History VideoGame / Outpost

* TechnologyMarchesOn: In apparent recognition of this, the luxury goods you may produce for your colonists are laughably outdated even by 1994 standards, such as 8-track tapes (obsolete in the early 80's). Granted, you _are_ rebuilding civilization from scratch and the population reaches at best into the thousands.

* TechnologyMarchesOn: In apparent recognition of this, the luxury goods you may produce for your colonists are laughably outdated even by 1994 standards, such as 8-track tapes (obsolete in the early 80's).

* ShownTheirWork: The game is based on real-world ideas about colonizing other planets. The available stars to go exist in RealLife, even if it's more than doubtful their planets would be as the in-game ones if they existed at all.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: As hard as a diamond, except maybe for nanotechnology that once developed is presented as a solution for almost everything. The game has a hard science-fiction approach with nothing that breaks the laws of physics as FTL travel, and it shows that one of the developers was a former NASA scientist.
** The ship is a crewed variant of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus Project Daedalus]], which had been extensively researched in 1970s-80s.

* DummiedOut: The game files have some buildings that cannot be built or used. Others as mass drivers or roads could be built with patches, but have no game purpose.

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: You can research "Alien Ecology (Terrestrial, Marine, and Aerial)", even if your planet is either an airless asteroid-sized world or a Venus-like searing hot planet.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The game's intro is accompanied by Gustav Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War" in MIDI. The CD as one of its goodies include a music track with the same composition, but in orchestral version.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness:As hard as a diamond, except maybe for nanotechnology that once developed is presented as a solution for almost everything. The game has a hard science-fiction approach with nothing that breaks the laws of physics as FTL travel, and it shows that one of the developers was a former NASA scientist.

* AwesomeMusic: The game's intro is accompanied by Gustav Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War" in MIDI. The CD as one of its goodies include a music track with the same composition, but in orchestral version.

* {{Expy}}: The planets featured there are based on RealLife Solar System bodies including all the terrestrial planets [[spoiler: except Earth]], two moons[[note]]the Moon and Phobos, Mars' largest moon[[/note]], two minor planets[[note]]Ceres and Pluto[[/note]], and two gas giants[[note]]Jupiter and Saturn[[/note]]. In fact, if was not for the mention of an interstellar ship and the fate of Earth the game could perfectly pass for one of Solar System colonization.

* GeniusBonus: Some of the audio that can be heard in the cinematics are RealLife NASA transmissions, as Neil Armstrong's famous "One small step...". The game's CD has more including the moment the Saturn V rocket was hit by lightning during the Apollo XII mission or the famous "Houston, we've got a problem" from the ill-fated Apollo XIII.

-->(...)Your colonists will die slowly in space. This game is over.
** You may piss off so much your colonists (for example, taking too much time to build residential units for them, having to live on the cramped conditions of the command center) that they will depart ''en masse'' to the rebel colony leaving [[GhostTown just you alone]].

* RedLightDistrict: Either available as an underground building or what happens to your residential units when they get very crowded.
* ScienceMarchesOn: It's currently known some systems that can be colonized in the game as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Ceti Tau Ceti]] and especially [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HR_8832 HR 8832]] are very different to what appears in the game -to be fair, the game was developed when almost no extrasolar planets had been discovered-.

* Terraform: At game's end depending on what you decide to research, you can either [[spoiler: terraform your planet, which brings [[FridgeLogic a lot of questions]] if your world is an airless asteroid-sized one, or build another interstellar ship and leave]].
* UndergroundCity: Except at the very beginning people live in residential units built underground, safe from the hazards in the surface, underground buildings including recreational facilities, an university, and factories that produce goods for your colonists.

->''Any mistake at this point will doom you and your colonists to a certain death. Have a nice day.''

