Program of the Year
Golden Joystick Award Winner
To call this a game is an insult.It's a stunning and profound audio-visual experience.
Instructions 100% • Playability 100% • Graphics 100% • Value for money 100%
Home Computing Weekly
The most original concept since the Spectrum was a gleam in Clive Sinclair's eye.
The computer equivalent to Pink Floyd's The Wall.
Computer & Video Games
Deus Ex Machina is staggeringly original, unique and impressive.
The Sunday Times
A completely new computer experience. Rare and truly great!
Popular Computing Weekly
You've got to play it to believe it! This will get to Number One!
Dave Freeman, BBC Radio 1
The first computer program to inspire a cult following.
To be without it is to lose social standing.
Thorn EMI
There are few things in life that can be called global certainties ...
this is
one of them! Hypnotic, emotive, noble, humorous, absolutely excellent.
Crash Magazine
Un programa completamente diferente a todo lo que hemos visto hasta la fecha.
Un nuevo concepto en el modo de entender los juegos.
Micro Hobby
The world's first example of concept software. Ten out of ten for a program
which surpasses everything on the market. Superb.
Sinclair Programs
A revolution in gaming technology. Go ahead and do it. A masterpiece.
Sinclair User
Quite outstanding. Non-sexist, non-racist and non-violent. Something which is totally original, to give the software industry the creative jolt it so badly needs.
Your Computer
Perfection! The aim of us all.
Barry Norman, BBC Radio 4
A masterpiece. Some day all games will be something like this.
Edge
Conceived by one of the industry's genuine pioneers, Mel Croucher. High-concept,
demanding, ahead of its time, annoying and not a little repulsive.
Edge
A majestic, mysterious and moving vision. Why are you sitting there?
Go out and buy Deus Ex Machina.
Commodore Horizons
An experience unparalleled by any other game. Deus Ex Machina, the vintage classic.
PC World
Deus Ex Machina is unique, a milestone in computer history, as fresh and
original today as when it first appeared on the Spectrum.
Zzap! 64
The most unusual program ever released. A bizarre mixture of Aldous Huxley,
rock album, psychedelia and the Marx Brothers.
The Listener