RobCo Fun (Fallout 4)

Fallout 4 magazine
RobCo Fun
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Value	100
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Effects	adds unique holotape
Form ID	see table
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RobCo Fun is a magazine in Fallout 4.

Characteristics

Each issue of RobCo Fun collected adds a unique holotape to the Sole Survivor's inventory. When used, the holotape plays a game based on a retro video game. The holotapes can be used at any time, provided they are in the Survivor's inventory, and can be played on either their Pip-Boy or on any terminal. Additionally, the holotape can also be used on the Fallout Pip-Boy mobile app.

Holotapes

Holotape	RobCo #	Location	Location Description	Holotape ID	Magazine ID
Red Menace		Vault 111	Inside the cafeteria terminal, northeast area. No magazine, holotape only.	000E5082
Atomic Command	#01	Museum of Freedom	In the chamber above the front doors, where Preston is holed up, on Sturges' desk.	0006167B	00184DA1
Pipfall	#08	Fort Hagen	Command Center - adjacent to Kellogg’s terminal under a table, in the chamber where Kellogg is spoken to.	00072802	00184DC4
Zeta Invaders	#07	Valentine Detective Agency	On a desk, inside the Valentine’s Detective Agency located in Diamond City Market.	00072803	001C1418
Grognak & the Ruby Ruins	#12	Goodneighbor	In the Memory Den, in Amari's back room sitting on a cabinet in the distant corner.	000727FA	00184DB2
Automatron		Fort Hagen hangar	Inside in the Rust Devil gaming terminal in a room with beds and generators. No magazine, holotape only.	xx007B20
Captain Cosmos in "Jangles' Big Day"	#09		Didn't make it into the game. Only the holotape texture exists in the game files.

Notes

• The RobCo Fun magazines' holotapes are an example of Mise en abyme, as the player is playing a game, within a game.
• Each RobCo Fun holotape is a reference to a real-life video game of the late 1970s–mid 1980s:
  • Red Menace is a variation of Donkey Kong.
  • Atomic Command is a variant of Missile Command.
  • Pipfall is a variation of Pitfall!
  • Zeta Invaders is a variant of Space Invaders.
  • Grognak & the Ruby Ruins is influenced by The Bard's Tale and its assorted spin-off games.
• Unlike most other magazines, RobCo Fun issues respawn and can be collected an indefinite amount of times.
• All of the magazines can be found in locations the player character will be directed to in the main story.
• The Pipfall magazine's cover character is wearing a "101" shirt underneath his jacket. This is a nod to Fallout 3, in which the Lone Wanderer grows up in Vault 101.
• The comic name and the fact it has a game inside it is a reference to Amiga Fun, a comic that gave away free games much like RobCo Fun does.

Gallery

Location images

Museum of Freedom

Fort Hagen

(MAG) ROBCO FUN in Valentine Detective Agency.jpg

Valentine Detective Agency

Memory Den

Cover images

Red Menace, concept art from The Art of Fallout 4

Atomic Command

Pipfall

Zeta Invaders

Grognak & the Ruby Ruins

Captain Cosmos in "Jangles' Big Day"

Holotape images

RobCo Fun Red Menace.png

Red Menace

Atomic Command

Pipfall holodisk.png

Pipfall

Zeta Invaders

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Grognak & the Ruby Ruins

Captain Cosmos in "Jangles' Big Day"

Fallout 4 magazines Astoundingly Awesome Tales · Grognak the Barbarian · Guns and Bullets · Hot Rodder · La Coiffe · Live&Love · Massachusetts Surgical Journal · Picket Fences · RobCo Fun · Taboo Tattoos · Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor · Tesla Science Magazine · Total Hack · Tumblers Today · U.S. Covert Operations Manual · Unstoppables · Wasteland Survival Guide · Islander's Almanac  · SCAV!