Adored the spectrum version, played it over and over for well over a year. When I finally played the arcade version on mame I found the control method highly confusing.

Huge Kunio fan, glad you decided to take this one on. Hope to see more Kunio in the future!

Absolutely loved this on my CPC blew the other 8 but versions away... if only other programmers had put in the same level of effort.

I got this for Christmas in 1987 on the spectrum and played it to death. Target renegade, the sequel was also good, adding 2 player co-op.

great video back in the day I can actually finished the spectrum version

Surprised by the Master System version. Seems pretty good!

Loved this game on my Amstrad CPC 6128!!!! The face of surprise when you hit them lol.... Fond memories!!!!!

You definitely need to retry that spectrum version, I'll give the master system conversion a play though as it looks great. Love the intro with the parallax scrolls.

Just wanted to say, before I fully watch this one, that the PC Engine CD video was worth the wait!

Only version I ever played was the C64 version. It was a cracked version with an infinite lives trainer and had a tutorial in the cracked intro. It also had this tune that was darker and grittier than the actual game music. From memory (30 odd years ago) the tutorial outlines that you have to use the keyboard for the moves, I think it was the cursor keys, I can't remember if the space bar was used for jump or not. I do remember that it was surprisingly responsive, though also kinda awkward. I never got to the end. It wasn't too bad to play, especially considering just how bad Double Dragon ended up being on the C64, but man, watching this video made me REALLY JEALOUS of Amstrad CPC owners. That version looks terrific! As for the impressive Nintendo and Master System versions, I had already seen a rundown of them on Top Hat Man Gaming's Renegade video

Nice choice with Renegade Mark. Love playing this when I have the chance. My favorite version is the NES version. Really like the music on it and always puts a smile on my face! My mother purchased this for my birthday. Anthony...

I LOVED the Amstrad version back in the day!. The tape we had for it stopped loading correctly and was sooooo gutted as we could not find it in the shops what so ever for like 6 months. Luckily the 'HIT SQUAD' re-releases happened and got it again for £2.99 sadly the 'HIT SQUAD' re-releases didnt come in the larger cassette cases!, but was sooo stoked to get the game again!

love this series

I remember getting renegade on the speccy and loving it at the time...i guess it was what you had and made the most of it, at the time never felt the controls were bad...i probably would these days lol

Absolutely baffled by your appraisal of the ZX Spectrum version. It's often lauded as one of the machines best games. When I finally got my hands on the original arcade version I was so disappointed, it didn't play anything like I was expecting and was cumbersome to control. I guess a big part of it is what you grew up with and what your expectations are but Renegade on the Spec is roundly considered to be an excellent port.

I remember getting renegade on my spectrum and thinking as a kid WOW this is the best thing sinse sliced bread, could not stop playing it..sad when you see it again and think hmmm that was kind of crappy lol same with eddie kid stunt challenge....some games are best left in the memory as a replay of them today is very dissapointing lol

A valiant effort for the Speccy, I must say.

the characterdesign looks so funny. :D

As I owned an Amstrad as a kid I always root for that version to be decent and it finally happened. Glad to see my old fave had one decent arcade port.

The 128K version of Renegade on the ZX Spectrum was found on the unlabelled side of the cassette, so you had to read the bloody cassette inlay to discover this, it also had the shoulder throw move and 4th scene missing from the 48K version.

Ooohh, man! I didn't know you had an episode on Renegade! I LOVE Renegade!! In all fairness you played the game kinda badly(I can't recall a single time you jumped, really), but that's fine! I didn't even know there was an Amstrad port, and man, it looks great!

Love the master system port! so addictive and pretty playable

I preferred Target Renegade but this is still a nice game. Amstrad beats the Speccy version due to graphics not gameplay.

I love Renegade! Interesting how different the Japan version is

I had Renegade on C64 growing up and I could never work out how to play it either

You couldn’t be more wrong about the Spectrum version. Being too easy is it’s only flaw.

I have to say I am a huge fan of your channel and love your honest and frank reviews but like a few others I think you got the Spectrum version wrong. I grew up with a variety of systems in the 80s I like to think I'm pretty unbiased however I think as 2 guys of the same golden age of gaming (and also a huge lover of everything arcade from those days and bitterly upset with a number of sub-standard conversions) the big difference is I played everything on a keyboard and rarely touched a joystick on the home computers and even to this day play 95% of all my games on the keyboard (new and old, only time the pad comes out is when I have to do one of those horrible flying missions on GTA 5 or something!). Anyway the Spectrum was not difficult, it was a challenge but beatable and I did beat it many a time as a 11 year old! The graphics were neat, the music was ace and the speed was spot on. I only recently tried the arcade game and I couldn't of level 3! I don't know if that was me losing my touch or that for me the arcade version is actually harder! I honestly think you should give the home computer ports a go on the keyboard more often to see if you find it any different, I never remember feeling limited by buttons or games on my spectrum, c64 or amiga to be perfectly honest and I never used a joystick. Don't get me wrong, I am a huge retro console fan and still own a megadrive, saturn and dreamcast, me and the kids dusted off the DC for a few games of power stone 2 and DoA2 over the bank holidays and a gamepad has it's place but a keyboard if setup right is just as good if not better! (cursor keys, shift for jump and ctrl for fire = 80% of the time all you need!) This is my classic FPS shooter setup as well I can do all of that with one hand (ctrl for crouch though) and the other for aim and shoot!

