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[challenge entry] Back from when computer games were hard

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From the Computer Games: The Grim Reality challenge. See all 283 entries (closed)

(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:35, archived)
# I remember it being very hard
and using grenades always got me shot.
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:36, archived)
# I remember it being really easy if you had any sort of sense.
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:37, archived)
# what is it?
Cannon fodder? Commandos? Commando? Ikari warriors?

Me dont recognise the names...
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:39, archived)
# Cannon Fodder.
I used to love the theme tune. I got my brother to record it onto a cassette for me.
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:40, archived)
# ERN! ERN! ERN! ARGH!!

(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:42, archived)
# War, never been so much fun, war never been so much fun!
Shoot him with your gun, leave him dying in his uniform, lying in the sun!

Class game, but its hardness pissed me off.
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:42, archived)
# Especially when the roof of one of those huts would fly off and land on all your men.
Or just the levels with cliffs and loads of guys with rocket launchers generally.
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:53, archived)
# YES!!!
I looked it up the other day on youtube and had a listen...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7YW5tmlsLo
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:44, archived)
# Yes! Thankyou!
Loved that game but it made me want to throw my monitor out the window in frustration!
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:52, archived)
# maybe you had the turnip version
Come on, it was hard, still completed it though
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:44, archived)
# i remember amiga power getting in trouble with the british legion
over the poppy on their cover because of this game
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:39, archived)
# that's right
"This game is in no way endorsed by the Royal British Legion"
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:43, archived)
# Oh so very YES
Amiga Power was truly a great publication - CAPITAL LETTERS, the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Rise Of The Robots scoring 3%, canoe squad... jumpers for goalposts...

Still have a load of old ones somewhere, must dig them out.
(, Tue 14 Apr 2009, 2:00, archived)
# oh my lordy... I am so going to have to get a copy of that tonight somehow.......
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:39, archived)
# Emulators are your friend
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:41, archived)
# that they are!
Project64, an XB360 controller, and Golden Eye is brilliant... Much higher resolution and frame rate than the N64...
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:49, archived)
# aaaaw, my favourite two soldiers :(

(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:40, archived)
# Cor, fodder
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 13:52, archived)
# Dangit
I just saw the compo, and this was the first thing to enter my brain! Glad I checked :)
Have a click for steasling my idea before I even had it! (*grumble*)
(, Thu 9 Apr 2009, 15:27, archived)
# Arf
One of my favourite games ever :)
*click*
(, Fri 10 Apr 2009, 0:13, archived)