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(More customer reviews)Theme Hospital, released in 1997 by Bullfrog, is a relatively simple but addictively fun game that truly stands the test of time.It puts you in complete control of a series of hospitals, working your way up from one larger institution to another.The job gets harder as you move up the ladder, as greater crises and burdens lie in wait to bring you down.It all starts fairly simple.At your first hospital, you just need to set up a general practitioner's office or two, a general diagnostics room, a pharmacy, a psychiatric office, and get your researchers working on new diseases and ways to go about combating them.You've got to hire doctors, nurses, handymen, and a receptionist - and you get a wide range of folks to choose from.Will you pay top dollar for the efficient GP's and specialists, or will you settle for abrasive, lazy types who smell of cabbage?Cure enough patients, make enough money, and establish a good enough reputation, and job offers for bigger and better assignments will come your way.
As you progress, you'll get access to an assortment of fancy diagnostic equipment and treatment clinics.For those hard-to-diagnose cases, there are X-ray rooms, cardiology exams, high-dollar scanners, and the like, and before long you're even ready to build an operating theater and put scalpels in the hands of those crazy doctors of yours.As for the diseases and conditions, they aren't your typical fare: alongside gastrointestinal-type ailments such as the squibs, you have folks with Elvis Complex (who do indeed show up in Elvis leisure suits), invisibility, Bloaty Head (just pop their head and reinflate it), Slack Tongue (chop chop), Baldness (wait'll you see how to cure that), and an assortment of silly afflictions.Of course, you have your basic fractures and uncommon cold cases, as well.Each condition is more funny than serious (especially in terms of how it is contracted), but keeping your hospital up and working efficiently gets to be pretty serious when you've got patients queued up in the aisles, tired doctors recuperating in the staff lounge, diagnostic machines temporarily down for repair, emergencies bringing in a number of new patients who must be cured quickly if your reputation isn't to suffer, earthquakes shaking things up, and epidemics popping up and wreaking havoc.Patients can be pretty messy, as many of them tend to throw up all over the place.If you don't have enough dependable handymen around to clean up the mess, the Ministry of Health will be all over you.
The graphics look surprisingly good even today - although 1997 graphics certainly don't compare to those of recent games.There is a decent variety of looks among patients, and it's almost worth killing a few of them just to watch them ascend to heaven (or, on occasion, drop through the floor on their way to an alternate destination).The game is simple enough for anyone to play and enjoy, although things get pretty challenging as you progress deeper into the game.A lot of games today sacrifice fancy graphics for actual gameplay, but Theme Hospital is the kind of game you enjoy playing years and years after its release.
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Theme HospitalProduct Description: Can you balance the books and the bedpans?Product InformationIt's a matter of laugh or death in the sequel to Bullfrog's best selling ThemePark. Design maintain and manage a hi-tech hospital facility making themost of limited resources and turning cures into cash. The Grim Reaperstalks the corridors the ill have some very odd aliments and the staff want toplay doctors and nurses together. You will be struck by the fun if youdon't struck off! Product FeaturesDetailed graphicsImproved Artificial IntelligenceResearch and develop your own curesDeal with emergencies and epidemics as they ariseOver 30 weird diseases to diagnose - including hairy-itis bloaty head andslack tongue.Windows RequirementsWindows 95 98 Me XP Home EditionPentium 75 MHz processor16 MB of RAM55 MB Hard Drive spaceDirectX 5 compatible Sound CardDirectX 5 compatible Graphics Card4X CD-ROM driveMouseKeyboard
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