Best "sim" game next to simcity3000. A great add on to our PS1 game collection.Really fun game! A little older graphics than you get in the newer stuff, but very funny diseases and addictive game play.Love this game, so much fun and reminds me so much of my childhood. This is a rare excellent game to find and I highly recommend it if you liked any kind of Sims or build your own world game.Exactly what I wanted. Thank you.Don't pay the crazy high prices your seeing here online for this game. The game is no longer in production, so the prices you're seeing are 3rd party sellers with an insane mark up on it. One way to get this game for a realistic price is if you happen to own a Play Station 3 (yes, even though this is a Play Station 1 game). If you own a PS3, just go turn it on, then log into the Play Station Store on it. In the games for sale category, there is a section that says Play Station 1 Classics, this game is available for sale and download for just a few dollars right in there. It will download and save right to the hard drive, no need for any disks. It's the exact game we all played on the original Play Station or on old Windows 95/DOS computers, right down to the nurse telling everyone what to do over the PA system.An awesome classic that just never gets old, no matter how many times you've played it. It's one of those games you can complete, put it away for 6 months, then play it all over again and it's just as fun as the first time!Years ago I picked up this game for PC. At the time it had to be one of the most fun games I had ever played. The company that produced it (BullFrog) has a great sense of humor and doesn't take themselves too seriously. A few months ago I discovered it offered as a download for the PS3 as a classic Play Station game and I found the Play Station version is exactly like the original PC game from years ago.You begin the game with a small empty hospital in need of staff, rooms and patients. You are given a lump sum of money and you begin building from the ground up. As patients come in, you start by diagnosing what they have, then working on curing them. As the game progresses the variety of illnesses grows larger and the tasks to be completed get more difficult.Earthquakes, medical emergency's and widespread illness outbreaks are just some of the random tasks your hospital will have to work through. The better you do, the better your chances are to advance to the next level. Each level gets a little harder, but also offered something new and fun.I have played through this game many times. It's the kind of game that even after you have finished it, you will find yourself pulling it out to play again 6 months later. It's simple to learn yet challenging to play. Theme Hospital is fun to play for any age.I've had this game for years, I'm reckoning ever since we first got a computer. I love this game. I tend to go through phases of playing it, and then not playing it for months. And then I suddenly think I haven't played it for ages, I'll have another go. I'm just coming out of those phases now, mainly because I can't go through a level, so I thought I'd review it! (I have the PC game, but what the hell) I normally get as far as the levels where there's epidemics every two seconds (no matter how many handymen you have wandering doing sweet f*** all - believe I've had up to 100, and I still get epidemics!) I've somehow managed to get up to the level with radiation patients, but once I've had one epidemic, that's me, the level slowly goes downhill, until I get to the doctor digging graves/caught in the toilets with a Naughty Nurse magazine/going past the bank etc.This game is terrific, and the patients are so funny. I don't know what my favourite patient is, but you see patients going around with big heads/dressed like the king/no hair/transparent/completely invisible and bright green are some of the more memorable ones. Most of the patients have regular, computer game symptoms, so they look ordinary people.I don't know why, but there's two types of doctors, and I prefer having just one of them!!! There's one who has afro-style hair, and one who has slightly less hair, but looks pure evil so I tend not to have him!This game can get very addictive. I've seen me sitting there, playing the game, listening to music, and reading when a level is running by itself and I don't need to do anything. It can get quite funny if someone walks in on me "multi-tasking"!When you get a sickness epidemic in the hospital it's so funny. Especially if you've got the sound turned up, people come running thinking you've been sick!The announcements are brilliant to listen to, although my version seems to stop and start. Sometimes there's complete silence, and then the announcements will come thick and fast - normally after the emergencies have been and gone!I'd love to complete this game, but I can't. I've had it for years. But it shows how addictive it is!I wish I had this game and right now I'm beating myself for not getting it years ago. This is a great game to play when you're grounded (as I can speak for) and it also teaches the usage of a hospital. I went to another site for it once and found how badly I stunk at the game and now that I know how to play it correctly, I can't find the game anywhere to test my new power. After a while, it makes you bored and that's why I took away one star from the ratings, but when you can't find it anywhere, trust me, you'll ... for it.