THEME HOSPITAL GAME MANUAL FULL
THEME HOSPITAL GAME MANUAL PC

I’d say Slack Tongue is no laughing matter, but it absolutely is. It’s not often a game makes you ponder the pros and cons of splashing out on a Tongue Slicer Machine. Like its unrelated forerunner Theme Park, micromanaging budgets, staff and patients quickly becomes a juggling act as you’re forced to decide how your money is best spent while trying to lose as few patients as possible. In Dice Hospital, a worker placement game, players must treat as many patients as possible to appease the local authorities Players use their hospital. Clinics are always the final stop for patients, so they can be a bit further away if need be. Ward and Operating Theatre should be close to each other. Of course it’s not all fun and games designing, building and running a hospital. High-activity rooms (GP’s Office, Pharmacy, Psychiatrist) should be near the entrance, with Diagnosis rooms close by as well.

THEME HOSPITAL GAME MANUAL FULL

Also, seeing a waiting room full of men dressed up as The King will never not put a smile on my face. You can easily see that Theme Hospital doesn’t take itself too seriously which only adds to its charm.

THEME HOSPITAL GAME MANUAL PC

Surgeons who are needed in the operating theatre end up volunteering in an inflator. Theme Hospital is a business simulation game developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1997 for the PC in which players design. TV Personalities sees patients convinced of their ability to present cookery shows while King Complex has them completely obsessed with Elvis. Firstly, this game is plagued with bugs from shoddy AI to in-game crashes. Like 3rd Degree Sideburns, for example - an affliction that causes patients to harbour a ' wistful longing for the 1970s', complete with huge hair, flares and platformers or Transparency which turns patients invisible and is the result of “licking the yogurt from the foil tops of opened pots”. On paper, the latter probably doesn’t sound like it should be funny, however its 21 weird and whacky diseases - and how you go about curing them - make sure it’s exactly that. The combination of British-style hospital culture complete with 1950s-style iron beds, and nods to Carry On Doctor and American-style healthcare profiteering turned out to be an epidemic success. You’ll need to be quick on your feet in order to keep your staff happy and patients healthy. Historically, videogames have largely struggled to convey humour with any degree of success, however Bullfrog Productions’ dark sense of humour is part of what made the likes of Theme Park, Dungeon Keeper and Theme Hospital so enjoyable. Theme Hospital tasks you with designing, maintaining, and managing a hi-tech hospital as you service hundreds of ailing patients in an attempt to turn cures into cash. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives.

Theme hospital game manual