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#35 Cannon Fodder (MS-DOS, 1993)

Being an American, I was not exposed at all to Remembrance Poppies as a kid. So the logo for this gamea poppy with a bullet lodged in the centerconfused me more than anything. But it's fitting for an arcade-style tactics game about the horrors of war.



You control a small team of soldiers as they travel to battlefields all over the world fighting against overwhelming odds. If your men survive a mission, they get promoted. If one of your men dies, there is a near-endless line of identical replacements waiting for their turn to fight and probably also die. Although the visual style and low resolution allows for little detail, the developers provided many different opportunities for your guys (or their enemy combatants) to be killed, and each new way has its own little dreadful animation that just makes you feel so bad for them. Sometimes (and I honestly do not know if this is a glitch or intended) wounded soldiers will get stuck in a perpetual state of screaming and bleeding until you put them out of their misery.



This game was super tough. Back to the whole overwhelming odds thing, your people are just as fragile as the enemiesone shot and you're dead. So you have to be very careful while you fight through levels where enemies spawn endlessly, all the while dodging traps and explosions and all sorts of things.

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