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Posted March 13, 2014
"It's gone!"

Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Genderbender, a fun comedic Sci-Fi adventure game that's also a curious relic from the pre-political correctness era, is available for only $5.99 for Windows and Mac OS X on GOG.com.

A priceless vase is lost on a distant planet that doesn't exist. An irate colonel wants it back. And only one man is experienced enough...skilled enough...and foolish enough to retrieve it: interstellar adventurer and bungling bachelor Rex Nebular! Join Rex as he pilots the Slippery Pig on a crash course for Terra Androgena, a planet populated entirely by bizarre alien women with big agendas of their own. Overcome the dizzying array of obstacles and endless traps preventing Rex from returning the priceless pottery. Feel the grotesque effects of the frightening Gender Bender machine!

Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Genderbender is another classic adventure from the days long gone to hit GOG.com. It's an adventure game sporting the classic point-and-click interface and unmistakable 2D graphics. It's full of cheesy humor, popular pulp science-fiction tropes, quirky puzzles, and an amount of sexual stereotypes that would get any game banned or at least heavily protested in modern times. Whether you secretly enjoy this type of humor or you're adamantly against it, you should get this one if only to see how much games have changed as a medium over the course of the last 20-or-so years.

Become the space adventurer and self proclaimed "cool man" to explore weird alien planets and even weirder pop-culture of the early 1990s in Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Genderbender, for only $5.99 on GOG.com.
Posted March 13, 2014
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Fever_Discordia: The Enigmatic Hint for this one was genius, once someone got it! Made me laugh! (even if it was a firewire to USB converter and not, technically, a gender bender)

By the look of it, the game seems to be trying to rip off Space Quest and Leisure Suit Larry both at once and has ended up in Rocky Horror territory
Uses the same adventure game engine as Dragon Sphere, hopefully the voice recording is a little better and story/acting feels less like its from the 30s though!
(Not that I HATED Dragon Sphere - its defiantly worth a look if you like adventures, Beneath a Steel Sky is defiantly the best free one here though and I think I actually liked Teen Agent slightly more)
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hunvagy: The strongest of the Microprose point & click trio is undoutably Phantom of the Opera, but I did enjoy this one, if for nothing else, the sometimes hillarious deaths. But yes Rex does try to come off as Leisure Suit Wilco at times :) Nonetheless, it's a rare Microprose gem, and it might mean that we could see Hyperspeed and Lightspeed here at one point in time.
Thanks!
Lightspeed and Hyperspeed are on the list of games Tommo bought from Atari, yes
Posted March 13, 2014
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hunvagy: The strongest of the Microprose point & click trio is undoutably Phantom of the Opera, but I did enjoy this one, if for nothing else, the sometimes hillarious deaths. But yes Rex does try to come off as Leisure Suit Wilco at times :) Nonetheless, it's a rare Microprose gem, and it might mean that we could see Hyperspeed and Lightspeed here at one point in time.
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Fever_Discordia: Thanks!
Lightspeed and Hyperspeed are on the list of games Tommo bought from Atari, yes
And with that answer you just made my day sir. It is IMPOSSIBLE to get a working copy of Hyperspeed by legal means nowadays.
Posted March 13, 2014
Go, go!
Go Tommo go, go
Go Tommo go, go
Go Tommo go, go
Go Tommo go, go
Tommo B. Goode!
Posted March 13, 2014
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Fesin: Admit it, G-Doc, your Jaw dropped to the floor when you saw that somebody actually correctly guessed this title, right? :p
To tell you the truth I felt a bit silly that I didn't get it - I know there's been a series of Tommo releases, I have a list of the stuff they can potentially release and this was on it and I even though "Gender Bender? No, don't be silly no games have 'Gender Bender' in the title"
Dur - ho!
Posted March 13, 2014
Nice game. Glad to see more tommo titles on gog.
Posted March 13, 2014
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OdanUrr: Nice! Now if only we could get The Dig... =)
I know it's not much, but you can get The Dig on Steam, DRM free (they can't put Steamworks DRM on DOS Box games). Tried to run my copy without the client and it seems to work just fine :)
Of course, any LucasArts adventure on GOG will be bought on day one, even if I have a Steam copy or retail copy :)
Post edited March 13, 2014 by Novotnus
Posted March 13, 2014
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Fever_Discordia: Thanks!
Lightspeed and Hyperspeed are on the list of games Tommo bought from Atari, yes
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hunvagy: And with that answer you just made my day sir. It is IMPOSSIBLE to get a working copy of Hyperspeed by legal means nowadays.
Well here's the full list of stuff I reckon Tommo have the legal rights to that haven't turned up yet (in addition to the Humongous stuff Barry already listed and maybe a couple more - like the Hardball series depending on external licensing issues):

