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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