Rex Ronan Longplay

And now for a longplay where we see as much of the game as possible. Enjoy!

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We've reached Jake Westboro's brain! We're almost there!

The Brain

Dr. Ronan has successfully fixed the damage caused by Jake's smoking. Now he must fight Jake's addiction to cigarettes. Remove the nicotine addiction.

Before you can do that, though, you have to fly through another Mode 7 arteries section. Just like last time, fly through the holes in the plaque walls, keep a finger on the fire button and dodge the yellowed blood cells when necessary. If necessary, stay in one of the four corners of the screen and stay there to avoid all the ruined blood cells.

You'll then be in the brain itself. The red lines are the platforms. If anything is flashing, it is nicotine addiction. Destroy it - and anything - with the flamethrower when necessary, because this level is pretty long and you won't have time to destroy absolutely on it.. Keep following the path that you see on the map, and you should eventually make it to the end.

Near the end, you'll encounter a bunch of pills of all five colors. You'll eventually see the glowing yellow fog, which is the "final nicotine addiction" and is guarded by two of those flying drones. Take out the final nicotine addiction and the two drones, and you're done! You just beat Rex Ronan!

Rex Ronan flies out through Jake Westboro's ear, and not only does Rex Ronan's techniques take the world by storm, but Jake Westboro survives and his tell-all book about his cigarette addiction puts the Blackburn Tobacco Company out of business! You've won! Enjoy your hastily-made credits sequence!

True statements:

Smoking cigarettes decreases your sense of smell.

Chewing tobacco is as addictive as smoking.

False statements:

It is easy to quite smoking anytime (no, it isn't).

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The Heart is the hardest part of the game if you don't know what to do.

The Arteries

The arteries are blocked by yellow plaque. The artery walls are very damaged. Jake's condition is unstable. Remove the plaque quickly.

Guess what? This is another Mode 7 section. Find the big holes in the yellow plaque walls and watch out for those yellow, hairy-looking blood cell-looking things. Keep dodging, and keep your finger on the trigger. Thankfully, this area is mercifully short.

The Heart

Plaque in area. A deadly blood clot is forming in the coronary artery - Danger of heart attack. Remove blood clots and plaque before it's too late.

You'll start in the middle of the area this time. Be ready to shoot down everything when you teleport into the area, then head to the right. At this point, you'll find out that the scrolling in this game sucks, and when you go in one direction far enough, you'll have to wait for the camera to slowly center itself so that Rex Ronan is close to being back on the center of the screen. Even by 1994 standards, this is really awful.

The best advice for fighting enemies here is to always be lower that the enemy you're trying to attack. That way, you won't be shot continuously by microbots.

When you go all the way to the right, turn around and head to the left.

The white foggy stuff is the plaque. You obviously want to take it out with the flamethrower. The flashing fog is a blood clot. If you go too far, you'll get a message saying "Artery Blocked! Heart Attack Alert!" If that happens, you lose a life within seconds unless you can clear some of the clot. You must destroy the blood clot with the flamethrower in order to get rid of it, and you must get rid of it piece by piece until there is nothing left. Be careful...the blood clot can slowly regenerate.

False statements:

It is easy to quit smoking if you are young. (It's never easy.)

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Oh, boy. If these jumps were more Mario-y, this game would have been better.

The Lungs

Tar deposits slow down the flow of air to the alveoli, cutting off the oxygen supply to the blood. Pre-cancerous cells threaten both lungs. Remove tar deposits and pre-cancerous cells quickly.

The pre-cancerous cells looks just like the leukoplakia. Also, the final enemy from the mouth area shows up early on, but if you duck down under it and keep shooting, the lasers won't hit you and it will eventually die.

The satellite dish will shot fireballs at you. Duck down and destroy it with your gun.

The black that's all over the background is the tar. At this point, the floor is anything but flat. If you see the robots with the lasers on their head, get on lower ground and fire at them from up close. You won't have to worry about ducking, either.

Even though the blaster is more powerful, it has a reduced rate of fire, and you can only have projectile on the screen at a time. You're better off with the flamethrower, as you will need to clean things to get through the game, especially later on.

There is one of those slow-flying shooting mini-bosses at the end. Beat it, and you can continue on to the next level.

The Bronchial Tubes

The bronchial tubes are clogged with green phlegm. Remove phlegm before further damage occurs.

This is another Mode 7 flying stage, and once again, you have to find the big holes in the phlegm walls to get through the area without taking a lot of damage. This stage is much like the trachea, so there's not much new here.

The Final Lung Area

There is a lot of damage from emphysema. The lungs are enlarged, and the alveoli walls are broken down. Pre-cancerous cells and tar pollute the area. Destroy tar and pre-cancerous cells.

At this point, you can pretty much tell what you're supposed to shoot down. There is a laser just after the start, but if you go to the right just enough, you'll barely be able to see it and you can shoot it down before it shoots you.

