Theme Hospital

In 1997, Bullfrog Studios an pretty unkown game developer. Released an hospital mangement game called theme hospital. it was as you expect it to be. you start your own hospital and compete with other hospitals to be the best. now it will be not only one hospital but twelve hospital you need to manage. thats right you need to make twelve hospitals, and reach a certain goal in each hospital in order to beat the game. the graphics where as cartoony as you can get. and there where really funny diseases in the game. like a bloaty head or a slack tounge. This game my friends played a large role in my childhood. and it still remains one of my alltime favorite games for PC.

i wish i still had it to this day tough. but... i don't know if... oh screw this. im just gonna tell you what happend

it was the year 2007. ten years after the release of the game. and i was playing some sims 2 on my old pc. because i did not have anything better to do. my parents had both gone shopping that day and my brother was watching some TV. i then got bored on the sims 2 and closed the game, i then tough to myself. what other games can i play ? then i remebered Theme Hospital and was overjoyed. it was such a long time ago when i last even tought of the game. but saddly my mom sold my game on a Yard sale. she tought i didn't loved the game anymore. so i then went online and looked for an download for the game. and after a half hour i found one. maybe i was just stupid or overjoyed. but i did not notice at first that the website the link brougth me looked a little strange...

it was completly black with only a photo of the game's cover. and under it stoot another link that whould start the download. i clicked on the link as soon as the website loaded. the download was rather quickly done. i'd say after 5 or 6 seconds. wich was again strange because normally such a download does take a while. after the download was done i was brouth to the instalation progress wich took only a minute to do and then i got to play the game i allways loved to play...

the Bullfrog logo appeared as normal and the intro began also as normal. i then got to the player select menu where you just need to type in your name. then you whould normally got to the main menu to select what you want to do. but in the game i was about to play something else happend. i was in the overview screen where you see your hospital already. then i saw that my hospital already got some doctors and nurses. but there where no rooms yet. i build some rooms where they could work while thinking why i was not brouth to the main menu at first. and then the hospital suddenly opened without any notice. the first patients came inside after that. i was really starrteld by this because like i told this is not suposed to happen. the doctors then walked to the patients and a text popped up what was the strangest thing to happen so far. because the text had a different lettertype that you whould normally see in the game. it said " welcome to our hospital please enjoy your stay" and then the patients where brouth to a normal GP office. the doctors then took the diagnose of the patients. he sighed. and another text appeared saying " im sorry to say but im afraid you all have... Autism.

WHAT!!! i yelled. because i know what autism is. is a handicap that causes wild behavior and different toughs about the world. its basicly something you can't get rid off. you have that diagnose forever. and i can know because iself have autism. had this game and i something in commen?

the patients started to cry and and the doctors helped them up. they all got into beds and then... the doctors where discussing something...

i could not hear what.

after a hour or so the discussion was over. and the doctors looked at the patients an another text appeard statting "we think we can save you all from this disease but you have to pay a price" the patients did not argue and said " lets do it" they where then. brouth to an operation room. and each one of then got onto a table.

there where alot of doctors who each had a knife in there hands. and and slowly one of the doctors got to one of the patients. and suddenly the screen when first person of the patient. i saw then the big knife the doctor had and i don't know why he did but he said...

"well well well Maarten looks like you can do nothing else but pray i think" did... did he just said my name? i thought. i then i saw that the doctor swinged his knife into the patient's chest and i heard a scream that sounded like my scream. i was shocked by this because now i got it. the doctors where haters of austim. why? i don't know for sure. the doctor was stabbing and stabbing and alot of Blood spread out of the chest of the patient. then the screen flickered and static was heard. i was back at my desktop. as i said there. thinking about this nightmare of a game. why was it this screwed up? why did the game know my name?

i wanted to look for the same download again. but i never found it. as if the link never existed in the first place the game was also deleting itself.

Its been 5 years after this happend now. and never have i experienced something like this. i still love the game like i said. but i think i want to forget what i saw. i know this story might sonud cliched and it is. but please believe me.