Arcade Memories Game Of The Week - Renegade

[Bods]

Thought we'd have a Fighting Game this week though might have double this week being this might night have as much interest

Did I see this one in the arcades not sure to be honest, used to play it quite a bit on the Commodore 64, not easy to play with Konix Speedking Joystick and having to use keyboard as well just been looking at the home conversions and game play wise C64 and Amiga doesn't please most, Amstrad version looked pretty good, Spectrum doesn't look great but don't have to use Keyboard as well

So I haven't got much on the Arcade but I think the game is pretty awesome, nice to have some speech with Good Luck Kid and Get Lost Punk
I bought PCB, though not sure if I have original or bootleg now, need to catalogue all my stuff, I also have Marquee and Monitor Surround Plastic
No official Cabinet, Just kit to convert old cabs

Not sure how good this was in 1986 graphics wise, not really looked at what preceded it fighting wise apart from Kung Fu Master

Features I like is Boss standing by till you dispatch some of his gang, you and the gang being able to run gives it a bit of panic while playing, kneeing and throwing them is good and when there down punching there face left-right-left-right

Worst is getting used to controls with it having left and right attack so you have to keep switching, you forget after playing other fighting games and get confused for a while
I thought it was me that's not great at games but seems others find it challenging too

Anyone a fan of this or remember it in the Arcades?

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

Fukn love Renegade, only had it on Amstrad. Can't think of a better game on that thing. Big Bertha? Kicking dudes in the nuts. Yeah, baby!!! 🤘🤘

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

Had a birthday party, got a TV thing for my Amstrad. Played Renegade in colour, bleed everywhere 😆 but nobody cared. Managed to rent a Betamax Wheels On Meals for the party also. Can't remember what the other film was, and who cares when there a nutter that thinks he's an alarm clock!!! Take me back there 💪🕹️

 

[pooman2084]

My Renegade experience was on the Amstrad as well. The graphics were incredible and you could pummel people’s heads in!

Was it a 2p game or did that come in with Target Renegade?

I think the OG Japanese game was set in a school wasn’t it?

 

[kingtreelo]

another CPC464 Renegade fan, i was probably about 8 and thought it was the best game ever

you can grab people and knee them in the conkers, and you could go to ground and punch people in the face...a fantastic game, never did see it in the arcade though

thought target renegade was rubbish

 

[Vamino]

One of the first games I played that had such blatant move reading!
At times it felt you was controlling the enemies.

It's one of the few games that didn't have a lot of coverage round by me, the unofficial sequel Double Dragon was much more popular. I can't remember where I played it but I have very fond memories of the C64 version. Good old C64 space bar game, I never understood why there wasn't a joystick/joypad with more than 1 mapped button. The knife guys were brutal, 1 stab and you was dead!

I own the Japanese version on PCB, Nekketsu Koha Kunio-kun. No idea if mine is a boot as some I've seen have square white (Taito?) stickers on them and others have coloured circular stickers on them. It's one of my favourite games and even the boots seem to be 1:1 copies so it's all good on the gameplay front.

 

[TheDaddy]

Yeh C64 version was what we played , Used to go my mates at dinner (He lived above his dads chippy) by the time we had loaded the tape and ate our chips it was time to go back to bloody school ! lol. Great game.

Dave.

 

[pooman2084]

thought target renegade was rubbish

You what!

@CMYKhazi-Dan You grab him and I’ll knee those conkers! Ha ha.

 

[Bods]

Had a birthday party, got a TV thing for my Amstrad. Played Renegade in colour, bleed everywhere 😆 but nobody cared. Managed to rent a Betamax Wheels On Meals for the party also. Can't remember what the other film was, and who cares when there a nutter that thinks he's an alarm clock!!! Take me back there 💪🕹️

I have Wheels On Meals DVD

 

[Bods]

My Renegade experience was on the Amstrad as well. The graphics were incredible and you could pummel people’s heads in!

Was it a 2p game or did that come in with Target Renegade?

I think the OG Japanese game was set in a school wasn’t it?

Can't remember if Target Renegade was 2p but i liked it because you could pick up baseball bats etc so that was cool

 

[Bods]

One of the first games I played that had such blatant move reading!
At times it felt you was controlling the enemies.

It's one of the few games that didn't have a lot of coverage round by me, the unofficial sequel Double Dragon was much more popular. I can't remember where I played it but I have very fond memories of the C64 version. Good old C64 space bar game, I never understood why there wasn't a joystick/joypad with more than 1 mapped button. The knife guys were brutal, 1 stab and you was dead!

I own the Japanese version on PCB, Nekketsu Koha Kunio-kun. No idea if mine is a boot as some I've seen have square white (Taito?) stickers on them and others have coloured circular stickers on them. It's one of my favourite games and even the boots seem to be 1:1 copies so it's all good on the gameplay front.

Should of bought the Japanese one myself, nice seeing the orignal Technos version

I think I used my foot to press space bar because you needed both hands with Konix, I used to break all the other joysticks, seemed if I pushed stick harder you jumped further on platform games konix was only one I didn't break

Crazy when you have all those keys on Computer and only have one fire button on joystick port

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

I have Wheels On Meals DVD

Do you know that after Jackie's Meteors film (Killer Meteors?) They never named any film starting with an M as it was considered unlucky? Hence the title Wheels On Meals!

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

Can't remember if Target Renegade was 2p but i liked it because you could pick up baseball bats etc so that was cool

Target Renegade was cool but spoilt by the push scrolling or whatever it was called that also spoilt Green Beret on Amstrad.

 

[Bods]

Do you know that after Jackie's Meteors film (Killer Meteors?) They never named any film starting with an M as it was considered unlucky? Hence the title Wheels On Meals!

Interesting, I thought it was just some bad translation thing

 

[pooman2084]

You kind of had to get used to that ‘push scrolling’ on the CPC, it did struggle with scrolling compared to the c64 and even Speccy.

 

[funk]

All I remember is the yellow, remember being impressed with it at the young age I was... Spectrum version only here 😂

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

Good times...
Grab 'em, knee them in the nuts and throw them on the train tracks 😍

Might have made the last bit up 🤣

 

[Bods]

Makes me feel better that most I've watched they can't complete the first level, even I used to get to level 3 on C64

 

[CMYKhazi-Dan]

The muzak 😍😍😍

 

[John Bennett]

Heh, for some reason I pictured Vigilante in my head .
I never knew Renegade existed until recently - for all the praise heaped on Double Dragon for being influential, you can see they did a lot of it in Renegade.
But the graphics/art haven't aged very well