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Target: Renegade (NES)

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Target Renegade is a non-canonical British-developed sequel to Renegade (the overseas version of Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun), which originally appeared on the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, and Amstrad CPC. While it was pretty well-regarded (mainly on the Spectrum) in its country of origin, this loose NES port, outside of the Tim Follin soundtrack, isn't.

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Several Software Creations games (including this, Sky Shark, Magic Johnson's Fast Break, Pictionary, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, and Treasure Master) had their empty space padded with copyright/credits text, rather than 00 or FF as most other games did.

Target: Renegade contains the following text:

TARGET RENEGADE
COPYRIGHT TAITO AMERICA CORP 1989
    PROGRAMMER   STEPHEN RUDDY
        ARTIST   MARK WILSON
      MUSICIAN   TIM FOLLIN
  SOFTWARE CREATIONS LTD
FIRST FLOOR    204 OXFORD ROAD
MANCHESTER    M1 5QA
GREAT BRITAIN
TEL 061 236 1154
FAX 061 236 8248
   ROLL US YOUR CAP GRANDAD

Note that there are no actual line feed symbols in the text; each line is a fixed length, padded with spaces.