''Outpost'' is a

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for the

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programmed by Tom McWilliams and published by

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in 1981. It is a variant of the arcade game '' Space Zap''. In March 1982,

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reported that ''Outpost'' earned McWilliams, then still a teenager, at least US$60,000.

Legacy

According to

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, the

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port of ''Outpost'' which was being worked on by Scott Boden was reworked after their departure from Cinematronics as the more cutesy title ''Boxing Bugs'' by Jack Ritter, which both Skelly and Boden considered a "travesty".

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