I originally beat the game with only the official patch on an under powered laptop. It was easily one of worst and best gaming experiences I've ever had. Never again.

Theme Hospital - Try Two Point Hospital instead, it pretty much covers every aspect and adds more of it's own.


Theme Park - Much like the above, try Planet Coaster, it covers most of the original and adds alot of it's own.




Those are the only two games i can think of right now, i'm quite picky and most of the time when remakes are made, they skip bits of it, which were parts of a whole and was why the original was so good... instead you end up with a Terminator 3 because rather than stick to the original formula, they wanted to appeal to the masses.

It's also conspicuously absent from here... in fact I think it's only available on [redacted]. I'd already own it if it was available DRM-free. So for now I will stick to Theme Hospital.

I played it on a 2 GHz P4 with 512 MB of RAM and only a GeForce 2 Ti with 64 MB, and not even the official patch until I got to the spot you couldn't get past without it, then installed that and went to the end. Still consider it one of the most memorable games I played.

*LOL* Sure, they did.

The Gothic from Alkimia Interactive.

I consider Sega's general absence conspicuous. That was kind of what I meant.

It's fucking amazing!

That reminds me, there is an Ecco the Dolphin gray market enhanced port hiding somewhere within a Cavern of Hope.

(Read: It's existed for over a decade along with the site, so I'm sure Sega is aware, but doesn't care.)

Well it is the internet after all. No one can possibly delete every trace of of a file but I believe it would be very difficult to find a good download link for AMR2 without risking viruses.

Not really. The original creator responded to the C&D by stopping hosting it and stopping working on it, but there's a whole community around AM2R at this point: https://www.reddit.com/r/AM2R/
Not only is it not hard to find, but it keeps getting ported to different systems and updated beyond the original developer's work.

I see. Glad that I've been proven wrong. Thank you for sharing this. :)

Disagree. TPH is fun but has a lot of issues with pathfinding and the overcrowding (GP Office problem that is only "fixed" by driving away most customers...yeah that's the official solution claimed by the developers, because they just can't be arsed to fix it properly). Theme Hospital with the Corsix mod is still a lot of fun and doesn't have those issues.

A good example is the current wave of "HD" remakes of Apogee games. Secret Agent, Monster Bash, Crystal Caves and soon Cosmo. More fluid controls, higher framerate, map editor & custom maps galore. The old Dos versions mostly really suffer from the low framerates (Cosmo is just unplayable, back in the day the low framerate wasn't as noticeable, since most games ran with 15-25fps but when you're used to 60-144 going back to that is horrible)

And Sega did a fantastic job with the Yakuza remakes, making the original versions completely obsolete.

Heh, doubt I'll ever get used to that, nor would I want to, requires too much hardware power, so hardly experienced it at any point anyway, with how graphically underpowered my computers always were. Don't really tend to notice that it's an issue unless it drops below 20 or so even in action games, and when it's temporary, in busy scenes, can even put up with below 10 at times.