Games I Own: Dungeon Keeper, Theme Park, Theme Hospital
Posted on 26th Sep 2009 at 11:38 by Joe Martin with 16 comments
I was never any good at Dungeon Keeper – and when I say ‘not any good’, I really do mean that I was seriously pants at it. Something to do with being only 12 when the game came out and not really being interested in strategy games – which kind of begs the question of why I played it at all.
There are two answers.
Firstly, it wasn’t my game. It was my brothers and, while I can’t remember if it was a present or something he actually bought, I do know it was his. In the days when the family shared just one PC and my brother and I shared every game, it was inevitable that I would play it. Likewise, it was inevitable then when he stopped playing PC games and I moved out that I would steal it from him, along with about ten other games. Sorry, Sam!
Secondly, making people think that they liked strategy games even though they didn’t really was one of the things that made Bullfrog such a successful company.
There are two answers.
Firstly, it wasn’t my game. It was my brothers and, while I can’t remember if it was a present or something he actually bought, I do know it was his. In the days when the family shared just one PC and my brother and I shared every game, it was inevitable that I would play it. Likewise, it was inevitable then when he stopped playing PC games and I moved out that I would steal it from him, along with about ten other games. Sorry, Sam!
Secondly, making people think that they liked strategy games even though they didn’t really was one of the things that made Bullfrog such a successful company.
