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#DailyRetroGame 198: Deus Ex Machina (1984)
This one was weird. It featured a machine that had taken human form, and you had to work through its seven stages of life. The audio came by way of a tape you played in sync with the game, which featured the likes of Ian Dury and Jon ‘The Doctor’ Pertwee. A kind of multimedia experience at least a decade ahead of its time, DEM was like nothing else out there. And nothing since.
Play it on: #ZXSpectum
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#DailyRetroGame 148: Total Soccer Manager (2002)
An excellent lesson, here, in the importance of extensive play-testing. On the surface, TSM looks like #SWOS on the GBA. It also somewhat plays like it, with a reasonably pacey overhead game, even if the player names bear no resemblance to the real world. The snag? Play one entire season and in the next you’re immediately booted out of every cup. Tsk. Red card for the QA folks.
Play it on: #GBA