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Description
Players of the game are to take control of a defected machine which has taken the form of the human body. The players would experience the different stages of like al the way from being a cell to being a senile old being. It is considered to be a visual-audio entertainment although the game itself does not have sound. It is separated into an audio cassette where the tape needs to be played alongside the game. The length of the audio cassette is 46 minutes which is also the length of the game itself. Although the game could be played without the audio cassette, it would make it easier to understand with the help of the soundtrack. The soundtrack includes songs, musical compositions, and also voices of famous actors. As the game comes with a full transcript of the speech, it could at times be played without audio."Deus Ex Machina for ZX Spectrum (1984)". MobyGames. Retrieved 2018-12-11.

Mel Croucher's View
Mel Croucher was the creator of the game, Deus Ex Machina, that was launched in 1984 and published by Automata UK. He viewed the game as a disappointment to himself even though the players loved the game and the game itself won the Game of the Year Award. To him, it was a game that had cost him dearly as he spent years putting everything he had into the game. Usually games from Spectrum would cost 8 pounds but Mel Croucher's game cost people 15 pounds. The reason that the game was more costly as he wanted wanted to make the game as nice as it could be by adding a gatefold package and poster. He later stated that he regretted making the game costly and should've sold it at a sensible price. In the end, he stated that they only broke even with the game and that after this, he was done making games.