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How Much Are Fallout Bottle Caps REALLY Worth?

Game Theory

The Game Theorists

Games, Leisure

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Join former Game Theory Host MatPat as he finds out exactly how much a Fallout Bottle Cap is actually worth!

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0:00.0

War never changes.

0:05.0

changes.

0:06.0

Oh look shaving, cool! I'm going to see. Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory and first things first just in case you've been living deep underground in a surprisingly clean, roomy and self-sustaining bomb shelter for the past month and a half,

0:40.0

as part of a series of games announced at this year's E3 conference, which left many a

0:44.2

gamer weeping for joy, Bethesda grew my cold scientific heart three sizes that day,

0:50.4

probably through radiation more than love when it announced

0:53.7

to fallout four isn't only a real game but that it'll be here before the end of

0:59.7

the year now that is how you make an announcement.

1:03.0

Take that vague Kingdom Hearts 3 trailer.

1:05.0

But for one gamer out there, this wasn't just super exciting.

1:09.0

It was the culmination of almost eight years of careful and diligent work.

1:15.0

Sort of.

1:16.5

In case you've never done yourself a favor and played the fallout series before,

1:20.1

the games take place in an alternate universe where among other things World War II never really ended

1:25.4

Everyone is afraid of getting invaded by China and in 2077 a nuclear war takes place which wipes out civilization as we know it.

1:33.0

Humans that haven't mutated into deadly monsters or zombies live in small communities that dot the radioactive

1:39.3

wasteland and instead of printed money people have taken to using discarded old bottle caps for currency.

1:45.0

Knowing this, a little over a month ago, a clever fallout super fan named Seth, who goes by Gator Machetty Jr.

1:51.0

on Imager, so as not to get him confused with Gator Machetty Jr. on Imager, so as not to get him confused with Gator Machetty Senior,

1:54.8

obviously, sent his collection of bottle caps to Bethesda.

1:58.1

A whopping 2,240 caps, aka 11 pounds of bottle toppers, aka the remnants of an entire undergrad

2:08.9

and master's degree worth of parties, all in the hopes of pre-ordering the game using the franchise's own currency.

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