#12 - Theme Hospital (PS1)
As guessed by Milkyjoe (I think!)
Theme Hospital was a game I stumbled across thanks to a demo disk. My parents didn't want to buy it for me because they thought it looks stupid, but I insisted and here it is all these years later inside my top 12 games of all time!
Theme Hospital perfectly mixed the micromanagement nature of Bullfrog's earlier work in Theme Park with some absolutely wicked black humour (reading through the descriptions of all the diseases, especially first time around, is hilarious). The setting is perfectly chosen and through the campaign's levels you really get to feel like you're running a successful (or perhaps not!) hospital. Firing staff, keeping doctors and nurses apart, researching cures, fixing machinery... it may actually sound kinda dull when you list it, but as a whole game Theme Hospital is second to none in its genre and still holds up fantastically today.
