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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
So I was wrong :/
If someday B.A.T. is planned to be on GOG, I guess that hint would be more difficult to find, since that hint was pretty close to B.A.T. in my mind (but it just could be me dreaming of).

Anyway, a good addition to GOG, indeed.
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)
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.
Posted March 13, 2014
GOG, why do you have to release two games I want on the same day? :)
Posted March 13, 2014
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Novotnus: GOG, why do you have to release two games I want on the same day? :)
Because 3 would have been too much :)
Posted March 13, 2014
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Novotnus: GOG, why do you have to release two games I want on the same day? :)
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Posted March 13, 2014
Never even heard of Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Genderbender, seems cool!Wishlisted!

Don't care about AAA titles on the pc and never mind the whole regional pricing dilemma.
Releases of games like Harvester and Rex Nebular are to me the games that GOG is all about.Awesome!
Posted March 13, 2014
Nice! Now if only we could get The Dig... =)
Posted March 13, 2014
The name alone would actually warrant an insta-buy xD
Posted March 13, 2014
Good one guys.
Posted March 13, 2014
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JudasIscariot: .....
It misses the 'Eeexcellent!' subtitle :)
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.
You mean Return of the Phantom, right?
Post edited March 13, 2014 by triock
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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triock: Yuo mean Return of the Phantom, right?
Argh right, got the name wrong, I'm getting rusty :D But yeah, Return of the Phantom is the one I meant.
Posted March 13, 2014
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Novotnus: It misses the 'Eeexcellent!' subtitle :)
I left it up to your imagination to fill in the blank :P
Posted March 13, 2014
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Fever_Discordia: (even if it was a firewire to USB converter and not, technically, a gender bender)
The converter was a male to female one though, wasn't it?
Posted March 13, 2014
Admit it, G-Doc, your Jaw dropped to the floor when you saw that somebody actually correctly guessed this title, right? :p
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