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Sunday afternoon and I was getting pretty angry with Alone In The Dark: Inferno. I've been using this sparse release period to catch up on some of last year's games that I wanted to play but didn't for various reasons. £12.99 later I got Alone In The Dark: Inferno, a clever game that ultimately fails under the weight of its own innovations. So alas, pissed off with that games horrendous difficulty spikes, I thought I'd treat myself to that Theme Hospital that's been filling the Playstation Store. I've never played the PSone version of the game, I proposed it would be a terrible port of a game that I remember so fondly from my earlier gaming days. Interestingly Theme Park and Theme Hospital are about the only two strategy games I can tolerate and understand.
I short download from the Playstation Store, I was in business with my Theme Hospital download and had a quick test run on the PS3. Interestingly it was as remembered and the PSone version controls surprisingly well. A short tutorial later reminding me of the mechanics and I turned off. This was a game I need copied to my PSP ready for car rides/late night bed-time sessions with the headphones.
With the game copied to my PSP I returned to Alone In The Dark Inferno.
Many hours later, bed time. I hop into bed, plug in my headphones and pump up the PSP. Time for some Theme Hospital. I'm getting into bed about 10:30PMish -- didn't fancy a late one. Shouldn't have loaded up Theme Hospital. I'm curing patients, balancing the books and trying to find a way to position radiators that won't result in my patients being cold (I swear, they're always cold in Theme Hospital). I hit level 4 and check the time -- 2:11AM; so much for an early night eh?
The morals of this story: a) Theme Hospital still rocks; b) the PSone version is surprisingly very good; c) copying PSone games to the PSP is the best invention ever; d) sometimes nostalgia lasts longer than five minutes. In this case, nearly 4 hours.
I short download from the Playstation Store, I was in business with my Theme Hospital download and had a quick test run on the PS3. Interestingly it was as remembered and the PSone version controls surprisingly well. A short tutorial later reminding me of the mechanics and I turned off. This was a game I need copied to my PSP ready for car rides/late night bed-time sessions with the headphones.
With the game copied to my PSP I returned to Alone In The Dark Inferno.
Many hours later, bed time. I hop into bed, plug in my headphones and pump up the PSP. Time for some Theme Hospital. I'm getting into bed about 10:30PMish -- didn't fancy a late one. Shouldn't have loaded up Theme Hospital. I'm curing patients, balancing the books and trying to find a way to position radiators that won't result in my patients being cold (I swear, they're always cold in Theme Hospital). I hit level 4 and check the time -- 2:11AM; so much for an early night eh?
The morals of this story: a) Theme Hospital still rocks; b) the PSone version is surprisingly very good; c) copying PSone games to the PSP is the best invention ever; d) sometimes nostalgia lasts longer than five minutes. In this case, nearly 4 hours.
Edited 3 months, 3 weeks ago
