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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Gaming => Topic started by: tormedhammaren on November 05, 2006, 12:50:26 AM

Title: The Surgeon
Post by: tormedhammaren on November 05, 2006, 12:50:26 AM

Found a good old game I used to play on my A500 back in the beginning of the 90s. It's called "The Surgeon" and as the title imposes it'a game where you are a surgeon.

The first case is a 65 year old man with aortic aneurysm. The problem is that I don't remember how i clamp the aorta and suture him togheter. Does anyone else remember?

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: Karlos on November 05, 2006, 12:56:48 AM

I knew computerised training for medical students was a mistake...

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: tormedhammaren on November 05, 2006, 01:14:59 AM

Hehe. Wonder how many times I've actually killed the guy. I like the fact that he wakes up and screams after going in to a asystole ECG (no cardiac electrical activity).

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: weirdami on November 05, 2006, 02:45:59 AM

Is it trial and error or are the procedures in the manual?

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: Tomas on November 05, 2006, 04:09:59 AM

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weirdami wrote:
Is it trial and error or are the procedures in the manual?

I think they were in the manual.. Which sadly makes the game pretty much unusable without.

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: Homer on November 05, 2006, 08:21:20 AM

Hmm,
Maybe a few years at University would make the manual superfluous to requirements  :crazy:
Of course, you could always go to your local hospital and track down a surgeon ? Hang around in bar's near hospitals with a list of questions ??
 :roflmao:

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: Xanxi on November 05, 2006, 09:26:51 AM

If you have the original box, could you complete the informations in the Hall of Light? It is quite incomplete for now.
http://hol.abime.net/4671 (http://hol.abime.net/4671)

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: deBrun on November 05, 2006, 12:00:04 PM

 :laughing:  :laughing:  :laughing:

Toooo Funny !!!

Maybe lure a doctor over claiming a serious medical condition for my Amiga (who he/she thinks is your female friend...).

Nah... probably charge you.  

Maybe you could check Aminet for a manual or cheat?

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: zaphire on November 05, 2006, 04:21:31 PM

Looks very similar to Life and Death (http://hol.abime.net/886)?

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: DaBest on November 05, 2006, 04:38:50 PM

Life and Death........I still have that game in the original box. I got tired of killing all my patients.

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: The_Editor on November 05, 2006, 05:08:20 PM

Yeah... me too.

Don't think I  ever saved anyone !!


hehe

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: tormedhammaren on November 06, 2006, 11:33:20 PM

I will ask one of my professors. :-)

Never owned this game, but always thought that it was freeware (because of what the About menu saies). Have at least completed a couple of surgeries after trial and error.

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: aardvark on November 06, 2006, 11:42:47 PM

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tormedhammaren wrote:
 Have at least completed a couple of surgeries, after trial and error.

Just like a _real_ surgeon!
 :lol:

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: Tomas on November 07, 2006, 12:27:47 AM

Hmm.. it was actually life and death i thought about.. Is it not the same game?

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: AmigaMance on November 07, 2006, 06:32:32 AM

 No, but they are similar. The surgeon looks like a shareware clone of life and death. btw, it's a pity that life and death 2 didn't make it to the Amiga.

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: tormedhammaren on November 07, 2006, 08:54:01 AM

Actually it looks like Dr. Myo Thant produced both of them1 (The Surgeon and Life and Death). So that is why they look so similar. I'll need to play Life & Death to compare them myself. :-)

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: Giana on November 07, 2006, 09:40:54 AM

Found this funny about The Surgeon :
http://recordedamigagames.ath.cx/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=105

Title: Re: The Surgeon
Post by: X-ray on November 07, 2006, 01:48:36 PM

(http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g154/Odd_Job/Theatre.jpg)