History VideoGame / CannonFodder

* SelfInsertFic: The first four soldiers are named after the development team.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Certain rude mission and phase names were changed in the PC and console ports, e.g. "Bugger me it's cold" became "Blast it's cold", and "A nice set of bazookas" became "Barmy bazookas". Though "Explore my hole" was somehow left in.

-->--'''Cannon Fodder [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRaFfFuEOj0 theme tune]]'''

The original game and its sequel are available for download on Good Old Games [[http://www.gog.com/game/cannon_fodder here]] and [[http://www.gog.com/game/cannon_fodder_2 here]].

A MissionPackSequel, ''Cannon Fodder 2'', also by Sensible Software, was released in 1995. An impressive Game Boy Color port, with entirely recorded audio and FMV-based menus, was released at the end of the 20th century.

* VaporWare: Codemasters planned to remake this game for the UsefulNotes/PlaystationPortable, but reconsidered. The third game in the series was repeatedly begun and cancelled.

''Cannon Fodder'' is a action-strategy ShootEmUp game from Creator/SensibleSoftware released in 1993, originally for the UsefulNotes/Amiga, in which the player commands between 1 and 8 soldiers on a series of missions like "kill all enemies." It is remembered for attempting to avert DoNotDoThisCoolThing -- your soldiers die horribly and in droves, each adding a tombstone to the pre-mission screen, and the game manual [[AuthorFilibuster openly states]] that "war is a senseless waste of lives and resources."

''Cannon Fodder'' is a action-strategy ShootEmUp game from Creator/SensibleSoftware released in 1993, in which the player commands between 1 and 8 soldiers on a series of missions like "kill all enemies." It is remembered for attempting to avert DoNotDoThisCoolThing -- your soldiers die horribly and in droves, each adding a tombstone to the pre-mission screen, and the game manual [[AuthorFilibuster openly states]] that "war is a senseless waste of lives and resources."

* {{Bowdlerise}}: Certain rude mission and phase names were changed in the PC and console ports, e.g. "Bugger me it's cold" became "Blast it's cold", and "A nice set of bazookas" became "Barmy bazookas".

* BananaRepublic: The enemy leader is "El Presidente", a dictator of a fictitious South American Country whose name is never mentioned.

* QuicksandSucks

A video game from Creator/SensibleSoftware, in which the player commands between 1 and 8 soldiers on a series of missions like "kill all enemies." It is remembered for attempting to avert DoNotDoThisCoolThing -- your soldiers die horribly and in droves, each adding a tombstone to the pre-mission screen, and the game manual [[AuthorFilibuster openly states]] that "war is a senseless waste of lives and resources."

An impressive Game Boy Color port, with entirely recorded audio and FMV-based menus, was released at the end of the 20th century.

->''WAR!\\
Never been so much fun!\\
WAR!\\
Never been so much fun!\\
WAR!\\
Never been so much fun!\\
WAR!\\
Never been so much fun!\\

Dying in the sun!\\
WAR!''

* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: This game was an experiment to see if it was possible to avert this in regards to war. But it ends up as a fun, challenging, yet unique game that enjoyed until today.

** DramaticallyMissingThePoint / {{Irony}}: These two tropes come into play when this game's attempt at averting DoNotDoThisCoolThing is factored in.

* Bowdlerise: Certain rude mission and phase names were changed in the PC and console ports, e.g. "Bugger me it's cold" became "Blast it's cold", and "A nice set of bazookas" became "Barmy bazookas".

* SeriousBusiness: "Make sure you do not buy this shameful game," said the British newspaper ''The Daily Star''. The reason? It has a [[UsefulNotes/ThePoppy corn poppy]] on the opening screen, and it didn't get official permission from the Royal British Legion, which uses a corn poppy as a symbol of remembrance for UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne. The game thus carries a disclaimer, "[[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope This game is not endorsed by the Royal British Legion]]".

* VaporWare: Codemasters planned to remake this game for the PlaystationPortable, but reconsidered. The third game in the series was repeatedly begun and cancelled.

* LyricalDissonance:The main theme has a very cheerful and energetic tone to the music and singing, and yet the chorus goes "WAR! Never been so much fun! Go to your brother, Kill him with your gun, Leave him lying in his uniform Dying in the sun!". This is in keeping with the games satire of the futility of war.

Go to your brother\\

* MoodDissonance: This is basically the video game equivalent to ''{{Erfworld}}''.

** There are two soldiers in your army named [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros ''Mario'' and ''Luigi'']], and as you start getting towards the end you will come across Music/TheBeatles, {{Music/U2}}, Music/CrosbyStillsAndNashAndYoung, the Four Evangelists, the sons of Noah...

** There are two soldiers in your army named [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros ''Mario'' and ''Luigi'']], and as you start getting towards the end you will come across Music/TheBeatles, {{Music/U2}}, Music/CrosbyStillsAndNash, the Four Evangelists, the sons of Noah...

* ThePoppy: Its use on the game's box art was a source of controversy (see SeriousBusiness).

* SeriousBusiness: "Make sure you do not buy this shameful game," said the British newspaper ''The Daily Star''. The reason? It has a [[ThePoppy corn poppy]] on the opening screen, and it didn't get official permission from the Royal British Legion, which uses a corn poppy as a symbol of remembrance for UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne. The game thus carries a disclaimer, "[[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope This game is not endorsed by the Royal British Legion]]".

* NationalStereotypes: All the civilians are cartoon stereotypes: grass-skirted "natives" in the jungle levels, Inuit in the ice levels, {{Bandito}}s in the desert leves, stereotypical shotgun-wielding [[TheWestCountry farmers]] (one phase is even called "Get Orff Moi Laaand!") in the moorland levels, and robed Arabs, for some reason, in the tunnel base levels.

* SeriousBusiness: "Make sure you do not buy this shameful game," said the British newspaper ''The Daily Star''. The reason? It has a [[ThePoppy corn poppy]] on the opening screen, and it didn't get official permission from the Royal British Legion, which uses a corn poppy as a symbol of remembrance for WorldWarOne. The game thus carries a disclaimer, "[[OurLawyersAdvisedThisTrope This game is not endorsed by the Royal British Legion]]".