LGR - Theme Hospital - DOS PC Game Review 

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Sorry, the comment I made years ago was invisible, so I have to do it again: Maybe you just overlooked all the transparent patients, seeing as how they are, you know, transparent.

How appropriate that your comment about transparent people wasn't able to be seen.

it made me want to be a doctor too! my parents couldn't afford college though, so now i just sell crack to children.

You know what? That's practically prescribing drugs. You're basically a doctor, when you think about it.

Lunchpacked180 Or it makes you want to cheat more so you could appreciate the cleverness of this awesome game.

I loved this game , but I was never good at it...

Warning, The hospital administrator is cheating!

Shame.. Shame.. Shame..

Dial 24328 then click green button, on the fax machine, then shift c for cash, control shift c for all treatment and diagnosis rooms.

indeed they were. I was blown away by Syndicate as a kiddo'.

No they were not. They made good games.

@@__Mr.White__ "killin it" means they were really good

@@tnfsgsalternateaccount7613 ohh

and now they're killed off

a good strategy is to cover the rat hole with something, that way you get less rats. you need to make a cleaner hospital btw

Roberto De Gasperi isn't here an achievement for that? Hahahaha!

I don't think this was on the early games. I remember playing it on ps1 years after playing it on Windows... And remember thinking "oh my god. You can shoot the rats!"

@@AdamMGTF Yea you could shoot the rats in early versions.

I actually never knew that. Thanks!

#OCDintensifies

Ocd is just in yer heads.

Reality is just in your "head"...

restlessfrager OCD is not something "just in peoples heads" you ignorant fool.

Jake Jutras well, it actually is. all mental issues are lol

instablaster...

I think Two Point Hospital is in the mould of Sim Hospital rather than Theme Hospital. It's too serious, with real ilnnesses etc. You feel like a hypochondriac after playing for an hour, like is my heart rate normal, oh god have I got kidney stones, etc.

@@icameisawicringed6644 I think you are mixing up two point hospital with another game. Two point hospital is basically a theme hospital sequel.

@@BigmanDogs Aye

@@vilegrog Is that in a DLC or something? When I saw it, it was like open heart surgery etc.

@@vilegrog Okay, the review I watched didn't say that, I will take your word for it. Maybe I will check it out again, though I already have Theme Hospital so why bother.

Ridiculously? I say they are absolutely essential

makes me wish I had kept some of mine from back in the day.

warning, this is a warning!

I spent most of my teenage years playing Syndicate (not Syndicate wars) on my Amiga 600. Those were the days.

You'd pretty much end up with this LGR - SimHealth - DOS PC Game Review

+Lazy Game Reviews i love you

As opposed to the American healthcare system simulator, where the hospital consists of the rich person wing and the second mortgage bank.

Eric Bishton Visit an NHS hospital

It was made by the same guys they just don't have the theme hospital name anymore..even the annuncer lady is the same in both games

​@@mullaoslosadly she's not. Two Point Studios confirmed as much on their Twitter. They wanted to find the original voice actress but couldn't hunt her down, so the new one is a soundalike

Lmao

All bullfrog games are free, the company has been out of business for 4 years so there classed as freeware.

@@sosomadman GOG has the legal rights to this title I believe.

@@kajetankesicki8011 This is true but so was their comment at the time. It used to be freeware but now since GOG has gotten the right to sell it, it no longer is.

I was scrolling for this comment

:D!

(Theme hospital has been free for donkeys years... It's freeware)

yessssss! :D I have problems with Origin but I do love it when they throw in a free game :p

Same

Same! I was so excited since I haven't played it in years and always wanted to try and finish it. One of my fav games.

Same

I got it free from steam and i am running it on a windows 8.1 laptop XD

Holy smokes! Thank you very very much! I just tried this game, and I found it borderline unplayable even on the easiest setting. The hospital got flooded with people when I just have finished the second room and the staff quits like 2 minutes after they're hired.. I hired a blazing fast janitor once, and he wanted a raise, like everyone and their mother, but he was so fast I couldn't click on him! I will give it another try on lower speed. The micromanagement will still be insane though. All the maintenance stuff is tedious and deviates from the core game. Radiators, fire extinguishers, plants, benches, trash cans and freaking soda machines shouldn't be part of the game, there's enough to do already.

There's actually 5 speed settings: slowest, slow, medium, fast, and fastest. They can be activated from the menu or using numbers 1-5 although fastest only works in the original DOS version. In the windows version, 4 and 5 (fast and fastest) run at exactly the same speed. No idea why.

yup.. we called it Golden time

ninja plz Replace hardware of the machines every so often, it brings them back on full strenght - otherwise the strenght will lower down to 1 over time. Earthquakes do 1-6 damage, so that's why your machines blow up. Also the earthquakes come in pairs - the first one being warning, not dealing damage. When you get the first earthquake, quick save (alt+s). If some of your machines get wrecked, quick load (alt+l) and stop that from happening again.

