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Posted April 12, 2012
You might not think that a hospital sim could be so funny, but remember: laughter is the best medicine!

Welcome to the GOG.com clinic! As a treatment for typical symptoms of moderngameboringus--lack of creativity, no sense of humor, and mindless repetition--we recommend a wonderful insta-cure: Theme Hospital for a co-pay of only $5.99!

Theme Hospital is a hospital management simulation. You need to fill the empty building with all sorts of hospital equipment, starting from desks and file cabinets, to ultra-sophisticated diagnostic machinery like DNA fixer or Head Inflator: you know, equipment every hospital needs. Then you hire all necessary staff members like doctors, nurses, handymen, or receptionists, and once everything’s set up, treat patients as they come in suffering from a variety of humourous illnesses, including Hairyitis, Bloaty Head, and even Slack Tongue (caused by over-discussion of soap operas!).

Theme Hospital is all about the little details: staff personalities, patients vomiting, doctors chilling in the staff room, and fantastic comedic cutscenes. Your hospital requires not only the best staff and equipment but pool tables, soda machines, radiators, and plants to keep your patients and doctors alike happy. Fans of micromanagement will be pleased, but so will fans of fun!

Do what it takes to make the world a better place: pick up Theme Hospital for $5.99 on GOG.com today!
Posted April 12, 2012
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dudalb: I have just bough Theme Hospital, and am still downloading it, but I am 99% sure it is the DOSBOX version. GOG prefers the DOSBOX version because it is pretty easy to make a game playable on a modern computer using DOSBOX, but at times really hard to get early Windows game to run on a modern computer.
This. GOG wants games to work for as many people as possible on release, and that may mean sacrificing some quality.
Posted April 12, 2012
And I JUST bought Deus Ex and Grimrock with all my money, and for me, getting money is a RARE occurence.
Thank you for releasing it though! ^-^
Posted April 12, 2012
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towerbooks3192: Just a question though. Does this game have sandbox/freeplay mode? As far as I recall it didnt have one on the ps1
No, but this "version" does.
Posted April 12, 2012
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Fuzzyfireball: GOG are the ones that hunt down the extras. Not the publisher.

They might still be hunting for things to release later. They've done it before.
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tfishell: But don't they have to secure the rights for the extras from EA or other sources, maybe separately from the game? A while ago it was announced that Dungeon Keeper, Alpha Centuri, Crusader and other EA games had been given extra bonus content, so yeah, they may eventually do it again. Soundtrack would be nice. ;)
They do indeed, just saying it is mostly up to GOG it seems to dig deep for the "goodies goodness".
Posted April 12, 2012
Theme hospital at last!

First Wing Commander 4 and now this, you're on fire lately.
Posted April 12, 2012
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tfishell: But don't they have to secure the rights for the extras from EA or other sources, maybe separately from the game? A while ago it was announced that Dungeon Keeper, Alpha Centuri, Crusader and other EA games had been given extra bonus content, so yeah, they may eventually do it again. Soundtrack would be nice. ;)
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Fuzzyfireball: They do indeed, just saying it is mostly up to GOG it seems to dig deep for the "goodies goodness".
Don't forget to vote for this: http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/site/more_bonus_material_for_games_already_on_gog
;)

EDIT: Oh, I just saw a comment by you, thanks. :)
Post edited April 12, 2012 by tfishell
Posted April 12, 2012
Oooh, nice. This is gonna make a lot of people very happy. Now don't forget to release Theme Park!
Posted April 12, 2012
KEEP THE EA GAMES COMING YEAAAHHHH
Posted April 12, 2012
It's great to finally see this one here
Posted April 12, 2012
I don't care that I already own this twice (original big box release with the Green + on the box, and the Sold Out release with the * on the box). I AM BUYING THIS AGAIN.

More old games please, GOG. Especially ones of this quality.
Posted April 12, 2012
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Roufuss: It's the DOS version, and someone on the Theme Hospital board is already reporting that GOG did a bad job with this one; he mentioned sub-par performance and mouse issues.

I'm disappointed.
I got it running perfectly in DOSBox, so either GOG did something catastrophically wrong with the config, or the issue is between DOSBox and the user's computer.
Posted April 12, 2012
Finally, an oldie goldie, and an awesomesauce one to boot. Won't be spilling since I've been playing my boxed copy for the last couple of months, but I applaud!
Posted April 12, 2012
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serpantino: So is this the DOSBOX version? Does it bypass the CD Check? My official copy points out I have no cd drive on my netbook and refuses to run (I don't carry my external everywhere with me.)
You just need to mount an image of the CD in DOSBox. That's what I did, and it's almost certainly what GOG have done.
Posted April 12, 2012
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Roufuss: It's the DOS version, and someone on the Theme Hospital board is already reporting that GOG did a bad job with this one; he mentioned sub-par performance and mouse issues.

I'm disappointed.
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SirPrimalform: I got it running perfectly in DOSBox, so either GOG did something catastrophically wrong with the config, or the issue is between DOSBox and the user's computer.
Works fine on mine...no issues in full or windowed screen.
W7 Ultimate (32-bit)
P4 3.06GHz (Badly hyperthreads a simulated 2nd core)
HD 3450 512MB ATI Radeon.
2GB Dual-Channel RAM.
Posted April 12, 2012
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SirPrimalform: I got it running perfectly in DOSBox, so either GOG did something catastrophically wrong with the config, or the issue is between DOSBox and the user's computer.
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Lone3wolf: Works fine on mine...no issues in full or windowed screen.
W7 Ultimate (32-bit)
P4 3.06GHz (Badly hyperthreads a simulated 2nd core)
HD 3450 512MB ATI Radeon.
2GB Dual-Channel RAM.
Which is why I'm guessing it's more something about the guy's computer that's causing the problem.
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