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* BlackComedy: The entire game.

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* BlackComedy: The entire game.game is loaded with jokes about death, disease, and injury.



* ElvisImpersonator: Patients suffering from King's Syndrome.

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* ElvisImpersonator: Patients suffering from King's Syndrome.Syndrome compulsively dress and act like Elvis Presley.
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The greatest joy in this game comes from the wide variety of bizarre diseases, as well as the in-game documentation about these diseases. For instance, you'll get an awful lot of ElvisImpersonators (a disease known as "King Complex") who are cured by "A Psychiatrist telling the patient how ridiculous they look". There are even crazier diseases like "Hairyitis", "Invisibility" and "Spare Ribs". Some of the treatment rooms you can build are meant to cure a specific disease with some wacky machinery - for instance, "Bloaty Head" ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin yeah]]) is cured by popping the patient's head with a needle, and then re-inflating it with a bicycle pump.

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The greatest joy in this game comes from the wide variety of bizarre diseases, as well as the in-game documentation about these diseases. For instance, you'll get an awful lot of ElvisImpersonators [[ElvisImpersonator Elvis Impersonators]] (a disease known as "King Complex") who are cured by "A Psychiatrist telling the patient how ridiculous they look". There are even crazier diseases like "Hairyitis", "Invisibility" and "Spare Ribs". Some of the treatment rooms you can build are meant to cure a specific disease with some wacky machinery - for instance, "Bloaty Head" ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin yeah]]) is cured by popping the patient's head with a needle, and then re-inflating it with a bicycle pump.
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The greatest joy in this game comes from the wide variety of bizarre diseases, as well as the in-game documentation about these diseases. For instance, you'll get an awful lot of Elvis Impersonators (a disease known as "King Complex") who are cured by "A Psychiatrist telling the patient how ridiculous they look". There are even crazier diseases like "Hairyitis", "Invisibility" and "Spare Ribs". Some of the treatment rooms you can build are meant to cure a specific disease with some wacky machinery - for instance, "Bloaty Head" ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin yeah]]) is cured by popping the patient's head with a needle, and then re-inflating it with a bicycle pump.

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The greatest joy in this game comes from the wide variety of bizarre diseases, as well as the in-game documentation about these diseases. For instance, you'll get an awful lot of Elvis Impersonators ElvisImpersonators (a disease known as "King Complex") who are cured by "A Psychiatrist telling the patient how ridiculous they look". There are even crazier diseases like "Hairyitis", "Invisibility" and "Spare Ribs". Some of the treatment rooms you can build are meant to cure a specific disease with some wacky machinery - for instance, "Bloaty Head" ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin yeah]]) is cured by popping the patient's head with a needle, and then re-inflating it with a bicycle pump.
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** If you can't yet diagnose a disease because you lack the necessary technology, you can send the patients to your research department where they will be fed into the "auto-autopsy machine" to speed up your research. Alive.

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** If you can't yet diagnose a disease because you lack the necessary technology, you can send the patients to your research department where they will be fed into the "auto-autopsy machine" to speed up your research. Alive. Yet somehow it doesn't go against your 'Patients Killed' count for the level.
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*** Another patient looks like [[VideoGame/{{Syndicate}} an Agent]].
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* DifficultySpike: Level six, which introduces the aforementioned epidemics.
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Two of Theme Hospital's developers, Mark Webley and Gary Carr, would develop a SpiritualSuccessor, ''VideoGame/TwoPointHospital'', released August 29, 2018.

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Two of Theme Hospital's ''Theme Hospital''[='s=] developers, Mark Webley and Gary Carr, would develop a SpiritualSuccessor, ''VideoGame/TwoPointHospital'', released August 29, 2018.2018.



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* OverheadInteractionIndicator: These are used to show the mood of patients and staff, as well as to show when you receive a fax regarding someone in the clinic.
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* DummiedOut: One of the diseases was supposed to be "Pregnancy". The manual describes it as being caused by "Power-cuts in urban areas", and displays symptoms of "Faddish eating with consequent beer gut". An [[GameMod unofficial patch]] hacked it back into the game.
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* ArtifactTitle: What exactly ''is'' a theme hospital? The designers were hoping to enable you to build hospitals with actual themes (medievel, space, etc.), which would have justified that title. Unfortunately, deadline issues prevailed and this extra content was cut - leaving only the basic "English hospital" theme.

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* ArtifactTitle: What exactly ''is'' a theme hospital? The designers were hoping to enable you to build hospitals with actual themes (medievel, (medieval, space, etc.), which would have justified that title. Unfortunately, deadline issues prevailed and this extra content was cut - leaving only the basic "English hospital" theme.

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