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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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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
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ALH: 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.
I think I saw the Amiga version of the screenshot shown by hunvagy above your post. Looked a lot better than the DOS version....
Posted March 13, 2014
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ALH: 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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JudasIscariot: I think I saw the Amiga version of the screenshot shown by hunvagy above your post. Looked a lot better than the DOS version....
Ahhh ok.Probably best to stick with the Amiga version.Though i think if only for nostalgia's sake i'd still pick up a dos copy if it were to be released here.
Posted March 13, 2014
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JudasIscariot: I think I saw the Amiga version of the screenshot shown by hunvagy above your post. Looked a lot better than the DOS version....
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ALH: Ahhh ok.Probably best to stick with the Amiga version.Though i think if only for nostalgia's sake i'd still pick up a dos copy if it were to be released here.
Yeah Weird Dreams is from an era where the Amiga releases of games hands down handed the asses of their DOS counterparts to them. Like Xenon 2 Megablast and Street Rod. If you own the game you can easily make or get a floppy image, and play it in WinUAE. Or dust off the Amiga and fire it up :)
Posted March 13, 2014
Great relase, difficult game though in places.
Posted March 13, 2014
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ALH: Ahhh ok.Probably best to stick with the Amiga version.Though i think if only for nostalgia's sake i'd still pick up a dos copy if it were to be released here.
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hunvagy: Yeah Weird Dreams is from an era where the Amiga releases of games hands down handed the asses of their DOS counterparts to them. Like Xenon 2 Megablast and Street Rod. If you own the game you can easily make or get a floppy image, and play it in WinUAE. Or dust off the Amiga and fire it up :)
I once tried to set up WinUAE but i think i was still lacking the kickstarter.Wasn't willing to pay for that and abandoned the whole emulation thing.As you said, when the mood is right for Weird Dreams and/or another overall Amiga session then i can always set up the old lady.Keeping it physical so to speak!:D
Posted March 13, 2014
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ALH: Ahhh ok.Probably best to stick with the Amiga version.Though i think if only for nostalgia's sake i'd still pick up a dos copy if it were to be released here.
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hunvagy: Yeah Weird Dreams is from an era where the Amiga releases of games hands down handed the asses of their DOS counterparts to them. Like Xenon 2 Megablast and Street Rod. If you own the game you can easily make or get a floppy image, and play it in WinUAE. Or dust off the Amiga and fire it up :)
You know, that whole period was kind of weird. Even the consoles at the time had better looking versions of games :) I remember playing Pool of Radiance and Wizardry 1 on the NES and when I went to look at their DOS counterparts, I was quite taken aback...
Posted March 13, 2014
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hunvagy: Yeah Weird Dreams is from an era where the Amiga releases of games hands down handed the asses of their DOS counterparts to them. Like Xenon 2 Megablast and Street Rod. If you own the game you can easily make or get a floppy image, and play it in WinUAE. Or dust off the Amiga and fire it up :)
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JudasIscariot: You know, that whole period was kind of weird. Even the consoles at the time had better looking versions of games :) I remember playing Pool of Radiance and Wizardry 1 on the NES and when I went to look at their DOS counterparts, I was quite taken aback...
Yeah, looking back comparing Wizards & Warriors on the NES with anything from that era makes the PC losing. But then it gradually changed. It's nice to look back though, and I actually played through Champions of Krynn a year or two ago, despite it being pretty.. primitive. I just wish some games would've come to the PC later on, like how Ambermoon never got a PC version, and so on. Playing around with WinUAE shows how much I missed out on.
Posted March 13, 2014
There have been a few game releases lately that I've just had to check the community wishlist and see if it had ANY votes. Again to my surprise this one is even ON the list and it had over 300 votes.

No. I don't get it.
Posted March 13, 2014
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JudasIscariot: You know, that whole period was kind of weird. Even the consoles at the time had better looking versions of games :) I remember playing Pool of Radiance and Wizardry 1 on the NES and when I went to look at their DOS counterparts, I was quite taken aback...
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hunvagy: Yeah, looking back comparing Wizards & Warriors on the NES with anything from that era makes the PC losing. But then it gradually changed. It's nice to look back though, and I actually played through Champions of Krynn a year or two ago, despite it being pretty.. primitive. I just wish some games would've come to the PC later on, like how Ambermoon never got a PC version, and so on. Playing around with WinUAE shows how much I missed out on.
Loved me some Wizards & Warriors on the NES!
Posted March 13, 2014
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hunvagy: Yeah, looking back comparing Wizards & Warriors on the NES with anything from that era makes the PC losing. But then it gradually changed. It's nice to look back though, and I actually played through Champions of Krynn a year or two ago, despite it being pretty.. primitive. I just wish some games would've come to the PC later on, like how Ambermoon never got a PC version, and so on. Playing around with WinUAE shows how much I missed out on.
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fortune_p_dawg: Loved me some Wizards & Warriors on the NES!
Me too! :D
Posted March 13, 2014
I still have the original retail version, on floppies. Not sure if the floppies work anymore, but doesn't matter as the installation is still on my hard drive.

I played it through a long time ago. I recall it being mostly a positive experience, but:

- To me this game was always a Space Quest IV wannabe, and IIRC failed to be as funny, as much as it tried.

- While the game supports Roland MT-32 if I recall correctly, the music in this game pretty much sucks (while the MT-32 music in SQ4 is great). Microprose never seemed that great with computer game music, like the cacophonic MT-32 "music" in Civilization, aargh.

Still, probably worth it for the fans of old-skool point&click adventure games. I won't be buying it for now, I think my existing RN still works fine (I have it installed on this comp, even though I haven't touched it for ages).
Post edited March 13, 2014 by timppu
Posted March 13, 2014
What about some MicroProse simulators?

What about Obscure 1 + 2?
Posted March 13, 2014
Some of those screenshots look really familiar, but can't remember playing this. Wishlisted for now.
Posted March 13, 2014
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triock: Yuo mean Return of the Phantom, right?
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hunvagy: Argh right, got the name wrong, I'm getting rusty :D But yeah, Return of the Phantom is the one I meant.
I rechecked the original legal doc
http://docs.bmcgroup.com/Atari/nysb_1-13-bk-10176_313.pdf
(pages 74 and 75)
But I couldn't see Return of the Phantom on there, sadly
Weird considering the other 2 games using this engine are...
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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
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Telika: 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".
Ah OK maybe people should get an arcade emu and try PuLiRuLa instead if its this kind of experience their after then...
http://www.mobygames.com/game/pu-li-ru-la
Post edited March 13, 2014 by Fever_Discordia
Posted March 13, 2014
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fortune_p_dawg: Loved me some Wizards & Warriors on the NES!
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JudasIscariot: Me too! :D
Did you play the sequel, Iron Sword? I got it for my eighth birthday along with Faxanadu and I remember it having a picture of Fabio on the front, lol! I loved the music in Iron Sword so much, I can accurately hum the music in my head (almost 23 years later) even today.
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