Theme Hospital
Awww… it’s so lovely finding out that classic games are still available to the casual shopper -let alone in a most suitable Win XP compatible format- and we (mainly) PC gamers don’t have to stick to them boring FPSs. Take Theme Hospital for example. Thanks to Sold Out, the only quality budget label I can think of, this almost retro treasure by the legendary Bullfrog can now be bought for under a fiver and remind everyone just how brilliant gaming back in 1997 was. Brilliant, beautiful, taxing, funny and original actually…
Anyway. If you were around back then and were even vaguely interested in gaming, I’m pretty sure you’re already off buying the thing or reaching for your sadly misplaced copy. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, well, learn that Theme Hospital was -and is- a fantastic and quite hilarious business management sim that had you running a whole hospital. Not very exciting, eh? Well then, guess I’d let you know that your hospital was financially competing against the fine institutions of Deep Thought, Akira, HAL and Zen, and trying to prove it was the best when it came around to curing the horrible afflictions of sheer invisibility, the uncommon cold and the horrible bloaty head disease. Now, hopefully, you know you have to at least give it a try.
Posted on May 17th, 2008 by konstantinos
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Heh, by coincidence, I own the game and installed it recently on my Windows Vista machine. So, if you’re one of the unfortunate Vista owners, it installs fine, but open the properties for the executable and, in the Compatibility tab, check the 256 colors mode and the 640×480 resolution: it looked a bit better for me.
Also, you can download the patch and the pregnancy add-on here.
May 17th, 2008 at 6:44 pmStill can’t help but feel bad for the Vista crowds… At least they got you dear guttertalk. Oh, and didn’t know of this patch/add-on thingy. Seems fantastic!
May 19th, 2008 at 7:47 amThis game’s great in small doses. It becomes rather repetitive after a few stages like you have to repeat and rebuild the same thing over and over again. A persistent hospital would be much cooler IMHO.
I think re-releasing old titles under budget labels is a great idea. Also the quality of these re-released titles is much better nowadays - I still remember some titles I bought years ago didn’t even have PDF manuals
May 19th, 2008 at 8:49 pmUnacceptable, that… I mean, the cost of including a PDF manual is absolutely zero. Tsk, tsk, tsk…
May 26th, 2008 at 1:49 ami downloaded the patch for the ‘pregnancy disease’, but how do i actually add it to the game? or does it work automatically??
August 5th, 2008 at 6:22 am