There are two references to the 1982 science fiction film Blade Runner. In the add-on Point Lookout, the loading screens and several terminals mention Isla Negra Holdings, the company that built the Pilgrim's Landing boardwalk.The fate of the boat is also similar to Black Isle's, having been "torpedoed" by their parent company, Interplay Entertainment. "Ebon" is short for "Ebony," a word for black, and "atoll" is another word for island, or isle. submarine, USS Interference, off the coast of Alaska. Inside the Museum of Technology, a plaque describes the fate of the USS Ebon Atoll, a missile destroyer that was torpedoed by the U.S.The name of the quest A Nice Day for a Right Wedding is a play-on-words of the lyrics " It's a nice day for a white wedding" from the song " White Wedding" by Billy Idol. The Tall Boy statue erected in Paradise Falls is modeled after the mascot of the Big Boy fast-food restaurant chains. The Lone Wanderer's birth date,, is a Biblical reference to Micah 7:13, which reads: "And the earth will become desolate because of her inhabitants, on account of the fruit of their deeds." Big Boy Restaurants This is a running scenario in Bethesda's games, particularly in the Elder Scrolls series starting with Arena during character creation. In Megaton, the undetonated atomic bomb and the Children of Atom are a reference to the film Beneath the Planet of the Apes, in which a cult worships an intact nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile.ĭuring the birthday sequence in Vault 101, Butch will attempt to take the Lone Wanderer's sweetroll that was given to them by Old Lady Palmer. When having Charon switch from melee combat to ranged weapons, he will make a remark which alludes to the song called " Happiness Is a Warm Gun" by The Beatles. This is an allusion to the line " I love the smell of napalm in the morning." spoken by the character Lieutenant Colonel William "Bill" Kilgore in the movie Apocalypse Now.
The Mister Gutsy model of robot often says, " There is nothing I like better than the smell of plasma in the morning." when in combat. The Vault-Tec Corporation Eye-On-You camera resembles the camera eye for HAL 9000 of the Discovery One from Stanley Kubrick's 1968 movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. In 1984, persons accused of "thought crime" are taken to a place called Room 101 and tortured until they comply (or are simply executed). Vault 101's occupants are forced to worship the overseer.Vault 92's overseer's terminal contains the phrase, " Sanity is not statistical.".Irving Cheng's computer contains a "Daily Affirmation" which reads, " Comrade Cheng is Watching You." See " Big Brother is watching you.".There are three references to the book Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel by George Orwell. 114 United States nuclear weapons program.
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