Check out my full review of the game @ www.vintageisthenewold.com/retro-revisited-join-us-as-we-return-to-the-front-lines-with-cannon-fodder-for-the-commodore-amiga/
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I managed to get them all the way to mission 8 back in the day. By the they were both 4 star Generals. I remember being stuck on mission 8 phase 2 for 9 months and when I eventually completed it I sailed through the rest in 2 weeks 😊
"I can distinctly remember the first set of level graphics I created for Cannon Fodder; a rather bland sprawling grass moorland barren of any vegetation or definitive style. Looking back it's quite a contrast to the final graphics we went with and I have to admit I have no idea what I was thinking looking at that early work now. Little did I know back then as I plotted those pixels that the game would go on to be such a huge hit, let alone be so fondly remembered in excess of 20 years later! How cool is that?!" -- Stoo Cambridge (graphic artist - Cannon Fodder - Amiga)
I've been looking for this game for... 25 years since playing it once at a neighbours house, and here it just shows up out of the blue... godamn. Quite possibly the first game I ever played which is quite a trip to think about.
One of my all time favourites. It’s just been released on Evercade. It looks like it’s the mega drive version of the game unfortunately it isn’t the Amiga one but still well worth picking up.
@@deanruss maybe im too late, but you can also play it online. Or just grab an emulator. Amiga emulator and you can find loads of games for it. The emulator software will just emulate an amiga, and you can play whatever game on it you like that was on Amiga. Pretty simple stuff. If i can do it, everyone can.
did you ever reach level 10 or higher? I cant remember if i did. But some looks familiar to me in the higher levels. Except i havent ever seen tanks or helicopters, so i was not up that high yet. But yeah, just imagine the amount of work that went into designing this many levels on a game like this..... And coding etc. Its amazing if you think about it. Indeed brilliantly executed.
no matter how much time pass, this game still is awesome, every time i played my graveyard fills till the top, took me years to finish it, but that moment its realy felt good, great video, so many memories
Kids nowadays do not appreciate how bloody hard games back then were. I lost count of how many times those f**king doors blew up into my squad, killing everyone.
Oh man that really did suck when the door got you. Games were def harder back then. It was never guaranteed that you'd even finish the game unlike most today.
dudeinthesea this was a piece of piss compared to Watch Tower, look that up. No extra lives, no save and reload.... It was insane. You died in that you went alllllllll the way back to the start of the game.
@@babyplaze lol i never made it far, we played on the school's computer so time was limited. But yeah you can hear my classmates slam the keyboard in agony most of the time. It was great
This is brilliant. Thank you so much for doing this. From the sounds of it this was a tough task so many congratulations. I recall playing this along with the bitmap bro games and loving them all. Being a 70's child I went through all the main personal computing/ console generations ... seen all the changes and still playing my ps4 now in my late 40's lol. I never completed this on my Amiga.. I got stuck on one particular phase (cannot recall which one) which was so disappointing. A really tough but enjoyable game. So I am uber pleased you done this - it brings back fond memories and I can finally see all the levels. You make it look so easy btw Massive thumbs up mate 👍👍
Same here mate! It had everything this game! Music, sfx and graphics! And the game play was a bit different! It was soo much fun :-) but never completed it...
Gosh, I loved this game as a kid, I remember first playing it on a 20 games demo floppy disk set. It was the first sort of Rouge-lite game I remember playing. I fondly remember games like this alongside Prince of Persia, Heroes of Might and Magic 1,2 and 3. Zork/Return to, Sim City 2000, Microsoft Flight Sim, Mortal Kombat and MK2. These games were my introduction to PC gaming and I thank my dad so much for getting them when we got our first home PC. Back then it was NOT cheap to run these games on a home PC, much less buy the games. Not to mention he also got me an NES, SNES, N64 and Playstation. I loved... I love my dad so much, he absolutely gave me the best childhood.
I also had that demo as a kid! Explains why I don't remember all the levels, just one in the snow and a other with water, and I think a third that includes a fence...
Mi ero scordato di questo gioco che ho amato tanto, rivederlo e risentirne i suoni è davvero un'emozione e mi fa pure un pò commuovere. I forgot about this game, to see it and hear it again it cause me nostalgia and truly moves me a little.
Wow, I never got past the "Bang bang youre dead" level @ 47:12. I'd absolutely convinced myself it was the final level because it was so hard. Now watching this video I realise its not even a 1/3 of the game!
I think it took me a long time to finish that level - the safest way was to send one guy out and hope I could take out he bazooka guys without getting blown up in the process.
Yeah, it's a massive difficulty spike. The video creator did a great job getting past it. It never even occurred to me to use the rest of the squad to draw people away from the turret. I've always ended up with one guy end up dying to an enemy grenade in there.
I was about 10 years old when I played this game with no guide or what so ever. I was stuck in that same mission for a very long time (at that time "Long time" may have been couple of months - time felt different when young) but after accidentally discovering that I can split squad I finished it. After discovering that trick game became much easier to understand and succeed in it.
That was a hard level! I did eventually beat it but the one that beat me (after months of trying) was the final phase of Mission 12 - I just couldn't figure out how to destroy the enemy factory. Had I beaten that level I would have been exactly HALF WAY - it was a truly challenging game!
When I played this game with classmates, we speculated that the little houses kept popping out new soldiers because they were actually brothels were they reproduced.
