:45 +0000

James: 0
Mich: 1

By: Public Apology

Public Apology — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:35:25 +0000

I found the first post by Queen of the World, ever. This is a momentous day in the history of days. And Queen? On behalf of everyone here, I am sorry for the racism.

By: IHazYerCheezburger

IHazYerCheezburger — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:54:32 +0000

I’m from Flanders, Belgium so I also speak Dutch.
The text in italics is:
“Particulieren en doe-het-zelvers zijn ook welkom”
“Particulieren” can mean two things in Dutch:
* privately owned companies (as opposed to state-owned companies)
* people that buy the products for personal use (at home), not for a company.
The second is the more common usage and is also what was intended in this context.

By: patrick

patrick — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:40:52 +0000

Man.. Someone got totally ripped off!

By: Mich

Mich — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:32:40 +0000

Notice how that could be a modern ad using the company logo, which could very well be a lot older.

By: James

James — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:24:32 +0000

Notice how the dutch add has quite obviously been designed and printed with a computer.

Notice me owning that comment with logic. I don’t care if you were being ironic. You weren’t.

By: gigiwiwi

gigiwiwi — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:05:18 +0000

Me Too!!!

By: lol

lol — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:42:52 +0000

lol i find it funny how everyone seems to think they must defend fallout and its Vault boy from possibly being plagerized or homaged from any other source. Its really not a big deal what was first or 2nd. Its a decent but albeit time-whoring game, but why does it matter if its the original or not. I point this out to all the fallout fans defending something that doesn’t matter at all. LOL

By: Carth

Carth — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:54:28 +0000

Oh have you heard?
Fallout “3″ means its the 3rd part!
Ow and have you heard?Vault boy was invented long time before Fallout 3!Like 10 years ago.
I hate noobasses.

By: Bakedpotatoes

Bakedpotatoes — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:09:50 +0000

If I wanted to suck my nuts via my arsehole I would, instead of paying for Fallout3 to do it for me.
Vault boy is the father of my babies.

By: Queen of the World

Queen of the World — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:41:04 +0000

That is so racist.

By: mee

mee — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 10:12:56 +0000

yall are so stupid. hee.

By: ArcaneFyre

ArcaneFyre — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:34:45 +0000

The whole point of Fallout is to have a 1950′s style to it. The origional creators from INTERPLAY AND NOT BETHESDA studied 1950′s post-war advertising and culture as a basis for Fallout’s style and overall look. Vault Boy was most likely derived from this ad, but it was made in homage, not as a rip-off. So when everybody automatically refers to Fallout 3, the first games were the ones that used that type of art.

By: 1d30

1d30 — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:27:49 +0000

Havana Street has a similar art style. But it’s not the same as the Vault Boy art style. Your claim is like saying all Anime is likely from the same artist.

By: Socks

Socks — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:11:37 +0000

Vault Boy originated from the first Fallout game, which was published in 1997, but had been in the making for a good amount of time before that. It is likely that it predates the company.

But on another note, only Fallout 3 was made by Bethesda. Black Isle made made the first two games. Bethesda bought the rights to the game several years ago. The artwork came from one of the Black Isle artists not from Bethesda.

By: Fouandre

Fouandre — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:08:11 +0000

Nah I was just toying and he took it way too seriously.

Now my wee-wee is feeling lonely inside some lightning monsters’ belly.

By: Socks

Socks — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:04:50 +0000

Cardinal!!!! You have sinned with your ignorance of the lore and history of Vault Boy! You are to be flayed alive and fed to deathclaw hatchlings!

By: Socks

Socks — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 18:02:37 +0000

Not to mention that he originated from Fallout 1, which was made over ten years ago.

By: Socks

Socks — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:59:44 +0000

That is correct Wahoo Balls! We must enlighten the uneducated ones on the truth and beauty of Vault Boy! The “Pip Boy 3000″ does however bear the image of the Vault Boy several times, which classifies it as a holy relic to those of our glorious denomination!

By: Socks

Socks — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:55:31 +0000

Yes quite true my friend, but he is also a loser for not realizing that Vault Boy TRANSCENDS space and time! Vault Bot has no beginning and no end! He has and always will exist as “THE VAULT BOY” and none other. To assume that he was copied from another source, even one that may have predated him is the physical world is BLASPHEMY!!!!

By: Harry V.

Harry V. — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:59:48 +0000

Ok SIGH is a bit of a retard here, but to state that not knowing the reference to some game tells more about you social ineptitude than his.

By: SPCOsborne

SPCOsborne — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:06:22 +0000

It turns out that it was in fact a ***-****ed arms race after all, huh?

By: Chzzt

Chzzt — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:52:11 +0000

I’m absolutely sure that any video game with that kind of funding and base, coming out of Bethesda, wouldn’t use clip art…especially since they did actually have an artist design it all, which can be read through the previous post:
CardinalSmurf
September 1, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Useful?

