theme hospital

mcarey7

Does anyone else remember this game? I'm interested in playing it again but lost my hard copy years ago...anywhere you can play it online or download for free?

Raphael

Not free, but it's on GOG: http://www.gog.com/game/theme_hospital

gozunda

mcarey7 wrote: »

Does anyone else remember this game? I'm interested in playing it again but lost my hard copy years ago...anywhere you can play it online or download for free?

Great game

There is an interesting Wiki article
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme_Hospital

Check out the "Other Versions' section for details ...

Cravez

If you download the demo and use Corsix-TH I think it allows you full access to the game in glorious HD. I can't say for certain though as haven't used Corsix-TH in ages but I'm pretty sure you just needed the Theme Hospital demo which is free.

BeerWolf

Symptom: Airhead

Remedy: Pin to the head...

Classic

Wossack

Doc Martin to podiatry, calling doctor Martin to podiatry

Aimeee

Was thinking about this very game the other day wondering if I could get hold of it! Thanks for asking this!

degrassinoel

BeerWolf wrote: »

Symptom: Airhead

Remedy: Pin to the head...

Classic

wasnt it bloaty head? lol

cherryghost

Doctor needed in Slack Tongue clinic.

Kirby

Nurse required in ward.....

Raphael

****ing Radiators...

Cravez

Kirby wrote: »

Nurse required in ward.....

When the most demand was needed, all staff are on break. So I would usually fire and hire new ones and plop them in place

" You're on a jobsbridge scheme now! mwa hahaha! "

gozunda

Cravez wrote: »

When the most demand was needed, all staff are on break. So I would usually fire and hire new ones and plop them in place

" You're on a jobsbridge scheme now! mwa hahaha! "

+ add new HSE management and you could forget about the earthquake damage

knarkypants

I absolutely love this game. Must go dig it out and lose another month of my life to it!

gozunda

knarkypants wrote: »

I absolutely love this game. Must go dig it out and lose another month of my life to it!

The old version doesn't like current windows os unfortunately

Steviemoyne

gozunda wrote: »

The old version doesn't like current windows os unfortunately

Indeed it doesn't but the mod mentioned by Cravez fixes this, played it flawlessly using the mod on Windows 7 64 bit.

Cravez

If you have the old physical copy, I think using Corsix-TH allows you to run it via newer Operating Systems as it's effectively running the game from Corsix rather than the game's exe file. I think Corsix just uses the assets from the game to run it from the program so that's why I was saying you can theoretically play Theme Hospital for free using Corsix-TH by using the Theme Hospital demo (which should be free somewhere) as Corsix is just grabbing the game's assets and using them via an external program.

Kiith

Definitely my favourite Sims game (just edges Sim City 2000). I spent so much time on it, and really well made. Very funny as well. Definitely need to give it a go again, as it's been years since i've played it.

Surprised that there's not been an official tablet/phone release for it yet.

Shiminay

Corsix-TH is fantastic, gives a classic like this a much needed lease of life.

I hope it never makes it to iOS or Android, after the rape of Dungeon Keeper by EA's mobile division, I couldn't stand to see another Bullfrog classic brutalised like that.

cherryghost

'We apologize for the amount of litter!'

Screw you lady, I've won cleanest hospital 3 years running!

TheChrisD

cherryghost wrote: »

'We apologize for the amount of litter!'

Screw you lady, I've won cleanest hospital 3 years running!

And yet every time that announcement was made, your little advisor would pop up saying that there was an issue with the radiators :rolleyes:

kenon

Loved Theme Hospital, but the thing that really annoyed about it was that when machinery blew up, you would lose the use of that room for the rest of the level!

I would play it again if CorsixTH fixes that bug and adds all the machinery!

TheChrisD

kenon wrote: »

Loved Theme Hospital, but the thing that really annoyed about it was that when machinery blew up, you would lose the use of that room for the rest of the level!

WAD :P

Two surgeons required in operating theatre.

Two surgeons required in operating theatre.

Two surgeons required in operating theatre.

Two surgeons required in operating theatre.

Two surgeons required in operating theatre.

...

I ONLY HAVE ONE FECKING SURGEON!

Thoie

Raphael wrote: »

Not free, but it's on GOG: http://www.gog.com/game/theme_hospital

Dammit, I tripped and fell and landed on the buy button. And the login, reset password, add to cart and paypal buttons as well. It was a big fall.

Raphael

Thoie wrote: »

Dammit, I tripped and fell and landed on the buy button. And the login, reset password, add to cart and paypal buttons as well. It was a big fall.

You should head to a hospital and get that checked out. Since it was a digital fall, a digital hospital would be best.

Sierra Oscar

Funnily enough one of my housemates was playing it just last week for blast of nostalgia. I was surprised to see it running on Windows 8 without any major issues!

Was there ever a spiritual successor to it?

