Renegade
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…
Renegade is an adventure developed by Technos Japan, released 31 December 1987 on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, Wii U and Wii.
What Renegade is
Renegade is an adventure game developed by Technos Japan and released in 1987. It was published by Aksys Games. It is available on Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, Wii U, Wii and Nintendo Entertainment System.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In Renegade, the player controls a vigilante (named Mr. K in the NES version), who fights a variety of street gangs on his way to save his girlfriend.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Kunio-kun series
Renegade is the fifth of 96 entries we hold in the Kunio-kun series. The next entry was Super Dodge Ball in 1987. Its critic score of 39 is 29 points below the series average of 68. The highest-rated entry is River City Ransom EX at 91.
How it was received
Renegade holds a critic score of 39 out of 100. That places it above 3% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1987 averaged 72, so it scored 33 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Renegade launched on 31 December 1987, within three weeks of Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus and Head Over Heels. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Wasteland, Final Fantasy, Nebulus, Head Over Heels.
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