Descpription:
Renegade is a video game released in American and European
arcades in 1986 by Taito. It is a westernized conversion (including
changes to all of the sprites and backgrounds) of the Japanese arcade
game Nekketsu Koha Kunio-kun, released earlier the same year by Technos.
In Renegade, the player controls a vigilante, who fights a variety of
street gangs on his way to save his girlfriend. Unlike Technos' subsequent
game Double Dragon, the playing field is limited to one two-screen-wide area
(a subway platform, a harbor, an alley, a parking lot and the hideout of a gang)
and does not scroll continuously.
Renegade is a localization of the Japanese Nekketsu Koha Kunio-kun for
the North American and Worldwide markets, with the game's graphics changed
in an attempt to adapt the game's setting to a more western style.
Instead of the damsel-in-distress plot of Renegade, Kunio-kun instead featured
the titular high school student, Kunio, standing up for his bullied friend
Hiroshi. Each stage begins with the stage's gang beating up Hiroshi in
front of Nekketsu High School and Kunio chasing after his attackers.
