The distant sirens. The grinding metal. The dripping water. The static of an old ham radio. The military marching tune. The Morse code. All these sounds come together, and they form brilliance.

that siren sound in the distance is just magic

This ambient soundtrack was actually so good they decided they didnt need another for New Vegas . The feeling of desolation of this soundtrack is amazing.

good ol fallout. this song creeps me out. the sirens. the electricity buzzing. makes me think of what the people were thinking and doing when the bombs fell..

I like how New Vegas has this song too

Bethesda could never do fallout justice. The dialogue options, music and atmosphere in the first two was so far beyond anything bethsda could muster.

Mark Morgan is the composer of this soundtrack. I think he deserves to be mentioned. He also composed the music for Fallout 2 and Planescape Torment, two of the best RPGs in the history of video games.

Passing through the IRL Lost Hills in California while playing this. It's mostly oil fields

The drums and the sirens instantly make me think of the last days of the US military before it became the brotherhood and the enclave.

Man Fallout was lightyears ahead of most modern games in its prime. I love New Vegas for sampling these original Fallout tracks it really adds to the already creepy environment

This is how it's done.

In my opinion, this collection of soundtrack used on Fallout 1 are one of the best used on videogames.

This track always makes me feel uneasy and on edge, especially the air raid siren

Am I the only one who hears the Morse code. It's almost like a call for help. A call that no one would ever hear

very somber and sad, a distant echo of the past and the drumming of the tribal present. truly fascinating

I will forever remember this as the Old World Blues theme because that’s where I first heard it (even though it can play anywhere in Vegas.) I literally just broke down crying, it was like hearing the screams of all the Old World people all at once, their fear, their agony of knowing that everything that they know, everything and everyone they ever loved is about to come to an end, only for them all be to suddenly silenced… it still makes me tear up to this very day, but the first time? My heart literally stopped…

Thanks to Obsedian and team... they didn't ignore orignal Fallout soundtracks and using these tracks for New Vegas.. that's actually a very wise decision taken by the developers.! Because these tracks has a truly magnificent amount of post nuclear viebs..!!!

BGS needs to sit in a dark room and listen to the entire fallout 1 soundtrack in the hour before they start writing the next fallout game

Going thru this playlist is simply amazing. Reading what everyone had to say about the "Original Fallouts" is great to me since I've never played them. I was born in '99 and introduced to this franchise in 2008 in the form of Fallout 3. Before that I was a simple gamer: One story/objective that needs completing (CoD, Need for Speed, Halo, etc). But having to hastily go thru Vault 101 out into the Capital Wasteland with the ability to do almost anything I wanted was new to me. It forever changed my gaming experience. As most new Fallout gamers would, I binged on the lore of F3 and there was one tie that brought me to F1 and soon to F2: Harold. That fucking tree. And when I got Fallout NV with all the add-ons, forget about it. I knew almost everything about 1&2 without playing them (even tho firsthand exp IS best), but from the Enclave Remnants after the Oil Rig Explosion, that one black dude in Novac who came from New Reno (forgot his name), up to motherfucking Marcus the mutant, one of the Chosen One's companions man! Like Wtf!? And how Robert House had a hand in conducting the Vault-Tec experiments, or just all the scattered Super Mutants from the Master's Army (Marcus, Lily, Uncle Leo, Fawkes, Keene, Meansonofabitch, etc). Let's not forget how Obsidian made the NCR a major player in their work, along with the Courier's backstory being told.. mostly thru the add-ons (Ulysses that bastard). I can understand the frustration from the originals to the diluted F3, but IMO I couldn't be any more scared than when I was first going thru the eerie metro to the GNR Plaza (IN FIRST PERSON AT 2 AM) and seeing a hulking figure in the distance.. getting closer.. closer.. "I'M GONNA EAT YOUR ARMS WHEN YOU'RE DEAD HUMAN!!" HELL no my dude. Someone did comment on one of these videos about how Bethesda just reused the whole "Vault Dweller" story scheme, but NV did it right for me. In terms of the Courier's potent journey prior to Goodsprings, I enjoyed it very much! The vibe of the environment is what I questioned. The wild west type feel wasn't doing it, not nearly as much as the wastes of my country's capital (if you really think about it). 3 got me with the dark feels, but I realized 1&2 are the real gems. If you read this, then hell yea! Thank you. We all know that this is just the tip of the post-apocalyptic iceberg tho.. and that's okay :) Shoutout to the homie Dogmeat too.

