Gex (video game)

Gex is a 2D game, released August 28, 1996 and August 30, 1996, was published by Crystal Dynamics for the 3DO, and later the Sega Saturn, PC, and Sony PlayStation.

Plot
Gex is a gecko who becomes attached to the television after his father dies in a rocket explosion. When he suddenly becomes rich, the couch potato moves into an expensive house and begins to rot away in front of his favorite channel. Rez, a television overlord, decides that Gex will be his new mascot and sends a robotic bug to Gex's house. After eating the bug, Rez was able to pull Gex into the tube. Now Gex must battle the demented world of The Media Dimension to get back out.

Game worlds
A summary of the game worlds which appear in the Media Dimension of GEX:

The Cemetery (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 themed level alive with Franken-geckos, mad slashers, crazy tomatoes, and other nightmarish creatures.
 * Missions: Frankie & Heli, Grave Danger, Tomato Soup, Disco Inferno, Spin N' Puke (Boss Level)

New Toonland (Cartoon World): Gex battles cheesy characters from those crack-of-dawn Saturday morning cartoons. Retired heroes and thieves and out-of-work toon slouchers line up to take a swipe at Gex.
 * Missions: Pow!, Twin Towers, Rock It!, Knock! Knock!, The Flatulator (Boss Level)

Jungle Isle (Jungle World): Gex stalks through a malaria factory packed with carnivores & cannibals, moving walls, hidden booby-traps, and breakaway bridges.
 * Missions: Feeding Frenzy, Congo Chaos, Jungle Gym (Boss Level)

Kung Fuville (Kung Fu World): Gex fights through a martial arts themed world filled with ninjas, samurai geckos, sumo wrestlers.
 * Missions: Sumo City, Fish Bait, Chop Chop, Toxic Turtle (Boss Level)

Rezopolis (Rez's Nerve Center): 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.
 * Missions: Rez Knight Fever, On The Move, Rez's Lair (Boss Level)

Planet X (Secret Sci-fi World): The infamous secret world. It is rumored that it is the most challenging of the worlds, but defeating it brings rewards because the ending of the game is much better if you manage to complete it.
 * Missions: Saucer Station, Free Fall, Bombs Away, Newton's Fourth Law, Head To Head, The Project, The Web, Clothesline

Gex moves
A list and explanation of the moves that the character of Gex can perform in the game:


 * Tail Whip: An attack which damages enemies, it can also be used on items like shooting skulls to knock them into enemies as weapons. Smack bug power-ups to fill one empty hi paw (your lives).
 * Tongue Lash: Snags gold flies, bugs and power-ups in mid air.
 * Hurl: Spit a fire ball, ice ball, or other weapon, depending on the power-up Gex swallowed last.
 * Jump: Aids in avoiding enemies and clearing obstacles.
 * Tail Bounce: Destroy enemies, bust breakable blocks and bounce on to high platforms.
 * Wall Stick: Jump while pressing the Direction Button against a wall's surface or a ceiling and Gex will sticks to the surface. Gex can stick & crawl up the sides & faces of walls & buildings and spin while sticking.