![]() ![]() Telling the epic multi-stage story of an accidental artificial life form in a Big Brother-esque 1994, it was loosely based on Shakespeare’s Seven Ages Of Man as you guided the life form from birth to death. But now they released their magnum opus – “Deus Ex Machina”. My friends and I were Croucher’s “acolytes”, I guess, becoming friendly with him at his regular appearances at the Ally Pally computer fairs in the 80’s.Īutomata had already produced “PiMania”, the first ever real life treasure hunt computer game with a prize of £6,000. Yes it only had 48K memory and could only display 256 colours, but those limitations helped produce some of the most innovative and ground breaking games ever.Īt the forefront of this innovation was Automata, run by the guru’s guru Mel Croucher (Hugo Rune had nothing on this guy). On our recent Podcast #007 (Failed Alien Holidays), we read out a great email from friend of the show, Kevin, who lurks like some stainless steel rat in the futuristic wainscoting of Twitter behind the facade of in 1984, the ZX Spectrum was THE home computer of choice.
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