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Theme Hospital

Platform(s): PC
Genre: Simulation
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Developer: Bullfrog Productions
Release Date: March 30, 1997

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'Theme Hospital' On the House At Origin.com

by Rainier on Jan. 20, 2015 @ 6:48 p.m. PST

Manage your very own high-tech hospital filled with patients suffering from goofy problems. This classic simulation gives you a number of scenarios to play though, testing your skills with epidemics, earthquakes, and all sorts of wacky issues.

Can you staff and maintain the entire medical center as problems pile up, while keeping your doctors happy and patients healthy?

You can play Theme Hospital right now for free with Origin On the House. Just log in to Origin, head to the On the House page, and download Theme Hospital to your “My Games” library. You’ll be able to play it whenever you want.

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.


Key Features:

  • 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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