Weirdly, the most welcoming song in the entire track. The industrial sounds make it feel modern in comparison to all of songs, making you more comfortable than with the rest of wastes. It's the first time you find fellows that give you a home by choice, and it's something you earned too.

The sirens in the track, that just screams fallout like no other.

The cybernetic Doppler and sirens are what really made the hairs on my neck stand. Especially since they suit the Lakelurks so well.

The fact that sos is said in morse code over five times in this is makes it 10× more depressing have to be honest

Wish the current fallout games had this feel. Listening to 50’s music is nice, but wish the ambient music was like this in Fallout 4 and 3 .Just from what I see the soundtrack really ads to the apocalyptic setting.

Mark Morgan understood Fallout

i think they should have kept this theme in all Fallouts

I never played any Fallouts, I'm not interested in nuclear war or dystopian futures, I wasn't even alive when this game came out, but this song really speaks to me. It's very beautiful!

It's so awesome, like the sirens blaring from the pre-war days. It's so creepy and metallic.

For some reason, metallic monks is a perfect name for the BoS

This song gives you a certain feeling. It makes you understand that you are trapped in a world of chaos and disorder. In a crumbling society, a desolate place where nobody can protect you from the horrors the people from the past created. This feeling is creepy.

I spent a lot of time searching for this track because it didn't appear in the New Vegas OST. This song intrigues me so much, it's so surreal, like the wasteland is some kind of otherworldly experience, I can't still name that weird thing that is heard throughout the song

This is where the fallout soundtrack really shines with their ambient tracks. They set the tone of the game perfectly

Mark Morgan.... I humbly bow before you, sir. What you did in Fallout 1 with your music is nothing short of a work of genius. Without you, Fallout 1 would have lacked a great feeling, as seen in the latter installments.

i wonder why the newer games don't feature this kind of music

the new fallout games will NEVER recapture this FEELING

Playing this on repeat after watching the TV series.

This music prefected the feeling of hearing the ghosts of a past civilization long gone. It's brilliant!

I really love the music in Fallout 3 + NV, although i've never been able to play the first two games. Its crazy how i've come to find that most of my favorite tracks are actually from Fallout 1 + 2! Definitely need to get a computer soon so I can play through both originals

Man, the feeling of post nuclear world is in this song.

FO1 was so ahead of its time.

wish all fallout games had similar music. the music is what created the feeling in the first 2. Vegas does have some of these songs in them.

Us humans have destroyed the world and now it will never be the same again

“Good hunting?” “Always.”

Another great reason for Fallout fans to play New Vegas; the great use of the older soundtracks. Some call it lazy, uninspired, etc. But I think it introduces the "West Coast" Fallout games well with these inclusions. The game can even give you history lessons on the previous games through optional dialogue, should you care enough. A good manner to intrigue newer fans without dropping a slightly unintuitive and dated game and its mechanics on you (As good as they are, F1 and F2 aren't easy to pick up and play).

Эх, Fallout это мое детство, помню как сейчас в 1999 году впервые я увидел этот шедевр и услышал эту музыку. Первая и вторая части пройдены вдоль и поперёк по несколько раз.

This is my favourite piece of game music. For the fact it audibly describes the world you're inhabiting. When you finally enter the Brotherhood bunker in FO1, you really do feel hope for the world. That contrasted with the rest of the wasteland you've encountered, and the hopeful and somber tones and sound effects of the music, it is just perfection. I still get goosebumps over twenty years later after first playing.

I wish they'd go back to the tone and atmosphere of the first game... How bleak, hopeless and gritty it was, but I really doubt it. I like Bethesda's Fallout games, but they have kinda had a Netflix-effect on the series. I just really want them to go back to the roots... A man can dream.

