It's probably one of the best beat'em ups on NES and definitely had a huge influence on future games of the genre. One of my personal all-time favorites.
@@MFields2178 Hahaha well I was six when it came out, and I've noticed the random light colored hair growing in on occasion. Oh well, new or old, young or old, it doesn't mean much. Keep a sense of humor, and you'll still be young at 60, right? :D
NintendoComplete haha unfortunately I have a medical condition that won’t let me get to sixty so I’m getting that old now. It’s cool though. I don’t want to get old anyway.
It's true, it's to do with how much resources they could store, so the difficulty was proportionate to making sure the playtime is hours and not minutes. And that's fine, that's a certain style of game. Dark Souls brought back the kind of game you do not complete in one sitting :)
The only real hard part of the game is the last stage, choosing the left door got you into the maze leading up to the fight against Sabu, the door on the right went BACK to stage 3, and you have to do it all over again. That maze though, and remembering where to go, and having to fight two Kim's (the US name for the big woman boss, can't remember her name in the Japanese version), fighting two of these big ass women was a pain in the ass.
In 1988 I used to wake up to get ready for school..I was probably 6 or so and my brother would already be awake playing Nintendo before school...this game was one of the best
I still have fun playing this game to this day. Yes I hated that maze building at the end. I remember as a kid I thought those women you fight that hit you with their purse looked like my next door neighbor and the big woman that slaps you around looked like my mom. We were building a clubhouse in the woods that summer and my friend wanted to be like the last boss Sabu. That boss gave me anxiety with his one shot kills. Great game! Too bad they don’t make games like this anymore.
Technos has always impressed me because even with their earliest offering here you can tell they put a lot of time and effort into it, like the overall presentation. A real shame stuff from the original JP version was cut from this!
Never could beat that game as a kid. Now, watching this and seeing what the ending was, I think I would've been pissed off had I devoted the time to actually get good enough to do so.
A deli down the road from me had the actual arcade game shortly after it came out here in the US. Used to play it quite a bit, but it was super hard and I did not get that far. Loved the fact the characters would sometimes yell at you "get lost punk". I was very excited when I learned it was coming out for the NES. That excitement turned to displeasure when I saw how bad the NES port ended up being. Still, its Renegade and I will always hold a special place for it. Thanks for this play through
I like how they took the opening theme from the Arcade game, and turned it into the ending theme, but it works perfectly this way. It's like you've successfully accomplished a seemingly-impossible task, and triumphed over everything.
Ahh, the old beat 'em up convention of tossing guys in the water/bottomless pit to finish them quickly. Renegade/Kunio Kun really did establish all the tropes to follow. The maze level can suck it, though. Never was able to get past that part as a kid. I also like how immediately after you beat the last boss, it's straight to the credits. No ending, no "Yeah, I WAS tough enough for you, BITCH!" or anything. Just...done.
At 3:44, I always wondered who's car that is: Mr. K's or Joel's(the man in blue)?? I'm guessing Mr. K trashed his motorcycle as soon as he kicked the villians off their cycles. Joel probably didn't have a motorcycle, and possibly drove to the next scene where he fights Mr K!
I feel the same way. A guy something to me the other day that really hit me hard. He said that as a kid, there comes a day when you go outside to play with your friends, and that's the last time that you'll ever go outside as a kid to go and play with your friends ever again. It's crazy when you think about it but it's true. There was a day once when I went to play Nintendo as a kid, and it was the very last time that I'd ever play a game on my Nintendo ever again! It happens to all of us. It's just too bad that we don't realize it at the time.
Something about the way the enemies and player character do grabs and throws makes it feel like a really down-n-dirty street fight. Maybe it's the animation--they feel like heavy bodies getting flung around and beaten on. Super cool! (y-you know, for a beatemup :P)
And thanks to British developer Imagine Software, it began a third franchise in the "Renegade" trilogy. The other two sequels were "Target Renegade" and "Renegade III: The Final Chapter". And when they called the third game in the trilogy "The Final Chapter", they meant it.
I have this on my nes and gosh... I had a blast. Im 20 and i played old games when i was 8yrs. It was the sega genesis. Man.. I never knew how to play just pressing random buttons. But now im older, i got the nes and i like it! Although i didnt beat this game cause of the two warrior brothers.
This game is crazily hard, especially when you face Jack/Riki and Joel/Shinji during the maze section. Bosses are deadly in this game when they grab you and Sabu tries to stun us to make us sitting ducks when Sabu draw his gun. Fun fact: If you pick up too many life bonuses, the game thinks you're out of lives and that's game over.
Normally I like Famicom versions of games more than the westernized NES versions. Renegade is the exception. I like the choice of the 1950's atmosphere. It makes this game even more of a classic. It's really unconventional and original and makes the game more fun than the Japanese version.
As someone who played most of the iterations on various platforms since the 80s, I love the NES version. The Famicom felt like the inferior after thought to me.
The style of the characters kinda reminds me of that one nes game (i forgot what's it called) and it was made by the same company who made double dragon or Capcom
You are correct, they were all made by Technos who created Double Dragon series, River City Ransom (AKA Nekketsu Kunio Kun). Renegade is a US localized version of Kunio Kun about a white dressed highschool delinquent fighting rival gangs. The guy who created Double Dragon and Kunio Kun is Yoshiaki Kishimoto which the games were sorta based of his youth as he was a delinquent in his school days
I'm sure this is a fun game to play but, what was the meaning of this game? It never showed any intro about someone getting kidnapped and you had to fight bad guys to save the person where all it showed was for you to pick whether you want "One Player" or "Two Players" and then the game starts where you fight bad guys and after defeating the last guy, the end credits start at 14:42 not showing whether you rescued someone and/or it never showed you being claimed as a hero for something.
@@obsoleteworlds That's very good to know that this game at least had a meaning that you are rescuing someone. If I was playing this game on NES and after defeating the last guy I would have felt bad that I didn't win anything, save anyone, or be claimed as a hero.
Y'know, I remember playing both this and the arcade version, and if I had to choose between Arcade Level 4 (with the knife guys who killed you in one hit, always, and Sabu still did the same with his gun) and NES Level 4 (with the maze from hell where who knows where you're going, aside from 'not you'), I think these days I'd just throw my lot in with Mr. Stabby Mans.
8:37 Lmao, dude on the left was playing dead. I like the expression on their faces when their asses get kicked. 4:30 That was like fighting deranged women with down syndrome.
I remember this one I stay up for all most 2 days trying to play this game at my friend's house and my house I miss the Nintendo days also miss Nintendo power magazines in that time
in renegade, you get to beat your enemies without any reason and in Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun, You get to beat up people and save Kunio's (Your) Best Friends Sounds Heroic in my opinion ngl
In the Japanese version, Kunio's mission is to rescue his best friend Hiroshi. They could have made it like the U.S. arcade version in which you have to rescue your damsel in distress, but they didn't even do THAT.
Loved playing this game as a kid. I remember getting in some action before Wednesday night church during the summer and getting frustrated by those big broads, so frustrated that I in fact dropped a swear word in front of my mom, not once but twice. Needless to say I was forced to turn the game off. 😅
THE ONE TIME EVER THAT THE: NES > ARCADE COIN OP CABNET. THE NES VERSION WASNT AS PRETTY BUT WAS MORE FUN TO PLAY! AND THE NES VERSION HAS CHOOSE UR OWN PATHS AND BOSS FIGHTS.
Well At least I played the game lol. This game was quite brutal and I was only able to make to the Ladies and they deffinitly delivered a smack down on me
It's probably one of the best beat'em ups on NES and definitely had a huge influence on future games of the genre. One of my personal all-time favorites.
It might be super old, but Renegade is the granddaddy of some of the biggest arcade classics of the 80s and 90s, and it's still a blast to play.
Super old? Gee thanks. I was eight when this game came out and remember it like it was yesterday. Although I have a lot of gray hairs now.
@@MFields2178 Hahaha well I was six when it came out, and I've noticed the random light colored hair growing in on occasion. Oh well, new or old, young or old, it doesn't mean much. Keep a sense of humor, and you'll still be young at 60, right? :D
NintendoComplete haha unfortunately I have a medical condition that won’t let me get to sixty so I’m getting that old now. It’s cool though. I don’t want to get old anyway.
NintendoComplete it was also the first beat'em up ever made
@@oldstylegaming4655 I think this came out in Japan before Double Dragon
Love how games back then were 15 minutes long yet impossible to beat
This game was easy. The only thing that gave me trouble was the fat ladies.
I beat it
🤣😅🤣this comment is so legit
It's true, it's to do with how much resources they could store, so the difficulty was proportionate to making sure the playtime is hours and not minutes. And that's fine, that's a certain style of game. Dark Souls brought back the kind of game you do not complete in one sitting :)
The only real hard part of the game is the last stage, choosing the left door got you into the maze leading up to the fight against Sabu, the door on the right went BACK to stage 3, and you have to do it all over again.
