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When Bethesda Softworks acquired the franchise, they increased its retrofuturistic themes. Anthony Postma, another Interplay designer, created the device’s layout. The user interface was meant to feel like an in-universe object, which was rare at the time. The design was meant to seem like it "wasn’t all that dependable" and "kind of hacked together" to show that "the world wasn’t quite working". Leonard Boyarsky, one of the lead designers of Fallout at Interplay, stated that he designed the Pip-Boy more towards his personal preference for "old, clunky technology" than any trend towards retrofuturism. The newer Pip-Boy contains a map, quest tracker, a radio, and a light, Development

In the Interplay Fallout titles, the Pip-Boy is essentially a menu screen skin, however, in the Bethesda games, it appears attached to the player character's arm and is looked at from a first-person perspective. The main screen of the Pip-Boy 3000, demonstrating its monochrome monitor and use of the Vault Boy character. Pip-Boy replica as a package sold separately from Fallout 76. 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. 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. In the Fallout games, it functions as a diegetic way for the player to access the menu and manage their inventory. Manufactured in-universe by RobCo Industries prior to the devastating nuclear Great War, it is capable of numerous functions depending on the model. The Pip-Boy is a fictional wearable computer in the post-apocalyptic Fallout video game franchise.

Interplay Entertainment, Bethesda Softworks A Sole Survivor cosplayer wearing a replica Pip-Boy (left wrist)