Quest for the Shaven Yak Starring Ren Hoëk & Stimpy

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Game Gear Master System
Quest for the Shaven Yak Starring Ren Hoëk & Stimpy
System(s): Sega Master System, Sega Game Gear
Publisher: Sega Tec Toy
Developer: Realtime Associates Tec Toy
Licensor: Nickelodeon
Genre: Action
Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code US 1993-12 $39.9939.99 2519 EU 1994-03 2519 PT 199x UK 1994-04 2519 AU 199x $99.9599.95 BR 1995 028540

Quest for the Shaven Yak Starring Ren Hoëk & Stimpy is a platform game for the Sega Game Gear. It was also released for the Sega Master System exclusively in Brazil, although a European release was listed for March 1994.

Story

Stimpy finds a pair of hooves. Ren concludes that the Great Shaven Yak must have left them there on Yak Shaving Day. Ren and Stimpy begin a journey to find the Shaven Yak and return his hooves to him to save Yak Shaving Day.

Gameplay

Character select

The game is a side-scrolling platformer. Before each stage, the player can choose between Ren Höek and Stimpy the Cat. Each character has his separate own health bar and lives. The characters move with and and crouch with . They jump with . They can launch a projectile, throwing toothbrushes for Ren or hurling a hairball for Stimpy, with . The projectile can be angled upward with + or fired while crouching with +. Some enemies cannot be defeated and must be evaded instead.

Ren has an extra high jump with +; Stimpy, instead, does a ground stomp with + that can break branches. Both abilities can be used to access hidden areas that the other character cannot reach. Logs and canoes sometimes appear to act as floating platforms.

Each character's health is represented by baby bottle nipples, up to five, and goes down by half a point each time the character takes damage. There are items scattered throughout the stages that replenish the character's health or provide extra lives. The character's health is retained from stage to stage. The character loses a life when he runs out of health. A character becomes unavailable to play after losing all of his lives. Once both characters lose all of their lives, the game ends, but the player starts the game with three continues.

Items

	Toast
	Changes the character's weapon to the Toast, which moves in erratic circles.
	Soap
	Changes the character's weapon to the Soap, which launches bubbles upwards.
	Remote Control
	Changes the character's weapon to the Remote Control, which zaps bolts forwards.
	Happy Helmet
	Renders the character temporarily invulnerable.
	Money Bag
	Restores half a point of health, up to five.
	TV, Canteen, Boots, Roast Chicken, Ear Muffs
	Restores half a point of health, up to five. These change depending on the current stage.
	Fire Hydrant
	Checkpoint where Ren or Stimpy is revived after losing a life.
	Shaving Scum
	Awards the player with an extra life.
	Walking Crock-O-Stimpy
	Catch to earn an extra life.

Stages

	The Blacker Than Black Forest
	The Stinking Dry Desert
	The Stinking Wet Bayou
	The Perilous Mt. Hoëk
	The Great Frozen North

Production credits

• Producer: Jesse Taylor
• Designers: Steve Ettinger, Ann Lediaev, Jesse Taylor, Dave Warhol
• Big Ticket Guy: David Warhol
• Programmers: Steve Ettinger
• Prodject Director: Ann Lediaev
• Product Manager: Chrissie Huneke
• Animator: Lance Hutto
• Backgrounds: Connie Goldman
• Layots: David A. Bean, Alan Hickey
• Additional Enemy Behaviors: Cheryl Harada
• Music & Sounds: Eric Swanson
• Testing: Robert Arellano, Rico Mendez, Bryan Smith
• Sega Lead Test: Greg Becksted
• Sega Testers: Crisi Albertson, Terry Banks, Dianna Boundy, Blair Bullock, Joe Cain, Harry Chavez, Janine Cook, Atom Ellis, Alex Fairchild, Ivan Foong, Rich Gangwish, Vasily Lewis, Jeff Loney, Simon Lu, Tony Lynch, Pete McNab, Heather Meigs, Todd Morgan, Mike Palser, Mark Paniagua, Bill Person, Andrew Podesta, Isaac Ramey, Eric Rawlins, Chris Sinclair, Jeff Todd, Katy Weathers
• Manual: Carol Ann & Neil Hanshaw
• Special Thanks: Darin Hilton, Shippy Ohka, Laura Smith

Source:

US manual

Magazine articles

Main article: Quest for the Shaven Yak Starring Ren Hoëk & Stimpy/Magazine articles.

Promotional material

Game Gear print advert in Todo Sega (ES) #14: "Mayo 1994" (1994-0x-xx)

NL flyer

Physical scans

Master System version

Master System, BR
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Game Gear version

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Sega Retro Average
Publication Version Score Computer & Video Games (UK) PAL 62 Freak (IL) 87 Game Players (US) NTSC-U 84 GamePro (US) NTSC-U 85 Joypad (FR) PAL 73 Mega Force (FR) 82 Mean Machines Sega (UK) PAL 65 Player One (FR) PAL 83 Sega Magazine (UK) PAL 54 Sega Power (UK) PAL 74 Sega Pro (UK) NTSC-U 68 Sonic the Comic (UK) PAL 70 Todo Sega (ES) 85 VideoGames (US) NTSC-U 80

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Quest for the Shaven Yak Starring Ren Hoëk & Stimpy

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Technical information

ROM dump status

System	Hash	Size	Build Date	Source	Comments
?	CRC32 f42e145c MD5 58b89d62438407f242bbe713f1d945ca SHA-1 418ea57fdbd06aca4285447db2ecb2b0392a178d	512kB		Cartridge (BR)
?	CRC32 6c451ee1 MD5 42854dd79bf57019a26ddd73e12b68ac SHA-1 83bc52f669183f99accb078a454f786b5e320e40	512kB		Cartridge (US/EU)

References

Games based on Nickelodeon shows for Sega systems/published by Sega
	The Ren & Stimpy Show Presents Stimpy's Invention (1993) | Aaahh!!! Real Monsters (1995)
	Quest for the Shaven Yak Starring Ren Hoëk & Stimpy (1993)
	SpongeBob (2007)
	SpongeBob SquarePants (2005)