When Bethesda released Fallout 4, it actually wasn’t the fourth game in the series. By the time the title came out, there had already been six previous Fallout games. The series dates all the way back to 1997 with the groundbreaking first entry that introduced the irradiated world of the Vault Dweller. Fallout 4 was released a full 18 years after the original Fallout, but where does it fall on the in-game timeline?