12/4/2023 0 Comments Bullfrog hospital game![]() “Theme Hospital” is the spiritual sequel to “Theme Park” players must successfully build and run a hospital. … and if I had known in the mid-90’s that buying and being able to play a game just on a whim of “oh, that would be fun” would become so easy and almost mundane I think my head might just have exploded… Through the magic of GOG.com and DosBOX I was able to, not only pick up a copy for a reasonable price, but also play it pretty comfortably on my current gen PC. I guess my tastes have now matured enough that an immature game featuring excessive pooping noises suddenly sprung to mind when I was trying to work out what to play last weekend following a stressful meeting and associated (typically) disastrous journey. ![]() That final title is one that I only really knew from the odd “go” at a friend’s house, but it came across as a quirky cartoonish, slightly bizarrely toned, hospital management game that at the time I wasn’t remotely interested in because it didn’t involve a fast hedgehog or blasting some kind of demonic aliens looking back I had pretty terrible taste in games at that age. They were responsible for the aforementioned “Theme Park”, the mesmerising 3D landscapes of the “Magic Carpet” games, “Dungeon Keeper”, and of course “Theme Hospital”. s ure, it’s not one that’s going to sell many novels, but it’s a mystery nonetheless. For anyone who doesn’t remember the gaming world of 20+ years ago, Bullfrog were responsible for a string of PC gaming success stories, many of which were ported to the consoles of the time, but given that most of their catalogue involved a mouse interface to some extent it was pretty obvious which market they were aiming for. My first PC gaming incarnation was during the mid-90′ which coincided with the golden age of the great amphibian developer so how I managed to steer clear of their work is a mystery …. Despite “Theme Park” being one of the first PC games that I owned, I somehow managed to avoid most of the other big Bullfrog titles.
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