After 17 years, Bethesda finally seems to be making good on Fallout 3’s disappointing collector’s edition with a “fully functional” $300 Pip-Boy replica

Fallout – with its infinite deserts, homicidal bandits, and irradiated drinking water – is pretty low on the list of video game worlds I fantasize about living in. But its retro-chic technology does have a magnetic appeal, and Bethesda has spent years trying to offer the magic of a fully functional Pip-Boy to collectors. Now it seems the thing you’d actually want is here, albeit with a very steep price tag.

“The first ever fully functional, supremely accurate, wearable 1:1 replica of the Pip-Boy 3000 as used in Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas” is now available for pre-order from the Bethesda Gear store for the not so low price of $299.99. It does, admittedly, look just about cool enough to match the superlatives on the store page, which describe it as “not only fully functional, but wearable, and exhibition-grade displayable.”