Target Renegade was the sequel to the original Renegade game that also appeared on the Nintendo Entertainment System. This is a brawler, similar to Final Fight and Double Dragon. Considering there are only two action buttons there are many required button combinations to successfully navigate all of the moves available to your fighter.
Target Renegade should be familiar
The Nintendo Entertainment System was no stranger to brawlers. We saw many hit the console over its life. Double Dragon, Mighty Final Fight and many others including this title, Target Renegade.
This was one of the brawlers that I purchased back in the day shortly after release. I was not aware of the ports to other platforms (all computers) at the time, nor did I really care. I played Target Renegade all weekend after getting it and beat it that same weekend. This didn’t cheapen the title one bit though. Anyone that has played a good brawler will tell you, there is always more to the game than just beating it.
So close, yet so far away
The controls in Taito's brawler are far from intuitive. This is probably due to the fact that the NES controller only offers two action buttons. I wish Taito had seen fit to release Target Renegade on the Sega Genesis, which at the time offered three buttons. That third button would have been so nice to have available. This was probably not an option as the game was made with 8-Bit platforms in mind- all of the computers it was released on were 8-Bit also.Shorter than I wanted
Target Renegade is a five level brawler that is more cumbersome than it should be sometimes (such as jump kicking). Taito did a pretty good job porting this brawler to the Nintendo Entertainment System. The limitations of the console, though, get in the way quite a bit.For more brawling game fun, check out our coverage right here.
If you want a copy of Target Renegade then you are going to have to hit Ebay
or Amazon or a local used game store.
This article was originally published on Retro Gaming Magazine, a gaming website I own.