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Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon

Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon rather than just read about it. In short: Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon is a 1994 educational action game developed by Sculptured Software and published by Raya Systems for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). The game teaches players about the hazards of smoking tobacco cigarettes.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon is a 1994 educational action game developed by Sculptured Software and published by Raya Systems for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). The game 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. It is a part of educational video game series from Raya that includes Captain Novolin, Packy and Marlon and Bronkie the Bronchiasaurus.

Gameplay and premise

Jake Westboro is a man with it all: a beautiful wife and child, a large house in the suburbs, and the massively-paying position of a major CEO for the Blackburn Tobacco Company. As a result of smoking since he was 15, however, Jake is now dying from the effects of the cigarettes that he once sold. An experimental surgeon, Rex Ronan, volunteers to shrink himself and a craft down to near-microscopic size, so he can travel inside of Jake's body and fight his various diseases; removing tar, leukoplakia, precancerous cells, plaque, a blood clot and nicotine. However, the tobacco company are concerned that, if Jake survives, he will speak to the world about the hazards of tobacco and accordingly ruin their business, so they secretly place microbots inside him en-masse in an attempt to stop Ronan from treating him. If Ronan dies from the evil killbots sent by the company, then 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 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.

References

External links Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon at MobyGames

Illustrations

Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon: Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon gameplay. In this area, Rex Ronan (in purple) must blast tar off of Jake's teeth while dealing with attacking microbots. — Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon gameplay. In this area, Rex Ronan (in purple) must blast tar off of Jake's teeth while dealing with attacking microbots.

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon

In research: Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1994 video games, Action games, Children's educational video games, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Why does Rex Ronan: Experimental Surgeon matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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