Gex
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🙂 7.3/10
(Sega Saturn - JP, Action & Adventure)
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Developed_By:
Beam Software
Published_By:
Tec Toy
Released On:
01 Dec 1995
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Enter your television to defeat the evil Rez by collecting remotes to open worlds inside your tv. You are a gecko with all the usual platform hero skills such as jump, fire, and close-range attack, but also suction cups to help you scale walls, a tongue to pick up those tricky to get power-ups and plenty of wise-cracks to keep you amused. Use them all to make your way through TV land searching for the remotes, collecting pickups, power-ups, and killing TVs.
EAN-13:
4988017203668 (Japan)
Sega Region Code:
T-15904G (Japan)
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Game Guide
Extracted from the original game manual
In this action-platformer, a bored gecko named GEX is sucked into the Media Dimension by the villainous Rez, who intends to force him into becoming a television network mascot. To escape and return home, players guide GEX through four distinct worlds based on horror, cartoons, adventure, and martial arts films to collect hidden remote controls. The gameplay utilizes GEX's natural reptilian abilities, such as wall-crawling and tongue-lashing, to defeat enemies and destroy the TV sets blocking the path to freedom.
Story
GEX's Origin
In a few days, GEX was parked in front of his TV, munching from a nearby bowl of flies. He was in the middle of flipping through channels to see what was on. “Nope, nope, nope,” he droned, as he clicked the remote again and again, surfing through reruns of Kung Fu theater, a wacky cartoon, and an old Indiana Jones movie. Those shows were so boring. He'd already seen all of them at least a million times. He was ready for something different.
Frustrated, GEX started clicking all the remote's buttons rapid-fire, speeding through the channels in a super-fast blur. While he was clicking and kicking back, a fly buzzed by. GEX flicked out his tongue and - gulp! - down it went. But the fly was in reality a metallic transmitter. GEX was “bugged.”
Suddenly, GEX's remote jammed and the TV blanked. A huge hand shot out of the screen, grabbed GEX by the neck and . . .
ZZZZZZTTT TTTT!
The Media Dimension
Just like that, GEX had been yanked through his TV into the Media Dimension. The cold claw belonged to Rez, who had hooked GEX with a bugged fly.
Rez was the lord of the Media Dimension. He now intended to make GEX the new network mascot. “Out with the peacock, in with the gecko!”
GEX could only escape by getting his paws on the remote controls hidden throughout the Media Dimension. Once he had the remotes, he could destroy the TV sets that blocked the exits and were the portals into the next worlds. GEX had to find the last remote, blow up the last TV in the last world and make it home . . . or spend the rest of his gecko life as a bronzez network mascot!
Network Mascot... Not!
GEX's Natural Talents
Without knowing it, GEX has been practicing all his life for this gig! He's got that tail whip down, thanks to years of batting pineapples around with his local ball club, the Molokai Scalers. And how about that tongue lash? Slick, eh?
You don't get that good without racking up the hours at the Poi Boy sushi bar, especially if the sushi's got eight legs. Jumping, wall crawling, face sticking - GEX's natural talents have been honed by years of hanging out with his lizard pals from Diamond Head. Yep, GEX is ready ... for the most whacked-out TV episode of his life!
Worlds to Explore
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Graveyard World
GEX hurtles through the Media Dimension, back to the time and place when Abbott and Costello met Frankenstein. GEX is caught in a creepy horror flick alive with Franken-geckos, mad slasher's, crazy tomatoes and other Fright Night foes. Slime, fog... an exorcism in the offing! Better check your calendar, 'cuz you're stuck on Friday the 13th.
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Cartoon World
Toon Town this ain't! GEX battles cheesy characters from those crack-of-dawn Saturday a.m. cartoons. Retired heroes and those out-of-work 'toon slouchers line up to take a swipe at GEX. There's nothing like getting a safe dropped on your head. Itchy & Scratchy, eat each other's heart out!
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Jungle World
Go native! Feel the beat of the bongos. GEX stalks through a malaria factory packed with carnivores and cannibals (who like the taste of gecko better than chicken), moving walls, hidden booby traps and breakaway bridges. You may have named the dog Indy . . . but there's a gecko with the same hat.
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Kung Fu World
There's nothing like getting hung up in Channel 26. Fighting your way through moronic martial arts scenes is bad enough, but can't they get that voice track in sync? It's Big Trouble in Little China with ninjas, samurai geckos, sumo wrestlers . . . enough is enough. Walk softly, little grasshopper, and whip a fast tail!
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Rez's Nerve Center
A world beyond insanity takes center stage. Vast installations of alien hi-tech circuitry fume with electrical force! Energy geysers leap from pulsating waves of liquid television. This is the twisted reality where network programs are chosen. At last, GEX confronts Rez himself in a battle that will decide the fate of the universe . . . and more importantly, whether a gecko will be next season's network mascot!
