Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender (1992)
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender is a 1992 point-and-click video game made by MPS Labs and Nightdive Studios.
Rex Nebular is a bungling interstellar errand runner whose mission, retrieve a priceless vase from a planet that doesn't officially exist, goes sideways on approach. Terra Androgena is populated entirely by alien women with their own ideas about off-world visitors, and Rex's confidence rarely survives contact with the local situation. MicroProse's 1992 point-and-click adventure leans into pulpy 1950s sci-fi conventions and then undermines them, delivering its comedy through a protagonist who is perpetually several steps behind the world he has crashed into.
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What is Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender about?
Rex Nebular is a bungling interstellar errand runner whose mission, retrieve a priceless vase from a planet that doesn't officially exist, goes sideways on approach. Terra Androgena is populated entirely by alien women with their own ideas about off-world visitors, and Rex's confidence rarely survives contact with the local situation. MicroProse's 1992 point-and-click adventure leans into pulpy 1950s sci-fi conventions and then undermines them, delivering its comedy through a protagonist who is perpetually several steps behind the world he has crashed into.
When was Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender released?
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender was released on 1 November 1992.
Who made Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender?
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender was made by MPS Labs, Nightdive Studios and MicroProse Software, Inc..
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The chaotic energy of Dirty Pair: Project Eden hits a similar frequency: two operatives tear through a sci-fi scenario with more swagger than competence, and the comedy lands on character rather than parody. Saber Marionette J takes a similar all-female-society premise in an anime direction, though with a warmer, more earnest tone than Rex manages.