There's a Kickstarter up to try and make Deus Ex Machina 2, fronted by the game's original creator and genuine gaming pioneer, Mel Croucher.  I suspect it will be terrible, and I doubt it will raise the money required.  I am, none the less, sufficiently excited about the possibility to make a thread that will doubtless drop like a stone, to celebrate its mere possibility.

Why?

Because I loved the original.  For the uninitiated Deus Ex Machina was released in 1984, and was a critical darling and commercial disaster.  In the game you shaped the development of the lead character, from conception to death.  Except he's conceived in the bowels of a machine, and grown from the faeces of the last mouse on Earth.  The various levels included steering a sperm to its egg, whilst it sang a cheery ditty voiced by Ian Dury; avoiding the attentions of a camp yet terrifying secret policeman voiced by Frankie Howard; and erm, being a big fat giant thing that stamps on words or something.  Then you die of old age.

You had to synchronise the game along with a soundtrack tape, littered with songs of varying quality and narrated wonderfully by John Pertwee.  (Christopher Lee in the new version.)  I played it endlessly as a kid, and to this day still don't know whether my final score of 0% was a point about the inevitability of death, or just a sign that I was really, really bad at it.  (I was..)

So my inner 12 year old is very excited.  My outer 30 something year old is looking at the screenshots and rolling his eyes, but hey.  It's Deus Ex Machina.

Anyone else care, or even know what the Hell I'm talking about?