Renegade

This christmas my dad, using his hawk eye ebay skills, scored a 1986 Taito Renegade arcade machine in working condition, for only 150 bucks. It's truly a beautiful thing. If you unfamiliar with this game it's 5 levels of brutal street fighting action. It was the predecessor to Double Dragon it plays like a more basic version of it, although you do have the ability to jump on a downed enemy and pummel their face. Each of the five levels are broken into three screens, where as in Double Dragon you would progress through several screens to the end, Renegade keeps you in these three screens which act as more of an arena for the battle. The 4th stage, set outside the HQ of the final boss, has you up against several knife wielding, suit wearing bald bad guys. If any of these guys get's you it's a one hit kill.

As brilliant as this game is and as much as I love it, my plan is to turn this into a mame cabinet. I'm hoping i can keep the Renegade game still housed inside the cabinet along with a PC. I'll be sure to post as soon as i get that project underway.

Flickr set of my Renegade cabinet here
Renegade Wikipedia page here