No wonder why they used it in new vegas: it's way too good to stick to one single game.

Maybe, maybe, maybe...

I still got shivers, becuse when I first played it, I remember how dark, depressive and without hope feeling I had. And now it returned with full force. Brrrr!

Bethesda really sucked the heart and soul out of this series. Really sad tbh

I cant believe they used it also in nv. I love fallout

I like that they added this track in New Vegas, my favourite track in Fallout 1

This is the greatest fallout series soundtrack imo

Я просто тащусь от этой музыки. В ней весь Фоллаут....

I recently bought a collection of old fallouts and despite my age I love these games especially the second one, even though I'm only 17 years old

man, it is just perfect, i had only played fallout 4 and it seemed fairly decent, now that i'm playing New Vegas i realize what i missed, to think that the originals already had this music... Vaya que atmósfera

courier's mile

that little squeak noise that you hear every 13 seconds into the song gives me chills

Ghost of the final moments of the past

To those who have died in the Great War of 2077. This is a tribute and a remembrance. 😪😔

One of my favorite tracks in the whole ost.

How does he make a siren sound sad and nostalgic?

I miss when fallout was good.

I've listened to this 10 times in the last 3 days this is so damn good

This is the Fallout franchise theme. Without a doubt!

this sounds very orange and green, with hints of dark red and Vantablack that’s fitting

I listened to this at night while being a couple of miles away from any towns. Gave me a really awesome experience

the creativity is unparalleled. effortlessly conveys this sense of desolation.

Freeside

Isn't this on the Dead Money soundtrack too? amazing, those sirens are creepy as hell.

Man dude Fallout 1 through NV were lightyears ahead than most games

One of the greatest gaming soundtracks. Love how they brought back classic fallout ost into new Vegas as well

This brings back memories :D

I always join the brother hood in fallout 1 each time I play it, power armor rules

I've been listening to this for 2 hours now

Sometimes I listen to this while out in the real Mojave desert.

I love this song, it's so nostalgic to me

pov: you live in Kiev

I had a mod that plays Fallout 1 music in Fallout 3. Suits the game so much better than Fallout 3's actual music.

Excellence. I remember playing this game to death when I was younger. Elementary school, I think? Was way too young to be playing this. 😂

This song was used in a Starcraft 2 mod and I’ve finally found the source

i love how fallout New Vegas used this sound track so much nostalgia.

This entire piece is phenomenal, but I especially love the echoing metallic sounds. It’s like the music is calling out into the wasteland waiting for a response that will never come.

Ironic this plays in lonesome road. especially if you look at what the divide was pre-war and post-war.

this entire soundtrack is perfect. it provides constant fear and reminds the player that the wasteland is cruel and unforgiving

Этот саундтрек всё таки лучший из всей серии фаллаут.

I love hearing this when playing New Vegas. Adds a lot to the desert.

*A time when the soundtracks used to rival the games =) This ambient piece is extremely* *beautiful and meditative to me, sounds very influenced by Mark Isham's synth heavy The* *Hitcher 1986 soundtrack.*

This is what the Fallout movie vibe should've been about, instead they went with Marveled out Fallout 4 goofy shit.

I remember adding this song to my fallout 3 soundtrack. man this track was great when exploring the metros

This song just screams fallout

Makes me feel sad... Those poor puppies

I LOVE THIS FUCKING SONG

Recently gave a try to the original fallout. It's a bit confusing in the beginning, and the graphics sure are old, but i have to admit it has the best ambiance and soundtrack of all the games. However, for me this track will always be New Vegas' freeside's theme

So good

The siren in the distance is scary

to make a place truely scary does not rely solely on details, it requires ambience that has been perfectly crafted to make you feel scared and uneasy

I’ve never played original Fallouts but I plan to do so in the future. For me this track is tightly associated with Old World Blues - being alone in a big scientific complex, standing on the balcony on top of the Think Tank and looking at the facility that lives in its own way.

funny this was featured in new vegas, always freaked me out