Technos Japan arcade game developers also watched the American gang movies like The Warriors and the Wanderers among others that featured female gangs... and also many 70s exploitation films that featured all female gangs that ripped up dudes.
Renegade was the first game I ever played that introduced me to the concept of a "boss".. An enemy that was stronger than everyone else and had a life energy bar that matched your own. That blew me away at the time.
Strangely this isn’t the first game that literally referred to the stronger enemy as a “boss” as some people claim. The oldest one I can think of to use that terminology is Sega’s wacky yet brutally hard arcade game My Hero, which also has you playing as a Japanese high school student. Pooyan also had an enemy called “boss” but I’m not counting that one since that game’s “boss” is just a faster recolored version of the normal enemies.
@@leroyvisiongames2294 Loved that game too back in the day! Yeah, I don't know what game came up with the idea, but this game was the first I've played with one. Cheers
@@osakatales9228 Yeah, that's what I mean. I was so amazed at this concept, I remember drawing pictures in my school notebook later of characters and I would put a little "boss" label on top of one with a health bar. Made no sense, but it's just something I remember from my childhood.
Nekketsu: Misuzu is the big mama of the day Shin Nekketsu: Misuzu is still the big mama of the day River City Girls: Misuzu is....well you know what happens when Kyoko and Misako showed up
I would say a combination of bad luck and a tendency to get involved in things he probably shouldn't in emulation of his best friend. Yeah, Hiroshi may be fairly tough when it comes to withstanding beatdowns, but that's all he has (maybe that and his throwing arm, if the Famicom version of Super Dodgeball (and maybe Tokyo Rumble) is anything to go by.)
I just realized that the non-bubble head Japan version of Kunio looks very much like a younger version of Kazuma Kiryu from Yakuza game, and Riki is kinda like a younger version of Goro Majima since Riki is supposedly quite crazy.
Fun fact: this game’s entire premise was based on the developer’s troubled childhood. When the dev was a teenager he used to get into lots of fights at school. Good to know he became a better person and went on to program video games, using his past mistakes as inspiration for Renegade/Kunio Kun and it’s more popular successor, Double Dragon.
Why Misuzu's henchwomen resemble later Kyoko and Misako? Edit: Found they are actually Kayo and Kumiko, her lackeys and actual enemy and shopkeeper respectively in River City Girls 2.
So anyone fluent in Japanese know what Kunio, Riki, Shinji, and Misuzu are saying? I know the first quote, when you pop in a coin, is "Ganbare" (lit. meaning "Good Luck" or "Hang in There").
It says "Gambatte ne!" to start (feminine version of "ganbare") and Kunio says "matte, kono yarou!" - wait! you bastard! I haven't heard the other vices yet. Give me a time stamp and I'll tell you :)
they're transcripted for the NES version, as far as i know they're unchanged so you can use them as a reference (note that sabu doesn't say anything in the arcade version of course)
Ha ha ha.. Me too Carnal, back in time i used to play this arcade when i was younger, i remember that once my mom send me to go for tortillas for the meal, so i went, but near by the tortilleria, there was this arcade place where they had this game, so i took a little time to check it out, i was very impressed with it, i was so amused that i did't realized the hour, and by the time i got to the tortilleria it was already closed, and you can imagine the rest of the story.. My Mom scolded me and beat me up ha ha.. After all, it was worth it.. I love this game since then.. Ahhh.. What a memories..
This player didn't realized (or is it?) that Kunio can beat & punch enemy when they're laying on ground in this game (That Shinji one was found by accident btw).
This game does actually slowdown quite a bit with a lot of enemies (like every Technos arcade game), but the answer to that is extremely poor programming. Technos Japan are INFAMOUS for their extremely bad programming capabilities. Xain'd Sleena is another example, suffering from slowdown like a SNES game.
But you have much more movements here. Dash attack, grabs, knees, kick during an opponents full nelson, breaking the nelson, mounted punches. It`s just amazing!
