Deus Ex Machina is a video game designed and created by Mel Croucher and published by Automata UK for the ZX Spectrum in October 1984 and later converted to MSX and Commodore 64.

[citation needed] The cast included Ian Dury, Jon Pertwee, Donna Bailey, Frankie Howerd, E.P.

The game charts the life of a "defect" which has formed in "the machine", from conception, through growth, evolution and eventually death.

But I wanted to put a lovely poster in it and nice packaging and a double vinyl gatefold" and that as a result the price of £15 compared to the more usual £8 meant that sales were low, and the game only broke even.

[10] A second remastered version, Deus Ex Machina - The Final Cut, was released in 2016 for Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.