Do You Remember Those Old PC Games? Fun Weren't They? - Theme Hospital

in games •  8 years ago 

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As I said in my previous post about the Sherlock Holmes games, I so enjoyed those old computer games that I want to share them again on Steemit.

In this post I'll tell you about my one of my best games from a bygone era. I hope for some feedback about what your best are.

Today I'd like to remember that real old classic Theme Hospital.

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The aim of the game was to build a hospital to treat patients who either walked in or arrived by helicopter. The emergency cases had a blue beacon above their heads.

VIPs often visited your hospital too and could greatly improve or damage your reputation.

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The first stage for patients was to visit the GP. Often the corridors became pretty dangerous as patients caught a vomiting bug.

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Doctors and nurses, sweepers and a grim reaper are your staff. There is a rest room to build to keep them happy.

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You have to build everything and, as your hospital grows, there are some weird treatment machines to cure the weird illnesses.

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To succeed at the game you had to be a building planner, accountant, fast with the mouse and non-flusterable as the pace hotted up. As I said before, I loved it. I actually worked right through the game several times. It took days to complete.

The original game ran on XP and Vista. Later versions used Windows 7. There is now a patch for Windows 8 but for Windows 10 you need DOSBox which, they claim, will allow you to run it. I haven't tested this so try it at your own risk.

I could go on singing the praises of this brilliant old game but better finish now.

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Very cool, these old games! Back then they were awesome, and looking back, they still are! Though I never played Theme Hospital, looks like chaos with all that vomiting in there :)

Yes but there were staff to clean up the pools. The trick was to stop it before the bug spread. O no, now I'm rabbiting on about that game again! Thank you for reading and commenting.