Never Been So Much Fun: The making of Cannon Fodder

[Plaz]

The Commodore and Amiga market was completely different in North America in the '80s and early '90s. Just like I'll never understand you Europeans fondness for tape drives (never seen one), SCART (never seen it), or soccer, LOL. :mickeymouse:

If you were running and Amiga, Cannon Fodder was still tops here too. You just must have been distracted by the latest wintel pentium box and X-Wing.

Plaz

[Plaz]

Probably distracted by girls.  Yup, that's the answer I'm going to go with.  Girls.  :banana:

Way better than X-Wing... you're totally forgiven.

Plaz

[Plaz]

Did they not advertise state-side or was I just oblivious for all these years? :p

CBM generally seemed to have no idea how to advertise anyway (or maybe didn't want to), so CBM/Amiga developers got no help there. It was rare or non-existent to see Amiga related news in a regular PC mag or commercial. In the US, game and software info was out there. But we had to make the effort to track down Amiga related mags, frequent CBM/Ami related BBS's or go looking for newsgroups of the day. (Could barely call it the proto-internet in '93).  I'm surprised if you missed it in AmigaWorld, pretty sure it would have been there.

So if you were in the US and didn't go hunting, Ami stuff didn't exist I guess. Weird part was everyone still fondly knew the CBM/C64 and you could still find some of that old stock at walmart or sears. But almost no one here knew about Amiga.

Plaz

[Plaz]

Well just did some searching here and don't see it was ever featured or advertised in Amiga World. Maybe Sensible didn't feel it was worth the trouble in the US. It did show up in and Amiga Action and Amiga Power, but those were import mags. You had to hang around one of the remaining Amiga computer stores to ever see one of those in the States if you weren't on their subscription list.

http://amr.abime.net/amr_search.php?search=cannon+fodder&mag_id=30&action=Find

Plaz