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supports: Mel Croucher is a British writer and video games pioneer. Originally an architect, he moved into computers and set up Automata UK in 1977, as the first computer games company in England, making the first broadcasts of computer game software over AM and FM radio. After the release of the Sinclair ZX81, his label published several games for the early home computer market, including three Computer Trade Association award-winners: "Pimania" (1982), "Groucho" (1983, a.k.a. "My Name Is Uncle Groucho, You Win A Fat Cigar"), and the groundbreaking "multi-media" title "Deus Ex Machina" (1984). Automata UK was a software house which developed and published ZX Spectrum video games between 1982 and 1985. Significant releases included "My Name Is Uncle Groucho, You Win A Fat Cigar" (1983) and "Deus Ex Machina" (1984). Pimania is a text-and-graphics adventure game written by Mel Croucher and released by Automata UK in 1982 for several microcomputer systems. It is the first real life video game treasure hunt released in the UK.  iD is a computer game developed by Mel Croucher and Colin Jones and published by CRL in 1986 . The game is text based and takes the form of a conversation with an entity that has entered your computer . Your task as the player is to gain the entity 's trust and find out what other inanimate objects this entity has inhabited in the past .
candidates: adventure game architect company computer game home house label microcomputer name radio set software software house text trade video video game
answer: video game