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This website totally looks like it’s posting more garbage.
wtf? Garbage?
It’s blatantly catching out people plagiarising a well known image.
It’s interesting and I’m glad someone caught this.
You sir need to realise people have different interests to ones self.
lol … why so serious??
how do we know tileboy isn’t older then vault-boy? for al we know he could have been around since the 50’s
Of course, either way, the image that they are both derived from is from the 50’s. But whatever.
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.
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.
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.
Notice how that could be a modern ad using the company logo, which could very well be a lot older.
James: 0
Mich: 1
Then get your butt out, you will certainly not be missed.
And boy the nerve. You deserve to be struck by lightning.
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.
FAAAAAAART
Lol you’re a loser for not getting the earthbound reference.
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.
Nah I was just toying and he took it way too seriously.
Now my wee-wee is feeling lonely inside some lightning monsters’ belly.
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!!!!
Jatwerk!
Dieven! I wonder which was first.
lol this is true
Ah see…the sideburns are different.
Its Pip Boy, not Vault Boy
Wrong. The “Pip Boy 3000″ is the wrist mounted device the player uses in the game Fallout 3. Vault Boy is the iconic character shown above used in the entire Fallout series.
Thank you! It really steams me when people who are rather ignorant when it comes to video games act like they know it all.
Actually, it is Vault Boy. Pipboy was the device that was worn on the arm.
And going out on a limb, I’m guessing a big budget production like Fallout probably came before the tile store, but who knows…
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!
No its vault boy of vault tec, pip boy is the wirst computer
Jeuj Nederlandse fail, yahoo, wij ownen blijkens dit
why fallout 3? as if he wasn’t the mascot of fallout and fallout 2?
vault boy is aka fallout boy to me and my friends.
It turns out that it was in fact a ***-****ed arms race after all, huh?
While it’s possible Tile Boy came first, it looks unlikely. The Vault Boy’s pose makes sense with the artistic style, while the Tile Boy holds a funky tile in an uncomfortable way. The tile is of a different style than the Tile Boy.
The hand, top of the hair, neck, and colors are pretty muc hthe same. Obviously the overalls and sleeve are different. And the sideburns are different.
But note that in Vault Boy, the outstretched arm has a cartoonish perspective, in that it gets narrower as you get closer to the body. This artistic style is found throughout the Vault Boy art and is hinted at even in the Vault Boy’s left arm in this piece.
The Tile Boy has arms that get pudgier as they get closer to the body. While slightly more realistic, it leaves perspective out completeley and the resulting Tile Boy’s right hand is ridiculously large. This could have been an outcome of an edit of Vault Boy to change the sleeves and add the tile.
The translation of the above, through Babelfish, is this:
Flag Wholesale Trade
Culemborg (Which is a town in the Netherlands)
The Cheapest
of the Netherlands
floor – and partition flags
and floor heating
Plantijnweg 20
Culemborg
(I’m not going to try to figure out the cursive text)
(It appears that by “flag” they mean “flagstone” as in a flooring tile. Or they are not in fact selling tiles at all)
The company currently at that address is Koeleffekt Equipment BV. Their website is http://www.Koeleffekt .nl
It appears to be an air conditioning and secondarily an interior design company.
On the website for the city, http://www.culemborg-online.nl/ , it lists “T. van Meurs Installatiebedrijf ” as operating at Plantijnweg 20b. They do plumbing.
So it appears the ad is older, either from before the Koeleffekt company was there, or when Koeleffekt did flooring.
At this point the trail goes cold. Anyone else have anything?
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.
Useful?
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vault_Boy
Alas, this may get filtered. Oh well.
Some of my posts that feature links are getting deleted. Am I crossing boundaries I shouldn’t be?
enoug with F3. the guy has been around since Fallout 1! does anybody here remember the water chip or the G.E.C.K.?
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…
Not to mention that he originated from Fallout 1, which was made over ten years ago.
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.
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.
Fallout3 pwns.
Maybe that company built the vaults for Fallout.
Thought that was Vault-Tec…
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!
yay! Dutch! I’m Dutch! : D
Me Too!!!
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.
Granted, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve had this advert since 1995, nor this artwork.
Useful information though, thanks.
The advertisement in the phonebook of 2005 had that image, but I’m not sure about the rest, no.
And your welcome
you idiots. jsut because its shown multiple times throughout a few games doesnt mean its automatically older than something shown once
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?
What about Fallout 1 and 2? Pip boy has been there from the start. Unless you count Wasteland (Fallout 0)
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!
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.
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.
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.
yall are so stupid. hee.
That is so racist.
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.
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.
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
Man.. Someone got totally ripped off!
the Dutch add as shown actually stems from the late 80’s, begin 90’s…. you do the math, sherlock
Oh look, Vault-Boy and this poster look similar!
It’s fallout3, it’s probably intentional, as most of the game is taking the micky out of nicky.