The best version Japan Nes Arcade . the First Boss its defeated when you touch buttons A + C kick and Jump , second Boss normal play A+ C jump and Kick , next Boss level 3 its defeated A + B kick reverse .Next boss is the Most Difficult
@pyongyang gang666 No need to be a dick about it, I'm only saying it relatively has nothing to do with Renegade/Nekketsu Kouha Kunio Kun due to it being a beat-em-up while Exciting Hour is just a one-on-one wrestling game. Also the art style of all three games are completely different from one another, being only a good change in style each year for originality.
@pyongyang gang666 Yes, but Renegade doesn't feature one level. There's four levels, excluding when you fight Sabu inside of the Yakuza hideout. And yes, that's what I literally just said to you. Also if I'm being such an irrational sperg, why are you the only one obviously getting mad over what I said? Because I'm definitely not triggered, I only corrected what you said.
@@TheCastellan I don't think anyone in Double Dragon died because the enemies keep respawning especially after falling in death traps, until DD made a sequel during the 1988 violent Splatterhouse came out. Jimmy/Billy's GF was shot and killed.
los de la ultima etapa eran los mas malos el jefe daba puntapies y disparaba no habia que alejarse del / siempre me quedo esa interrogante en este juego quien es al que le pegan era un alumno del personaje principal porque le pegaban los malos y se arrancaban ??
I actually like Renegade. And I think the graphics look better in the westernized version. But it seems strange to me that the longplayer didn't know that you could punch enemies in the face when they're down.
CarozQH Yes, but atleast he knew that you could collar grab them to throw them out in the water/rails. I did that a lot with the stick-holding Bozozuku guys in the 2nd stage. I even know in how many hits the enemy got stunned (that's when you can collar grab them). From what I remember, Sabu takes somewhat 5 or 7 hits to get stunned, sadly you can't collar grab him. Riki and Shinji take 4 hits, and Misuzu can't be collar grabbed. Normal enemy needs around 3 hits, and normal enemy that makes you fall in I hit takes 2 hits to be stunned (this applies for the 4th stage guys too).
I just watched this to see what the original voices sounded like in Japanese. Still prefer the American version simply for the variety. All the enemies in the JP version look the same since they’re all in school uniforms, but the American version has more original enemy designs.
You didn’t imagine it, in the final level of the nes port it was a pick a path maze presumably to make the game last longer as without it it’d probably be 7 minutes to clear at best
I played this in a laundry place and gosh i almost beat it! The knive guys... I shouldve known to use the run n punch. This is fun. I even played renegade too. Almost beat it as well.... The guy cheated with his gun and knife dudes. I even made my pfp as mr k. I like both versions. But renegade almost looked like The warriors
I loved this game so fuckin'much. I played it at a Chuck E Cheese every chance I got for a couple weeks straight. The machine was right beside the tokens machine. One day after not being able to go to the CEC for a week or so, I was excited as hell when I finally did but was crushed when the machine wasn't there. At that time I didn't know they would move the video games around so I just thought it was removed. I spent 2/3 of my tokens playing other games that was just okay to me before I found this game again in the section I deemed prior as "the section of the shitty games". lol Still though. Motherfucker! I had only about 6 tokens left from 20 by that time. One of my only memories from 30 years ago that's still clear as day for me. The relief, joy and disappointment I felt that day made me truly realize... There is no god. LMFAO!!!
Well excuse me for sharing a little bit of nostalgic memory from my childhood. When you grow up in a really shitty family, good memories no matter how mediocre or mundane, tend to stand out. Sorry that I disturbed that stick you got so far up your ass.
this is the real version of Renegade that I remember as a kid, I had a japanese friend who had a Famicon, he had all the best games, this was one of them, I remember seeing it on nes and I was like, no. no lol
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The funny thing is the first boss in this game is actually Riki himself, Kunio's later closest friend.
Riki was first a bad guy then a good guy
Defeat means friendship, as that old trope goes.
