Target: Renegade1988

Target: Renegade

1988 Ocean Software

Game modes

Single playerMultiplayer

Details

First release date

1988

Themes

Keywords

motorcycle
death
brawler
side-scrolling
time limit
crime
revenge
high score
boss fight
melee
western games based on japanese ips
bpjm indexed

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Keywords

motorcycle
death
brawler
side-scrolling
time limit
crime
revenge
high score
boss fight
melee
western games based on japanese ips
bpjm indexed
sequel by a different developer
flip screen

Overview

Target: Renegade is a scrolling beat'em up (or flip-screen on certain versions) computer game released on the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum systems in the late 1980s by Ocean Software on their "Imagine" label, as well as a Nintendo Entertainment System version published by Taito. The game is a sequel to Renegade and was followed by Renegade 3. When acquiring the license to convert the original arcade game Renegade to home computers, Ocean acquired the option to produce and release their own home-computer-only sequels to the game, and Target Renegade was the first of these sequels. On most formats, the game caters for one or two players and concerns itself with the adventures of a streetfighter (or a pair of identical streetfighters) known only as "Renegade", who seek(s) revenge against a local crime kingpin named "Mr. Big" for murdering his or their brother Matt. The player character varies, depending on the format, but is usually represented as topless apart from a leather...

Screenshots

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