...In the years following the Great Pixel War, it was widely acknowledged by the nations of both Home and Away the distinction with which General AI32 conducted himself in battle. Choosing the strategy of small, tightly disciplined squads, his troops acted as a well-oiled machine throughout the campaign, with a confirmed 20 missions without a single casualty. The records become unclear at this point, as while the final talley records a total of 159 lost under his command, AI32 has gone on record insisting this was due to a clerical error. Nonetheless, his role in singlehandedly securing victory for the Home nation is unanimously acknowledged, and he was subsequently greeted with a hearty FUCK YOU upon his return. Congratulations to you, General AI32!
What a Fantastic Theme Song.. It must have had a big impact on the sales of the game. I had the Amiga 1200, Amiga 600, Amiga 500+ and the good old "Amiga CD32" 3 years before the bloody PS1.. A Shame they went under.. Regards twoTone;-)
MISSION 9 ROUND AROUND GARDEN I remember this one - from the time I was 7 years old. Because I failed at this mission so many times. I could sometimes get through the first phase but I never finished the second. I was thinking I was so far ahead into the game. It was super super fun.
Can you imagine the Title Sequence Song passing the censors today? LOL Awesome game, STILL play it to this very day, always love re-playing Misson 9 through for some reason, my favourite mission in the whole game. Hardest Mission I thought was Mission 12 Phase 6 where you had to destroy the factory, if the gun on top of the roof got blown up, it meant you had to restart it again, took forever to beat that one.
Believe it or not, the theme song made front page news in the British tabloids :"sick and twisted game makes fun of War veterans, calling war"fun". You could find the actual articles with a library search.
Awesome skills mate! I'm 34 so was very young when I first played so wasn't good enough to get that far so I'm working my way through now and am at the start of Mission 8. I was watching this video up to that point. I'm confused as to how the last building blew up on this video (Mission 7, phase 3) I've found that this game is really well suited to CRT displays, I'm playing it on a 20" Sony PVMand it looks lovely. I couldn't play it any other way now.
Il migliore gioco dell'Amiga assieme a turrican , quante ore ho giocato a Cannon Fodder , bellissima anche la musica , la amavo ed era incredibile come si potesse all'apoca sentire la voce di un cantante in pochi dischetti , troppo avanti
Favourite with capital F. I used to play it using the cheat mode which promotes your soldiers to General rank. The effort i was putting to keep them alive was superhuman. I also remember that since you have used the cheat mode, every time you pressed the Help key, 50 grenades and rockets were added to your inventory. Does anyone else remember this?
2:38 this music, so nostalgic... Was playing in our room very often, we liked this game with my brother. Reminds me of being child... Where all these years gone :/
When there was a boom with "try, die, repeat" games like Darkest Dungeon, my brain played this song while displaying hills with tombstones. Nothing new under the sun I guess.
I have it on the Game Boy Colour - very nice port, it even includes a FMV intro with a shortened version of the Cannon Fodder theme - which wasn't really present in the 16-bit console ports of the game!
Yes finally found this in your channel!! Been searching for it but forgot the title.. the only thing I remember is the more soldiers died, the more grave shown at the end screen of a mission..
What a legendary game mustve only been around 8 when i was playing it around my gran and grandads house on the old amiga! Me and my bro never got any close finishing it! Thats for the upload brings back so many good memories 😊
I had this game, I could never complete it. I remember there was a snow ramp and I could never get the vehicle to jump. You had to jump the ramp to get to the next area so that was game over for me. I don't remember if the disks eventually broke as well, which happened to pretty much every game I had.
I love this game. Bur Mission 7 was it for me. I've never been able to master (read: use) that Skiddoo thing. When that labyrinth of Skiddoo jumps came up, I basically went: "Fuck that I'm outta here".
remember playing the demo off cu amiga or amiga force or something and being like AHHHHH WHENS THIS COMING OUT and then when it was supposed to come out it didnt, it was delayed. in those days, being kids most games in my collection were pirated but i remember going up to southgate and bvuying it for about 25quid. amazing. never scratched the surface of most games but i got to the last level of this one as i recall. only games worth clocking really, this n syndicate. best times.
This game is the source of my lower back problems. Using the TV as a monitor and lying on my stomach I would arch up to play propped on elbows, then sit cross-legged leaning forwards. 3 nights of this, and hey presto!
I ploughed hours into this! I could only get so far though because one of the floppys had some corrupt data on it! I have this on my PC now. Where do all the years go?!
George: Oh me? I joined up straight away, sir. August the 4th, 1914. Gah, what a day that was: myself and the rest of the fellows leapfrogging down to the Cambridge recruiting office and then playing tiddlywinks in the queue. We had hammered Oxford's tiddlywinkers only the week before, and there we were, off to hammer the Boche! Crashingly superb bunch of blokes. Fine, clean-limbed -- even their acne had a strange nobility about it.
Got this as a random suggestion, and wow, I played this game probably more than 30 years ago when I was like 10 or 12 years old on a commodore64. It's actually disturbing how long ago that was.
49:15 I remembered this moment in the game! It was so satisfying! After so many failed attempts on this mission, after taking control of the turret, destroying the bunkers... Cannot exit the turret, I activated the squad and killed enemy soldiers swimming in the river. Watching this on screen instantly bough back the memory of me doing the same thing so many years ago, being 7 years old. Human mind is a wonder. I also remember using turret to finish off rest of the enemy.
I run to my brother to tell him that I finally beat it, and he forced me to watch all the names of soldiers that died trying to complete this mission. It was a long list to say the least.
You are amazing. Really. To not lose not a single one soldier till 9 mission blows my mind. Not to mention to go swiftly through "bang bang you're dead" and further. My best achievement was not to lose a single soldier till 8 mission... You're fucking awesome :)
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