Target: Renegade

Aim: Renegade is a scrolling beat-'em-up (or flip-screen in certain versions) released in the late 1980s by Ocean Software under the "Imagine" label for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum, and by Taito for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The game is a sequel to Renegade and was replaced by Renegade 3. By acquiring the license to convert the original arcade game Renegade for home computers, Ocean acquired the option to produce and publish its own home computer-only sequels to the game, and Target Renegade was the first of these sequels. On most formats, the game is for one or two players and centers on the adventures of a streetfighter (or a pair of identical streetfighters) known only as "Renegade" who seeks revenge on a local crime boss named "Mr. Big" for the murder of his or her brother Matt. The player character varies depending on the format, but is usually topless apart from a leather vest and wears jeans. Regardless of format, the cover of the game and the title screen (as seen in the image to the right) feature a bare-chested street fighter performing a flying kick through a window. As befits video game packaging and advertising of the time, the figure depicted bears little relation to a character in the game itself. The actual image 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 adapted to fit the character of Renegade. The game consists of five levels, with the details of the enemies and weapons differing from version to version (the NES version in particular resembles Double Dragon more than the home computer versions). The NES and C64 versions of the game do not have a cooperative mode for two players.