Ah the delinquent friendship trope. Rivals first then friends. Good times.
Guy was essentially the Vegeta before Vegeta.
Female Gang Leader: "You wouldn't hit a lady, would you?"
Kunio: "You can't come up with that crap after beating up my friend!"
Invidente7 I hate when people say that
If this were The Combatribes, the heroes would reply with "Cyborgs ain't ladies" like in the print ad for the SNES port
Technos Japan arcade game developers also watched the American gang movies like The Warriors and the Wanderers among others that featured female gangs... and also many 70s exploitation films that featured all female gangs that ripped up dudes.
Kunio is a sigma
Meanwhile In Final Fight:
Guy: Get Over Here Idiot Femal- I Mean Poison!
Poison: Bring It On!
Renegade was the first game I ever played that introduced me to the concept of a "boss".. An enemy that was stronger than everyone else and had a life energy bar that matched your own. That blew me away at the time.
Strangely this isn’t the first game that literally referred to the stronger enemy as a “boss” as some people claim. The oldest one I can think of to use that terminology is Sega’s wacky yet brutally hard arcade game My Hero, which also has you playing as a Japanese high school student. Pooyan also had an enemy called “boss” but I’m not counting that one since that game’s “boss” is just a faster recolored version of the normal enemies.
@@leroyvisiongames2294 Loved that game too back in the day! Yeah, I don't know what game came up with the idea, but this game was the first I've played with one. Cheers
I think he means as in the concept of a boss for beat-em-ups that don't have you one-shotting enemies.
@@osakatales9228 Yeah, that's what I mean. I was so amazed at this concept, I remember drawing pictures in my school notebook later of characters and I would put a little "boss" label on top of one with a health bar. Made no sense, but it's just something I remember from my childhood.
I miss arcades 😢
Nekketsu: Misuzu is the big mama of the day
Shin Nekketsu: Misuzu is still the big mama of the day
River City Girls: Misuzu is....well you know what happens when Kyoko and Misako showed up
what happen?
8:20 “Good job, Kunio-kun! Let’s share a manly, totally not gay handshake!”
“Yeah, we’re both totally interested in women!”
😂
Man. What did the red haired dude done to get beat up by school bullies, bikers, gangster girls, and stabbed by organized criminals consecutively
I would say a combination of bad luck and a tendency to get involved in things he probably shouldn't in emulation of his best friend. Yeah, Hiroshi may be fairly tough when it comes to withstanding beatdowns, but that's all he has (maybe that and his throwing arm, if the Famicom version of Super Dodgeball (and maybe Tokyo Rumble) is anything to go by.)
I just realized that the non-bubble head Japan version of Kunio looks very much like a younger version of Kazuma Kiryu from Yakuza game, and Riki is kinda like a younger version of Goro Majima since Riki is supposedly quite crazy.
It's actually because his dad is against building a casino.😶
Fun fact: this game’s entire premise was based on the developer’s troubled childhood. When the dev was a teenager he used to get into lots of fights at school. Good to know he became a better person and went on to program video games, using his past mistakes as inspiration for Renegade/Kunio Kun and it’s more popular successor, Double Dragon.
Hes hiroshi
I remember playing this at the arcade as a kid in Sydney Australia. This was my secret arcade machine while everyone else played renegade.
This game is so awesome, one of my favourite arcade games of all time! Kunio-Kun is the best beat em up series of all time, no debate
It is on par with the Streets of Rage series so yes, it is pretty close
Why Misuzu's henchwomen resemble later Kyoko and Misako?
Edit: Found they are actually Kayo and Kumiko, her lackeys and actual enemy and shopkeeper respectively in River City Girls 2.
I remember playing these types of fighting video games when I was a kid. It was really exciting to play these types of video games.
A genre (the side-scrolling beat-em-up genre) was born with this game.
No it wasn't.
@@commentcopbadge6665 yes it was
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No it was not.