* ArtisticLicenseAstronomy: You can research "Alien Ecology (Terrestrial, Marine, and Aerial)", even if your planet is either an airless asteroid-sized world or a Venus-like searing hot world

* CoolStarship: The mushroom-like fusion-powered ship that carries the last vestiges of human civilization to the stars, with a shield to protect it from impacts at the speeds she can reach and doughnut-shaped jettisonable fuel tanks [[spoiler: You can build a similar one at game's end instead of terra-forming your planet and left out to keep colonizing the galaxy]].

* GeniusBonus: Some audio that can be heard on the cinematics are actual UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} communications, including the launch of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_7 Mercury-Atlas 6]] and Neil Armstrong's famous "One small step for a man...".

** The ship that brought you and your colonists is mentioned to end crashing into the planet victim of orbital decay -with no adverse effects against your colony- some hundreds of turns later after you began playing.

* {{Expy}}: The planets featured there are based on RealLife Solar System bodies including all the terrestrial planets [[spoiler: except Earth]], two moons[[note]]the Moon and Phobos, Mars' largest moon[[/note]], two minor planets[[note]]Ceres and Pluto[[/note]], and two gas giants[[note]]Jupiter and Saturn[[/note]]. In fact, if was not for the mention of an interstellar ship the game could perfectly pass for one of Solar System colonization.
* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness:As hard as a diamond, except maybe for nanotechnology that once developed is presented as a solution for almost everything. The game has a hard science-fiction approach with nothing that breaks the laws of physics as FTL travel, and it shows that one of the developers was a former UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} scientist.

* ShoutOut:
** The name of the asteroid that destroys mankind, ''Vulcan's Hammer'', refers the novel ''Literature/LucifersHammer''.

* Terraform: At game's end depending on what you decide to research, you can either [[spoiler: terraform your planet, which brings [[FridgeLogic a lot of questions]] if your world is an airless asteroid-sized one, or build another interstellar ship and leave]].

The plot goes as follows: in the first decades of the XXI Century goverments have left space explorations in the hand of private companies, just in the moment a large asteroid from deep space known as "Vulcan's Hammer" is on a collision course with Earth, coming with enough energy to trigger an extinction event. Fearing other impact events in other Solar System bodies, plans are prepared to leave the Solar System looking for planets orbiting nearby stars and starting a crash program to build in Earth orbit an interstellar ship fitted with an untested fusion drive, that once ready and the target star system selected is sent to Jupiter to be fueled there while [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-long-baseline_interferometry VLBI probes]] are launched to obtain more information of the destination. At the same time, a nuclear weapon is launched against "Vulcan's Hammer". It fails, breaking the asteroid in two pieces that impact Earth obliterating mankind and causing the journey to the unknown to start. However things change to the worse when once on the target planet some colonists hijack some of the resources carried onboard on the basis two colonies, not just one, will have more possibilities of surviving.

* CoolStarship: The mushroom-shaped fusion-powered ship that carries the last vestiges of human civilization to the stars, with a shield to protect it from impacts at the speeds she can reach and doughnut-shaped jettisonable fuel tanks.

* {{Expy}}: The planets featured there are based on RealLife Solar System bodies including all the terrestrial planets [[spoiler: except Earth]], two moons[[note]]the Moon and Phobos, Mars' largest moon[[/note]], two minor planets[[note]]Ceres and Pluto[[/note]], and two gas giants[[note]]Jupiter and Saturn[[/note]]. In fact, the game could perfectly pass for one of Solar System colonization.

** The target star system may has no colonizable world (ie, gas giants). Your colonists will die slowly in space in that case.
** You may piss off so much your colonists that they will depart ''en masse'' to the rebel colony leaving [[GhostTown just you alone]].
* ShownTheirWork: The game is based on real-world ideas about colonizing other planets. The available stars to go exist in RealLife, even if it's more than doubtful their planets would be as the in-game ones, if they exist at all.

* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: ''Very'' heavily averted [[spoiler: no star has an Earth-like planet. The closest planets to ours are those Mars-like]].