Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1090 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Sold Out Software
• Released on: 2003-01-09
• Rating: Universal, suitable for all
• ESRB Rating: Everyone 10+
• Platforms: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP
• Original language: German, English, French

Manufacturer's Description
Theme Hospital is the follow-up to Bullfrog's Theme Park. Theme Hospital gives you total control over a plot of land which you must turn into a thriving city hospital. You are in the driving seat from the outset, deciding which rooms you want to build, as well as where to position them and how big you want them to be. When you're happy with your building, the next thing is to hire staff. Do you go for the big-shot Psychiatrist demanding an astronomical salary, or the cheap novice to train with the skills you want? Do you want to fork out your hard-earned cash for extra Janitors to keep your hospital tidy? Do you let any VIPs in to see the state of your institution? Theme Hospital is a never-ending stream of such choices.

Customer Reviews

One of the best value games you'll ever buy
Don't write this off as a bad game just by the price. This is in fact one of, if not the best, game it is poosible to buy for under £5. The graphics may not be amazing, but their not eye-cringingly bad, either. In Theme Hospital there are a number of stages, at which you can play at one of three different difficulty levels. You must satisfy all the criteria (profit, not too many people dying, e.t.c.) to proceed to the next hospital. There are many weird and wonderful diseases with equally strange symptomns and cures, which add a nice touch to the game. There are several other, good perks to the game, such as being able to blast the odd rat who runs about your hospital, and managing to handle raging epidemics to avoid heavy fines. All in all, a good game, and when you take into account the price; brilliant. One word of warning, though: switch the speakers off before playing this game. The simple, beeping music may drive you to contract a disease as bad as someone at your hospital has!

Theme Hospital
I thoroughly enjoyed playing theme hospital. The levels can be a little simple compared to some more modern games, but no doubt this is a classic.

You, as owner of a hospital must satisfy your patient's needs. You hire doctors, nurses, receptionists, handymen. You design the layout of your hospital with waiting areas, GP's offices and so on. Place plant pots, vending machines and the like.

There are some very clever touches like the various illnesses that your patients can contract-such as bloated head-and they methods you use to deal with them-a machine which pops the patient's head and then blows it up to normal size.

This is a very worthwhile game to buy, especially considering it's cheap price.

Total Classic!
One of the best computer games ever - guaranteed to keep you addicted. The graphics are simple but suit the style of the game (and also means that there is absolutely NO loading time in the game - you never have to wait!) and the tunes that play sound like they came straight off a cheesy American 80s hospital TV show. You can never get bored, as each level gets harder and has more diseases and more equipment to cure patients. The receptionist makes hilarious spoof announcements over the loudspeaker every so often, and the diseases the patients get will crack you up too!
This game just goes to show that the best games don't need flashy graphics or complicated missions to make them fun - trust me, if you play Theme Hospital it will quickly become your favourite game ever!