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Theme Hospital - Free on Origin

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Usually $4.99 USD

It's a matter of laugh or death in Theme Hospital™, another installment of the Theme series.

Design, maintain and manage a hi-tech hospital facility, making the most of limited resources and turning cures into cash. The Grim Reaper stalks the corridors, the ill have some very odd ailments, and the staff want to play doctors and nurses together. No matter how you look at it, you're in control of a very sick hospital.

If there is one word that describes Theme Hospital then it has to be "hilarious." Almost everything in this game is made with great dose of humour. You might think that someone's illness is not a laughing matter but wait till you see a patient with KingComplex dressed as Elvis or serious case of Hairyitis caused from prolonged exposure to the moon. Finding treatments for such diseases is a part of your job, but there's no prescription to cure the insanity that may result from trying to figure out those cures. You start off small with an empty building, a few doctors, a general diagnostic, a pharmacy, a reception desk, and a few other necessities. From there it's up to you to move your way up in the health care industry.

A hospital simulator is not something you might consider a good theme for a game but the guys from Bullfrog Productions were famous for creating innovative and fun titles from the craziest idea—and Theme Hospital no exception. This game is a piece of art and definitely the best "hospital" simulation so check it out. Our diagnosis: fun!

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  • +19

    Omg, make me relive my 90s! thank you!

  • +1

    Damn, paid $4.99 USD too much!

    • LOL me too !

  • Thanks Origin :)

  • +19

    Absolutely the best PC game I've ever owned. For amusement though:

    Minimum system requirements:
    - Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7
    - 1.8 GHz Processor
    - 512MB RAM (1 GB recommended)
    - 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (compatible with DirectX 9 recommended)
    - 2GB HDD
    - Mouse
    - Keyboard

    What I had back in 1997 for this game:
    - Windows 95 "B"
    - Pentium 90 (90MHz)
    - 8MB RAM
    - 1MB Trident
    - 60MB Free Space

    • +8

      What!! You had 8MB RAM? Well… Rub it in why don't you. Mr rich! Nobody likes a gloater :)

      The rest of us were chugging along with 4MB Hehe.

      • Yeah, but that's 'balanced' by the Trident video card.

        • i had a 512kb trident….=\

      • +3

        Well… Back in my day I barely had two Mb to rub together. You kids dont know how good you have it…

        • Inflation

    • +3

      Pfft try a cyrix 486DLC…

      • +1

        Yeah you rich kids with pentiums. i had a 486. my next upgrade from that was a celeron

        • SX or DX… that is the question!

  • +2

    Great game! Remembered spending hours just playing and replaying it.

  • +2

    omg this was one of my first PC games and I LOVED it!

  • +2

    Loved this game…really really fun

  • This is a bast from the past for me. It's not that easy though, or at least I never found it easy. I would always inexplicably die.

  • +1

    this game is awesome.. i would have thought it would convert well to mobile. i'd love to have it for android/ios!

  • Love love love this game. Bought it on GOG.com before to play it on my mac, but if there's another one for free, why not? :)

  • -7

    Hahah oh hell yeah, such a good game. I'd pay $5 to not have origin installed on my PC though :(

    • Wait for it to go on sale on gog then.

  • far, takes me back

  • I still have the original game bought back in the days…
    Is this an updated version with patches to run on current OS?

    • +1

      Download CorsixTH. It's a sourceport of the original engine.
      You point it to your data files from the original version and play in full resolution.

  • I played the shit out of the demo to this. Stoked.

    As I'm at work, is there any possible way to add this to my account without having Origin installed?

    • +4

      Yep

      • How exactly? On my phone it just says to download their app…

      • Should I have said "May I have the steps provided to add this to my Origin account without installing it?"

        Regardless, I soon realised simply hitting the "get it now" button was enough.

        • Yep ;-)

  • this game is fun. however the last few stages are too difficult. earthquake happened all the time and also for the virus which can transfer from one customer to another, it happened so frequency and i keep fail to treat it.

  • It was so popular then, in surprised they didn't have a sequal.

    I had a Amd k6 2, 32 ram, ultra large 6gb hard drive, those where the days… Iv played so many demos, recoil, max Payne, I still have all these demos!

    Now downloading this on my tablet!

  • I believe a Pentium 166mx was what I played this on. Memory is blur after so many years.

  • +1

    Doctor Doctor please fix my inflated head

  • I remember all the mofos spewing on my floor.

  • Awesome thanks OP

  • +6

    Hell yeah!!! +1

    Patients are reminded not to die in the corridors.

    Seems like you can get it here too:

    http://themehospital.co.uk/downloads/

    • "Do not download these files unless you already own the original game! These files are copyright Bullfrog. "

      • LOL - that'll work
        (but thanks to OP we can own it for free)

  • It's very good game, you can even do network by using DOSBox.

  • I remember my mum paying $49.95 for this. Was totally worth it. Even more so at this price!

  • +1

    This game is a hoot. Thanks OP.

  • +2

    Pretty sure the cheat code with the fax machine will still work

    "The hospital administrator is cheating!!"

  • +3

    Awesome game that takes me back. Along with Transport Tycoon Deluxe, which was my absolute fave.

    For those that don't know. Transport Tycoon is now on iOS and Android. And it's freaking awesome (atleast on iOS). One of the best updates for an old game to mobile. Expensive, but there are no IAPs, and they get extra points in my book for that. I'm sure the temptation is there to add them, but so far they keep releasing new levels for free with each update

    Warning!! You will lose days of your life!

    • i still play ttd.

      google "openttd"

  • Now to think of it in surprised it's not on ios or android?

  • +2

    Anyone know how to change the resolution through DOSBOX?

    • +1

      let me know if you find out

  • This is a great game, I have many fond memories of Theme Hospital

  • Hospital administrator is cheating

  • this game keeps crashing on that teacher blackboard part. this happening to anyone else?

    • Press enter instead of escape. I had that problem.

      • not working, any other ideas :)?

  • Used to love this game!

  • Doctor! Attend in psychiatry please!

  • awesome game - they just dont make games like they used to :)

  • "We apologize for the litter"

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