Midway Home Entertainment Announces Retail Availability of 'GEX'
CORSICANA, TEXAS (Feb. 24) BUSINESS WIRE - Feb. 24, 1998 - The
TV-addicted wise-cracking Gecko is back!  Midway Home Entertainment
Inc. announced today the retail availability of GEX: Enter the
Gecko(TM) for the PlayStation(R). Developed by Crystal Dynamics and
distributed by Midway Home Entertainment, GEX: Enter the Gecko is now
available wherever video games are sold.  The announcement was made by
Paula Cook, director of Marketing for Midway Home Entertainment.
Utilizing the very latest in 3D gaming technology, GEX: Enter the
Gecko is the hilarious, action-packed sequel to the popular
PlayStation video game, GEX. Cited by the media as one of the top
titles introduced at the 1997 Electronic Entertainment Expo, GEX:
Enter the Gecko is considered one of the hottest properties on the
gaming horizon today.
GEX: Enter the Gecko for the PlayStation features GEX, the hilarious,
TV-addicted, tail-snapping, gravity-defying, wise-cracking gecko.
Gamers get to join the mercilessly madcap mission as GEX, video
gaming's most irreverent gecko, is reluctantly recruited by a secret
government agency to keep his arch rival, Rez, from taking over the
country's cable TV industry!  GEX must make his way through more than
fifteen levels designed as sarcastic parodies of popular television
and movies.  Full of tongue-in-cheek references to pop culture and
American media, GEX: Enter the Gecko artfully combines humor, stunning
graphics and challenging gameplay for an unparalleled video gaming
experience.
GEX: Enter the Gecko is packed with over 125 unique moves, 3,400
frames of fluid character animation and additionally enhanced by "turn
and talk" lip-synching.  Sporting shades - he's a wild Secret Agent
and Master of Disguises - GEX is a totally original video game
character. GEX's unforgettable, trademark personality was achieved
through the skill of the talented co-star of the NBC comedy "Working"
and HBO comedian Dana Gould, who provides GEX with a voice and
personality incorporating over 500 right-on celebrity impressions and
hysterically sharp-witted one-liners.  No pre-rendered cut scenes mar
GEX: Enter the Gecko, a superb production expressing the finest in
video game character design and application.
Along the way, all new 360 degree free-roaming 3D game play allows GEX
to explore vast, brilliantly detailed 3D levels, while providing
gamers the unique feeling of total control.  Command GEX to go where
YOU want him to go...have him scale a mountain or traverse the entire
length of a starship for video game action of a lifetime! GEX: Enter
the Gecko gives you TOTAL control in TOTAL 3D! And control is what
you'll need to match mind and muscle in this explosive, killer gecko
action... whip-cracking tail attacks, suction cup paws, flying karate
kicks, tongue lashing and environmental secrets that unlock hidden
areas.
According to Cook, "We are thrilled to bring GEX: Enter the Gecko for
the PlayStation.  Within this groundbreaking video game, Crystal
Dynamics has incorporated the most phenomenally advanced 3D engine
yet, assuring it's place in video game history."  Rated K-A (Kids to
Adults) by ESRB, GEX:  Enter the Gecko will also be released for
gameplay on the Nintendo 64 later this year.
From:  Silicon Times Report / February 27, 1998 / No.1408
... To climb a ladder, you begin with the bottom rung.
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