Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon is an edutainment game that highlights the effects of smoking on the human body. Each stage, in which a miniaturized Rex Ronan moves through the body of smoke company sales rep Jake Westboro, features numerous facts about tobacco smoke inhalation.
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Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon is a strange beast. It's an anti-smoking game disguised as a shooter where you shrink down to fight tar monsters inside a patient. The controls are wonky, the visuals are mostly gross and repetitive, and the premise is just bizarre. Honestly, there's a weird charm to its awfulness. If you like obscure, terrible games for a good laugh, Rex Ronan might be worth a try, otherwise steer clear.
I don't get the hate
Morbid curiosity made me watch this on YouTube after seeing Jenny’s review, which was pretty much just “fuck this shit.” I don’t know why I do what I do.
I cannot, cannot get over how the evil tobacco corporation has a functioning army of nano bots. The whole premise of Fantastic Voyage is the fact if the shrinking technology fell in the wrong hands then a hostile nation could, you know, rule the whole goddamn world, and somehow Phillip goddam Morris has it and is using it to assassinate one of their own executives dying of lung cancer at 25, so he doesn’t tell the world how smoking is bad for you. And then, all it takes in Rex Ronan land to topple big tobacco once and for all is that same man to get better from lung cancer and indeed write that tell-all on the harmful effects of cigarette smoke on the human body. “Me, have a cigarette? Dude, did you hear about the guy who wrote that book? I heard smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, even emphysema? No thanks, I’ll pass.” Okay, cool. WHAT ABOUT THE ARSENAL OF MICROSCOPIC WAR MACHINES OWNED BY A PRIVATE CORPORATION
I cannot, cannot get over how the evil tobacco corporation has a functioning army of nano bots. The whole premise of Fantastic Voyage is the fact if the shrinking technology fell in the wrong hands then a hostile nation could, you know, rule the whole goddamn world, and somehow Phillip goddam Morris has it and is using it to assassinate one of their own executives dying of lung cancer at 25, so he doesn’t tell the world how smoking is bad for you. And then, all it takes in Rex Ronan land to topple big tobacco once and for all is that same man to get better from lung cancer and indeed write that tell-all on the harmful effects of cigarette smoke on the human body. “Me, have a cigarette? Dude, did you hear about the guy who wrote that book? I heard smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease, even emphysema? No thanks, I’ll pass.” Okay, cool. WHAT ABOUT THE ARSENAL OF MICROSCOPIC WAR MACHINES OWNED BY A PRIVATE CORPORATION
One day my dad brought this home from work, saying that his coworker wanted me to "play-test" it. My dad worked for a company that made pamphlets that you'd find in school counselors' offices. You know the kind: "Your Body Belongs To You", "Eating Healthy", "About STDs", etc. So it was not out of the realm of believability that somehow my dad got a pre-release version of this anti-tobacco game via his work. False memories or not, somehow this found a way to my family's SNES and I did play it.
As far as the game goes, even 6 year old me knew this game was hot garbage. Yes, smoking is bad, but this game is potentially even worse for your health.
As far as the game goes, even 6 year old me knew this game was hot garbage. Yes, smoking is bad, but this game is potentially even worse for your health.
fuck Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon