{"id":2498,"date":"2012-06-27T22:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2012-06-27T22:23:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-28T02:23:20","slug":"deus-ex-machina-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2012\/06\/deus-ex-machina-2\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Deus Ex Machina 2<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Croucher created an amazing computer game in 1984: <i>Deus Ex Machina,<\/i> a ZX Spectrum game that takes the player on an abstract journey through different stages of life in segments of fixed duration; it was sold with an audiotape that provided a synchronized soundtrack. The game is unrelated to the later and more famous <i>Deus Ex.<\/i> It was ported to the Commodore 64 and the MSX.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vwJBsYJ16IE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Croucher, who has been a writer on computing and was also apparently the first person to broadcast computer games over the radio as digital data, is now developing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deusexmachina2.com\/\"><i>Deus Ex Machina 2,<\/i><\/a> which will star You (Time&#8217;s 2006 Person of the Year) and Sir Christopher Lee.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0a6e6UyCr_I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mel Croucher created an amazing computer game in 1984: Deus Ex Machina, a ZX Spectrum game that takes the player on an abstract journey through different stages of life in segments of fixed duration; it was sold with an audiotape that provided a synchronized soundtrack. The game is unrelated to the later and more famous &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/2012\/06\/deus-ex-machina-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<i>Deus Ex Machina 2<\/i>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[120,17,11,14,22],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-8-bit","tag-digital","tag-games","tag-music","tag-upcoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2505,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}