Saturday 21 January 2017

THEME GAMES

My next favourite game was THEME PARK, an early ‘God Game’ published by Bullfrog/Electronic Arts in 1994. 
 
This had all the elements for me: cute rides and characters, management strategy, catchy tunes. The design was pretty rubbishy, of course, but the gameplay had me hooked until . . Along came THEME HOSPITAL!
Another triumph for Bullfrog/Electronic Arts, in 1997. Even better, this game has hilarious diseases and hideously deformed characters, so what’s not to like? Sound effects had moved on by now to include announcements of all kinds and a fiendishly new level of gameplay difficulty. I did once get to the end, but only after an appalling toll of epidemics and hospital closures.





      

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