Tips & Maps
GEX MAPS
Use GEX's maps of the Media Dimension to navigate worlds; move to an entrance with the D-Pad and press Button A to enter.
MEDIA DIMENSION MAP
This global view allows you to choose your world destination, such as Kung Fu World, Cartoon World, Jungle World, or Graveyard World.
WORLD MAPS
Press Start to view the remote map, select a level with the D-Pad, and press Button A to enter the next available level in that world.
CLUES
Avoid flying TVs by not whacking them with a tail whip; slap floating skulls with a tail whip to disable TVs, and use a tail whip to activate movie cameras for hidden mechanisms.
RAFTS
Ride rafts across shooting geysers by jumping, ducking, and tail-whipping from your safe flotation device while holding on.
CONVEYOR BELTS
Stick to horizontal or vertical conveyor belts, whether grounded or floating, to be whisked away to different locations.
REMOTE CONTROLLER
Find a remote controller in each world, whap it with a tail attack to gain ownership, and use it to escape to the next level.
SURPRISES
Explore the Media Dimension for deadly pools of liquid Rez and secret levels.
BOSS FIGHTS
Each world's boss is tough to beat but can be destroyed if you figure out their secret.
VCR TAPE
Pick up a VCR tape to receive a password upon finishing the level.
How to Play
Score
You gain points by destroying enemies.
Lives
You start with three GEX lives. Pick up 100 golden flies, and you'll gain an extra life. Lose all your hit paws and you lose a life; lose all your lives and you lose the game.
Power-Ups
GEX snags balls o' bug to power up with extra weapons, attributes and hit paws. The power-up GEX is currently using shows up here.
Gold Flies
Who left the door open? Snag those flies! Each pile of 100 gold flies awards you with a bonus life.
Hit Paws
You start the game with three GEX hit paws. You can gain up to six paws by picking up the right power-up. You lose one paw per hit. (If you have bug power-ups, you lose those first, and then you lose hit paws.) Lose all your paws and you lose a life . . . lose all your lives and YOU LOSE.
Lives & Milestones
You start out with three lives. When you lose a life (by losing all your hit paws), you restart the level from the beginning. If you lose all lives (including bonus lives) the game ends and Rez gets one step closer to bronzing a gecko as the network mascot!
Run past a quick-shot camera and hit it with a tail whip to take a snap of GEX. Then, if GEX loses a life, you will restart the level from that spot, instead of from the beginning. If GEX loses all his lives, the milestone snapshots don't make a difference. You knew that.
Remember to collect VCR tapes to receive passwords, so you don't always have to start the game from the beginning.
Using Passwords & Resuming Games
Look for hidden VCR tapes and pick them up. When you finish the level, the VCR tape will give you a password. Write down the password, and use it later to resume your game. In addition, you will be awarded a VCR tape after defeating each boss.
To resume a game, select PASSWORD on the Main Menu. You'll go on to the Password Entry screen.
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Press the D-Pad up/down to change the character on the input line.
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Press the D-Pad right/left to move to the next input line.
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Press Start to enter the password and exit to the Main Menu.
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Select START on the Main Menu to resume a game. (If the password was incorrect, you can either try again, or start a new game.)
NOTE: Resumed games do not include additional lives or point totals you may have collected earlier.
Controls
B
Tail Whip: Whack skanky foes, smack bug power-ups to fill one empty hit paw, whack items like shooting skulls to use them as weapons, execute a jumping tail whip
A
Tongue Lash: Snag gold flies, bugs and power-ups in mid-air
C
Jump: Get air to avoid enemies, swallow high power-ups with a jump and a tongue lash
C + D-Pad Down
Tail Bounce: Destroy enemies, bust breakable blocks and bounce to high platforms
C + D-Pad
Wall Stick: Jump while pressing the D-Pad against a wall's surface and GEX sticks with his suction cup paws, stick and crawl up the sides and faces of walls and buildings, spin while sticking, snag power-ups from a wall stick position
D-Pad + A
Snag power-ups from a wall stick position
Items & Weapons
Power-ups
Power-ups are balls o' bug with juicy gecko snacks inside that can be used to fill hit paws or gained for special powers like fire balls, ice balls, or electricity.
Amber Balls
Fill one empty hit paw.
Ladybug
Fill all empty hit paws.
Flea
Fill all empty hit paws and add one.
Butterfly
Gain an extra life.
Blue Firefly
Hurl ice balls.
Red Firefly
Hurl fire balls.
Yellow Firefly
Hurl bolts of electricity.
Grasshopper
Jump higher and farther.
Centipede
Kick GEX into overdrive.
Caterpillar
Laugh at danger with invincibility.
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