LGR - SimHealth - DOS PC Game Review
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Date: 2022-04-14
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Comments and reviews: 10
Chris
I feel pretty dorky fondly remembering SimHealth as a 10-12 year old, seeing how many people found the game boring! I also wonder how I got a copy--I feel it must have been at some stores, as I got a lot of these types of games from discount bins. But perhaps it was a mail-order catalogue packed into SimCity 2000.
Anyhow, I recall my game always crashing at the end of year 1. IIRC, I could set all the policies, then instant-skip to 2008 to see how my policies played out, but I couldn't actually play the game as it was meant to be played and tweak/respond each year. Maybe the system requirements were too demanding--which is strange, because it is not an intense game. Any idea what it's doing with that RAM?
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I feel pretty dorky fondly remembering SimHealth as a 10-12 year old, seeing how many people found the game boring! I also wonder how I got a copy--I feel it must have been at some stores, as I got a lot of these types of games from discount bins. But perhaps it was a mail-order catalogue packed into SimCity 2000.
Anyhow, I recall my game always crashing at the end of year 1. IIRC, I could set all the policies, then instant-skip to 2008 to see how my policies played out, but I couldn't actually play the game as it was meant to be played and tweak/respond each year. Maybe the system requirements were too demanding--which is strange, because it is not an intense game. Any idea what it's doing with that RAM?
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Leong
SimCity succeeds where SimHealth fails in probably not properly simulating how it's like to actually be in urban planning; I think that's the fundamental difference, really; most games that induce fun into boring topics do so by picking and choosing what they wish to leave within the game. And usually, the stuff left behind is going to be the more interesting/less tedious stuff.
Might work if it made you someone in charge of a hospital going through transitions in healthcare systems and needing to run your hospital as per those different systems or something to that effect.
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SimCity succeeds where SimHealth fails in probably not properly simulating how it's like to actually be in urban planning; I think that's the fundamental difference, really; most games that induce fun into boring topics do so by picking and choosing what they wish to leave within the game. And usually, the stuff left behind is going to be the more interesting/less tedious stuff.
Might work if it made you someone in charge of a hospital going through transitions in healthcare systems and needing to run your hospital as per those different systems or something to that effect.
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Jolis
And to think I actually wanted to play this when I was a child.
Thankfully my parents knew better and got me SimCopter instead since I would have never experienced the joys of turning into a dog and running at speeds faster than Sonic the Hedgehog after chugging a couple cans of Monster energy drinks otherwise. -
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And to think I actually wanted to play this when I was a child.
Thankfully my parents knew better and got me SimCopter instead since I would have never experienced the joys of turning into a dog and running at speeds faster than Sonic the Hedgehog after chugging a couple cans of Monster energy drinks otherwise. -
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blackmumba111
So this simulated up to the year 2008, and that is when Obama was elected on the platform of the ACA and whatnot.
Anyone wanna bet someone ran this simulation in real time, showed the results, and that helped with the finalized ACA?
Hmm.
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So this simulated up to the year 2008, and that is when Obama was elected on the platform of the ACA and whatnot.
Anyone wanna bet someone ran this simulation in real time, showed the results, and that helped with the finalized ACA?
Hmm.
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EverythingViral
The Canuck system! Welcome aboard! I just hope you are ready to wait an eternity for your tests. In Canada, we are all used to that and many of us are even full blown apologists for this shitty health care system. Good luck!
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The Canuck system! Welcome aboard! I just hope you are ready to wait an eternity for your tests. In Canada, we are all used to that and many of us are even full blown apologists for this shitty health care system. Good luck!
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ianism
that PC Gamer quote on the box though: -If you're confused - or dead certain - about how the US should solve its heath care crisis, you'll have a blast with this program. -
notice how they refrain from calling it a game? lmao
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that PC Gamer quote on the box though: -If you're confused - or dead certain - about how the US should solve its heath care crisis, you'll have a blast with this program. -
notice how they refrain from calling it a game? lmao
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Doug
The whole beginning wreck being left on the screen would be enough for me not to play it. How could the developers not have noticed that? And how much sense does it make to leave it the entire game as some kind of reminder?
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The whole beginning wreck being left on the screen would be enough for me not to play it. How could the developers not have noticed that? And how much sense does it make to leave it the entire game as some kind of reminder?
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Rosanna
You should do a review of SimLife - a game I had as a kid, but never understood anything of. I think it's mainly because I didn't know english, but it would be cool to actually see what the game really is about
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You should do a review of SimLife - a game I had as a kid, but never understood anything of. I think it's mainly because I didn't know english, but it would be cool to actually see what the game really is about
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NexusSomnia
Can you tell me how you reliabliy run md-90s PC games so well? They're so infamously difficult, most of the time even impossible to run on remotely modern machines and you seem to do it so effortlessly.
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Can you tell me how you reliabliy run md-90s PC games so well? They're so infamously difficult, most of the time even impossible to run on remotely modern machines and you seem to do it so effortlessly.
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Ponyta903
Never before in my life, a moment where I had to pull out my dictionary in order to understand some of the words in what in my personal opinion looks like a really boring piece of -game- software.
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Never before in my life, a moment where I had to pull out my dictionary in order to understand some of the words in what in my personal opinion looks like a really boring piece of -game- software.
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