Theme Hospital
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| Developer(s) | Bullfrog Productions |
| Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
| Release date(s) | 1997 |
| Genre | Strategy |
| Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer |
| Rating(s) | ESRB, Everyone |
| Platform(s) | PC (Windows), PlayStation |
Theme Hospital is a simulation computer game developed by Bullfrog Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1997, in which the player designs and operates a hospital. Like most of Bullfrog's games, Theme Hospital is permeated by an eccentric sense of humor. The game is the thematic successor to Theme Park, a game also produced by Bullfrog.
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General information
The game is set onboard a hospital, and requires the player to build an environment which will attract patients with different complaints, illnesses, emergencies, and diseases. The game has an interesting sense of humour, similar to that of Theme Park in many ways. The player has no direct control over the characters that wander about, although the game is largely about influencing their actions in one way or another.
Gameplay
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The game revolves around buying and placing rooms (or facilities) in a hospital, and hiring doctors, nurses, janitors, and receptionists to operate it. Some rooms are basic necessities, such as offices of general practice (GP's Office), Staff Rooms, and Toilets, while others provide other services (such as General Diagnosis, Scanner Room, X-Ray, etc).
Patients will be attracted by the costs and reputation of the hospital. They arrive with a number of amusing illnesses which must be cured to increase profit and advance in the game. Diseases such as Bloaty Head, Slack Tongue, Heaped Piles ,Uncommon Cold and The Squits must be researched before treating patients. Advanced levels in the game feature epidemics where several patients must be cured within a specified time period and earthquakes which damage equipment.
Bloaty head
As the name suggests, a person with the affliction appears with a grossly oversized head. The cure is simple if not subtle; making use of a special inflation clinic the doctor pops the patient's head like a balloon, and then uses a machine to inflate the head back to its normal size. The whole process makes for an amusing spectacle. Unlike most other diseases in the game there is only one "type" of bloaty head; once the condition is discovered its treatment is assured by constructing an inflation clinic.
External links
- Theme Hospital Clinic (http://www.eudoxus.demon.co.uk/thc/) - strategies and general information about the game.fr:Theme Hospital