@@commentcopbadge6665 then who did it first?
@@commentcopbadge6665 yes it was...
So anyone fluent in Japanese know what Kunio, Riki, Shinji, and Misuzu are saying?
I know the first quote, when you pop in a coin, is "Ganbare" (lit. meaning "Good Luck" or "Hang in There").
It says "Gambatte ne!" to start (feminine version of "ganbare") and Kunio says "matte, kono yarou!" - wait! you bastard! I haven't heard the other vices yet. Give me a time stamp and I'll tell you :)
In 1:21 , Riki says "Namen'nayo kono yarou!", roughly translates to "Don't mess with me, punk!"
Pretty similar to the American version’s “GET LOST, PUNK!”
they're transcripted for the NES version, as far as i know they're unchanged so you can use them as a reference (note that sabu doesn't say anything in the arcade version of course)
You can't really hear it, but there are two variations of the Stage 2 theme.
Wow this game got changed alot for the western version.
***** You mean the ladies that are in this game starting at 4:40 ?
***** I swear that was the plot for everything back in the day. Lol.
Man, I spent so much money on this game. I still love it!
Ha ha ha.. Me too Carnal, back in time i used to play this arcade when i was younger, i remember that once my mom send me to go for tortillas for the meal, so i went, but near by the tortilleria, there was this arcade place where they had this game, so i took a little time to check it out, i was very impressed with it, i was so amused that i did't realized the hour, and by the time i got to the tortilleria it was already closed, and you can imagine the rest of the story.. My Mom scolded me and beat me up ha ha.. After all, it was worth it.. I love this game since then.. Ahhh.. What a memories..
This player didn't realized (or is it?) that Kunio can beat & punch enemy when they're laying on ground in this game (That Shinji one was found by accident btw).
*Kunio Kun is probably the father of Beat n Up Genre.*
I don't understand why this game can display a lot of enemy without slow down, and why double dragon, by the same company 2 years later cannot ?
polo Lascience maybe because double dragon is two simultaneous players
Hocicologo yes it Can play with 2 players but even with 1 player mode this IS still slow
DD Reloaded got rid of that. :D
@@TheCastellan That's a fan game though.
This game does actually slowdown quite a bit with a lot of enemies (like every Technos arcade game), but the answer to that is extremely poor programming. Technos Japan are INFAMOUS for their extremely bad programming capabilities. Xain'd Sleena is another example, suffering from slowdown like a SNES game.
Welcome to Smash Bros.
Maybe next time, Kunio and Riki will become playable characters.
this is so impressive for 1986. double dragon is an optimized version of this. amazing. also imagine programming this in assembly language back then!?
Interesting that it uses the same control scheme as "Double Dragon 2".
***** Technos obviously felt to to bring it back for DD2 and i'm glad they did, i like the punch left punch right button set up myself.
That's because Technos, the corporation who made Nekketsu Koha Kunio-Kun (this game) made Double Dragon too.
But you have much more movements here. Dash attack, grabs, knees, kick during an opponents full nelson, breaking the nelson, mounted punches. It`s just amazing!
7:13 The Japanese Mr. X?
I do not know if you know it or not, but Renegade is a remodification of this game
(apologize if I have faults in my English)
I have the US NES version of this, but there is an emulated version of this on a PS2 Oretachi Geasen release, but it is not cheap.
This is cool! Love the surf music in stage 1
Да уж, жёсткий парень. Даже членов якудзы оттырил
Kunio is normal looking in only like three of four games. In every other game, he and the others were super-deformed.
In most SNES ones, he was normal-looking. On most, he got that other style you call "super deformed".
He looks best in Shodai Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun.
The best version Japan Nes Arcade . the First Boss its defeated when you touch buttons A + C kick and Jump , second Boss normal play A+ C jump and Kick , next Boss level 3 its defeated A + B kick reverse .Next boss is the Most Difficult
aw the precursor to double dragon
@pyongyang gang666 It has nothing to do with Exciting Hour though.