Renegade on C64 used th top-left 3 keys for multi-direction attacks, one punches/kicks left, one jumps, one punches/kicks right. It's kinda awkward to play with both joystick/pad and keyboard but it works very well.

We shall have to agree to disagree on the Spectrum port. Played it recently and still love it, it is beatable with practice and getting your tactics down. Back and fire kicks behind you, you can also throw enemies on the Speccy port. The ST & Amiga games are appalling.

Renegade was hard on the c64 for what I can remember the controls where ordinary, but if I could go back in time I would tell myself don't get rid of the c64, c128 and the amiga. Between them all I think I would have had over 2000 games and I miss them all, thats why I keep watching these.

and I say hey, hey hey hey, living like we're renegades

CPC/ZX are the best ports.

The title screen is missing from your amstrad version. I also remember red blood on mine. Thanks for all these videos. :D

At last a decent CPC port 👍😃👍 I loved playing this on my CPC.

NES and Master System are the best ports. I can't choose one. You do a good job in your channel. Thanks so much.

I found this for the PS4, which I bought awhile ago. I had to take it off since I replaced my 500gb harddrive with a 1tb. I believe like PS4 Salamander it had the Japanese versions included at the start menues. This is game is hard to get used to, difficulty like the arcade Double Dragon and not like Final Fight which has straight forward hit boxes.

Those apple II graphics makes it look like it’s from a creepy pasta

The ZX Spectrum version was excellent and my favourite version outside of the arcade. I can't understand you saying it's stupidly hard, I can loop through it 3 or 4 times, and the speed and controls feel perfect. The arcade version is stupidly hard, if anything......the default settings only give you one life and even if you do clear all the stages once (which I have) then you'll never manage it a second time as it ramps the difficulty right up and the enemies take way too long to knock out.

And Great c64 ending track video..

holy crap you liked a amstrad port. This must be a special occasion haha

The C64 port was pretty good. I played the death out of it back in my childhood. The game tried to copy the arcade original and used 3 keys for the actions as on the arcade cabinet and the joystick for movement. For a C64 arcade port, it was very innovative. Shame more programmers never bothered to copy the control scheme for other arcade ports.

The spectrum it’s a excellent conversion

I'd like to point out that any kind of background audio on the Apple II series is a real feat of programming, considering the Apple II didn't have a facility for interrupts. So while it's not the best port, it should be noted that it is amazing it is as good as it is.

Actually, the Japanese Kunio-kun came out in May 1986 with the American Renegade came out four months later, in September.

had this on the speccy this and midnight resistance, r type were my favourite games don't no if it's the emulation but it played a lot better than how you described it I even have them on my phone an still play them now I prefer them to the arcade except for r type

The Spectrum version is amazing, as is the CPC but I still think Speccy has the edge in terms of gameplay. I prefer it to the arcade and 8-bit console ports. It's a masterful feat of programming and remains the best beat 'em up on the system by far!

According to mobygames Mike Lamb did the Spectrum version, John Brandwood did the Amstrad version.

Jeeyyyzeee... what was the last game to use the whole left/attack-right attack/button layout that was pioneered in this game ? ...Double Dragon 2? Made sense at the time when I was getting into street fights in the mean streets of Ohio/Wisconsin in the mid 1980's. Not so much these days.

I need to play the Sega Master system version!

Hell yeah I am an American high school senior beating up thugs in Osaka! Life Goal Achieved! Say..do you think Taito saw the American movie "The Warriors"? Nahhhh. Can't be.

Having played the horrid Amiga version, the awful C64 I can honestly say the Spectrum version was an amazing port!? flip screen instead of scrolling aside.... I played it for weeks when I first had it! Loving these videos though, keep up the great work.

I really wish someone made a ROM hack of SMS Renegade to make it into a Kunio game. It'd be an absolute hit

The best Renegade conversion was...Target Renegade for C64 :-D

"If you haven't already noticed, it was developed by Technos" I noticed the moment I saw their poorly programmed efforts slowing down the game and reducing the framerate.

