Renegade

I'm Lee.

Today we've parked on Wednesday the fourteenth of October, nineteen eighty-seven, when Ocean and Imagine's Renegade was the full-price street scrap flying out of W.H. Smith.

Ahead we've got the chart-topping single, Wednesday Telly, Toy of the Year, plus fresh Amiga on the shelves, sourced shop stickers, uh, the review desk, Renegade on, uh, three eight-bits, and, uh, the rows that followed the conversion.

Mark Webb's beside me.

I've been waiting for a proper street brawler episode because Renegade was the game that made the playground argue about which computer did punches best.

Subway thugs, pier bikers, and a final boss with a gun.

That felt dangerously grown up next to platformers.

Why this date? Gallup's all formats list covering the week ending the tenth of October put Codemasters Grand Prix Simulator on top with Renegade one rung down at number two.

But the very key fundamental elements of the genre start with this game.

Kung Fu Master was followed up in 1986 by Renegade.

And although you can consider Kung Fu Master the first beat-em-up, Renegade, which was developed by Technos Japan, is really the game that defined the genre.

It put a lot of the things we take for granted in there, such as the ability to move up and down the screen as well as left to right.

Renegade is about a street fighter named Mr. K trying to save his girlfriend from a group of gangsters.

You move from left to right beating up opponents and then you have your boss fight at the end of each section.

You've also got things in here like a double tap forward to dash.

There's a lot of things you see in this game that the genre will keep coming back to that will be like staples of lots and lots of games over the years.

The developer, Technos, made a 1986 game called, and I'm going to butcher the fuck out of this, so I should have John read it instead, Nekaketsu Koha Konyo-kun.

And by your blank reactions, you might know it from the 1980s street gang makeover and called it Renegade.

that you guys have probably seen.

I saw John the other night on the stream.

Americans need

a kidnapped woman with great big boobies.

And thus, Renegade replaces Cuneo and Hiroshi's history with something more 80s about a hero fighting about street tubs to rescue his girlfriend.

The important part wasn't really