June 23, 2008
The Game
Target; 2008 is a work-in-progress sequel to the critically-acclaimed Target; 2006. A scrolling beat-’em-up for six players, Target; 2008 might just change what the world expects from modern fighting games.
The Author
Nathan is the programmer of the critically-acclaimed Target; 2006, a remake of the eight-bit Target; Renegade. Amongst his other activities, putting off writing anything for semi-popular webzine YS3 ranks about the highest.
Taito owns the original Renegade (and by extension Target Renegade and Renegade 3), so you might want to amend the entry a bit for Target: 2006 (and similar for Target: 2008)…
Taito own and developed the original Renegade, that bit is certain. But Ocean bought the rights to produce its own sequels for home machines - Taito had almost nothing to do with them (they did publish the NES version, but it was developed by Ocean). Presumably the rights to Target; Renegade and Renegade 3 are now owned by Atari/Infogrames, but I’d be surprised if they even knew that.
No. As Taito developed the original game, Ocean developed the sequels under license. Therefore Taito own them as well.
Note that Taito published “Target: Renegade” for the NES, as well.
I’d emailed Taito about this on the 10th October. Got this response…
“Dear our customer,
Thank you for your enquiry,
Taito had the rights when the product was released, however having passed
more than 20 years from the introduction, if you could specify the reason of
your inquiry we will be able to check more details.
Kind regards
Taito Corporation Europe
> > —–Original Message—–
> > From: Stuart “Sslaxx” Moore [mailto:stuart@sslaxx.demon.co.uk]
> > Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 1:47 PM
> > To: info@taito-corporation.eu
> > Subject: A query about the Renegade sequels “Target: Renegade” and
“Renegade
> > 3″.
> >
> > Do you own the rights to these titles? Or are they held by (what is now)
> > Infogrames (as Ocean Software developed them)?
> >
> > –
> > Stuart “Sslaxx” Moore
> > http://sslaxx.livejournal.com/”
Fairly understandably, I’m not going to give them any more specifics…
Ah, I stand surprised and corrected. Thanks for checking, and also for not dropping us in the brown stuff!
No probs. Last thing I’d want to do is to get this project in the crapper!