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I need more Cannon Fodder

DekuStickDekuStick Registered User regular
edited August 2009 in Games and Technology
I was sitting here and suddenly I was stricken with the need to play some Cannon Fodder.

For anyone not in the know, you can read this the wikipedia HERE.

Cannon Fodder was a staple in my childhood. I loved that game and now I come to you with a question G&T

Is there anything similar to this game made in a more recent time frame? I need more of this gameplay and I need it now!

If there isn't, this is a Cannon Fodder appreciation thread!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ob73lgvE0M



Buy Cannon Fodder

http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/cannon_fodder

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    LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Hmm, Darwinia/Multiwinia have a bit in common with them.

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    TechBoyTechBoy Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    YES

    CANNON FODDER

    loved that game.

    Darwinia is very much a recent reincarnation of that awesome game. Buy it IMMEDIATELY (it's on Steam!)

    Multiwinia shares Darwinia's setting but the gameplay is completely different.

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    TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Posting to agree that Darwinia is pretty much cannon fodder, or atleast the closet thing you can get to it. I fucking love this game and still boot it up occasionally when I dont want to play all my shiny new games

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    LlyLly Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I was sorting through my old atari games yesterday and came across the cannon fodder manual. That game was awesome. Unfortunately the atari is totally kaput, so i couldn't play it. D:

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    TK-42-1TK-42-1 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I'm pretty sure you can find it as abandonware

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    BasticleBasticle Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Isnt Commandos somewhat similar?

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    BrianBrian Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Haha I remember this game. I got it when I was a kid for $1 in a bin at Sam's Club. Hard as tits for a kid, as were most games when I was young.

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    LlyLly Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Basticle wrote: »
    Isnt Commandos somewhat similar?

    Commandos was much more stealth/strategy based. Both good fun though. The last Commandos was pretty tedious though, i spent most of my time waiting for patrols to move their asses out of my way.

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    Redneck SithRedneck Sith Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    It's available on gog.com for $5.99

    I also second Darwinia, I played the hell out of that game and enjoyed it greatly.

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    SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2009
    War has never been so much fun.



    I noticed a rather shameless looking clone on the iPhone but I've avoided trying it.

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    SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2009
    Oh, what the hell, let's do this

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiYuq6Ac3a0

    Can't resist it. Every time cannon fodder is mentioned.

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    DekuStickDekuStick Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    I'll snag up Darwinia, only $9.99 how could I refuse!

    Also Szech I love that video. Greaaat song.

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    TechnicalityTechnicality Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    The reason I started programming back then is because I pretty much wanted to work for a company as awesome as sensible software when I grew up. Unfortunately it turned out to not be such a sustainable way to make games, particularly not if you are writing all your code in assembly on a dying platform.

    That has to be one of the best game intro's of all time.

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    LlyLly Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Was that really the intro? I don't remember that at all! It's hilarious.

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    TechnicalityTechnicality Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Yep, it was on the original Amiga version at least. It also took up a whole disk on its own, with the game on disk 2.

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    LlyLly Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Haha. I guess maybe it wasn't on the atari version. I certainly don't remember there being more than one disk.

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    WitchsightWitchsight Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Ive never heard of this game, but i would totally still play it now. Its pixelicious.

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    PikaPuffPikaPuff Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    aw, I got confused thinking this was about Cannon Spike on dreamcast.

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    DekuStickDekuStick Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQhLRr0HRGI&feature=related

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    LlyLly Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    My god that's even more amazing than the other one. I may need to get this again from somewhere. Were those guys actually the developers?

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    Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Did anybody else try and get at least one of your early soldiers as promoted as possible by leaving him at the start of the mission and doing everything with the remaining grunts?

    I played World War 1 style, it seems - Jools at the back sipping tea, sending endless privates to punji stake doom.

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    KelorKelor Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Szechuanosaurus wrote: »
    War has never been so much fun.

    Untrue!

    Return Fire is in fact the most fun war game to play!

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    SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2009
    Lly wrote: »
    Haha. I guess maybe it wasn't on the atari version. I certainly don't remember there being more than one disk.

    Yeah, I think they had it on the PC demo but then dropped it for the PC retail as well.

    And then did the FMV version for the CD32.

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    SzechuanosaurusSzechuanosaurus Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2009
    Kelor wrote: »
    Szechuanosaurus wrote: »
    War has never been so much fun.

    Untrue!

    Return Fire is in fact the most fun war game to play!

    No, I'm pretty certain it's Cannon Fodder. It says so right there in the song.

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    subediisubedii Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    It bears repeating that Cannon Fodder's available from GOG.com. That should probably go in the OP.

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    atat23atat23 Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    Rhesus Positive wrote: »
    Did anybody else try and get at least one of your early soldiers as promoted as possible by leaving him at the start of the mission and doing everything with the remaining grunts?

    I played World War 1 style, it seems - Jools at the back sipping tea, sending endless privates to punji stake doom.


    lol, totally, I'm also sure no one ever put the wounded soldiers out of their misery, their dying crys were hilarious, they just went on for ages

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    DekuStickDekuStick Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    subedii wrote: »
    It bears repeating that Cannon Fodder's available from GOG.com. That should probably go in the OP.

    Updated.

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    bamjobamjo Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    DekuStick wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQhLRr0HRGI&feature=related
    2:03 goat wearing lingerie... there's not much more to say really.

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    VulpineVulpine Registered User regular
    edited August 2009
    What's even better than the Cannon Fodder introduction?

    The Cannon Fodder introduction being played on game controllers, that's what.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7XiXQ6wEyM

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    bluestargeneralbluestargeneral Registered User new member
    Super Trench Attack is worth checking out if your a big fan of Cannon Fodder. Came out in October this year.

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