Before you’ve blinked open eyes smeared with blood in the opening ticks of Fallout 3‘s character building prologue, before you’ve toddled around with toy blocks or taken pop-shots at cat-sized roaches or ventured out into the game’s gorgeous, desiccated wasteland to grapple with its heaps of broken images - before any of that, you’ll view a simple automated slideshow spooled through a clicking opto-mechanical device.
