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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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Novotnus: GOG, why do you have to release two games I want on the same day? :)
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Posted March 13, 2014
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JudasIscariot: .....
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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: 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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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: 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, 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
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JudasIscariot: Me too! :D
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fortune_p_dawg: 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.
Faxanadu!!!! Man, that game creeped me out when I was a kid :D

I think I played some Iron Sword but I remember the first one better...
Posted March 13, 2014
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JudasIscariot: Faxanadu!!!! Man, that game creeped me out when I was a kid :D

I think I played some Iron Sword but I remember the first one better...
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fortune_p_dawg: Faxanadu was quite badass. I remember coming across the first boss while searching a dungeon for a pickaxe (the dungeons were dank, dark, and menacing in a good way), and it was a big blue wyvern that gave me one of my first 'HOLY SHIT WTF' gaming moments. He went down easy though after nailing him with the fire spell you buy in the first town.

Shit... I could reminisce all day, lol!
I remember the boss music was creepy too :)

Heck, the game was one of the better side scrolling adventures on the NES. Better than Zelda 2 :D
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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SLP2000: Does Tommo have rights to Return of the Phantom? That is the last of Microprose adventures missing here (they did Dragonsphere, Rex Nebular, Bloodnet and Return of the Phantom).

Also, Microprse published The Legacy: Realm of Terror, does Tommo have anything with this game?
I'd check that document on page 74 and 75 :)

Legal doc with Tommo treasures.
Posted March 13, 2014
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JudasIscariot: I'd check that document on page 74 and 75 :)

Legal doc with Tommo treasures.
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SLP2000: I did, but there's nothing about RotP there. So who has the rights to RotP?
That I do not know, sorry :(
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
Actually, we figured this would be an easy one... ;-)
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