@pyongyang gang666 No need to be a dick about it, I'm only saying it relatively has nothing to do with Renegade/Nekketsu Kouha Kunio Kun due to it being a beat-em-up while Exciting Hour is just a one-on-one wrestling game. Also the art style of all three games are completely different from one another, being only a good change in style each year for originality.
@pyongyang gang666 Yes, but Renegade doesn't feature one level. There's four levels, excluding when you fight Sabu inside of the Yakuza hideout. And yes, that's what I literally just said to you. Also if I'm being such an irrational sperg, why are you the only one obviously getting mad over what I said? Because I'm definitely not triggered, I only corrected what you said.
Is there a arcade port home release for this game on any console?
0:05 Good Luck, Kid
AKA Renegade.
I was trying to play this online and it was freaking difficult, I couldn't even get passed the first level.
I can't even get past the second stage lol. I prefer the NES version. Which I think is the canonical version in the series
Kuwabara
0:09 Why did you say?
4:40 cubrebocas?
This original version of better,
Renegade is too generic.
So Right Mr Masters
@Ken Masters you mean, “This original version is better”?
@@acebobbomb
Yeah, typo. Lol
Kunio is like Takamura or even Sendo from Hajime no Ippo or Hanamichi Sakuragi from Slam Dunk
I personally would always go after the red-haired school girls first, since the others will only go down in one hit.
one downed not one hit.
6:37 HOW did he survive a KNIFE blow?
Because 80s video game industries didn't allow violent deaths.
@@KenMasters. As opposed to Double Dragon where knives and guns can 1 hit kill.
Japan did not have the same silly hang ups the US had.
@@TheCastellan
I don't think anyone in Double Dragon died because the enemies keep respawning especially after falling in death traps, until DD made a sequel during the 1988 violent Splatterhouse came out.
Jimmy/Billy's GF was shot and killed.
The knife blows kill YOU in one hit tho :p
video game logic, that’s how.
River City Boy Zero.
los de la ultima etapa eran los mas malos el jefe daba puntapies y disparaba no habia que alejarse del / siempre me quedo esa interrogante en este juego quien es al que le pegan era un alumno del personaje principal porque le pegaban los malos y se arrancaban ??
I actually like Renegade. And I think the graphics look better in the westernized version.
But it seems strange to me that the longplayer didn't know that you could punch enemies in the face when they're down.
CarozQH "Good Luck, Kid"
CarozQH Yes, but atleast he knew that you could collar grab them to throw them out in the water/rails. I did that a lot with the stick-holding Bozozuku guys in the 2nd stage.
I even know in how many hits the enemy got stunned (that's when you can collar grab them). From what I remember, Sabu takes somewhat 5 or 7 hits to get stunned, sadly you can't collar grab him. Riki and Shinji take 4 hits, and Misuzu can't be collar grabbed.
Normal enemy needs around 3 hits, and normal enemy that makes you fall in I hit takes 2 hits to be stunned (this applies for the 4th stage guys too).
@@Ology007 Get lost Punk!!
He straight up noped on the second loop lmao.
I just watched this to see what the original voices sounded like in Japanese. Still prefer the American version simply for the variety. All the enemies in the JP version look the same since they’re all in school uniforms, but the American version has more original enemy designs.
lol he got his ass kicked by big Bertha
in the nes version you çould choose different paths. I havnt been able to see this happen in years. did I imagine it?
You didn’t imagine it, in the final level of the nes port it was a pick a path maze presumably to make the game last longer as without it it’d probably be 7 minutes to clear at best
I can picture Yusuke and Kuwabara from yu yu hakusho being in The renegade universe.
1:21 Namen'nayo Kono yaro!
4:12 Fuzaken janee!
yo lo jugue varias veces fue unos de mis juegos favoritos !!!!😊
Eu vi aqui pra ver esse jogo por causa da Hi Score Girl. Não lembro ter vindo pro Brasil-Amazonas-Manaus.
a very IMPORTANT game here. what was the name of the one for the SNES?
