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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
FUCKING FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted April 12, 2012
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mistermumbles: You can thank EA for that. Most of their releases are bare-bones like this.
Except this is not true. Not sure if you checked that lately, but I run through all EA games on GOG and most of them have many extras added.

Of course there are some that need some more lovin', but that's minority.
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Posted April 12, 2012
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.)
Posted April 12, 2012
OHHH SNAP. Nice one GOG.
Posted April 12, 2012
Wanna see Theme Park on GoG! But this is great start!
Posted April 12, 2012
Instant Buy - found my CD case for this yesterday and no disc present so everything now sorted :-)

Thanks GOG
Posted April 12, 2012
This game is awesome. Simple as that :)
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.)
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.
Posted April 12, 2012
Hell yeah :D

one of my favourites :D 100% must have :D

thx ;)
Posted April 12, 2012
And one more question: would savegames from my original CD version work with copy from GOG?
Posted April 12, 2012
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zeffyr: As I said before, I'll buy it, without any doubt. But one question appears: why there's sooo few extra material? Only manual and 2 avatars? I can't remember a game that had so few... Anyway, a game itself is worth any money!
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mistermumbles: You can thank EA for that. Most of their releases are bare-bones like this. While I don't care much for extras most of the time, having a "manual" as bonus just seems a bit silly. Basically, EA's only giving us what came in/on the box/disc. As long as we keep getting more games it's good enough by me. With the exception of some missing expansions...
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.
Posted April 12, 2012
Im waiting for Theme Park :D

Please GoG make me happy!
Posted April 12, 2012
Ah, this is definitely it, one of the main games from my list of wishes. THANKS GOG! Wishlisting for buying when I have more spare time to play.
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.
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. ;)
Posted April 12, 2012
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JudasIscariot: Good timing on this release. Now all those people who were rabble rabbling off in that Machinarium thread are probable pretty red in the face right about now :D.
I thought the same thing, about timing. Many people uncomfortable with the newer releases, me included.

What's with the Machinarium thread?
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