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"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.
Ok this looks different but since i suck at adventures i will pass.
Never heard of this one before but looks really cool

Always nice to see more Microprose stuff here
Nice. Played through this when I was a kid but don't remember if it was good or not. I assume that means it was not a stand out.

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Holy smokes, Rex Nebular! Great going GOG, for finding the weird ones in Microprose's legacy. If we also get Phantom of the Opera, we'll have all 3 of their tries into the point 'n click genre :)
You mean this guy? http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gender_Bender?file=212.jpg

Seriously though, I've never heard of this game. I adore the title, but apart from that is it any good? Is the humour still funny today or just cringeworthy?
Post edited March 13, 2014 by MasodikTiasma
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Well, I guess now I'll see by myself if it's good! Thanks a lot, Soldatov! :-) :-) :-)
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MasodikTiasma: You mean this guy? http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/The_Gender_Bender?file=212.jpg

Seriously though, I've never heard of this game. I adore the title, but apart from that is it any good? Is the humour still funny today or just cringeworthy?
Imagine pulp like Buck Rogers with a bit of Larry raunch. You could call it a bit adolescent humor, but the game makes up for it, if you don't mind dying over and over again. Just like Dragonsphere here on site, this one doesn't shy away from murdering you in cold blood.
Nice. At the moment on the wishlist. See what comes on weekend promo and if nothing interesting jumps in I'll pick it on Saturday.

Go Tommo!
Good one, for my wishlist
NICE!
Awesome!
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)
Speaking of Tommo, they recently secured the rights to Humongous Entertainment games. Fans should consider voting for their favorite titles on the wishlist:

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=fatty%20bear&order=votes_total
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=freddi%20fish&order=votes_total
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=let%27s%20explore&order=votes_total
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=pajama%20sam&order=votes_total
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=putt-putt&order=votes_total
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games#search=spy%20fox&order=votes_total
Post edited March 13, 2014 by Barry_Woodward