Rex Ronan - Experimental Surgeon (USA)
Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon is a Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game published by Raya Systems that teaches players about the hazards of smoking tobacco cigarettes. The initial development of the game received support from the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The game is part of a series of healthcare-related educational video games by Raya that included Captain Novolin, Packy and Marlon and Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus.
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Contents of the ROM :
Technical
CPU
- maincpu 5A22 (@ 21 Mhz)
- soundcpu SPC700 (@ 1 Mhz)
Chipset
- SNES Custom DSP (SPC700)
Display
- Orientation Yoko
- Resolution 255 x 225
- Frequency 60.098476 Hz
Controlers
- Number of players 2
- Number of buttons 6
- Kind of controler
- joy (8 ways)
- joy (8 ways)
- joy (8 ways)
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Story and Gameplay
Jake Westboro is a man with it all: wife, a kid and a house in the suburbs. He also has a job with the Blackburn Tobacco Company. As a result of smoking since he was 15, Jake is dying from the cigarettes that he once sold; the player must help the near-microscopic surgeon Rex Ronan travel inside of Jake's body and remove tar, nicotine, precancerous cells, and other health hazards that are preventing Jake from speaking to the world about the hazards of tobacco. If the player (Rex Ronan) dies from the evil microbots that were sent by the tobacco company, so does the patient (Jake.)
Evaluations
Richard M. Satava mentioned two evaluations in which a number of children (none of whom were more than 12 years old) played a prototype version of the game. The average of the results indicated children who experienced enjoyment and who also showed an interest with regard to acquiring information about tobacco's effects on people. According to Richard L. Street and Timothy R. Manning, the target audience was children and teenagers in the age range of 10 to 16 years. In addition, when it comes to persons who take up smoking, those in the age range of 10 to 16 years are at the highest risk, according to Street and Manning.