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Table of Contents

Command Reference .................................................................................................................. 1

Introduction ........................................................................................................................................ 2

Part 1: Setting Up ...................................................................................................................... 4

Installation Instructions..............................................................................................................4

Running Theme Hospital ..............................................................................................................5

Part 2: Playing Theme Hospital .................................................................................... 8

The Main Screen Elements ..........................................................................................................8

Using the Control Panels ..........................................................................................................10

Using Pop-Up Panels ..................................................................................................................12

Pop Up Icons ................................................................................................................................31

Disasters ......................................................................................................................................34

Using Business Screens ............................................................................................................35

At The Bank ................................................................................................................................43

Yearly Appraisal ..........................................................................................................................44

Using the Menu Bar....................................................................................................................46

Part 3: Quick Start Tutorial ................................................................................................ 45

Appendix A: Staff and Patient Mood Icons .................................................... 49

Staff ..............................................................................................................................................49

Patients ........................................................................................................................................50

Spleen B: Q&A ............................................................................................................................ 52

Kidney C: More Gameplay Information .............................................................. 55

Credits .................................................................................................................................................. 58

Command Reference

To move around the hospital, press the arrow keys.

To set a zoom key, go to where you want to zoom to and press a + a

function key. This stores your zoom position. To zoom back to that position, press

c + the function key.

To increase/decrease the number of Corridor or Extra Room Items you want to buy in

multiples of 5, hold down the s key while increasing or decreasing the number of

items you want to buy. To increase/decrease the number of items by 10, Hold down c .

To Quick Save your game, press a - S. To Quick Restore the last game saved in the Quick

Save slot, press a - L.

To Pause/Unpause the game, press P.

To Quit the game and return to your operating system, press s - Q.

To change the speed of the game to slowest,slower, normal, max, or ‘and then some more’

speed, press 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. (To speed up your hospital to ‘And Then Some More’

speed, hold down W.)

Function Keys:

Statement Screen

Casebook

Policy Screen

Research Screen (Research Room must be in hospital to view screen)

Graph Screen

Staff Screen

Bank Manager

Status Screen

Introduction

The Health Ministry of Theme World has employed you, wisely or otherwise, to run their Hospitals.

You have to make the decisions that ultimately make or break your career. The better you do, the

more points you score and the higher your salary goes. Do well and you’ll be able to retire to the

Bahamas before you reach fifty. Mess up and you won’t have a pair of socks to your name.

To succeed, you’ve got to get the balance right between providing a top-notch service to those who

need it and making a lot of money at the same time. Running a Hospital is difficult and expensive but,

if you achieve your given aims by the end of each financial quarter, you’ll eventually be offered a bet-

ter, more challenging job, at another Hospital.

How to Use this Manual

Part 1 of this manual contains all the instructions necessary to install and run Theme Hospital on your

PC. Part 2 explains how game features work, from those you’ll see early on, to those that are introduced

to the game later (although we’ve left out a few things which are really most fun to discover for your-

self). Part 3 is a Quick Start Tutorial for those of you who are surprised you’ve bothered to read this far

and can’t wait to get going. It’s useful to keep the Appendices at hand while playing. Meanwhile...

The Man from the Ministry

Sir Reginald Crumbly MP’s horror was quickly turning to nausea. The Minister was beginning to

regret his request to visit the Hospital. It had seemed a good idea a week ago, in the safety of his

mahogany office. Tour the facilities, chat up the nurses, and get a few votes in the bag while he was

about it. However, things hadn’t worked out that way.

He’d stepped into the reception area and already things hadn’t looked good. There was no reception

committee waiting for him. There wasn’t even a nurse with a cup of coffee, as he’d hinted for on the

telephone (milk, two whiskies, just as he always had it). Instead, there was a continuous cacophony, a

pervasive smell, and sick people milling chaotically. Ghastly. Oh, well. Better get on with it. Sir

Reginald strolled to a door nearby. He looked in and saw the view blocked by a bloated head. Without

warning, a hand clutching a huge steel needle pierced the side of the cranium and deflated it

with an audible pop.

Sir Reginald recoiled and moved to the next window. A doctor was fiddling with an impressive, well-

maintained machine. This was more like it. Someone was leaning over the machine, looking into its

innards. But what was that? The figure’s tongue, grossly enlarged, was lying over a sharp edge.

Without warning a blade swished down and the tongue, twitching, fell into the depths of the machin-

ery. Sir Reginald hurried on, too shocked to speak. Further along the corridor was a room with a row

of windows. Looking in, the bureaucrat distinctly saw a disgusting creature, the size of a person, but

covered with hair. It was strapped into a machine glowing with electric currents. A doctor threw a

switch and the figure jolted and jerked as the industrial-strength electrolysis machine did its work. A

burnt smell drifted faintly under the door. Sir Reginald, trembling, moved away. The next window was

misty with condensation, but Reginald clearly saw molten human flesh being poured onto a living

skeleton. Why was he in this chamber of horrors?

As Sir Reginald stepped back from the window, he bumped into a bed trolley being pushed by a nurse.

The Minister almost mumbled an apology, until he noticed the patient on the trolley. Before he could

shut his eyes, he clearly saw that the patient’s flesh was transparent, revealing his bones. The world

went gray, as Sir Reginald fought to keep from fainting. He stumbled towards a drinks machine. His

eyes bugged out-$20 for a can of cola! He fumbled the money from his coat, and took a can, hoping it

would revive him.

As he walked unsteadily across the reception area, swigging lukewarm pop, his eyes darting from face

to misshapen face, Reginald decided to investigate one more room. Nothing, he assured himself, could

be worse than what he’d already seen. Sure enough, as he peered into a well-appointed office, he saw

a calm, clever-looking psychiatrist counseling someone on a couch. The figure looked familiar. Slicked

coiffure? Spangly white suit? Yes, there were the blue suede shoes! Sir Reginald was about to knock

on the door, to ask for an autograph when he glanced to his right. From a few feet away, the slimy

green alien stared at him impassively with its one saucer eye. Sir Reginald broke and fled, screaming.

As he rushed towards the exit, Sir Reginald’s foot slid in something liquid. He crashed to the floor,

and lay, sobbing with pain and horror, among the remains of a meal someone hadn’t finished digesting

and hadn’t been able to contain. Crumbly’s strength failed him. He felt hands grab his ankles and, as

he wailed and clawed uselessly, he was dragged deeper into the madness of the Hospital. Before he

passed out, he distinctly heard a voice say, “Nice one, Les. This one looks rich enough to be here for a

long time. I mean, it’s all about profit at the end of the day, isn’t it?”

Title Screen

When the Title screen appears, press the z or a mouse button to open the Nickname

Entry box. Type in the nickname of your choice. If you don’t have a nickname, make one up. This

nickname is used to identify your saved game files. Nicknames enable players to maintain their

own sets of saved game files and prevent the accidental loading of someone else’s saved game.

Note: You cannot change your nickname once you press e , so make sure it is

typed correctly.

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