A Little Bit Sensible Posted by Peter Parish, 143 days ago
Under The Gun
What better way to honour Christmas than with a deadly combo of football and machine guns? Amiga Format certainly thought this was a winning idea and merrily distributed “Cannon Soccer” to the world. Whereas “England vs Germany” had been a case of Cannon Fodder gatecrashing Sensi, this coverdisk was pretty much the opposite. Organised in two chapters, the first saw your plucky band of marines dumped on a familiar green surface and facing a seemingly never-ending horde of ultra-enraged footballers (diabolically cloned from Duncan Ferguson’s DNA, one must assume). The next mission took the fight directly to the enemy, as your band of brothers sought to infiltrate and destroy their top secret Arctic training camp. Or something.
In a similar vein, the Public Domain games “Sensible Massacre” and “Sensible Massacre II: Bulldozer Butcher” mined the rich Sensi-Cannon Fodder crossover seam in a totally unofficial fashion. Clearly upset with England’s inability to reach World Cup ‘94, the author of these titles decided that someone had to be punished. Curiously, he decided to blame Holland rather than rubbish tactics--which is why the original “Massacre” sees your brave goalie fending off a veritable army of Dutch strikers in the style of Missile Command. By the second he’d apparently lost his mind completely, giving the player control over a bulldozer and orders to maim and mangle as many (this time anonymous) opponents as possible. All good, clean, wholesome fun.
