Artwork for Rent-A-Hero

Rent-A-Hero

September 20, 1991

Rent A Hero is an action role-playing video game series released by Sega for the Mega Drive console in 1991 with a large emphasis on humor. The game features the same graphic engine previously used in the development of Sword of Vermilion. However, Rent A Hero has an unusual innovation for the genre. Instead of using standard turn-based battles, fights are in a similar format to 2D fighting games. Taro Yamada lives in the town of Corja in Japan with his mother, eccentric father and younger