/vr/ - Retro Games

The only adventure game I had as a kid besides the one in OP... I never got far in that one. I beat this one though, albeit I had help from my aunt and also played it with my mother.

I replayed it last year and it's better as an adult.

Anybody else play this as a kid? Now that I think about it I don't know what possessed my parents to buy it. I suppose my mother got a kick out of the humor... but she was totally fine with her 8/10 year-old son playing it too.

Honestly as a kid a lot of the humor was lost on me, I just liked trying to figure out the game and the setting was cool.

For those of you who don't know... You play as a bumbling bachelor named Rex Nebular in a sci-fi universe. It's a universe that reminds me of Futurama, honestly. You are sent to a planet to find precious vase for some guy but get shot down. As it turns out the planet is populated exclusively by women. Around a 100 years ago the sexes went to war in the "Great Gender War" and the women won with a virus that killed all the men, but it also rendered the women unable to have male children.

So they use a machine called the Gender Bender to temporarily change into men and procreate. Their society is divided into two castes: Keepers and (Breeding) Stock. The Keepers live underground and have advanced technology while the Stock are basically tribsemen(women) living in the stone age who the Keepers spy on and use for mating.


It's the only adventure game I had as a kid, so I can't compare it to others though. I think the artwork is nice and the puzzles are fair. All fairly logical I'd say. The text descriptions for "narrative" you get when you interact with stuff is pretty funny too.

Such as if you swim toward a mine and it goes off you get, "A fool and his torso are soon parted."

Apparently Rex Nebular sold poorly, which is unfortunate. I do wonder what a sequel would have been like. I also think it'd be a neat setting for a pen and paper game or something. Might take it by /tg/ in the near future and see what they think.