The remake of Target: Renegade will be released on ZX Spectrum Next!

March 9, 2021, 21:04 Mikhail Sudakov ред.

Gorgeous news from ZX Spectrum Next camp: its creators got the rights to remake the best bitemake on "Spectrum" and all eight-bit computers - Target: Renegade!

This game appeared in 1988 on ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64, and a couple of years later was ported to NES. Being a direct sequel to Renegade which appeared on arcade machines and was then ported to computers and consoles, Target: Renegade was intended exclusively for home use - this was the license Ocean got from Taito, the publisher of the first part. A year later Ocean released Renegade III: The Final Chapter, a very mediocre game, though it managed to get high ratings in the press.

In short, Target: Renegade became the best part of the trilogy and even spawned several fan remakes and "spiritual successors": e.g. Target; 2006, Target: Renegade Remake, Eight Dragons and so on. But the real official modern version will appear only now, and it's supposed to look great because it's made by WASP studio consisting of programmer/musician Lyndon Sharp, artists Stephen Day and Phoebus Dokos and composer/programmer/artist Lampros Potamianos. Right now these guys are working on the Next version of The Way of the Exploding Fist and will sit down for Target: Renegade as soon as it's finished.

As soon as there's news about gameplay or the first footage from the game, we'll be sure to tell you about it. It's a pity, but the official remake of the first Renegade part is unrealistic - the rights to it are still owned by Taito Corporation.