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As a C64 head, I was always embarrassed by the Commodore port when compared to the other 8-bit versions. It should've been called Lego Renegade. As for the controls, you use a combination of joystick and keyboard like the CPC version (but the keys are obviously different). Time hasn't been too kind to this game overall, though and the original game was always slightly above average at best.

Interesting that the music is similar to that in Super Dodge Ball?

I played Renegade in MAME (sadly). I got surrounded and got my shit beat out by the thugs. Guess which key I pressed. xDDD

Renegade on the ZX Spectrum is awesome, one of the best games back then. Sorry to disagree.

It makes me sad to see some of the rushed arcade ports done on the Atari ST and Amiga. Do you think if they had been shown the same love as the Sharp X68000 when it came to developing arcade ports, and the skill involved the ST and Amiga arcade ports could have been better ? Imagine the team behind the Lotus Turbo Esprit games had done Out Run on the Amiga/ST.

Got the arcade PCB. It's dead and won't boot. Too bad, I really like this game. Gotta get it fixed for sure.

The Spectrum version was loved due to its quirks. It had such particular, precise gameplay (due to not being very well-made!) that it had an appeal for people who wanted to master it. Very odd, but I think that's why.

Gotta disagree with you entirely on this one. The ZX Spectrum is home to one of the greatest conversions of Renegade on any system. It's right up there with the CPC and Master System versions, and in my opinion probably beats them both in terms of playability.

You know the Amiga version is bad when even as a Budger release, Amiga Action reward it 8% at review 🤣

3DS remake????, is that the one that being released in the next month or so for English speaking languages?

is it possible to do Sunset Riders port comparison ?

CPC version has blue blood drops, but cheat to turn them back to red?

SMS ftw

Is it me or do the main characters in the Japanese Famicom version look like Elvis, while the enemies look like Ernie from Sesame Street?

The Japanese version of Renegade actually came out in May of 1986 while the US version came out in late 1986 which is less than a year's wait for the USA.

One the best game graphically for the amstrad cpc. However the game was hard as nails.

The problem you had on the 64 version was definitely an emulation issue.i remember playing it back when it first came out and it played well..

You aint tough enough to beat me

No doubt the 8 bit grand era... I loved the amstrad version, and the c64 as well. My friends were all hyped by the spectrum version, but it only ticked me the sequel - Target renegade. The 16 bit version only found very later on and found that I didn't loose much... Even the arcade version was met after double dragon and final fight so I wasn't impressed by it at that time.

I know Technos developed the game, but is it me, or the arcade characters sprites look exactly ripped out of Double Dragon? (or at least the bodies)

Are you sure that the Japanese version came out in 1985? All my sources tell me that it was 1986.

I wonder why they ported Renegade to the Master System so late in the system life in 1993 instead of River City Ramson or one of it's sequels.

if i remeber right the US nes version this had a thing where you go through a building room by room and if you take the wrong route it will endlessly loop.....thank gods for ms-dos 6 and win 3.1 or pc programmers would of never taken gaming seriously renegade was one game where i could show off my master system as being better than the nes

is this game related to river city ransom?

I've always found the Japanese tradition of giving games descriptive names, rather than calling them something catchy, to be rather weird. What do they call the game of Checkers in Japan? "Black and red discs on colored squares"?

SMS best for me.

The Amstrad CPC port was programmed by John Brandwood not Mike Lamb as you say in the comments.Mike Lamb programmed the Imagine Software sequel Target Renegade.

16 colors is EGA not VGA.

lemme guess, you can't punch women in the nes version

Amstrad had busted heads with blue blood dont know about them smh

Crap SPECCY version ? 1st : using keyboard controls, it's totally playable (yep, CPC version is great using keyboard n stick, but hit box is crap) 2nd: Idk for the C64 version but the 128k SPECCY have the throw move (same as arcade one), the best way to get out opponents quickly. This move doesn't exist on CPC nor AMIGA version. This point is important, cause I never played home vrsion with all character moves (throwing, running, finishing etc ...) My best loop is 4 on speccy ... maybe you should learning control and mechanics to beat the game 1 time ... Kunio kun is famous in japan, why don't show us the arcade differences ? Sorry retro core, but this time, you failed

Gotta disagree with you on the zx spectrum version, it’s by far the best version. It also has a throw move. Good vid though , keep up the good work

I've heard about this game, but actually never played it...or so I thought, until I saw your video. Back in the day I had a cart for NES 8 games in 1 and one of those games was called Hot Blood Boy in the selection list. Title screen of the game itself was in Japanese. For years I suspected that it may have some ties with Kunio-Kun sports series, due to the similar style and same developer. I must admit, I actually hated it. It was very hard and boring.

ZX Spectrum version is amazing I can still play it today 2019 and enjoy it. All negative things you said are based on the fact you don't know how to play the game not the game it self.

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Speccy Renegade crap??? Okaaaaaaaaay..... 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