That maze though, and remembering where to go, and having to fight two Kim's (the US name for the big woman boss, can't remember her name in the Japanese version), fighting two of these big ass women was a pain in the ass.
Destroyed my thumb abusing that A+B dragon kick move. One of the best games of my childhood.
Love how you can punch them even when they’re down, revolutionary design for the time
6:03 when my mom asked me to clean the dishes but I played NES games instead.
In 1988 I used to wake up to get ready for school..I was probably 6 or so and my brother would already be awake playing Nintendo before school...this game was one of the best
А мой младший брат с утра в Contra )
Loved how you went through all that hell to get to the final boss, and Sabu would just blast you away in one shot. So frustrating yet so fun.
Man had a gun, no way would you just get up from a gunshot, especially aimed at your head. This game showed some realism there.
The greatest ending of any video game
How?
@@ShadowZero1980it was a rhetorical statement
Dawg, thank you for all of these videos on these classic games!
I had this game as well as Double Dragon 2. Both games were great.
Love the fact that Mr Renegade actually traveled in the train
I still have fun playing this game to this day. Yes I hated that maze building at the end. I remember as a kid I thought those women you fight that hit you with their purse looked like my next door neighbor and the big woman that slaps you around looked like my mom. We were building a clubhouse in the woods that summer and my friend wanted to be like the last boss Sabu. That boss gave me anxiety with his one shot kills. Great game! Too bad they don’t make games like this anymore.
Technos has always impressed me because even with their earliest offering here you can tell they put a lot of time and effort into it, like the overall presentation. A real shame stuff from the original JP version was cut from this!
Technos was probably my favorite game developer in the 8-bit era. This game is very overlooked.
Kunio Kun original version that started it all Renegade 1. Part 2 was called Target: Renegade on the NES.
Never could beat that game as a kid. Now, watching this and seeing what the ending was, I think I would've been pissed off had I devoted the time to actually get good enough to do so.
This game has the best soundtrack around!!
A deli down the road from me had the actual arcade game shortly after it came out here in the US. Used to play it quite a bit, but it was super hard and I did not get that far. Loved the fact the characters would sometimes yell at you "get lost punk". I was very excited when I learned it was coming out for the NES. That excitement turned to displeasure when I saw how bad the NES port ended up being. Still, its Renegade and I will always hold a special place for it. Thanks for this play through
I like how they took the opening theme from the Arcade game, and turned it into the ending theme, but it works perfectly this way. It's like you've successfully accomplished a seemingly-impossible task, and triumphed over everything.
Ahaa now i understand why the ending tune sounds sooo dramatic.
This and River City Ransom were great
Yeah. Same here.
YES!!!!!
6:00 Didn't know Rosanne Barr was in this game.
Very funny I through that too. It her name is Kim she is a pain in the ass.
Ahh, the old beat 'em up convention of tossing guys in the water/bottomless pit to finish them quickly. Renegade/Kunio Kun really did establish all the tropes to follow. The maze level can suck it, though. Never was able to get past that part as a kid. I also like how immediately after you beat the last boss, it's straight to the credits. No ending, no "Yeah, I WAS tough enough for you, BITCH!" or anything. Just...done.
I’m pretty sure “Mr. K” is supposed to be Kunio/the guy you’re playing as, so it’d be more like “Nobody’s tough as me, bitches!”
The original Japanese version (featuring Kunio and all the other characters in their original designs) does have an ending, though.
This is a legit mashup of Double Dragon & River City Ransom
Can't believe there is a throwing out of stage. Nice
Motorcycles!!! Reminds me of Grease 2!!!! The punks could be the scorpians. The ladies in the next level could be pink ladies!!!
One of my favorite NES games. So fun.
The sad story of a man. Losing his mind and having to fight all of his identical siblings to the death at the subway station
🤣
At 3:44, I always wondered who's car that is: Mr. K's or Joel's(the man in blue)?? I'm guessing Mr. K trashed his motorcycle as soon as he kicked the villians off their cycles. Joel probably didn't have a motorcycle, and possibly drove to the next scene where he fights Mr K!
One of my favorite all time nes game
Bring me back to my childhood
I feel the same way. A guy something to me the other day that really hit me hard. He said that as a kid, there comes a day when you go outside to play with your friends, and that's the last time that you'll ever go outside as a kid to go and play with your friends ever again. It's crazy when you think about it but it's true. There was a day once when I went to play Nintendo as a kid, and it was the very last time that I'd ever play a game on my Nintendo ever again! It happens to all of us. It's just too bad that we don't realize it at the time.
