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Renegade Racers for PlayStation 1
Renegade Racers for PlayStation 1 lets you race armed hovercrafts across water and land. Millionaire Buck Billionaire invites a colourful group to his own series of events. You choose a competitor with a personal vehicle and travel through settings such as a pirate island, flooded Las Vegas and the Arctic cold. Weight, acceleration and manoeuvrability vary between characters. Your vehicle choice therefore affects not just its appearance, but also how you approach a tight corner or a jump.
Not every task simply asks you to finish first. Battle Race combines speed with weapons, while other events have you collect items, reach checkpoints or earn points for jumps and landings. Missiles, mines, shields and turbos influence the battle along the way. In Arcade you work through a series of challenges and occasionally face a boss directly. Winning these encounters opens up more possibilities for individual races.
You play alone or race simultaneously with two controllers on a split screen. Party Play lets two to eight entrants take part in a tournament, but only two people race at a time; you pass the two controllers around, without a Multitap. Saving game data requires a PlayStation memory card in slot 1, with one free block for the save file. Use the save and load menu to retain your progress.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 1 games are PAL editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Renegade Racers for PlayStation 1 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Renegade Racers
Promethean Designs developed Renegade Racers, and Interplay released it for PlayStation around the turn of the millennium. The British developer had already worked on Powerboat Racing and again chose vehicles that travel over water. The treatment was deliberately cartoon-like: a wealthy organiser, international competitors with their own backgrounds and craft that continue just as easily across land. This gave the game a different identity from an event featuring real drivers and official circuit names.
The original manual gives each competitor a short biography, including strengths and weaknesses. Buck Billionaire's story also receives attention: his search for new excitement leads him to organise the races. This focus on characters carries through into the vehicles, weapons and unlocking of bosses. The credits include Allister Brimble for sound effects and Brimble and Will Davis for music, alongside separate staff for voices and audio editing.
An original PlayStation review in the German magazine MAN!AC from March 2000 particularly described the variety of eight event types, jumping towards targets and the tournament for a group of players. That tournament did not use eight simultaneous participants: contests remained two-person split-screen races. The original manual confirms that two controllers suffice and winners advance to subsequent rounds. This arrangement connects the individual arcade tasks with a shared gaming evening, as participants take turns at the same console.
Similar games for PlayStation 1
Crash Team Racing shares cartoon-like competitors, weapons and winning events to progress with Renegade Racers. Crash uses karts and puts considerable weight on powerslides and sustained boosts. Renegade Racers chooses hovercrafts and alternates ordinary races with collecting, jumping and precise landings. Both have recognisable characters and bosses, but Crash's variety more often comes from courses and driving technique, while Renegade Racers also changes the task itself.
Like Renegade Racers, Speed Freaks offers small, distinctive characters whose vehicles accelerate and steer differently. Weapons and turbo mean that catching up need not depend solely on tidy cornering. Speed Freaks stays closer to kart racing on a fixed track, with collecting boost an important activity. Renegade Racers takes you across water and land and sometimes asks for jumping distance or an accurate landing rather than just a good finishing position.
Re-Volt also combines weapons, short races and vehicles that feel small within their surroundings. Its radio-controlled cars travel through everyday spaces such as a museum and toy shop. Renegade Racers uses piloted hovercrafts in exaggerated holiday settings and connects each vehicle to a character. Both reward knowing obstacles and shortcuts, but Re-Volt draws its character mainly from RC scale and the behaviour of toy cars, while Renegade Racers puts a greater variety of event objectives at its centre.
Buggy and Renegade Racers present racing as a journey through colourful environments with extra powers along the way. Buggy sends radio-controlled cars through coloured gates, where the chosen sequence can provide an advantage. Renegade Racers gives hovercrafts weapons and reuses the same setting for different objectives. In Buggy you investigate hidden routes and gate sequences among other things; in Renegade Racers you also learn when to collect, jump or defeat a boss in a direct duel.
Sled Storm shares driving away from ordinary tarmac circuits and the importance of jumps with Renegade Racers. You control snowmobiles on snowy slopes, combining a good racing line with aerial tricks. Renegade Racers also takes its hovercrafts across water and to warm islands, with weapons and separate landing challenges. Both require a well-judged approach to a jump; Sled Storm builds a winter racing game around it, while Renegade Racers takes its cartoon-like event series across several types of terrain.
