![]() And so I found myself on her sofa, drinking prosecco and watching the opening animation of Theme Hospital. ![]() “I downloaded it again the other week,” she told me. “The humour seemed to work, the British things translated.” Hospital workers themselves have always had a particular interest in the game: at the US launch, a doctor told the team: “I am just fascinated about how much you have got right.”īut why did we, as nine or ten-year-old girls, love it so much? Shortly before speaking to Carr and Webley, I asked a friend who had been part of our pre-adolescent gaming posse about it. “I think they like a lot of nurturing games,” says Carr. When pirated copies are also taken into account, the most popular market for Theme Hospital is China, where, the makers say, it is almost a household name (Russia also contains a huge fan base). The combination of British-style hospital culture – complete with 1950s-style iron beds, and nods to Carry On Doctor – and American-style healthcare profiteering turned out to be an epidemic success. Science and Technical Research and Development.Infrastructure Management - Transport, Utilities.Information Services, Statistics, Records, Archives.Information and Communications Technology.HR, Training and Organisational Development.Health - Medical and Nursing Management.Facility / Grounds Management and Maintenance.“The fun of it was because we were making a piece of entertainment, making the strange illnesses.” We weren’t medical people, so why not rack the whole thing up and make it ridiculous?” “This was never about taking the mickey out of the health service,” Mark Webley, the producer and designer of Theme Hospital adds. “So we just tried to take the comical approach. “We were seeing all these really quite horrific things that people go through in their lives and it isn’t easy to turn that into entertainment,” Gary Carr, the artist for Theme Hospital, tells the New Statesman. In fact, despite visiting several British hospitals and even observing surgery in research for their game, its makers decided to inject comedy rather than gritty realism. “A grisly computer game which shows a doctor operating with a chainsaw is to be used as a training aid for NHS managers,” the Evening Standard reported in the month of its release, adding that medical groups had condemned the game. Perhaps it is not surprising then, that Theme Hospital’s initial press diagnosis was deeply serious. Tony Blair had spent the run up to the poll attacking the Tories for mismanagement of the NHS and promising to build hospitals. Crammed into the downstairs cupboard of her parents’ – themselves doctors – otherwise large and lovely home, we became the masters of our own hospital, Theme Hospital: a pastel-coloured, retro-patterned, pixelated dolls house in which there were counterproductive numbers of KitKat machines.Ĭonceived in the dying days of John Major’s Conservative government, Theme Hospital was released on PC in 1997 – the same year as New Labour’s election landslide. Now all of the garbage and patients will disappear allowing you a fresh start.As Edinburgh’s doctors dealt with rising obesity and a heroin epidemic, across the city my friend and I were taking on our own medical emergencies: bloated heads and elongated tongues. To get a clean hospital, save the game and reload it again when the hospital becomes full. Return to the game and press any of the following: Effect The first thing you do is open a green ? fax and enter 24328 on the pad then press the big button in the top right. ![]() ![]() Note that the pointer might be hidden, but it's still there. Then click on the level you want to skip to. When you are on the board screen (just before the level), press the C button. After that, re-place your reception table and the epidemic will not happen again. Wait or hasten the timer (by sending one of the infected patient home), when the time is up, the Health Minister will not show up because there is no where to go to. When an epidemic event happened, before the time is up (when the Health Minister showed up on your map), delete the reception table. It will dissappear instantly! You can now return the object to it original place. Whenever you have trash or vomit around, simply pick up a bench, fire extinghuisher, radiator or a drinks machine, and place it on the garbage. To get to the rat shoot level without cheating shoot (left click on)a lot of rats in a hospital (i killed 10 and got to it) Start the game using the hospital -L command line, it will then open the game is the level you want. Press buttons 7287 on the fax machine to shoot rats at the end of the level. ![]()
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