$264 Billion Man Elon Musk Once Weirded Out All but Two People at a Birthday Party With a Bizarre Video Game Request

Elon Musk is known for his various interests in different fields apart from his focus on building advanced and futuristic technology. Those who know him well are aware of the fact that he’s a big video game lover. And whenever he gets a chance, he never misses mentioning his favorite titles.

It seems like Fallout is a video game series very close to Elon Musk’s heart. He revealed this during the E3 2019 convention while talking to Bethesda’s legendary designer Todd Howard. The latter is known for his work on some of the best franchises like Skyrim, Dishonored, Doom, apart from Fallout of course.

Elon Musk once received a life-sized statue of the Vault Boy from Fallout as a birthday present!

As is already known, the Fallout saga is a huge open world universe spanning over different titles in the past few years. While there are millions of fans of this dystopian, sci-fi series from Bethesda, Elon Musk is also one of its die-hard lovers.

During the E3 event in 2019, the business magnate had a session with Bethesda’s designer, Todd Howard. The two, obviously, talked about a lot of stuff based on video games. At the beginning of the conversation, Mr. Howard asked Musk about his interest in gaming.

In his response, Elon Musk replied that he was a big fan of Bethesda’s games like Skyrim and Fallout. But he stressed on his interest in the Fallout franchise the most. In fact, he also shared a very interesting childhood memory regarding the open world series.

Being a massive fan, he once wished to have a life-sized statue of the Vault Boy from the Fallout franchise as his birthday gift. And he eventually received it as well.

“It was so weird having that at the party, because there were basically two nerds that knew what it referred to. They were like “yeah”. And everyone else were like “man that’s weird””.

For all those who are unware, somehow, the 1950s-looking vault boy is the evergreen, famous poster boy of all the Fallout titles released so far. He’s basically identical with the entire series itself.

But Elon Musk’s weird passion to have a statue of him as a present is surely a little strange to believe. However, it’s always fun to know about such memories from someone like him who’s seen as just a business-minded personality.

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What are your thoughts on this fascinating throwback story of Elon Musk? Did you know about this already?

Also, what’s your own favorite memory inspired by your most loved series or title?

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