"Maybe" from Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role Playing Game on Windows, MS-DOS, macOS (1997)
Composer: Allan Flynn, Frank Madden
Performed By: The Ink Spots
Album: "Maybe" Single & Fallout
Label: Decca Records, & GOG [discontinued]*
Publisher: Interplay Productions
Developer: Interplay Productions
Conklederp and I are going through the Fallout series on Amazon a lot slower than other people/news outlets which means we've only just finished episode five last night. I couldn't help but use "Maybe" by The Ink Spots from the intro of the first Fallout game and was later used in episode 3 of the Amazon series, "The Head" as the main character Lucy MacLean is walking towards, presumably what is left of The Hub (aka Los Angeles) featured in the first Fallout game. In the game, the song is used to help juxtapose the quaint nostalgic feelings (by those privileged enough to be in the position to feel nostalgic) of the 1940s as the camera pulls back to reveal the remains of Necropolis (aka Bakersfield) and the world of Fallout.
Since we haven't finished the show, I can't fully comment on the meaning behind using "Maybe" at the beginning of episode 3 although I can speculate out the keester. It could be Lucy thinking about her family back in Vault 33, or about the condition of her father. Or maybe the song is just used there as a gigantic easter egg for everyone who has played the first Fallout?
Maybe?**
*I say "discontinued" because the soundtrack used to be available through GOG as an extra when you purchased the game, but at some point, the soundtrack itself was pulled and is no longer available through GOG.
**P.S. Sorry.
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