Target Renegade Commodore 64

Mike Lamb, Dawn Drake, Simon Butler, Jonathan Dunn & Gari Biasillo

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Imagine Software Ltd.

1988

>Every move you make, every step you take, they're watching you. Fight  >your way through the precinct - back alleys, the car parks, fight your  >way through the villianous community, the skin-heads, the Beastie Boys,  >the bouncers. This is just the tip of the iceberg on your chilling quest  >to confront "MR. BIG". > -- <cite>Cassette cover</cite> ***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 vest and  wearing jeans. Regardless of the format, the cover of the game and the title screen  (as seen on the image to the right) portrays a topless street fighter  performing a flying kick through a window. In keeping with video game  box art and advertising of the era, the character shown in this  illustration bears little relation to any character in the game  itself. The actual picture is based on Martial Arts Legend Joe Lewis  from the cover of his book The World's Greatest Fighter Teaches You  How To Master Bruce Lee's Fighting System, but has been adjusted so as  to fit in with the character of Renegade. The game comprises five levels, though details of enemies and weapons  vary from one version to another (the NES version in particular is  more like Double Dragon than the home computer versions). The NES and  C64 versions of the game do not have a two-player co-operative mode. Source:[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_renegade)