Select and enter your email address Morning Call Quick and essential guide to domestic and global politics from the New Statesman's politics team. “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.
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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. A lot of the visuals are recognisable from the original Bullfrog Productions/Electronic Arts creations, but it remains to be seen whether more diseases or more pop culture references emerge.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. The new Project Hospital game will be released on Steam in 2018, with Oxymoron Games behind it. The funny references and bizarre diseases and ailments (Bloaty Head, anyone?) are what got fans on board in the early days, and we’re sure to see plenty of players rush to relive that experience. It sounds boring in principle, but in reality it’s anything but. Theme Hospital first emerged in 1997, the same year as Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, and as such is getting some modernised graphics for its reinvention as ‘Project Hospital’, which has been described as a new take on the classic game.įor the uninitiated, the new game will allow players to “become an aspiring architect, a successful manager and an ace doctor all at the same time” – so that’s the realism of overworked modern doctors ticked off the list.
The nostalgia kick is great, but will the new Theme Hospital be as hard as the new Crash? Sane Trilogy dominating many of our summers. Revamps and remasters have been all the rage of late, with Crash Bandicoot: N. The original Theme Hospital in all its glory Or, alternatively, wait a little while and play the new version. If you don’t remember the glory of it all, let us bring it all back to you here. The ‘90s classic was a veritable treasure trove, giving you hours of entertainment despite all logic dictating you ought to have binned it off immediately. What’s the best computer game you’ve ever played? Wrong, it’s actually Theme Hospital.
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