Voted second best Amiga game of all time in Amiga Power, 1993, behind Sensible Soccer.
Cannon Fodder appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott.
The Royal British Legion (who have always been known for their 'poppy' logo), complained that this game was 'sick and degenerate' before its release, making several tabloid headlines trying to ban the game (before anyone had played it). The poppy was reluctantly removed from the cover before release but it still appears in the game itself.
The conversion of this title from the Amiga to the PC is nearly identical except for the music, which is FM synthesis (Adlib) instead of the original Amiga 4-channel digital ("mods"). This was a normal practice for most conversions, except by this time several free mod players with source code had been released, so there was no reason to not have the original mod music...
The PC version is banned in Germany for extreme violence (30.07.94). The Gameboy version isn't.