Theme Hospital (PC)

...discovered Ciao. I remembered playing Theme Hospital many years ago and found it too hard but I decided to give it another try. The Developers - Bullfrog ==================== Bullfrog Ltd was founded in 1987 by two game enthusiasts - Les Edgar and Peter Molyneux. They wanted to provide people with more mind-provoking gaming than you got with the arcade type games that were out at the time. After a big success in 1994 with the Theme Park game (which ...
...similar type of game - Theme Hospital in 1997. But could it be as good as Theme Park? Or better? Of course it could! The aim of the game is to build, maintain and run your own hospital. You play the part of the administrator/manager and your job is to keep the hospital running smoothly and the patients healthy. Sounds easy doesn't it? But of course it isn't! To win the level these conditions must be met •make a healthy profit •build an ...

welshgal17 05.07.2005 · Read full review
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...success and they brought out Theme Hospital in 1977. The idea was the same but with a hospital instead of a park – but this hospital is like no other you have ever seen with some very strange and bizarre illnesses and even weirder cures. The premise is that you are the administrator of a fictional hospital, hiring and training receptionists, doctors, nurses, and handymen to keep the hospital running smoothly. You also have to build rooms like general ...
...award the game 3.5/5 Theme Hospital is an older game and we all know how graphics have improved over the years, so the graphics are not that great when you compare them to games such as Sim City 4, Sim Theme Park, and Rollercoaster Tycoon. The graphics though are fun, especially in dealing with the patients which could be curing a patient with bloated head, rolling someone’s tongue back in their mouth (slack tongue), curing an invisible man, zapping ...

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...later I would come across Theme Hospital. This game has actually been around since 1995, and admittedly I had seen it before, but other games caught my eye and ended up in my trolley. One day whilst on Amazon however, I noticed the title on my SUGGESTED FOR YOU part of my homepage, and noting the super cheap price, went for a closer look. The reviews were excellent for it, and it had a gaming pedigree that I recognised, EA Games and Bullfrog. The ...
...a hospital from scratch, finding cures for and treating a variety of admittedly comical diseases, build clinics, and maintain staff and patient satisfaction levels whilst making a profit. Like the original Sim City, which is also an EA Games creation, this game contains scenarios that one must complete to win. Unlike the original Sim City, however, the scenarios are linked so that they form levels of difficulty, and further items of research and ...

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Theme Hospital is a fantastic tycoon style game that allows you to build and manage your own hospital. This isn't just any hospital though. Oh no, it's a hospital were people are diagnosed with "Television Personalities" (causes by watching too much daytime TV), with "The Squits" (solved by drinking an acid substance at the pharmacy) and "Bloaty Head" (were patients have... well you guessed it... a bloated head). The game has two modes; story mode, ...
...of patients cured or popularity rating, to achieve and progress on to the next level and free mode, where you are free to build and run your own hospital with no goals or limits, except those of your own imagination. Play for both modes is ultimately the same only one has targets and the other does not. When the game begins you find yourself in a black hospital building, the size and shape will differ depending on the level, and your first task will ...

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...games such as the well-known Theme Park (also an excellent game – in its day!!!). Theme Hospital was originally released in 1997 (from what I can remember!); and for me, it still hasn’t lost any of its appeal – despite the vast range of games that are now on the market, which are much more involved and advanced than this humble offering. WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT? Basically, you are the manager of a hospital and begin the game with a building and a set ...
...are. I remember thinking that Theme Park was an excellent game; that is until I had a nostalgia trip and nearly p**sed myself laughing when I saw how basic it actually was. With Theme Hospital though, I do believe that it was very advanced upon its release and upon returning after those few years (when the gaming industry has become considerably more advanced with all its 3D effects and the like!), I still find it an absolute joy to play. From what ...

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...I counted 13 levels to Theme Hospital, which gets more difficult as it progresses. On each level you start off with a blueprint and some money $40,000 in the first round graduating to $70,000 in the final round. With each level you have goalposts to reach that you can check on by clicking on the progress report icon at the bottom of your screen. In the first round you have to have a reputation level of 300, a bank balance of $1000, treat 40% of the ...
...me. You can also play Theme Hospital online with others but I haven’t tried that yet. DOWNSIDE I got my copy in a DVD case, but was disappointed that there was no tutorial. I found that on the CD and had to print off 18 A4 pages to learn how to play the game. PLAYABILITY I found Theme Hospital easy to learn how to play and very addictive. The challenges were enough not to find the game too easy and to keep me playing without boredom for ...

shewhosmiles 23.02.2003 (24.02.2003) · Read full review
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Theme Hospital has been around for a good few years now, but you can tell it’s a truly great game because people are still playing and talking about it on Ciao! a lot. Although a little dated in some respects, the game is still one of my favourites. I’ll explain why… >> WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT << The basic concept of this game couldn’t be simpler – you start off with an empty building your task is to construct a hospital in which to cure as many patients ...
...to make your time playing Theme Hospital that extra bit special, Bullfrog decided to make hospital life more realistic (in some respects!) So, while playing, beware of the following problems and disasters: > Your patients aren’t in your hospital because they’re feeling well, so expect a few patches of vomit around your hospital. Make sure the handymen do a quick job of cleaning it up, otherwise the mere sight of it will cause many others around ...

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Theme Hospital is a wonderful strategy game for both PC and Playstation and should provide hours of fun. It’s not the type of game where you blast everything in sight, or chase baddies, it’s a matter of making money and beating rival hospitals in the area by achieving the best results and care for your patients, and the best hospital with every facility on offer. You start by laying out your basic hospital plan, by allocating treatments ...
...the best doctors, nurses and other staff and trying to include as many optional extras as possible to make your hospital the talk of the town. All these things cost money however, and your profits will rise and go down depending on how well your patients rate your skills. If they have to queue for too long, they will leave disgruntled. If you don’t provide good seating area for them, they leave! If the hospital doesn’t have enough radiators ...

