The B&W games feel weirdly... mobile these days. They put a lot of work into that 3D hand interface and it turns out they just ended up stumbling upon a semi-competent touchscreen UX.
The Nintendo DS was three years away. The iPhone was six years away (yes, Nintendo did it first and people often don't remember that).
My recollection of following the absolutely ridiculous hype cycle is that they were talking about the mouse being your hand inside the game and pretty much nothing else, but it was remarkable prescient in terms of how that would work without the mouse on the way.
You'll want to check out "Dungeons". I recently played Dungeons 3 and it is basically an improved dungeon keeper except you can go into the overworld too.
Oh I love it, but my ultimate favorite is the 1988 DOS
gama Life & Death where you had to cirurgically remove the appendix (and there was also brain operation). The graphics were shit of course but the amount of steps on each operation was awesome. You have to cut each layer of skin, remove the apendix, suture each layer back not leting the patient bleed of die. Amazing
Last time I tried to find a way to play it I went down this deep rabbit hole of pirating where it wasn't clear what I was downloading. If you have a source where I can try my hand at it again let me know.
It's absolutely goofy. Honestly it plays almost identically to Theme Hospital. I played both around the same time and I can't remember what was from which game now
I mean the beauty is there's probably a community or discord for that. A lot of fringe interests tend to have one brave group organizer to keep the conversation going.
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Lasherz12@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 362d
Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 is worth any negative social impact it has on my life.
MudMan@fedia.io · 29 pts · 362d
Steam has a 4X sale going on now and the latest Theme Hospital spiritual successor made two spinoffs.
They made a sequel to Evil Genius in 2021.
Whatever interests from the late 20th century you think only you had are almost certainly disappointingly mainstream now.
But hey, keep at it. I'm still holding out hope for EA pulling off a Dungeon Keeper sequel at some point even if it's a PR stunt.
Hawke@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 361d
My wife just picked Black & White (2001) back up. That game has held up better than I’d ever have expected.
MudMan@fedia.io · 15 pts · 361d
The B&W games feel weirdly... mobile these days. They put a lot of work into that 3D hand interface and it turns out they just ended up stumbling upon a semi-competent touchscreen UX.
Hawke@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 361d
Heh, and the graphics can probably be managed on any low-end phone nowadays.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 2 pts · 361d
Am I crazy, or wasn't one of the original selling points that you could use a touchscreen to control it?
MudMan@fedia.io · 6 pts · 361d
The Nintendo DS was three years away. The iPhone was six years away (yes, Nintendo did it first and people often don't remember that).
My recollection of following the absolutely ridiculous hype cycle is that they were talking about the mouse being your hand inside the game and pretty much nothing else, but it was remarkable prescient in terms of how that would work without the mouse on the way.
Hawke@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 361d
I don’t think so. Touchscreens were not at all common in 2001.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 361d
There was an expensive glove accessory it had comparability with, the "P5 Glove" I remember it being called. (WHY do I remember this?)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_glove
I imagine that would have been super neat or crazy frustrating to use haha.
Good_Slate@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 360d
You'll want to check out "Dungeons". I recently played Dungeons 3 and it is basically an improved dungeon keeper except you can go into the overworld too.
MudMan@fedia.io · 1 pts · 360d
I played them all. They're not the same.
I'd say that Evil Genius sequel is the closest we've had, honestly.
MissJinx@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 361d
Oh I love it, but my ultimate favorite is the 1988 DOS gama Life & Death where you had to cirurgically remove the appendix (and there was also brain operation). The graphics were shit of course but the amount of steps on each operation was awesome. You have to cut each layer of skin, remove the apendix, suture each layer back not leting the patient bleed of die. Amazing
Edit: You can play online https://www.myabandonware.com/game/life-death-h6
PLEASE if you are a game designer remaster it!
Botzo@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 361d
Holy crap, I had this game and never once successfully completed a surgery. Everyone died.
I was still in elementary school, so it was still fun to goof around.
MissJinx@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 361d
Yes it was super dificult! We did it once, years later, following a tutorial lol
Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 361d
I played "The Surgeon". I think it was on Amiga. I had a perfect record. Not one of my patients survived.
I believe you had to put in an aortic graft. I got to that part a few times before they died.
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 360d
Trauma Centre on the DS is pretty much that.
Also Surgeon Simulator (and the VR port) but that's more a comedy take of it.
MissJinx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 359d
🤣🤣🤣🤣Sugeon similator is nothing like this
Taleya@aussie.zone · 22 pts · 361d
Dungeon Keeper.
Pharaoh.
Emperor: rise of the middle kingdom.
Theme Hospital.
Zeus.
Gimme
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 361d
I sank so many hours into Dungeon Keeper 2. Such a good game.
swampdownloader@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 360d
Theme hospital was great
zeropointone@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 362d
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 361d
I liked it too but was never good at it as a kid though I imagine I'd kill it as an adult.
zeropointone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 361d
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 361d
Last time I tried to find a way to play it I went down this deep rabbit hole of pirating where it wasn't clear what I was downloading. If you have a source where I can try my hand at it again let me know.
zeropointone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 361d
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 361d
Ps version has no music though sadly
zeropointone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 361d
Taleya@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 361d
GOG.com
Specifically: https://www.gog.com/en/game/theme_hospital
MissJinx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 361d
Have you played the new Project Hospital (on steam)? Not "new" but current lol
It's pretty good!
zeropointone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 361d
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 361d
It's absolutely goofy. Honestly it plays almost identically to Theme Hospital. I played both around the same time and I can't remember what was from which game now
MissJinx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 360d
I think.you mean Two Point.Hospital. Project hospital is not goofy or funny at all
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 360d
oh shit you're right!
zeropointone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 361d
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 360d
in case you missed it, someone else corrected us and its Two Point Hospital I was thinking of, not Project Hospital
zeropointone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 360d
MissJinx@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 360d
Two-Point Hospital is great, available in all plataforms and it is very humourous.
Project hospital is very detailed and serious. The most I"ve seen a hospital management be. There is even a mourgue
Two Point Hospital
Project Hospital
zeropointone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 360d
end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 361d
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Colonization Master of Orion II Age of Empires II
someguy3@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 361d
OpenTTD.
PugJesus@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 361d
Black and White, my love
MycelialMass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 360d
Have you got a notion that youd quite like to sail the ocean?
PugJesus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 360d
Eidle, eidle eee! Eidle eidle eee! We just can't set sail 'til we get some more wood!
Rooty@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 361d
Insert Rollercoaster Tycoon theme here
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 361d
Civ III is a masterpiece
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 361d
For me it's PSOBB on emu servers
ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 361d
Hey fellow hunter!
It's been a while for me but I should hop back on to Ephinea to scratch the old itch
iii@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 362d
So hot
Rooty@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 361d
Widelands is a great Settlers-like and has become my go-to cozy game to relax with at the end of the day
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 361d
A handsome young cyborg named Ace
Woo'd women at every base
But when ladies glanced at
His special enhancement
They vanished with nary a trace
Rooty@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 361d
Alpha Centauri is the true succssesor to the Civ franchise, you cannot change my mind
end_stage_ligma@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 361d
Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you.
essell@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 361d
Mary had a little lamb,
Little lamb little lamb,
Mary had a little lamb,
whose fleece was white as snow.
Something_something@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 361d
Traffic giant is the best game ever!
Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 361d
I mean the beauty is there's probably a community or discord for that. A lot of fringe interests tend to have one brave group organizer to keep the conversation going.
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub · 2 pts · 362d
We talking Papa's pizzeria?
Justas@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 359d
Way too many people like these here for you to be lonely.
stinerman@midwest.social · 2 pts · 361d
Played Aerobiz (SNES) the other day and completely nerded out.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 1 pts · 360d
this girl has a sort of snout for a nose,... so unsettling