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Developer: Bullfrog Productions
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Platform: Windows
Original Release: 31 March 1997
Available From: Amazon

Theme Hospital has an interesting concept that not many games have explored since. Simply put, you must run a hospital and run it well enough that it eventually pulls down a profit. As you run each hospital so that it becomes a success, you graduate to larger and more complex hospitals until you finally beat the game. What distinguishes Theme Hospital from other, far more serious business games like Rollercoaster Tycoon is the all-encompassing sense of humor. Everywhere from the disease to the staff was permeated with this eccentricity, and it makes Theme Hospital an absolute blast to play. 28/04/09