In 1984 DEUS EX MACHINA was released for the ZX Spectrum 48k. To this day there has never been a game like it, perhaps there never will again. Mel Croucher devised the game as a form of video game movie experience, a one-off because when you got to the end of the 60 minute 'ride' you would have to switch off and load it all over again if you wished to 'experience' it again. Due to a bizarre packaging issue the game became hard to obtain which unfortunately also gave it the title of most pirated game in existence, simply because so many people in the 1980;s wished to experience it and it was so hard to get.