Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender
1992 video game
Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender is a point-and-click adventure game developed and published by MicroProse. It was released in November 1992 for MS-DOS and Classic Mac OS. The game is the first graphical adventure game developed by MicroProse, preceding Return of the Phantom and Dragonsphere. It was created using the MicroProse Adventure Development system and uses 256 colour graphics. Tommo purchased the rights to this game and digitally released it through its Retroism brand in 2015.
Plot
The bumbling bachelor, Rex Nebular, has been hired by Colonel Stone to retrieve a vase that holds some sentimental value for 75,000 galactars. Rex agrees and sets out for the last known location of the vase.
Rex discovers that the planet where the vase was last known to reside has vanished, but his ship's sensors still detect a planetary mass and gravitational field, invisible to the naked eye. Suddenly a large warship decloaks behind him, and fires. His ship is badly damaged and is sent crash landing on the strange planet, seemingly inhabited by women only.
Decades ago, a vicious war between the sexes erupted on the planet.
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