![]() He also doesn’t get terribly annoying – not right off the bat, at least. And who better to launch off these tried and true tidbits than stand-up comedian Dana Gould? (Indeed, Gould’s success was one of the major selling points of the game.) The advantage of this is that, with the recognizable voice and distinct couch-potato personality, Gex doesn’t quite fade away into the background like the silent furries of other games. With the – ahem – success of Bubsy, Gex‘s developers decided to give him a series of snappy one-liners to be launched off at random during the game. Naturally, Gex had taken about the same direction as most other animals-with-tude of his day. It’s a premise rather reminiscent of the early-’90s comedy flick, Stay Tuned – and ends up being just as entertaining (for better or for worse). Each level has a punny title with some kind of silly animation, which adds nicely to the character of the game. Each are based on different themes, like an Asian landscape for Kung Fu movies, or South American ruins for Indiana Jones-style action. All he wants to do is sit down and watch the latest horror flick when a being known as Rez (no, not that Rez) beams him into his own TV set and forces him to explore all the different channels and try to find a way out. ![]() Gex, like most of us at some point, is utterly obsessed with his television. ![]()
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