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• #Theme hospital mod mod#

It's not clear what this would mean in gameplay terms, but the final game has several elements of the event left in its files.

Intended as a further disaster beyond the existing earthquake event, it was said that aliens would "destroy, maim and pass around nasty rashes to the population". The official Theme Hospital Diary column in the UK GamesMaster magazine briefly talks about this cut disaster event. The room only costs $5, which is pretty unlikely to be a serious final figure for it. This doesn't seem to exist in the final game, and it's not clear what it would do (other than containing TVs). There's an unused PA announcement for pregnant patients included in the game files (see Unused Audio section)Īs with the cut pregnancy condition, there are also entries for a cut room simply called "TV" in the level definitions.

It's likely this was abandoned early on due to Bullfrog deliberately moving away from real world conditions, and having a game where pregnant women can die would likely be considered to be in poor taste. The "treatment" for the condition is a stay on a Ward and then surgery. Pregnant patients have an entry as a "visual illness" which means they would appear with custom graphics, but clearly this did not happen as no such graphics exist, and pregnant patients simply appear as normal women in the final game if hacked in. Pregnancy seems to be fully working but a rough implementation.

#Theme hospital mod mod#

There is a user made mod available that simplifies this. As such this can be restored to the game by adding the needed fields to any level definition file. However, these templates also reveal there is a further unused "disease" called "PREGNANT". These files list all possible permutations of rooms, items, and diseases available in the game, with the actual levels only using a subset of these, depending on difficulty and game progression. (Source: GameSpot) Cut Gameplay Elements PregnancyĮach difficulty level in the level definition directory ( LEVELS) has a template file as its first file (e.g.