Here’s the catch—just because the code is safe doesn’t mean we’ll see it. Bethesda owns the rights to the Fallout series now, so any kind of public release would need to go through them. No pressure.

It turns out that the source code for Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 was not lost, even though it was once ordered to be destroyed. Tim Cain, the creator of both games, had previously stated that, to the ...