On The Making Of Cannon Fodder

Thanks to Games Radar for its Edge-reprinted piece discussing the making of the classic Amiga action-strategy title Cannon Fodder. The piece rhapsodizes of the cult title, later converted to the Game Boy in very limited amounts: "It stirred the British Legion into a fury, was immediately hailed as a classic by Amiga magazines, and abides as one of the 16-bit generation's most memorable games. Though best known for the eponymous Soccer, Cannon Fodder was the third hit of Sensible Software's golden age: a period between 1989 and 1994 when the UK codeshop could do little wrong, enjoying universal critical acclaim and validation, in retail form, to the tune of cash registers ringing up millions of sales."

Comments

Also ported to the Jaguar

[TheAlchemist]

Although not mentioned in the article, Cannon Fodder also appeared on the Atari Jaguar, published by Virgin.

Re:C 64 similar game ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ikari Warriors?

Paradroid Developer Diary

[Thornae]

Anyone interested in this really should read Birth of a Paradroid", which is Andrew Braybook's developer's diary for the C64 classic Paradroid. It's a fascinating glimpse into what game writing was like back in those days...

Re:Paradroid Developer Diary

[kisrael]

ZZAP!64 was so great. I only had like one or two issues, and man did I read those things into the ground...it was so much fresher than any USA magazine. And games, ones I had never heard of, looked So Good in the ads...

I was so drooling over their review of Alien Syndrome.

Unfortunately I don't have a wide enough view to know what magazines were leaders and which were followers in terms of layout and style, but it seemed like the multireviewer approach got copied in some other mags a few years later.