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Cannon Fodder

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4.3/5

( 115 Reviews )

4.3

115 Reviews

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5.995.99
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Cannon Fodder
Description
Don't wait till you see the whites of their eyes... Don't kid yourself it will be over by Christmas... Don't try to shut out the screams... And don't forget to wash your hands afterwards... From a queue of some 360 "eager" conscripts waiting to go to war, a team of up to six will "volunteer" for ea...
Genre:
Action - Arcade - Tactical
Tags:
Action, Classic, Tactical, Top-Down, War, show 3 more... Military, Arcade, Good Old Game
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4.3/5

( 115 Reviews )

4.3

115 Reviews

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Product details
1993, Sensible Software, ...
System requirements
Windows 10+, 1.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9.0c, DirectX 9.0c...
Time to beat
7.5 hMain
-- Main + Sides
28 h Completionist
11 h All Styles

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Description
Don't wait till you see the whites of their eyes...
Don't kid yourself it will be over by Christmas...
Don't try to shut out the screams...
And don't forget to wash your hands afterwards...

From a queue of some 360 "eager" conscripts waiting to go to war, a team of up to six will "volunteer" for each new mission. Encourage your soldiers to shoot anything that moves, throw grenades, fire bazookas, drive tanks, fly choppers, split up and do their own thing... and die... Guide your no-hoper's troop straight through deadly missions. And if you lose some of them? There's more where that came from...

FEATURES:

  • Easy interface means non-stop carnage
  • 360 fresh-faced recruits anxiously awaiting your direct orders to shoot to kill, throw grenades, drive tanks, fly choppers, divide and conquer or run around in circles and take each other out with friendly fire
  • 24 bullet spraying missions with 72 levels
  • All the great sound effects like jungle noises, booming explosions, distant copter rotors and some poor soldier's dying screams
  • Five types of enemies including M-16 carrying grunts, snipers, copter commandos, jeep engineers and artillery hot shots
  • Guide your motley crew over hill n' dale, through jungles, freezing cold wastelands and Africa-hot deserts, annihilating the enemy and blowing up buildings on the way
  • Use shameless flattery and brute force to work your way up the ranks from private to four-star general
  • 8 minute cartoon introduction

© 2005 The Codemasters Software Company Limited ("Codemasters"). All rights reserved. "Codemasters"® and the Codemasters logo are registered trademarks owned by Codemasters. "Cannon Fodder"™ and featured game titles are trademarks of Codemasters. All other copyrights, trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners and are being used by Codemasters under license.

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This game is powered by DOSBox.
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DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
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Time to beat
7.5 hMain
-- Main + Sides
28 h Completionist
11 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Action - Arcade - Tactical
Tags:
Action, Classic, Tactical, Top-Down, War, show 3 more... Military, Arcade, Good Old Game
Works on:
Windows (10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04), Mac OS X (10.15+)
Release date:
{{'1993-11-29T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Company:
Sensible Software / Codemasters
Size:
35 MB
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Game features
Cloud saves
Single-player
Languages
English
audio
text
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What improvements we made to this game:
Update (20 March 2025)
  • Tweaked DOSBox configuration to improve stability.
  • Set Roland MT-32 for music playback to enhance sound quality.
  • Switched to DOSBox version 0.74-3 to fix occasional skipping intros issue and resolve a crash in Mission 18-3.
  • Validated stability.
  • Verified compatibility with Windows 10 and 11.
  • Verified Cloud Saves support.
Update (21 March 2019)
  • Added Cloud Saves functionality.
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User reviews

Posted on: April 23, 2025

Barffy194

Verified owner

Games: 203 Reviews: 1

War has never been so much fun

Run your little squad of dudes around, shooting and blowing up your emeny. Sensible Software at its best. A real Good Old Game and a massive nostalgia trip for those of us of a certain age. Loved this on my Amiga, loving it almost as much now.

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Posted on: May 19, 2025

PeterLionXII

Games: 35 Reviews: 1

Simple nostalgia

Not much to this game but I love it. Seems the updating for modern PC's is flawless to me. no crashes or bugs that I noticed. still has the same jank feel in the controls but I feel the jank may have been smoothed out a bit. hard to remember clearly

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Posted on: May 28, 2025

ValisIllusionist

Verified owner

Games: 5 Reviews: 2

War has never been so much fun!

A shame it doesn't have the full sung song at the beginning and doesn't appear to have a quit button so had to ctrl alt delete out. Gameplay is as fun as I remember - awesome game!

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Posted on: June 15, 2025

Originalnutta19

Games: 28 Reviews: 17

not to bad not great

games alright but when moving the mouse to move your troops the screen moves aswell but overall worth a try its a classic

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Posted on: June 30, 2025

Pdmcfeeters

Games: 37 Reviews: 1

Fun little Classic

Great option to while away a bit of free time for less than a dollar

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