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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
This is a pretty fun adventure game, if not a little too quirky for most tastes.
Posted March 13, 2014
Nice, GOG! With Harvester and this title, you're on a roll with cool and strange adventure game releases. Haven't picked up either yet (saving my full-price adventure dollars for Moebius and The Samaritan Paradox hopefully), but I plan to within the next few months.
Posted March 13, 2014
I kind of wish more games had been made with the Micropose adventure engine. I liked it in Dragonsphere, especially how items have unique abilities/actions you can take with them when selected.
Posted March 13, 2014
For those curious about the gameplay (like myself), here is a standard playthrough of the game which shows you off the bat what to expect.

Note: There is pixelated nudity in the clip (mild NSFW)

Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender - Part 1

Seems like your standard fun time waster. Will likely be a very awesome game to play for retrogamers.

Edit: Oh and check out the copy protection, Brings back memories, no? Typing from the manual, lol.
Post edited March 13, 2014 by Buenro-games
Posted March 13, 2014
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mondo84: I kind of wish more games had been made with the Micropose adventure engine. I liked it in Dragonsphere, especially how items have unique abilities/actions you can take with them when selected.
Yeah, it was a shame they never did more than 3, but I guess adventure genre wasn't very profitable for them.
Posted March 13, 2014
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dreammaster: I was both surprised and pleased at the timing of this release. Particularly so since I'm in the middle of implementing support for this very game in ScummVM, and only last night finally got the first game screen to display properly. So it looks like, when I finish, that ScummVM will have another game that people can buy cheaply from GOG. \o/
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Fever_Discordia: Wow you guys, the DOS Box guys and the nGLiDE guys are amazing - loving your work!
I take it that once you implement support for this DragonSphere (and Return of the Phantom, I guess) will fall right in too, yeah?
Partially, yes. Each MADS game, unfortunately, uses hardcoded game logic in the executable, which means that although the underlying engine will likely be the same, we'll need to manually implement each game scene of the other two games to support them.
Posted March 13, 2014
A criminally underrated game, this one.
Posted March 13, 2014
So, the version of Rex Nebular on GOG is 8.44 but, the latest version (via a patch) is 8.49::
[url=http://www.members.tripod.com/~RNandtheCGB/files.html]http://www.members.tripod.com/~RNandtheCGB/files.html[/url]

So, can GOG update the game files to the latest version?

Oh & a Bonus Disk did come with the Rex Nebular Hint Book originally.
[url=http://www.members.tripod.com/~RNandtheCGB/files.html]http://www.members.tripod.com/~RNandtheCGB/files.html[/url]

Might GOG be able to include these files too? Other than that, awesome release GOG!
Posted March 13, 2014
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Buenro-games: For those curious about the gameplay (like myself), here is a standard playthrough of the game which shows you off the bat what to expect.

Note: There is pixelated nudity in the clip (mild NSFW)

Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender - Part 1
I prefer this version, due to the audio. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hpHnaLR2EE

Anyway, to refresh my memory, I played a bit of both Rex Nebular and Space Quest 4 today, and it is so obvious Rex Nebular was made as a Space Quest 4 copycat (I think it was released one year after SQ4). Too bad that everything in SQ4 feels better: graphics, music (MT-32), humor... don't quite recall if it applies also to puzzles.

But Rex Nebular is still ok, I guess.
Post edited March 13, 2014 by timppu
Posted March 13, 2014
Played it on Naughty back then, couldn't really finish the game, but had a blast time playing it with my bro :-)
Posted March 13, 2014
Three words, Guys! It's about time. :) I've been waiting for this one since I found GOG.com and was looking at my old 3 inch floppy version of the game. My money situations bad, but you have been putting out good releases. My wishlist is growing. First Sword of the Samurai and Harvester, and now this!
Still, these new releases are great! You really are putting out a little something for everyone now.
Keep it up! :)
Post edited March 13, 2014 by ZapMcRaygunn
Posted March 13, 2014
Bought Harvester day 1 and i'll do the same for this.

THIS is the gold stuff GOG, this is why I keep coming back here every day :)
Posted March 13, 2014
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fortune_p_dawg:
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JudasIscariot:
Listening to you two talk about those old NES games is making me want to fire them up and give them another run! I remember renting Fax and giving it a try, but I could not get far in it for some reason; W&W 1 I do not think I ever played, but my childhood neighbor/pal played a lot of Ironsword and I just remember all the jumping like I was a Pogo stick! XD

Now that all these years have passed, I wonder if I will have better success at them, since I have not touched them since my age was getting used to 2 digits :-)

Oh Judas - Zelda 2 is one I still play from time to time, and I have yet to convince myself it is a game I like (not sure why).

All - sorry for the derailment, but I just had to jump into the reminiscing pool.
Posted March 13, 2014
Yes yes yes!!! This game is GREAT. Don't let those other people tell you that SQ4 is better, judge for yourself. Sure, SQ4 may have better graphics, sound, and gameplay mechanics, but where it doesn't even come close to touching Rex Nebular is its heart and mind. This game was made with an intelligent awareness about society and the male/female stereotypes that are perpetuated in this society; and it uses them intelligently. This is a social commentary game done with enough lightness and taste that it doesn't feel like it's hitting you over the head with a hammer or standing up on a soapbox ranting at you (even though it is DRENCHED in the subject matter, at every turn there is something else to think about, if you want to.) It's a horny game (as opposed to perverse), and if you don't like being horny, this game is not for you.
Posted March 14, 2014
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gsreis: I'm glad to see that GOG is still releasing these good old point-and-click adventures. I will eventually get this game, but I barely remember having heard about it and still miss some classics. Since we are in Sci-Fi territory, how about "UNIVERSE", GOG?
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Gonchi: Vote it up on the wishlist.
I already had. But if it depends solely on the votes, maybe we will never see it here. I think GOG should go for good games that are not necessarily the most popular, and not just look at a voting list. Asking what the consumer wants is not the best business practice.
Post edited March 14, 2014 by gsreis
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