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Free [ORIGIN] Game: Theme Hospital

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Turn Cures into Cash!

The world of Theme Hospital is home to dozens of goofy, fictional diseases. Some humans are afflicted with Bloaty Head, causing their noggins to triple in size; others suffer from King Complex, a psychological disorder that infects its victims with the irresistible desire to impersonate Elvis Presley. All of these sick people need help – that’s where you come in.

Theme Hospital tasks you with designing, maintaining, and managing a hi-tech hospital as you service hundreds of ailing patients in an attempt to turn cures into cash. You’ll need to be quick on your feet in order to keep your staff happy and patients healthy. Fail, and your business will collapse. It’s time to find out if you've got what it takes to balance the books and the bedpans.

Design and build a hi-tech hospital. Every stage begins with an empty hospital, leaving it to you to plan out and create a facility to deal with the impending crisis. How many rooms should you dedicate to better your facilities? What about diagnosis and treatment operations? Your strategic decisions will mean the difference between success and failure.

Treat patients suffering from humorous afflictions. In real life, disease isn't a laughing matter. In Theme Hosptial, it’s hilarious. You’ll have to cure sick patients afflicted by dozens of wacky problems, ranging from Hairyitis, a smell-enhancing condition caused by prolonged exposure to the moon, to Spare Ribs, an oddball illness that, as its name suggests, causes those infected to grow additional ribs.

Hire staff members and keep them happy. While a hospital’s purpose is to heal the sick, you’ll need a staff of doctors, nurses, receptionists, and handymen to keep it running in tip-top shape. But just like the sick patients they service, your staff has their own wants and needs (often in the form of better pay), so you’ll have to do your best to keep them happy if you want to keep them on board.

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  • +3

    Just found that I already have it.

    • +8

      Lol it's been free for ages.

    • +5

      has been on and off on the house.

    • I had so much fun with this game in the 90's. I wish I can be a director at a real hospital.

    • +15

      Actually it is a brilliant game. Don't be negative about it just because you cannot pass the first level. :-)

        • +8

          Judging a game from its graphics rolls eyes

          It DID come out 18 years ago and looked pretty good for its time. The gameplay holds up even if the graphics don't

        • -4

          @backslashio:
          So no one bother to make a Sim hospital game for last 18 years? :)

        • @boomramada:

          Nothing that is that well thought out and fun.
          They just copied Theme Hospital.

          It really is a great game. The graphics suffice even today for the game purposes. I mean do you expect 4k graphics for a game like that? What good would that do and how would it positively affect gameplay? It would just make the game more expensive and more resource-hungry to run.

          Sorry, but for me it is gameplay that matters. Not the graphics.

        • @boomramada: Just because the game never had a sequel doesn't mean it wasn't a good game

        • -5

          @Lysander:
          I don't mind getting all these down votes for my opinion but for me graphic is as important as the game play.
          I rather play C&C than this game :)

        • +1

          @boomramada:

          Maybe you don't like games of this sort then?! That could be the issue.

        • -3

          @Lysander:
          That could be right, I don't mind sim games, even original sim city came way before this and had a better graphic.

        • @boomramada:

          So if I gave you a game with super graphics but all you could do in the game was to walk in a straight line you would prefer that over a game with 10 year old graphics but decent gameplay?

          Look at the Nintendo classics - Zelda, Donkey Kong etc. - great, great games and very playable even with old graphics. They are still considered much better games than for example Kane&Lynch etc. who undoubtedly have better graphics but mediocre gameplay.

          But you are entitled to your opinion. I guess I should be thankful that somebody buys those games with medicore gameplay and super graphics. Leaves more of the good games for me. ;-)

        • -5

          @Lysander:
          I don't intend to play 10 year old games or watch 10 year old movies. I rather appropriate it at that time and move on. But if I had a choice of buying this or sim city 10 years ago, even this game with 50% discount, I would go for simcity ;)

          I don't just buy games with good graphic, should have decent graphic and game play for my liking :)

          for 18 years ago, I still would give 2/10 for this game, 8/10 for Sim City, 10/10 for Doom :P

        • You can't get 486DX in 1980's

        • -1

          @dhie20:
          felt like that long ago, thanks for correcting me bonus point for you :)

          edited:
          Second thought, no more bonus point , 486DX introduced in 1989 :)

        • +4

          In this thread; Dumb people arguing with a dumb new gen troll. If mine was the first comment you clicked to show, best move along. If mine was the last one you clicked, was that a good 5 minutes of your time?

        • +1

          @FrankMcFuzz

          ^ Good advice if you haven't moved on already

  • +1

    I heart theme hospital!

  • This was just recently free.

  • I added this to my Origin Library for free on January 22nd of this year, so I guess this is a little late to the party? Unless it was recently made free again?

  • +1

    It was free just last month, or at least that's what my order history says.

  • For those of you confused about this being free recently, when C&C Red Alert was on this promotion, they ran out of keys so they used Theme Hospital until they had new keys.

  • +3

    One is the best games of all time

    • Yessssss. Still awesome to this day. Miss shooting the mice

    • +1

      Along with Deus Ex (first one)!

  • -1

    not for Mac? :(

  • +1

    The Hospital administrator is CHEATING!

    • Loved that bit. "A cheat is running the hospital!"

  • Get without origin client.

    http://themehospital.co.uk/

  • Does this version have the "heating" bug?

  • +1

    I loved this game wish there was a sequel.

  • In real life, disease isn't a laughing matter. In Theme Hosptial, it’s hilarious.

    AIDS. AIDS AIDS AIDS.
    Everybody has AIDS.

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    AIDS.

    v.

  • I wish they would make more sims like this one and the original theme park or remake them and extend them without over doing the graphics

    They were so much fun.. Now the new age graphics just dont work as well with the game play

  • Theme hospital - free again. Let it be free!

  • Got the urge to play the original theme park.

    Never really tried to find something like it released more recently though I know there's a bunch out there

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