![The Game Was Rigged From the Start Fallout: New Vegas opening scene mobster in a checkered blazer pointing a gun](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/mobile/000/027/017/maxresdefault.jpg)
The Game Was Rigged From the Start
Part of a series on Fallout: New Vegas. [View Related Entries]
About
"The Game Was Rigged From the Start" is a memorable quote from the 2010 role-playing game Fallout: New Vegas. Online, the expression is often used to caption images of various people and characters brandishing pistols.
Origin
On October 19th, 2010, the game Fallout: New Vegas was released, which opens with a cutscene showing the mobster Benny standing over the player while saying "the truth is, the game was rigged from the start" before shooting a pistol at the camera (shown below).
Spread
On January 31st, 2018, a Connect Four photoshop featuring the catchphrase was posted to the Fallout Radposting™ Facebook[3] page (shown below, left). On February 17th, YouTuber Your Brain uploaded a remix of the Fallout New Vegas scene (shown below, right).
![Connect Four The Game Was risGeD From The Start 卫 MB](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/405/238/a1b.jpg)
On June 19th, Redditor Scamper364 submitted a post asking if anyone else said the line “The truth is, the game was rigged from the start" when killing Benny in Fallout: New Vegas. Within two months, the post garnered more than 880 points (92% upvoted) and 100 comments on /r/Fallout.[1] On August 3rd, Redditor FrequentlyGamma submitted a photoshopped picture of Alex Jones pointing a pistol with the caption "Truth is, the frogs were gay from the start" to /r/boottoobig[2] (shown below). Within one month, the post received over 44,000 points (90% uploaded) and 320 comments.
![Roses are red, but here's the best part, INI Truth is, the frogs were gay from the start.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/398/396/22f.jpg)
Various Examples
![Keep Calm-o-Matic THE GAM WA IGGED FRON THE TART](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/405/243/017.jpg)
![This Is America From where you re Kneeling it must seem like an 18-caratrun of Dad tuc Truth is...the game was rigged from the start.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/405/235/fa2.png)
![Captain America You've made your last delivery, kid @ThatOneBelaruski](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/405/239/bdf.jpg)
![Todd Howard Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim and Fallout 4 all run on the same game engine, just upgraded over the years. Technically, each game is a "mod" of the previous game, just as Counter-Strike is a Half-Life mod You have been buying and playing paid mods all this time. Truth is, the game was rigged from the very start.](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/405/237/114.jpg)
![Love Live! - School Idol Project al N7 From where you're kneeling it must seem like an 18-carat run of bad luck Truth is...the game was rigged from the start](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/405/234/d6f.jpg)
![SpongeBenny when the game was rigged from the start](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/405/241/51d.png)
Top Comments
alphacino
Aug 28, 2018 at 07:19PM EDT
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