Dark ambient hum and industrial dread from the game that started it all. The original Fallout's soundtrack is pure late-90s PC atmosphere, and it hasn't aged a day. "Vault 13" opens with this claustrophobic tension that makes you want to leave immediately.
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"Necropolis" is straight-up horror, all droning low frequencies and the feeling that something is watching. And "The Glow" radiates with this sick, pulsing energy that tells you the radiation is already killing you. Mark Morgan built an entire post-nuclear world out of ambient textures and found sounds.
Every location gets its own specific flavor of unease. "The Hub" almost feels safe. Almost. If you want to understand why Fallout fans are so obsessive about atmosphere, this 1997 soundtrack is where it all started.