This game has finally been released on GoG.com for $5.99 DRM free of course.

If you've never played it before, think Theme Park, but set in a hospital. You create your hospital, manage your staff, research cures for different (often hilarious) diseases and try to make as much money as possible.

If I had money, I would buy it, already got it on PS3 but man. Nostalgia.

I loved this game as a kid! I'm in!

I want to have GoG's baby.

Certainly gonna pick this up, loved it back in the day.

Man, Theme hospital was awesome. I might have to buy this at some point.

I have the disc readily available, even an existing DOSBox installation of it, but I am still buying this slice of gaming awesomeness.

fuck yes. one of my all time favourite games

Oh goddammit... I don't want to buy that game again. But that game is awesome, ahh, sure I'll bite.

Would a new version of this be welcome if EA were to make a new one?

Oh wondrous gaming deities I thank you for this generous gift! ლ(ಠ_ಠლ)

I really, really like this game an awful lot.

Just a quick question for anyone who has bought this. Has it been updated to support modern resolutions? I know they update the games to run on modern OS's, but I haven't bought anything from GOG before, so I'm not sure about anything else. I don't need 1920x1080 (though that would be nice), but I'd like something better than 640x480 or 800x600.

@rawrsair said:

If I had money, I would buy it, already got it on PS3 but man. Nostalgia.

I could totally send you the disc I have here. Many years ago GAME had a bin just full of them.

Its fucking sad how great that game was lol. It pisses me off, I still never beat the damn thing. Tried so many times. God damn, rats, trash and PUKE everywhere! Anyone ever beat it? Got some late game tips on managing the unholy onslaught of patients?

I'd hope the fact they are selling it means they've somehow fixed the game to work on modern computers. The mouse cursour being incredibly sluggish being the primary thing that made that game unplayable.

For those asking, it's probably (im still at work) the DOS version they're selling which works wonderfully on Windows 7 x64 and looks great on a 16:10 23" monitor.

Of course if I'm wrong this entire post can be safely disregarded.

@AlisterCat said:

@rawrsair said:

If I had money, I would buy it, already got it on PS3 but man. Nostalgia.

I could totally send you the disc I have here. Many years ago GAME had a bin just full of them.

Damn, so would have snatched one up.

@rawrsair said:

If I had money, I would buy it, already got it on PS3 but man. Nostalgia.

I don't think ive seen a post of yours that says anything other than "I have no money"

There has been an open source clone of theme hospital out for a long time now. All you need is the demo. So it's free, however it isn't quite feature complete yet.

@SuperSambo said:

@rawrsair said:

If I had money, I would buy it, already got it on PS3 but man. Nostalgia.

I don't think ive seen a post of yours that says anything other than "I have no money"

I start work next week, it'll all change then.

@John1912 said:

Its fucking sad how great that game was lol. It pisses me off, I still never beat the damn thing. Tried so many times. God damn, rats, trash and PUKE everywhere! Anyone ever beat it? Got some late game tips on managing the unholy onslaught of patients?

Me too. I think I had 3 or 4 more levels to go but that still means I didn't get to see all the diseases. It's so frustrating getting 2 or 3 hours into a level then failing.

This game is fucking awesome. I went to Gog.com and wasn't expecting to find it but when I saw it in the banner, my god. I have never reached for my wallet (or paypal account) faster than this.

Finally an easy (legit) way to play this on Windows 7 x64 (previously the installer wouldn't run from CD).

Awesome, still got my two original copies but for anyone who's never played it, Theme Hospital is a fucking delight.

@kristov_romanov said:

I loved this game as a kid! I'm in!

I want to have GoG's baby.

GoG is supposed to have my baby. If you can have GoG's baby, and GoG can have my baby...

Oh gosh, gender bender!

I used to have this for the ps1, great game. I seem to remember everyone having 'piles' or something like it pretty much all the time. And yea, sick and rats all over the place.

@Cameron: haven't tried it yet, but I think you can change the resolution in the graphic mode setup in the game folder

Edit: changing the settings by using graphic mode setup doesn't seems to work, you will have to edit the "dosbox.TH.conf" yourself to get it to work:

From MonkfishEsq on GOG forums:

Go to C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Theme Hospital
Then open dosboxTH.conf and edit these lines
fullscreen=false
windowresolution=000x000 (whatever number you want)
output = overlay | opengl | openglnb | ddraw (you cant change the window resolution with surface)

I tried this method and it worked for me.

I really hope GOG can release Sid Meier's simgolf as well, I lost my copy quite a long time ago and I really want to play it again ever since Ryan mentioned it on a video.

If I had money, I would buy it, already got it on PS3 but man. Nostalgia.

@L said:

@rawrsair said:

If I had money, I would buy it, already got it on PS3 but man. Nostalgia.

PS3 version really doesn't stand up to the PC one. No soundtrack and everything takes like twice as long to do with a controller.

Very true, it certainly doesn't

Awesome, fantastic game.