Cannon Fodder
Cannon Fodder — frequently asked questions
- Is Cannon Fodder on Steam?
- No. Cannon Fodder is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
- What platforms is Cannon Fodder on?
- Cannon Fodder is available on Acorn Archimedes, Amiga CD32, BlackBerry OS, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Linux, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Atari ST/STE, PC (Microsoft Windows), 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Mac, DOS, Amiga, Atari Jaguar, Legacy Mobile Device, 3DO, Archimedes, Jaguar, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Game Boy Color, Genesis, Super NES, Windows.
- When did Cannon Fodder release?
- Cannon Fodder was first released on January 9, 1993.
About Cannon Fodder
Cannon Fodder is an action-strategy shoot 'em up game developed by Sensible Software and published by Virgin Interactive. The game is military-themed and based on shooting action but with a strategy game-style control system. The player directs troops through numerous missions, battling enemy infantry, vehicles and installations. Cannon Fodder has a darkly humorous tone which commentators variously praised and condemned. Its creators intended it to convey an anti-war message, which some reviewers recognised, but the Daily Star and a number of public figures derided the game. In other respects, reviewers highly praised the game, which widely achieved scores of over 90% in Amiga magazines. Amiga Action awarded it an unprecedented score, calling it the best game of the year.
Summary via IGDB.
Cannon Fodder on Wikipedia
Cannon Fodder is a 1993 shoot 'em up video game developed by Sensible Software and published by Virgin Interactive Entertainment for the Amiga. Virgin later ported the game to MS-DOS, Atari ST, Acorn Archimedes, Atari Jaguar, Mega Drive, Super NES and 3DO. The game is military-themed and based on shooting action with squad-based tactics. The player directs troops through numerous missions, battling enemy infantry, vehicles, and installations.
Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).
Game details
- Platforms
- Acorn Archimedes, Amiga CD32, BlackBerry OS, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Linux, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Atari ST/STE, PC (Microsoft Windows), 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Mac, DOS, Amiga, Atari Jaguar, Legacy Mobile Device, 3DO, Archimedes, Jaguar, Atari ST, MS-DOS, Game Boy Color, Genesis, Super NES, Windows
- Developer
- Sensible Software
- Publisher
- Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc.
- Game modes
- Single player
- Themes
- Action, Comedy, Warfare
Details via IGDB.
Reception
Every version compared
Prices, contemporary reception and the studio credited for each release
| Platform | Year | Loose | Complete | Sealed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atari Jaguar | 1995 | $45 | $65 | $76 |
Also released on: Acorn Archimedes · Amiga CD32 · BlackBerry OS · Super Nintendo Entertainment System · Linux · Sega Mega Drive/Genesis · Atari ST/STE · PC (Microsoft Windows) · 3DO Interactive Multiplayer · Mac · DOS · Amiga · Legacy Mobile Device · 3DO · Archimedes · Jaguar · Atari ST · MS-DOS · Game Boy Color · Genesis · Super NES · Windows. We haven’t priced or authenticated those versions yet.
Collector value & authenticity
Atari Jaguar · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-07-24
- Region
- NA+EU
- Released
- 1995
- Authenticity
- Low
Electronic Gaming Monthly's Best Atari Jaguar Game of 1995 — priced like filler.
Sensible Software's squad-tactics classic: direct a tiny squad through top-down missions where cover matters, approach angles matter, and losing a man is permanent. Every dead soldier gets a headstone on a hill outside the recruitment hut, and the hill fills up while the theme song stays jaunty — Sensible always insisted it was an anti-war game, and the mechanism is making death cheap, funny, and cumulative until the accumulation stops being funny.
EGM named it Best Atari Jaguar Game of 1995, and Next Generation's reviewer called it the best game on the platform outright. The consistent criticisms were fair: the sprites are very small, and without mouse control the Jaguar pad makes precise unit direction slower than the Amiga original.
How it was made
The Jaguar conversion's studio is not separately credited in the sources checked. Sensible Software is credited for the original version, but on this era's ports the Jaguar conversion was frequently done by a different team — see the per-platform credits below before attributing it.
The Jaguar conversion was handled by The Dome, the team behind Puggsy — GameFan reported the assignment in May 1994, describing the game as coming to the Jaguar alongside Mega Drive and SNES versions. Period trade press resolves a credit the modern databases leave attached to Sensible Software, who made the original but did not do this port.
Cartridge & preservation record
Cartridge ROM capacity 16 megabit (2 MB), measured from the preserved cartridge image.
Cartridge data from the No-Intro preservation database (metadata only — names, sizes and checksums, no game data).
How the Atari Jaguar version differs
Published on Jaguar by Pacific Software as a 16-megabit cartridge, one or two players, and on sale by January 1995 (GameFan vol. 3 no. 1).
GamePro's main complaint is that the sprites are as small as the computer version's, with no visual enhancement made for the more powerful hardware.
GameFan reported in May 1994 that the conversion — then also planned for Mega Drive and SNES — was being handled by The Dome, the team behind Puggsy.
Also on other platforms
3DO · Archimedes · Amiga · Amiga CD32 · Atari ST · MS-DOS · Game Boy Color · Genesis · Super NES · Windows
Worth knowing
- Sensible's founder designed it, and Codemasters shrank it. Jon Hare, co-founder of Sensible Software, designed it, and it reached an unusual spread of platforms in 1993. After Codemasters bought Sensible, a Game Boy Color conversion followed — squeezed down to squads of two men on a far smaller playfield, made deliberately easier, and with the control scheme radically redesigned because many handheld keypads could not register a diagonal.
Before you buy
Common and inexpensive — which is the anomaly: a Game of the Year winner priced as catalogue filler, and alongside Power Drive Rally the most mispriced cart on the platform. Virgin packaging, not Atari. No repro risk.
Authenticity & condition — Atari Jaguar
Specific to the format this title shipped in
Buying a Jaguar cartridge
Cartridges are the durable half of this library — the risk is provenance, not decay. The platform has an active post-commercial scene, so the question is usually which era a cartridge is from rather than whether it still works.
- Ask for a photo of the label edge and the cartridge back. Reproductions are usually printed on adhesive photo stock and sit proud of the label recess.
- Donor shells are the common trick: sanding marks on the back, or adhesive ghosting where an older label was lifted, are the strongest signals.
- Cartridges are region-free on this platform, so a cheaper PAL copy plays on a North American console — a price difference is not evidence of a fake.
Cannon Fodder screenshots
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