True dat

That's the challenge tho, you can't remove the destroyed rooms so you won't easily win the game. Just put an army of maintenance and you're set. Also a tip for earthquake, usually there will be 2 earthquake in one instance. The first one will be smaller, following with the bigger one that usually would destroy the machinery. When the first one starts to happen, reduce the game speed to slowest, and then save the game. Then start replacing every damaged machines so they won't blow up on the 2nd earthquake. In case there's still a machine you can't save, re-load the game and quickly replace that machine so you can prevent its demise. Slowest speed will be your best buddy on the later levels.

"Patients are asked not to vomit _too_ much."

i play it with a psp emulator on my old htc desire hd. works fine

NO! Just NO! dungeon keeper mobile is just the worst and mobile games all suck.

***** i think he meant to port it. NOT to make a new mobile version. Bit of a difference.

Search CorsixTH on Google Play. There's an Android version. ;)

Conor there is? Couldn't find it on playstore tho

+JuanMamaril But it's features are incomplete for now. :(

+Strider VM Patience is a virtue young Padawan...

There was an option in a menu to make staff assignments stick, where they would stay in their assigned rooms. Otherwise the staff AI will try to man rooms in demand by drawing on idle doctors or doctors from less busy rooms. You can adjust a slider for how much tiredness staff accumulate before heading to the nearest staff room. I found that overstaffing works. Exactly one staff per room means little when a third of the goobers are on break, a few surplus reserve doctors help if you can afford it. Staff always have a little job satisfaction drop over time. You could go through the staff menu and bump it up with a one-time cash bonus to prevent the demand for a wage increase. It can be a bit tedious, but even several pages of staff is easy to judge. Startopia had the same deal where you had to scroll through the staff menu and check off which ones needed a cash incentive. Working in cramped little offices without a potted plant or heating, or having tiredness build up, drops it faster. The more overworked staff are, the longer time they spend in the staff room getting their tiredness down. And the longer they have to walk to get there, the longer their total time off work becomes. Sometimes it's more efficient to set up a couple new staff rooms in a huge, sprawling hospital than to have one huge, central arcade. This is a game about managing flow and how much time people waste walking from one end to the other.

The best staff room is as small as possible with only sofas so the staff stay sat down resting quicker than if they are wandering between pool tables and arcades in a large room.

+Randal Skefingtonidis What do you mean "Having to build and use an execution chamber for the tutorial level is too grim"?

+Randal Skefingtonidis When I think of "comedy gold", the first thing that comes to mind is prison. Think about it! They have to worry about food poisoning and soap dropping while we get to live a decent life! Now that's comedy gold.

+Randal Skefingtonidis This game is still a ton of fun today. It's pretty simplistic but it's still a total blast and is a great contrast to Prison Architect's much more demanding style IMO.

prison architect, how cute. my colonists in rimworld wish they could live in the luxury of a prison. unfortunately in their world, theres only disease, pyromania, cannibalism and death.

ow the edge

Loans are definitely the way to go. You pay next to nothing in interest to float loans and the benefits of investing that money are huge.

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Scenario.

omegaweapon27 thanks

Captain Cartman Yeah, I got this free on Origin as well. I haven't actually played it until after watching this video.

RothGamingOfficial Ha ha, it's funny. I actually have quite a few free games from Origin.....and I haven't even touched a single one. XD

Captain Cartman Damn, missed it.

Gene Glagolev It's like $5 on GOG. Get that one. They updated the textures for modern resolutions.

The only reason I use Origin is because of free games, lol.

And it came true, Two Point Hospital

Two point hospital is the spiritual successor to theme hospital two point studio was created by some of the devs from the former bullfrog studio. two point campus is also out now by the same studio both the radio DJ and pa announcer on both two point games are the original voices from theme hospital and park🙂

so i should get the dos version

Yes. Get it from gog.com

despite his claim that you don't need the manual... there are actually some very important things that aren't even explained beyond the manual. You can find these points around the Internet.

It got a "kind of" sequel in Hospital Tycoon, but that game was rushed in the end and never lived up to its real potential. There's enough game there that you can see where it could have gone, and I think it had the potential to be even better than Theme Hospital, but in the end it was a huge disappointment for me. What I'd love is a sequel where they had the resources and could take the time to do it properly, and even allow fan made mods as well for things like new diseases and equipment. Maybe even have multiple themes which would basically be re-skins - historical hospital, modern hospital, future hospital, serious hospital etc.

Two Point Hospital is a spiritual successor. Check it out.

Treasure math storm?

@@jena.t nailed it!

Looks like we're getting a true sequel, though.

haha, well to be honest that chopping of heads creeped me out as a kid aswell.

I only found out about it this year. Never found this game on the PlayStation Store when I had the chance.