The final lung area is a bit of a maze, and some areas have more enemies than other. If you have to, switch between the flamethrower and the blaster, and use that map! At this point, you'll starting finding out that the jumping controls are pretty awkward and that they make getting around harder than it should be.

You'll also find out that the enemies here start getting more numerous. Hope you like learning to deal with two of those slow-flying shooting mini-boss-esque enemies, because you'll be doing that at the end. Interestingly enough, jumping to the left when fighting them makes for a pretty good safe zone. 

If you die at any point in the game, you re-spawn exactly where you died. That's pretty convenient.

True statements:

Almost everyone with lung cancer smoked.

Smoking can make holes in your lungs.

Smoke increases your risk of emphysema, asthma and bronchitis.

More people die from smoking than from car accidents.

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Oh, good lord. We've got ourselves one of them there edutainment games for the Super Nintendo again, and this one's about how smoking cigarettes is bad for you and all that shit! Oh, boy!

Jake Westboro thought he had it all. A successful sales career with Blackburn Tobacco Company, a beautiful wife, a great car. Jake started smoking when he was 15, but now he's DYING from smoking the cigarettes he once sold. Jake's only hope is Dr. Rex Ronan, a brilliant experimental surgeon. Dr. Ronan will shrink himself to near-microscopic size, and enter Jake's body to fight Jake's diseases.

Blackburn Tobacco Company is afraid that if Jake lives, he will tell the world how dangerous smoking is. The will do anything to stop Dr. Ronan. Time is running out, Dr. Ronan must hurry...

DEADLY MICROBOTS FROM BLACKBURN TOBACCO COMPANY HAVE ENTERED JAKE'S BODY. USE CAUTION!

First off, Jake looks hella young, so I'm gonna say he's at least 40 years old...35 if he's (un)lucky. Second, can we has human-shrinking-for-fighting-diseases techonology, so that way cancer can die? Because fuck cancer, that's why. Third, does Blackburn Tobacco Company has the same technology that allows Ronan to shrink himself? And if so, how?

The Mouth

Tar deposits cover the teeth. A thick white path of leukoplakia lines the throat. Jake's teeth are stained and decayed - gums are puffy. Remove tar and luekoplakia deposits as quickly as possible.

Thanks to this random pastebin that I found, I know the controls! Yippee! Hurray! The Control Pad lets you move around. The Y button lets you perform a slow, spinning  kick, while the X button lets you perform a faster flying kick. The A button lets you fire your weapons if you hold it down, and while you do that, you can aim with the Control Pad. This will allow you to get rid of the stains on the teeth as well as destroy the microbots.

At the top center of the screen is the amount of time you have left in the stage (indicated by the bar at the very top), the amount of lives you have and your current score. The gauge below the time and to the left of the numbers if your health, and if you run out, you're losing a life. To the right of all that is the map, and to the left of all that is a picture of Rex Ronan, who reacts as he gets hit (and loses a life). 

The smart bombs not only get rid of enemies, but they also act as true/false statements about smoking, such as "Each cigarette you smoke can cut 20 minutes off your life." That statement is true, and if you touch the smart bomb while a true statement is shown on the screen, all on-screen enemies will be destroyed. If the statement is false, it hurts you instead.

Different colored pills give your different power-ups. The purple one switches you between the blaster and the flamethrower, the yellow one powers up your weapon, the red one gives you more time, the green one gives you an extra life and the blue one restores your health.

The white, foggy stuff is leukoplakia. Just like the tar stains on the teeth, you want to get rid of much of this stuff as possible.

The microbots here are pretty easy. They move very slowly, and unless they run directly into you, they're not going to be that much of a threat...that is, until you run into the one that flies around and fires at you. In that case, you'll want to keep your distance as you fire away. Thankfully, its bullets can only go so far. When possible, get under it and keep firing. You'll be able to see its bullets coming.

There is a robot that fires a laser through a cannon on its head. You can either jump over it and get in the spaceship for the next level, or you can duck down in front of it and keep hitting it until it dies.

The Trachea

The trachea is lined with thick mucus. Green globs of phlegm clog the passageway. Phlegm must be cleared quickly.

This time around, instead of a side-scrolling stage, you'll be in a Mode 7 stage where you fly down Jake's trachea. The Control Pad moves you around while A, B, X and Y all fire the guns. Shoot down any phlegm globs if necessary and fly through the big holes in the phlegm walls. The first two walls are stationary, but soon, they will be rotating and you will have to anticipate where the hole is going to be.

If you see a fork in the road, you've just reached the lungs. It doesn't matter which direction you take, just pick one. The map will let you know when you're getting close to the lungs anyway, and they're both going to get cleared out from out efforts, so it's not like it's going to matter. Whichever way you pick, the phlegm shooting (and dodging) continues until the end.

True statements:

Each cigarette you smoke can cut 20 minutes off your life.

Smoking can leads to early wrinkles.

Snuff and chewing tobacco can cause cancer of the mouth.

When you smoke, pesticides and herbicides enter your body.

Like car exhaust, cigarette smoke has carbon monoxide in it.