#Theme hospital multiplayer Pc
#Theme hospital multiplayer tv

It skipped a generation with the PS2, which didn’t really progress the multi-player platform too much but as soon as the original Xbox dropped, multi-player gaming was back at the forefront once again. It all escalated pretty quickly from there. Gaming was just about to get competitive…everything was about to change. Multiplayer gaming had arrived! No longer did you have to buy a ‘multi-tap’ to play a very limited number of PlayStation games that could actually accommodate four players, this console had FOUR flipping plugs for controllers, this was the future! Me and my mates poured hundreds of hours into Mario Kart 64, GoldenEye, F-Zero X, Diddy Kong Racing and the like. This meant I slightly missed out on the PlayStation hype and didn’t graduate to the next generation until the N64 came out, apparently a mammoth FOUR times more powerful than the previous console I owned, this was going to be special.

#Theme hospital multiplayer Pc

I’d spent all morning getting to this point, why would I let visiting ANOTHER National Trust house stunt my progress like that?īy the time my patience had run out with Sega I had already made a bit of a transition to the PC (around ’97 – Gateway2000), with games like Tomb Raider 2, Fallout 2, Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital and Final Fantasy 7…this was a good year for single-player, story-driven games.

#Theme hospital multiplayer tv

Back then you couldn’t save games, you had to complete the game in one go…my parents used to spend about an hour trying to convince me to leave the house – sometimes I’d leave the console running and just turn the TV off so I could come back to it later. It’s only when my parents bought me a Sega Mega Drive (the next generation) that I had my very own console, complimented with strong (believe it or not) Disney games like Aladdin and Mickey Mouse Castle of Illusion alongside fan favourites such as Sonic, Altered Beast, Ristar and Mortal Kombat.

This was a shared experience however – every time I died I had to pass the controller to the person next to me at the play centre I went to after school. Ever since the Sega Master System allowed me to play a built-in version of Alex Kidd back in the very early 90s I’ve been in absolute awe of this form of media.