Across the Rhine (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Air War series (1942: The Pacific, European) (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Bubsy series (Accolade - Atari - Tommo)
Challenge of the Five Realms (Microplay/Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Command H.Q. (Microplay/Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Demolition Racer (Infogrames/Atari - Tommo)
Elite (Firebird - Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Eradicator (Accolade - Atari - Tommo)
F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter series (Inc. F-19 Stealth Fighter) (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Falcon (a.k.a F-16 Fighting Falcon) series (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Fleet Defender: The F-14 Tomcat Simulation (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Gunship series (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Knights of the Sky (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
MicroProse Entertainment Pack Vol #1: Dr Floyd's Desktop Toys (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Nam (GT Interactive - Atari - Tommo)
Operation Blockade (Infogrames/Atari - Tommo)
Orbiter (Spectrum Holobyte - Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Redline (Accolade - Atari - Tommo)
Sentinel, The (a.k.a The Sentry) (Firebird - Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury (Atari - Tommo)
Slave Zero (Infogrames/Atari - Tommo)
Snowmobile Championship 2000 (GT Interactive - Atari - Tommo)
Starlord (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Steel Tide (Infogrames/Atari - Tommo)
Stunt Driver (Spectrum Holobyte - Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror (Infogrames/Atari - Tommo)
Task Force 1942 (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
This Means War! (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Tycoon City: New York (Atari - Tommo)
Undergarden, The (Atari - Tommo)
Virtual Karts (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Weird Dreams (Rainbird - Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
World War II GI (GT Interactive - Atari - Tommo)
Zapper: One Wicked Cricket! (Infogrames/Atari - Tommo)

It gets shorter every week! :-D
Post edited March 13, 2014 by Fever_Discordia
Posted March 13, 2014
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hunvagy: And with that answer you just made my day sir. It is IMPOSSIBLE to get a working copy of Hyperspeed by legal means nowadays.
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Fever_Discordia: Well here's the full list of stuff I reckon Tommo have the legal rights to that haven't turned up yet (in addition to the Humongous stuff Barry already listed and maybe a couple more - like the Hardball series depending on external licensing issues):
Fleet Defender, Knights of the Sky, Slave Zero, even friggin Redline? ... Go Tommo, Go! :D
Posted March 13, 2014
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Fever_Discordia: Weird Dreams (Rainbird - Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Uhhhhhhhh.....i want this!
Posted March 13, 2014
Nice release, will wait for a sale due to having no income.
But I'll definitely get it some day.
Posted March 13, 2014
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Fever_Discordia: Well here's the full list of stuff I reckon Tommo have the legal rights to that haven't turned up yet
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Gunship series (Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
Pick me GOG! pick me!
Posted March 13, 2014
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Fever_Discordia: Weird Dreams (Rainbird - Microprose - Atari - Tommo)
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ALH: Uhhhhhhhh.....i want this!
Me too, I remember reading about this game waaaay, waaaaaaayyyyyyy back when and seeing a guy in the desert with a fish for no particular reason. I have been wanting to play that game all those years :D
Posted March 13, 2014
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ALH: Uhhhhhhhh.....i want this!
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JudasIscariot: Me too, I remember reading about this game waaaay, waaaaaaayyyyyyy back when and seeing a guy in the desert with a fish for no particular reason. I have been wanting to play that game all those years :D
Uh.

Guys. This game was awful.

I mean, yeah, I kept re-trying it because I liked the visuals (and oniric games in general), but, gameplay wise, it was just about positioning yourself with pixel-perfect position, hoping you hit the action button at the correct millisecond (to time your semi-elaborate animation right with the moving environment), that you are using the right object (no inventory and, of course, hardly any logic to the correct combination because dream), and having the patience to restart your trial-and-error run from the beginning at each death (that is, at each mistake of pixel-positioning or millisecond timing, because instadeath).

So... yyyeah... maybe try it before going all "ooh good old game".
Posted March 13, 2014
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ALH: Uhhhhhhhh.....i want this!
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JudasIscariot: Me too, I remember reading about this game waaaay, waaaaaaayyyyyyy back when and seeing a guy in the desert with a fish for no particular reason. I have been wanting to play that game all those years :D
Just to illustrate This also the game with the bees.. and I never knew there was a DOS version.
Post edited March 13, 2014 by hunvagy
Posted March 13, 2014
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ALH: Uhhhhhhhh.....i want this!
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JudasIscariot: Me too, I remember reading about this game waaaay, waaaaaaayyyyyyy back when and seeing a guy in the desert with a fish for no particular reason. I have been wanting to play that game all those years :D
I still own this on the Amiga.Haven't set up my Amiga in ages but i played the game back in the day.It is try and die of the very highest order and i didn't make it very far but due to the very quirky design and humour i had a good time nonetheless.Weird Dreams has somehow always stuck with me and i'd definitely appreciate an easy access DOS version here on GOG.
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