Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender-Bender

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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.

From Wikipedia's article Rex Nebular and the Cosmic Gender Bender, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

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This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.

Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.

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Controls

This is a PC game: it uses the keyboard the way it did under MS-DOS, and the mouse where the game supports it. Click the game screen first so it gets your key presses.

Many DOS games start with a menu or ask a question first — read the screen and answer with the keyboard. Arrow keys, Enter, Space, Ctrl and Alt are the usual game keys.

Emulator help & troubleshooting

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  1. 1.0Wake me up when it's over0+ out of 100
  2. 1.5Wake me up when it's over+ thumbs-up40+ out of 100
  3. 2.0Could be better50+ out of 100
  4. 2.5Could be better+ thumbs-up60+ out of 100
  5. 3.0Good job68+ out of 100
  6. 3.5Good job+ thumbs-up75+ out of 100
  7. 4.0Great job!80+ out of 100
  8. 4.5Great job!+ thumbs-up85+ out of 100
  9. 5.0Outstanding!90+ out of 100

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