Squiggles 29.11.2001 · Read full review
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...that they charge in the Theme Hospital - $100 for a GP’s appointment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You have goals to aim for in each level. Once you have reached those goals you will be given the opportunity for promotion to another, larger hospital. You can choose to accept or reject these offers and sometimes you will find that you will be offered more money if you reject them a couple of times. Once you accept you have to start from scratch in a new hospital. ...
...A final amusing part of Theme Hospital is the rat shooting opportunities. Your hospital will get rats unless you are super tidy (something that I have found impossible to do). If you kill a certain number (I think it is 20, maybe only 10) you get an extra bonus level once you have completed that current level. In this extra level you have a certain time to kill all the rats you can. It is easy to do this – just aim the mouse over the rat (haha) ...

Clare_1 27.09.2001 · Read full review
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The objective of this game is to successfully run and manage a hospital. To start with choose yourself a name. You will need to do this, so you can see how you are doing on the record tables. These flash up during the game, so that you can see your progress. Then you can start on your first level. This is relatively easy but they do get more demanding as the game goes on. You are presented with a plot of land, and the outer walls of a building. This ...
...rooms you need, *How many staff, *Where the radiators go, *How high the heating is, *Where the plants go, *Where each room goes, *Where each seat goes, *How much you pay your staff, There is a lot to think about, but it is not difficult to play. Rooms you need to think about for the first levels are: *GP rooms *A ward *A psychiatrist room *An inflation room *Waiting areas. *Toilets In the following levels, more rooms appear in your building list, ...

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Theme Hospital, from the people who bought you Theme Park. As the name suggests, the game puts you in the driving seat of running a variety of hospitals. Unlike it's predecessors, such as Theme Park, Theme Hospital takes the concept of management sims a step further, by actually giving you goals to achieve. Whereas in Theme Park the aim of the game was to build up a wonderful park, auction it off and start all over again, which can quickly get boring, ...
...doors and you're done. Theme Hospital doesn't feature a "sandbox" mode to allow practicing, but then again, the first couple of levels are so simple they're pretty much a dress rehearsal anyway. In the game, you are responsible for every aspect of running and maintaining a successful hospital. You start off with a completely empty building, devoid of staff, furniture, and even rooms. Using a very simple picture interface you can choose the rooms ...

shorn_the_sheep 06.07.2003 · Read full review
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...the first I played was theme park which allowed you to build your own 'theme park' and populate it with rides and food stands to try and interest the public. Over the years many different theme / sim games have been produced, perhaps one of the strangest being Theme Hospital. It is your job to build a hospital and ensure that it runs efficiently while treating patients. You start of with a shell of a building and begin to add rooms ...
...always liked simulation type games. Theme Hospital is good adding a little humour to the genre (especially with some of the comments from the receptionist). Some of the diseases are fairly funny, as are the treatments - one includes deflating someone's head! The graphics are a little outdated; the game is several years old. This isn't a major problem as it really isn't a graphic oriented game. The sound is excellent, with stereo sound, good music ...

Simoncook1 28.09.2001 · Read full review
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...~~ Theme Hospital, the second Theme game released so I suppose Theme Hospital is an unrelated sequel to Theme Park. Anyway in Theme Hospital you run a private hospital, you control everything. You hire staff, you give staff the boot, you choose the prices for treatments, you tell staff when the can go to the staff room, you build wards and treatment rooms…okay you get the point. So if you think you can do a better job than the NHS Theme Hospital ...
...you were put off by Theme Hospital because it is about a hospital where people die then don't be as there are no real diseases and there is no blood. Graphics and Sound ~~ The graphics in Theme Hospital are good and the game will work on most computers, it worked on my old computer which was a 486. And considering this game is 7 years old the graphics are excellent. The sound is smooth and clear but the sound certainly didn't make full use of ...

Disillusioned 24.08.2001 · Read full review
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...or heating. Well Theme Hospital puts you in charge of running and maintaining a hospital. You have to make sure that your hospital runs smoothly, you must diagnose patients and treat them correctly, and if you kill a patient, then it's on your head, can you ever live it down? Installing Theme Hospital. -------------------------- Theme Hospital is extremely easy to install, you simply take the disc out of its jewel-casing, insert it in your CD-ROM ...
...make sure you have the Theme Hospital disc in your CD-ROM drive, click on the start menu, then Bullfrog, then Theme Hospital, and the game automatically loads. Playing Theme Hospital. ----------------------- When the game has loaded, you will have to choose a nickname for yourself, I usually call myself Dr Death, because I normally kill a lot of my patients, not on purpose though. Next a mad professor appears, and pulls down scroll with a picture ...

mandyco 23.11.2002 · Read full review
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...thought I would write on Theme Hospital because it was the first thing that came to my mind, and also one of my favourite games ever. It’s really is one of the greatest games of all time! OBJECTIVE The idea of Theme Hospital is simply to build and run a hospital and meet all of your objectives so you can proceed on to the next hospital, which no doubt will bring greater tasks for you, the administrator. Quite simply, you need to build up ...
...actually buy the game? Well, Theme Hospital is still available in most computer game shops even though it is rather old. It is also widely available on the internet, but this is often more expensive than offline shopping. A copy offline, now that it is a rather old game, will only set you back the tiny sum of £9.99, for hours of fun! COMPATABILITY This is a relatively old game, so it should work on most computers, especially since it works on ...

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