Pip-Boy
The Pip-Boy is a fictional wearable computer in the post-apocalyptic Fallout video game franchise. Manufactured in-universe by RobCo Industries prior to the devastating nuclear Great War, it is capable of numerous functions depending on the model. In the Fallout games, it functions as a diegetic way for the player to access the menu and manage their inventory.
| Pip-Boy | |
|---|---|
A Sole Survivor cosplayer wearing a replica Pip-Boy (left wrist) | |
| Publisher | Interplay Entertainment, Bethesda Softworks |
| First appearance | Fallout (1997) |
| Created by | Leonard Boyarsky |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| In-universe information | |
| Type | Wearable computer |
The Pip-Boy has been called one of the most iconic tools of Fallout and video games as a whole, and praised for its design, as well as compared with real-world wearable computers. Many working replicas of the Pip-Boy have been built by fans of the series, and Bethesda, developers of Fallout 3, 4 and 76, has released a Pip-Boy replica alongside editions of Fallout 4 that can be used alongside a phone app, in limited quantities. A D.I.Y. Pip-Boy replica as a package has been sold separately from Fallout 76.