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Gender Wars

Gender Wars is a real-time tactics action game for DOS developed by The 8th Day and published by GT Interactive Software and Sales Curve in 1996. After eons of fighting between the genders, men and women have…

1 March 1996

Gender Wars is a shooter developed by The 8th Day, released 1 March 1996 on DOS.

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What Gender Wars is

Gender Wars is a shooter game developed by The 8th Day and released in 1996. It was published by GT Interactive Software. It is available on DOS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In the future, after an era of "political correctness and equality", humanity is divided into two warring factions based on sex and enters a brutal conflict known as the "Gender Wars". Each faction is a caricature of conventional gender stereotypes. The Male faction are crass jocks obsessed with alcohol and other "manly" things while the Females are vapid Valley Girl archetypes preoccupied with fashion and other stereotypically feminine interests. Both factions conduct raids against the other to steal cloning material and capture the other's leader. The player has to choose between the Male or the Female faction. Regardless of the player's choice, the victorious faction will put the…
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Gender Wars launched on 1 March 1996, within three weeks of Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Pokémon Red Version, Resident Evil and Sid Meier's Civilization II.

Released around the same time: Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Pokémon Red Version, Resident Evil, Sid Meier's Civilization II.

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When did Gender Wars come out?
Gender Wars was released on 1 March 1996 for DOS.

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