Something about the way the enemies and player character do grabs and throws makes it feel like a really down-n-dirty street fight. Maybe it's the animation--they feel like heavy bodies getting flung around and beaten on. Super cool! (y-you know, for a beatemup :P)
Hi, is there a way to shake them when they grab you?
I hate that guy, specially in the final mission when they are double
"Mr.K ain't tough enough for me."
Baha back when everyone had sega megadrives and super Nintendo, my parents bought me an 84 commodore and I would play this game constantly.
"YOU AIN'T TOUGH ENOUGH FOR ME"
Simon Mejía I used get in trouble in first grade for reenacting this game and repeating the cut scene dialogues haha 😂
And thanks to British developer Imagine Software, it began a third franchise in the "Renegade" trilogy. The other two sequels were "Target Renegade" and "Renegade III: The Final Chapter". And when they called the third game in the trilogy "The Final Chapter", they meant it.
Wow man those developers showed no mercy by removing an ending!!
I can't believe I never tried out this game :( I was nuts about Double Dragon II and Streets of Rage
Ahhh. The game that taught me the true meaning of equality.
The backgrounds are great
Aquí hay un efecto mandela por que yo recordaba perfectamente que solo salia un jefe final con la pistola no 2
I have this on my nes and gosh... I had a blast. Im 20 and i played old games when i was 8yrs. It was the sega genesis. Man.. I never knew how to play just pressing random buttons. But now im older, i got the nes and i like it! Although i didnt beat this game cause of the two warrior brothers.
13:37 Sabu's face creeped the hell out of me when I was a kid. It was like a Jumpscare!
I never got to kill Sabuo as a kid. Never knew how to avoid him shooting at you. Yet one of my childhood faves!
GREAT GAME ! I ve heard that RENEGADE was inspired by the great classic movie THE WARRIORS
lol I totally see it now 😂😂 Thanks for the behind the scenes.
Kim/Misuzu is a piece of work
I'm probably alone but I always liked the ending credits melody 🎶 when you beat the game.
This game is crazily hard, especially when you face Jack/Riki and Joel/Shinji during the maze section.
Bosses are deadly in this game when they grab you and Sabu tries to stun us to make us sitting ducks when Sabu draw his gun.
Fun fact: If you pick up too many life bonuses, the game thinks you're out of lives and that's game over.
Normally I like Famicom versions of games more than the westernized NES versions. Renegade is the exception. I like the choice of the 1950's atmosphere. It makes this game even more of a classic. It's really unconventional and original and makes the game more fun than the Japanese version.
One of the few new games I could actually beat lol
Looks and sounds like the Double Dragon I had on the C64.
Is this two player cooperative?? I’m always looking for that kind!
Maybe my favorite NES game 🔥🔥
I would recommend the Famicom version over this; it actually has an ending.
Is it translated? I don't wanna miss the story.
As someone who played most of the iterations on various platforms since the 80s, I love the NES version. The Famicom felt like the inferior after thought to me.
@@acharat6 Nothing to translate, it has no text in the ending.
The enemy and character dialogue has been translated multiple times
@@kristophsams5036 I grew up with renegade also but the Japanese version makes sense with context.
Different rival schools and junk.
Classic 80s my new idea part 2
before Dark Souls, there was THESE games!
The style of the characters kinda reminds me of that one nes game (i forgot what's it called) and it was made by the same company who made double dragon or Capcom
You are correct, they were all made by Technos who created Double Dragon series, River City Ransom (AKA Nekketsu Kunio Kun). Renegade is a US localized version of Kunio Kun about a white dressed highschool delinquent fighting rival gangs.
The guy who created Double Dragon and Kunio Kun is Yoshiaki Kishimoto which the games were sorta based of his youth as he was a delinquent in his school days
@@hanchiman cool, thanks for the fact
Maybe River City Ransom.
That big lady behind doors 🤦🤦🤦... I dunno why many trash this game, I really loved it especially considering its an old game.
I still hear that music in my head…
Do you think you can do a playthrough of the original Japanese release of this game? It's good to show where the Kunio-kun series really came from.
I loved that he was Mr. K because my last name starts with K. So that was cool too me. I still can’t beat it though.
