RobCo Fun (Fallout 4)

RobCo Fun is a magazine in Fallout 4.

Characteristics

Each issue of RobCo Fun read 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.

Holotapes

Holotape	RobCo #	Location	Location Description	Base ID	Magazine ID
Red Menace	-	Vault 111	Inside the cafeteria terminal, northeast area. Only the game is available.	000E5082	holotape only
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 you speak with Kellogg.	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
Captain Cosmos in "Jangles' Big Day"	#09

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.
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.