Thoie

Two questions:

1. How do I also turn off the music?
2. Is there a way to zoom in and out that I'm missing? It would be handier to do that than side scrolling around the place, but I may be expecting too much

sparkle_23

I loved that game! So funny! I have the case of the disc at my parents house but the disc is long gone

Oranage2

Shiminay wrote: »

Corsix-TH s fantastic, gives a classic like this a much needed lease of life.

I hope it never makes it to iOS or Android, after the rape of Dungeon Keeper by EA's mobile division, I couldn't stand to see another Bullfrog classic brutalised like that.

It's out for android, just downloaded it there.

Shiminay

Description
CorsixTH is a reimplementation of the Theme Hospital game engine. This is an unofficial port of CorsixTH to Android.

Oh thank the gods, I thought this was an EA release like DK a few months back.

I'd suggest that it's on shaky legal ground though, Corsix requires the original game files to run on PC, this Android port is potentially using those same licensed assets without permission.

Oranage2

Shiminay wrote: »

Oh thank the gods, I thought this was an EA release like DK a few months back.

I'd suggest that it's on shaky legal ground though, Corsix requires the original game files to run on PC, this Android port is potentially using those same licensed assets without permission.

I'll take the risk


Looks exactly the same on the Android only problem is the pharmacy and operating theater get the bulk of people patients whilst the the clinics get hardly any.

Still amazing, just micro managing is so hard on the phone.

DM addict

I've got the GOG version, and it runs great on Windows 7. Pretty sure it'd be grand on 8 too.

Still one of the best games I've ever played.

knarkypants

Got it up and running on my laptop using CorsixTH. Thanks for the info.

Forgotten how funny this game is..."You've just killed your first patient....how do you feel?" :pac:

gozunda

Had some issues with the CorsixTH software so dug out old Laptop, reimaged and it's now running exactly like it used too

Thargor

Remember when pc games were in big cardboard boxes, I got a compilation box with

-Destruction Derby 2
-Sub Culture (underwater arcade flight-sim type, great graphics on my first voodoo card)
-Civ II
-Crusader: No Remorse
-Red Baron
-Pro Pinball

and Theme Hospital all in one box for a tenner in Smyths in Galway back in the day, bargain of the century, I thought Theme Hospital was the dud in the box because Id never played a management game before but my whole family ended up playing it for years non-stop, even my father who never touched the pc would be in my room playing it when I came in from school, one of my all time favourite games.

JBRowan

this game was awesome

gozunda

Has anyone ever playe all the levels (ie hospitals?) or does the game continue to randomly assign other hospitals as the game is played?

gozunda

gozunda wrote: »

Has anyone ever playe all the levels (ie hospitals?) or does the game continue to randomly assign other hospitals as the game is played?

Each level is distinct. You progress along this board as you play. I always seem to get bored around the same point any time I replay it

gozunda

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Each level is distinct. You progress along this board as you play. I always seem to get bored around the same point any time I replay it

Thanks I know that you move 'progress along the board - just I have never actually got to the end so to speak. Is there a final level? Just wondering has any one got there and ?

DM addict

I actually did a massive replay recently and got through all the levels. The earlier ones were a bit dull to replay, but once you get into mad epidemics and so on it's worth it

gozunda

DM addict wrote: »

I actually did a massive replay recently and got through all the levels. The earlier ones were a bit dull to replay, but once you get into mad epidemics and so on it's worth it

So as the board seems to indicate is the big reward at the end fast cars, ladies of the night and columbiam marching powder etc?

BeerWolf

Thargor wrote: »

Remember when pc games were in big cardboard boxes

I still get them cardboard boxes... though they always tend to be the Collector's Edition... with Blizzard's games... :pac:

Generic Dreadhead

Fúck this thread for making me NEEEEEEDDDD to play this game again.... why would I open a thread like this on a Friday... that's the weekend gone now :pac:

That moment when you find a consultant with 2 or more speciality areas..... sexual!!!!!!

Generic Dreadhead

Update: Lost 8 hours of my day yesterday on this now, btw I suck at this game, I get to around level 7 and balls it up... had to google tips since it was my 1st time playing since I had internet..... there are soooo many things i did not know and sooooo many things i was doing wrong

What were you doing wrong?

A couple of mistakes since I started this:
Poor layout in a scanner with no waiting area meant a backlog/bottleneck developed - and people were dying in the queue and were not happy about it.
I hadn't spotted the backlog until my satisfaction levels were dropping. make the room big and have a waiting area.

Not using the training room to train up enough surgeons (or juniors, etc) no point having an operating theatre with only one surgeon and the other one is working somewhere else. Also have your ward next to the theatre.

Have a big toilet.

I'd always start off with 2 GP's office because they are always a bottleneck

kenon

A battalion of handymen too.

Noo

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I'd always start off with 2 GP's office because they are always a bottleneck

Yes that was my tactic too. I rooted the game out a while ago as I played it constantly for years as a kid but could never finish it so I admit I looked up cheats online....I can die a happy woman knowing that I finally got to play all the levels!

kenon

kenon wrote: »

A battalion of handymen too.

I found you only need one or two :eek: