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Fallout’s Vault Boy was directly inspired by Mr. Monopoly, the smiling board-game mascot also known as Rich Uncle Pennybags. Once you put Mr. Monopoly beside Vault Boy, the family resemblance is hard to miss. One wants you buying property. The other seems perfectly relaxed about what happened to the property after the bombs fell. But Leonard Boyarsky wasn't simply looking for a mascot. He was trying to make Fallout's skills easier to… Read more