Cult 1984 Game Deus Ex Machina Returns…With Christopher Lee
Back in the days of the ZX Spectrum, this odd multimedia-style game featuring Jon Pertwee and the music of Ian Dury came out and won a few awards. It was only available by mail order.
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I don’t know that enough people remembered it to demand a sequel/reboot, but one is happening anyway, on Kickstarter. I tried playing the demo – if playing is the right word. You start as a sperm flying through the Fallopian tubes, moving slightly using the arrow keys, and eventually fertilizing an egg, all as Ian Dury sings a song.
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In the next level, you’re a fetus, dodging flying eyeballs, but they don’t hurt you that much if you do hit them. Eventually the song (female vocal this time) ends and you get born.
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Later levels deal with you apparently living through the ’60s and then torturing people in Abu Ghraib, or something.
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It’s fair to say I don’t quite get it. But here’s a semi-explanatory video that has Christopher Lee in it.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist