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Theme Hospital
System: PC
Genre: Business Management
Year: 1997
Rank last year: 32 (^ 7)
A very unique game by a developer that was known for it's unique games. Sadly, they're not around anymore. Theme Hospital is to me their magnus opum and I made sure pretty much everyone in my immediate surrounding knew of it's existance, though many of their other games are worth noting as well.
The game puts the player in charge of a hospital in a world where people get the strangest diseases imaginable. With a giant dose of good humour, the player must try to not get distracted and build and manage their hospital to great success each level. At first this is not that hard, but later on the game will get hectic and difficult. The game's originality and unique nature has forever cemented it firmly in my mind. Every once in a while I'll go back and replay some of it, and every time I'm convinced this belongs in a list of 'greatest games ever made'.
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