Renegade Software was a UK based games publisher, founded in 1991 by the Bitmap Brothers

Bitmap Brothers

The Bitmap Brothers were a UK based video game developer founded in 1987. The company entered the industry in 1988 with the scrolling shooter Xenon. They quickly followed with the classic Speedball...

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Initially the Bitmap Brothers used the new label to publish their own games, after they had become dissatisfied with the practices of publishing companies (their previous games were published by Mirrorsoft

Mirrorsoft

Mirrorsoft was a computer game software publisher in the United Kingdom, owned by Mirror Group Newspapers. It was founded as a publisher of educational software before moving into games. One offshoot of its printing roots was Fleet Street Publisher on several platforms...

). Their stated goal was to give game developers more artistic freedom and more recognition . One of the first games released by Renegade Software was Magic Pockets

Magic Pockets

Magic Pockets is a platform game developed by the Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade in October 1991. It was released for the Atari ST, Amiga, Acorn Archimedes and PC....

, for which they had struck a deal with music publisher Rhythm King to include a Betty Boo

Betty Boo

Alison Moira Clarkson better known as Betty Boo, is an English singer, songwriter and pop-rap artist...

 song in the game.

Later Renegade also published games by other developers and went on as one of the successful independent publishers of its time, until it was acquired by Warner Interactive (run by Time Warner

Time Warner

Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...

) in 1995, still publishing under the Renegade label. Subsequently in 1997 Warner Interactive was sold to GT Interactive (later Infogrames

Infogrames

Infogrames Entertainment SA was an international French holding company headquartered in Paris, France. It was the owner of Atari, Inc., headquartered in New York City, U.S. and Atari Europe. It was founded in 1983 by Bruno Bonnell and Christophe Sapet using the proceeds from an introductory...

) and the Renegade label ceased to exist .

Games

• Gods
  Gods (video game)
  Gods is a 1991 video game by The Bitmap Brothers where the player is cast as Hercules in his quest to achieve immortality. The game was first made for Amiga and Atari ST computers and then ported for various other platforms...
  
   (1991)
• Magic Pockets
  Magic Pockets
  Magic Pockets is a platform game developed by the Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade in October 1991. It was released for the Atari ST, Amiga, Acorn Archimedes and PC....
  
   (1991)
• Cadaver: The Payoff (1991)
• Sensible Soccer: European Champions (1992)
• Sensible Soccer: European Champions: 92/93 Edition (1992)
• Fire & Ice (1992)
• The Chaos Engine
  The Chaos Engine
  The Chaos Engine is a top-down run and gun computer game developed by the Bitmap Brothers and published by Renegade Software in 1993. The game is set in a steampunk Victorian age in which one or two players must battle the hostile creations of the titular Chaos Engine across four landscapes and...
  
   (1993)
• Uridium 2 (1993)
• Turrican 3
  Mega Turrican
  Mega Turrican is a 16-bit shooter game, developed by Factor 5 in 1993 and marketed by Data East in 1994.This game of the Turrican series was initially designed for the Mega Drive/Genesis, and later followed by an Amiga port under the title of Turrican 3: Payment Day...
  
   (1993)
• Elfmania
  Elfmania
  Elfmania is a 2D beat 'em up game developed by Terramarque and released by Renegade Software in 1994 for the Amiga .-Gameplay:The gameplay is a standard fighting game, but Elfmania does not have special moves triggered by various button combinations, as is typical in most other games of this type....
  
   (1994)
• International Sensible Soccer (1994)
• Ruff 'n' Tumble
  Ruff 'n' Tumble
  Ruff 'n' Tumble is a computer game for the Commodore Amiga, developed by Wunderkind and published by Renegade in 1994.-Plot:Ruff Rogers, while playing with his marbles in the park, loses one down a rabbit hole, and follows it down. The rabbit hole turns out to be a teleport to an alien planet.The...
  
   (1994)
• Sensible World of Soccer (1994)
• Flight of the Amazon Queen
  Flight of the Amazon Queen
  Flight of the Amazon Queen is a graphical point-and-click adventure game by Interactive Binary Illusions originally released in 1995 for Amiga and DOS and re-released as free software in 2004 for use with ScummVM...
  
   (1995)
• Harpoon Classic
  Harpoon (computer game)
  Harpoon is a series of realistic air and naval computer wargames based upon Larry Bond's miniatures game of the same name. Players can choose between either the Blue or Red side in simulated naval combat situation, which includes local conflicts as well as simulated Cold War confrontations between...
  
   (1995)
• Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe (1995)
• Virocop
  Virocop
  Virocop is a run and gun computer game developed by Graftgold and published by Renegade Software in 1995. It is regarded as the third game in the Quazatron series, the others being Quazatron and Magnetron.-The game:...
  
   (1995)
• Sensible World of Soccer '96/'97 (1996)
• Sensible World of Soccer: European Championship Edition (1996)
• The Chaos Engine 2
  The Chaos Engine 2
  The Chaos Engine 2 is an isometric shooter video game, and sequel to The Chaos Engine, released for the Amiga in 1996 and developed by the Bitmap Brothers.-Plot:...
  
   (1996)
• Z
  Z (computer game)
  Z is a 1996 real-time strategy computer game by The Bitmap Brothers. It is about two armies of robots battling to conquer different planets.A sequel, Z: Steel Soldiers, was published in 2001. was published by KavCom in 2011.-Worlds:...
  
  (1996)