Cannon Fodder (Game Boy Color)

Cannon Fodder
Developer: Codemasters Publisher: Codemasters Platform: Game Boy Color Released in US: December 5, 2000 Released in EU: November 24, 2000 This game has hidden development-related text. This game has a bugs page

A conversion of the British home computer classic. Most known today for very suspiciously jamming its cartridge with a smorgasbord of atypical features: nearly one megabyte of the 4MB cartridge is dedicated towards long stretches of PCM data, and the game opens with one hell of an intro; over twenty seconds of pre-rendered video, along with similarly pre-rendered segments for the menu.

How big were those cutscenes? Two megabytes. The actual game could comfortably fit within a one megabyte / eight megabit cartridge; a stark contrast to another Game Boy Color game that had to use padding thanks to being too small. Even weirder, none of the main Game Boy channels are used: everything is piped through the wave channel (which can be used to play back audio samples). Every single sound effect is pre-recorded. Did Codemasters have fun while making this game?

Sub-Page

Bugs

Build Date

Present at 0x3EEF68.

CANNON FODDER 0.44
 ©CODEMASTERS 2000