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vault_Boy

Alas, this may get filtered. Oh well.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:34:40 +0000

Granted, that’s a good point.
This character, however, is as iconic to some as Mickey Mouse. If you saw an almost directly lifted image of Mickey Mouse on a foreign business’ poster, wouldn’t that be noteworthy?

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:01:31 +0000

My brother was playing Fallout 3 and loads of the 50s imagery in it looks like it came from Havana Street: http://www.havanastreet.com/

So it’s not surprising if it looks the same as they’ve probably just used the same clipart!

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:21:05 +0000

What about Fallout 1 and 2? Pip boy has been there from the start. Unless you count Wasteland (Fallout 0)

By: BerendG

BerendG — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:18:22 +0000

Wow. The only thing i’d like to add is a rough translation of the cursive text, where ‘privates’ are private companies and diy’s are people who do stuff themselves.

“privates and diy’s are welcome too!”

that’s all.

By: Fouandre

Fouandre — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:41:15 +0000

Lol you’re a loser for not getting the earthbound reference.

By: Chzzt

Chzzt — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 05:19:05 +0000

I do indeed remember the water chip…and how it whored my time away and how I needed to pay some scraggley haggards to deliver water to my good-for-nothing, unsympathetic, ungrateful vault just so I could have a LITTLE more time to fend of rad scorpions and avoid being demolished by cultic hick towns and find that piece of junk just so I could wander off into the desert with the Pip-Boy as my only friend and meet my withered death in which my body would then become the sorriest excuse for a meal that any post-apocalyptic, radioactive vulture would ever eat and then vomit back up because birds (especially post-apocalyptic ones) don’t know how to use an I.V. of Radaway and my only solace would lay in the fact that that featherless scavenger that just masticated my already soiled corpse would hobble off without the use of its wings and suffer the same grizzly death without even a Pip-Boy to guide its way or make comforting blips of noise as it wheezed out its final raspy breath beneath an uncaring, blistering sun, which is much like the dire, destitute, unfertile ground of that equally uncaring chunk of astro-dirt that orbits it, which we call the Earth…yeah…I remember the water chip…

By: Z

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:11:39 +0000

enoug with F3. the guy has been around since Fallout 1! does anybody here remember the water chip or the G.E.C.K.?

By: Kinne

Kinne — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:29:11 +0000

you idiots. jsut because its shown multiple times throughout a few games doesnt mean its automatically older than something shown once

By: Val

Val — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:20:51 +0000

Thank you! It really steams me when people who are rather ignorant when it comes to video games act like they know it all.

By: Ralf

Ralf — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:08:14 +0000

FAAAAAAART

By: CardinalSmurf

CardinalSmurf — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:53:29 +0000

Thought that was Vault-Tec…

By: CardinalSmurf

CardinalSmurf — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:02:55 +0000

Some of my posts that feature links are getting deleted. Am I crossing boundaries I shouldn’t be?

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:54:13 +0000

The advertisement in the phonebook of 2005 had that image, but I’m not sure about the rest, no.

And your welcome

By: CardinalSmurf

CardinalSmurf — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:50:54 +0000

Useful?

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vault_Boy

Alas, this may get filtered. Oh well.

By: CardinalSmurf

CardinalSmurf — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:42:51 +0000

Granted, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve had this advert since 1995, nor this artwork.

Useful information though, thanks.

By: CardinalSmurf

CardinalSmurf — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:34:43 +0000

I’d like to make a suggestion.

While it is possible Tile Boy is the original, I find it unlikely considering how many other times Vault Boy appears in F3. Here we see but one example of Tile Boy, yet if one plays F3 one can see numerous examples of the exact same style of art, all of which are clearly fitting within the context of the game and certainly could not be mistaken for anything stolen.

However possible it is the original was lifted and built upon by the artists who worked on F3 and its predecessors, I still find it highly unlikely.

I think, were this a legitimate argument, the onus would be upon Dutch company to prove ownership.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:33:10 +0000

The tile company exists since 1995, I’ve looked it up in a old phone book. (I’m dutch ) The advertisement there said ’10 year aniversary’, and the book was from 2005.

By: EA16

EA16 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:31:14 +0000

yay! Dutch! I’m Dutch! : D

By: memememe

memememe — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:59:10 +0000

Maybe that company built the vaults for Fallout.

By: SIGH

SIGH — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:47:56 +0000

Vault boy is clearly meant to be an homage to the Dutch boy. They weren’t trying to hide it. Every re-re knew that when they saw it the first time.

P.S. I hope a lighting monster eats your family and your wee wee.

By: Jayme

Jayme — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:40:07 +0000

Of course, either way, the image that they are both derived from is from the 50′s. But whatever.