Trivia
The orchestrated soundtrack is the classic Mars, the Bringer of
War movement from the Gustav Holst symphony The Planets.
Contributed by
Rola (1075) on Dec 03, 2009.
In the German gaming magazine PC Player (issue 01/1995) Outpost received a special award for the "Most Brutal Customer Stultification in 1994".
Despite being released on CD-ROM, version 1.0 of Outpost also included a "Launch Control Disk" in the box on a 3.5" Diskette. This floppy diskette contained BLDGBLD.DAT, BLDGOPS.DAT and OUTPOST.EXE, three files that were required to install the game.
Contributed by
WildKard (11880) on Mar 20, 2007.
Believe it or not, there was an extensive Strategy Guide written for OUTPOST by the games designer, Bruce Balfour
Computer Gaming World rated this game the worst game of all time.
Despite being considered one of the buggiest games of all time, Outpost was on PC Data's Top Ten best selling games list for several months.
Contributed by
Kalirion (396) on Jun 22, 2000.