I'm sure this is a fun game to play but, what was the meaning of this game? It never showed any intro about someone getting kidnapped and you had to fight bad guys to save the person where all it showed was for you to pick whether you want "One Player" or "Two Players" and then the game starts where you fight bad guys and after defeating the last guy, the end credits start at 14:42 not showing whether you rescued someone and/or it never showed you being claimed as a hero for something.
In the real game you were rescuing your girlfriend. Not sure why this was omitted from the NES game.
@@obsoleteworlds That's very good to know that this game at least had a meaning that you are rescuing someone. If I was playing this game on NES and after defeating the last guy I would have felt bad that I didn't win anything, save anyone, or be claimed as a hero.
you should show the Kunio-Kun orignal verison from Famicom. quite intresting
This plot of this game took place in a time bubble where 1950s and 1980s USA were the same... and happened in Japan.
Y'know, I remember playing both this and the arcade version, and if I had to choose between Arcade Level 4 (with the knife guys who killed you in one hit, always, and Sabu still did the same with his gun) and NES Level 4 (with the maze from hell where who knows where you're going, aside from 'not you'), I think these days I'd just throw my lot in with Mr. Stabby Mans.
Back in the days when renegade was a game.....
🏍️ @3:30 you can see a “MITSUBISHI” Freeway sign in the background 🛣️
This Nekketsu Kouha Kunio kun ?
When i played this as a kid...there was NEVER any hamburgers or any health restoration that i remember.
8:37 Lmao, dude on the left was playing dead. I like the expression on their faces when their asses get kicked. 4:30 That was like fighting deranged women with down syndrome.
haha!!
the nes version had multiple paths to choose. changing boss fights and rooms u saw. the arcade does not. it looks better but nes version is more fun
Poor man's Double Dragon. I rented this game, it was pretty awesome but couldn't find it in stores to buy.
"Poor man's Double Dragon"? This game predated Double Dragon and was made by the same creators.
I remember this one I stay up for all most 2 days trying to play this game at my friend's house and my house I miss the Nintendo days also miss Nintendo power magazines in that time
Wait. Mr. K never shows up? Or am I missing something?
Ah yes Super Dodge Ball OST ;) (I figure this one came first)
This one did come out first
Arcade: 1985
NES: 1987
Super Dodge Ball:
Arcade: 1987
NES: 1989
This was my problem with _Deadly Towers_ : if you don't go in the right doors, you end up all over the place and never the end.
This game was bad ass back in the late 1980s still is
I thought this game had a big boss fight in a helicopter. Does anyone know the game I am trying to find?
in renegade, you get to beat your enemies without any reason and in Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun, You get to beat up people and save Kunio's (Your) Best Friends Sounds Heroic in my opinion ngl
"You're not tough enough for me."
I loved thid game and never forgot that squeak sound with the jump kick.
spent lot of hours playing this game :)
he got that greaser haircut going lol🤣
No ending? Really?
Edit: there's a master system version of Renegade, it is actually worth checking out.
In the Japanese version, Kunio's mission is to rescue his best friend Hiroshi. They could have made it like the U.S. arcade version in which you have to rescue your damsel in distress, but they didn't even do THAT.
@@VahanNisanian
Yup you are right, they should have add the damsel at the end instead of going to the credit directly.
My cousin's use to have this years
Ago.
The one game I could never beat for some reason
Why did they name all bosses Emy?
que recuerdos madre mia!
Loved playing this game as a kid. I remember getting in some action before Wednesday night church during the summer and getting frustrated by those big broads, so frustrated that I in fact dropped a swear word in front of my mom, not once but twice. Needless to say I was forced to turn the game off. 😅
THE ONE TIME EVER THAT THE:
NES > ARCADE COIN OP CABNET.
THE NES VERSION WASNT AS PRETTY BUT WAS MORE FUN TO PLAY! AND THE NES VERSION HAS CHOOSE UR OWN PATHS AND BOSS FIGHTS.
I remember renting this from the video store
So, Big Mama is this game's Abobo?
5:55 we used to call that B , big momma
Equal oppurtunity ass whoopings in this game!
And Double Dragon also
Memories
3:20
I'm pretty sure none of the dudes survived this part of the stage.
Well At least I played the game lol. This game was quite brutal and I was only able to make to the Ladies and they deffinitly delivered a smack down on me
That ending crack me up. It’s soo fast
streets of rage before streets of rage
This is just double dragon, with similar music from double dragon and bad street brawler
Except Double Dragon came out after this game. This was the predecessor to Double Dragon.
Japanese or American version???
@@IronMan_thno Both.
4:06 Well, one guy is wearing his Corona mask lol