Target: Renegade (1988)

Target: Renegade was released in 1988 by Imagine Software. The development team included programmer Mike Lamb, artist Dawn Drake, game designer Simon Butler, and musicians Jonathan Dunn and Gari Biasillo. Bob Wakelin provided the inlay and poster art.

This arcade beat-em-up supports two players and utilizes oblique 3D graphics. Technical features include AY sound, a final big boss fight, and a multi-loader for the 48K version. The game supports Kempston and Interface 2 joysticks, as well as redefinable keys.

The cassette version cost £7.95, while the disk version was priced at £14.95. The title was also released for Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, and NES.

The game holds an average magazine score of 86.33%. It earned the Crash Smash award from Crash magazine and the Megagame status from Your Sinclair.

In Russia, the game became a true legend and a benchmark for the genre. Magazines like Emulate published POKE codes for it, and the game was frequently used to showcase the capabilities of the General Sound hardware. It saw numerous cracked cassette releases and a TR-DOS version by Mike Blum.