Of course, things can go wrong and, when youre facing a psychiatric ward full of Elvis impersonators or a bunch of people in Out Patients with Hairy-itis (an affliction which causes all- over body hair, for which you dont have a cure), youll think that youre the one whos going to need to lie down on a couch. Just as in real life, you have to make your hospital function, carefully using your resources to good effect, healing and repairing the sick and injured and giving yourself a warm feeling inside. While Theme Park detailed the day-to-day running of an amusement park, mixing cute, colourful graphics with a fully operational economic simulator, Bullfrog is applying Theme Park's fantastic gameplay to the everyday running of your very own hospital. Cure your way through the quirkiest and funniest diseases in My Hospital - the ultimate simulation game where you design, manage and maintain your very own medical centre Join millions of players in finding a cure. Zombies.Theme Park is one of the biggest selling games of all time - nearly a million copies sold, still in the charts, and nearly two years since it was released. Hospital simulation game where you diagnose & cure your own patients The ultimate hospital tycoon game.

Previous titles in the EA promotion have included Dragon Age: Origins, Dead Space, Peggle and Plants vs. Truly, the first time you see someone enter the re-inflation clinic is a beautiful thing. Developed by the now-defunct Dungeon Keeper developer Bullfrog, it mixes management and business aspects with the need to cure queues of patients struggling from bizarre diseases. Theme Hospital remains one of the best simulation games of the '90s.

Once downloaded, the game is yours to keep forever. Got an Origin account? Simply head to Theme Hospital's download page and nab it for free. It's the latest title in EA's regular 'On the House' promotion, which gifts freebies to Origin members every month or so.

ORIGINAL STORY 21/1/15 1.35pm: Medically dubious simulation classic Theme Hospital is now available to download for free via Origin. Patients are reminded not to die in the corridors. UPDATE 21/1/15 1.35pm: In celebration of today's Origin freebie (and because H1Z1 is still down) Ian 'Greetings' Higton will be live-streaming Theme Hospital tonight from 4pm GMT.

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