one of my favorite games as a child was 'outpost'. spent many hours building space colonies that always seemed to end up in a soft lock state where i couldnt do anything
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i recently learned that outpost is famous for being released as unfinished and impossibly buggy. a ton of stuff in the manual just doesnt exist in game, but was promised to early reviewers who gave it 90+%, ruining pc gamers rep
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for a while it was for some people synonymous with everything wrong with games journalism and the nadir of an era of games pushed out the door too soon
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anyway, great memories. can still picture the opening where earth fires a nuke at an incoming meteoroid, splitting it in two halves that still hit earth, leaving my colony ship humanitys last hope
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