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Amiga
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Atari ST
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3.0
DOS
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3.2

Description

Life & Death is a game which casts you as a doctor in a hospital. Your job is to diagnose patients and administer appropriate therapies, or even perform surgery when necessary.

To diagnose a patient, you have to press on his or her abdomen, to see which portions of the stomach cause pain. Basing on this knowledge, you can choose a therapy for him (observation, medication or referring to another specialist) or administer a X-Ray or ultrasound scan to get more information about his illness.

In some cases, surgery will be necessary. You're the surgeon and you have to perform the operation very carefully, adhering strictly to the procedures, preserving hygiene, and maintaining care when cutting up the patient.

Should you mistakenly administer the wrong therapy, or kill your patient at the operating table, you're kicked into the medical school, where you're given hints as to what you've done wrong.

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The game that started it all, for me that is... DOS Michael Palomino (153)

The Press Says

Abandonia DOS Apr 28, 2005 5 out of 5 100
Amiga Computing Amiga Sep, 1991 90 out of 100 90
Just Games Retro DOS Sep 29, 2006 83 out of 100 83
CU Amiga Amiga Jul, 1991 72 out of 100 72
Amiga Joker Amiga Sep, 1991 71 out of 100 71
Datormagazin Amiga Aug 29, 1991 70 out of 100 70

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Trivia

The game came with extremely realistic materials. It included an internal memo and pathology course, both typed with a dactylo, photocopied and then stapled by hand. And if you looked under the bottom cardboard in the box, you could find a real pair of surgical gloves and a surgery mask!

This game had a few digital sounds that came out of the PC Speaker, which was quite uncommon back then. There was no way to bypass it; it actually crashed my Phillips XT and I've never been able to get a refund for this game. The digital sounds dont't work well with Windows 95 either.


This entry was contributed by Olivier Masse (422), Martin Smith (64035) and Echidna Boy (440)
 

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