There was Shodai Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun and Shin Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun: Kunio-tachi no Banka. You're probably thinking of the latter.
KurisuBlaze Collab Sama Respati121 😃
MALO
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This is the Japanese port of Renegade.
This isn’t a port of Renegade.. It’s the original version, Renegade was released afterwards
Come get you some!!!
6:35
That man is dead
Superman punch.
Si eso es Kunio
The US version is way harder. The enemies attack constantly.
I find the US version to be a lot easier than this. In Renegade, the bikers on stage 2 move a lot slower
@turbomario But in Western version, they have more health in the hardest settings, the bosses i mean
I played this in a laundry place and gosh i almost beat it! The knive guys... I shouldve known to use the run n punch. This is fun. I even played renegade too. Almost beat it as well.... The guy cheated with his gun and knife dudes. I even made my pfp as mr k. I like both versions. But renegade almost looked like The warriors
0:09 Mate kono yaro
а мне как то привычнее видеть эту игру на NES....эх...ностальгия
On the minute 3:00 some protect themselves from the pandemic.
Face masks are very common amongst most Bosozoku motorcycle gangs in Japan. This can also be seen in the arcade version of Kageki
@@figment1988 Bosozoku*
this game is hard as f.....
Wuaaa 😂
Renegade
Mate konoyarou!!!
Proofread next time
待てこの野郎
Nekettsu Kouha Kunio-kun is renegate clone? and double dragon is renegate clone
Nekketsu Kouha Kunio Kun came out first.
Is this a joke? They're all created by the same company.
RAAAAAH!
real nice. make the female boss look like a clown
It looks like a SEGA mega drive or gensies
Nintendo&Sega lives Steve Mario and Sonic
Because old arcade machines use the same soundchip as the genesis use.
@@louiskeiflin5858 The genesis wasn't even out when this game was made.
@@louiskeiflin5858 Not quite the same, but very similar ones
@@osakatales9228 And? The Mega Drive was based on arcade hardware
@@solarflare9078 Where did you find that?
RENEGADE
I loved this game so fuckin'much. I played it at a Chuck E Cheese every chance I got for a couple weeks straight. The machine was right beside the tokens machine. One day after not being able to go to the CEC for a week or so, I was excited as hell when I finally did but was crushed when the machine wasn't there. At that time I didn't know they would move the video games around so I just thought it was removed. I spent 2/3 of my tokens playing other games that was just okay to me before I found this game again in the section I deemed prior as "the section of the shitty games". lol Still though. Motherfucker! I had only about 6 tokens left from 20 by that time. One of my only memories from 30 years ago that's still clear as day for me. The relief, joy and disappointment I felt that day made me truly realize...
There is no god. LMFAO!!!
Well excuse me for sharing a little bit of nostalgic memory from my childhood. When you grow up in a really shitty family, good memories no matter how mediocre or mundane, tend to stand out.
Sorry that I disturbed that stick you got so far up your ass.
Man...! LOL! I have no idea what you are talking about. Anyways, whatever.
Oogy boogidy boo!
@@commentcopbadge6665
Yeah dude, you really do need to seek therapy and deliverance.
@@KenMasters.
And you are definitely in need of an enima.
*_The fuck's with another weirdo replyng to my post?_*
@@commentcopbadge6665
You can’t spell enema,
and if we’re the weirdos then you’re the psycho.
Fast game :o
Manera samerom
Hello I'm kid indo
LO MÁS MALO QUE HA EXISTIDO EN VIDEOJUEGOS
Nope the game IS great
A shame the NES port is shit...
No it isn't. It's also pretty good.
Sos malísimo para jugar este juego!!!
this is the real version of Renegade that I remember as a kid, I had a japanese friend who had a Famicon, he had all the best games, this was one of them, I remember seeing it on nes and I was like, no. no lol
the japanese shit talking lol