WHILST CONDUCTING the digital remastering process on his collected
musical works, Mel Croucher unearthed a never-heard-before gem: An ‘evil
laugh’ competition between Christopher Lee and fellow actor Joaquim de
Almeida.
IN THE DAYS when computer games came on cassette, Automata were well
known for including music tracks on the reverse side as a ‘bonus’ for
the players. The Games Collector, a UK-based company is now selling
those music tracks as a collection on crowdfunding site Indiegogo. When
it came to re-mastering the audio for Deus Ex Machina 2, the sequel to
Automata’s most famous game, an outtake was found in the archives in
which Christopher Lee - at that point in his nineties and recording one
of his final voice acting roles – competed with Joaquim de Almeida to
see who could laugh in the most evil way possible, with Croucher himself
the judge! Who won? Well, that would be telling…!
WITH THE REMASTERING complete, the evil laugh competition is included as
a bonus extra on one of the five albums that make up InsĪred: The
Collective Works of Mel Croucher. Croucher himself is considered the
father of the British gaming industry; at a time when most computers
were being used to calculate the compound interest on the revenue from a
year’s worth of potato sales, he was selling his eclectic range of
games for the ZX Spectrum through eye-catching adverts on the back pages
of the popular computing magazines of the day.
Interested parties can reserve their collection through the campaigns crowdfunding page at igg.me/at/pimania A preview of Mel’s music is available on Soundcloud at bit.ly/2oHZlae
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games and the obsessive collecting of memorabilia by its founders. With a
product line up featuring exclusive, exquisite and highly desirable
collectibles, the company aims to bring fans the items they long for,
and maybe even a few they didn’t know they wanted!
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