Life and Death - 1988 - MS-DOS Game Review

[@BingleBangleBungle]

"What did I do wrong?" 🤣

[@msdosgamereviews]

Good thing there is no malpractice....

[@ArttuTheCat]

I remember, when i was a little boy back in the early 1990's, i saw the ad of this game from one of the Amiga game magazines. It looked so scary, i could not want to play it 😹. And before this came out, there was the original Amiga program, THE SURGEON, made in 1987 😹🤘🕹️.

[@Polemodrome]

Man, when you play something like this, it makes you put into perspective all the dramatic responsibilities those physicians have. It's crazy how stressful of a job they have

[@ArttuTheCat]

@@Polemodrome This game also had the sequel, LIFE & DEATH II: THE BRAIN. 😹🤘🕹️

[@msdosgamereviews]

I wanted to get into the patient, but fumbled the controls... The graphics were amazing, considering that this is CGA

[@MM.]

"Padding the hospital bill in this manner is frowned upon at Toolworks General" I can see that realism wasn't the main goal here.

[@msdosgamereviews]

Back when people had morals.

[@SmackdownMadness]

You should check out the sequel which is called life and death 2 The brain which deals with Aneurysms and Hematomas

[@msdosgamereviews]

I really did not do this game justice with the review, there are really a lot more to explore in the patients that are on the operating table. However, the user interface is honestly a bit tricky to learn, and so I lost at least one patient to that....

[@Polemodrome]

Software Toolworks? The same ST who developped the Super Mario educational games on the NES and SNES? I didn't know they developed for the MS-DOS. This one is the type of game which catches my interest, thanks! At any rate, congrats for scheduling an appendectomy on a patient without appendicitis, Dr. Nick 😂

[@ArttuTheCat]

Don't forget the CHESSMASTER games 😺👍🕹️.

[@msdosgamereviews]

Yeah, I did not have any experience with this game at all. However, it did draw me in pretty quickly.

[@Bicornis]

Heheh. "I have no idea what that is" is probably among the things you'd least like to hear the surgeon say when you're going under in an operating room...

[@msdosgamereviews]

Being on the operating table is already an experience to avoid, and hearing that would definitely freak me out as well. Luckily, doctors get a bit more training that I had!

[@Dukefazon]

Life and Death had to crawl so Trauma Center could run :)

[@msdosgamereviews]

Interesting!