Over the last two decades, Bethesda has turned Fallout into one of the biggest gaming franchises in the Western world, but its history dates back to long before then. Released all the way back in 1997, Interplay Productions' Fallout, naturally, laid much of the groundwork that the rest of the franchise would follow in the decades to come, as did developer Black Isle's 1998 sequel. The Fallout franchise has had a long history, and the recently released Amazon Fallout show does its very best to honor everything that came before it.