Comments on: Mucky Foot’s ER Tycoon: First Screen, Cancellation

By: hearme

hearme — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:21:05 +0000

With a patent, there are only two parties who are “true believers” about the patent. The inventor is a true believer, because he has spent a lot of time contemplating the possibilities. The other true believer is the marketing company, but their belief is a cynical one, presented only to lure the inventor into costy sucker traps.

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By: Cigol

Cigol — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:51:55 +0000

Bah.

Seems everyone missed the MuckyFoot employee comment and didn’t give it the slavish praise and attention it deserved. Much like the games they made I dare say…

Startopia ftw.

By: MuckyGuy

MuckyGuy — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:55:05 +0000

Actually it wasn’t so much cancelled, more a case that we couldn’t get anyone to sign it :-)

Also, the reason it looks so much like Startopia is because I only had 3 weeks to produce a prototype & so re-used the startopia engine. I also got the artist to reskin the aliens to make them look like hospital staff & patients :-)

By: itsallcrap

itsallcrap — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:22:53 +0000

Gah! You can’t show us that a remake of Theme Hospital was happening and has now been cancelled in one fell swoop. It’s just cruel.

It’s like being shown a picture of mangled red suit and antler parts being scraped out of a jet engine as proof that Santa Claus existed.

By: Pod

Pod — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:15:51 +0000

Hospital Tycoon? Wassat?
….
Oh, wow. I’ll grab the demo.

Also, I remember seeing a “games wot were cancelled!” feature in PC Gamer ages ago. I’d never hear of “Tir-Na-Nog” before then but the article made me believe I should be upset for it’s loss.

By: Krushr

Krushr — Sat, 31 May 2008 11:01:11 +0000

After reading this article last night, I spent the majority of today playing Hospital Tycoon. I wish this was on the way, oh well.

By: Lucky

Lucky — Sat, 31 May 2008 10:48:58 +0000

Startopia was pretty good. That is, if you could get over the lame campaign (which was practically like a set of tutorial missions) and a tacked-on fighting system.

I’ll always have a soft spot for Theme Hospital and replay it every few years. So ER Tycoon might’ve really disappointed me by not being as hypnotically fun.

By: yutt

yutt — Sat, 31 May 2008 04:27:12 +0000

Theme Hospital was a blast. The world lost so much with the demise/split of Bullfrog. I never played Startopia, was it any good?

I have my suspicions that Ryan is a spambot.

Not a very effective one, as there are nofollows on all comment links. :P

By: David

David — Sat, 31 May 2008 03:55:15 +0000

Rob,
I have my suspicions that Ryan is a spambot. Either that, or a lonely fellow with nothing better to do than attach a link to his web site to inane comments on every article here.

It’s always sad to read about canceled games. It’s easy to get wistful thinking of all the brilliant things that could have been. But seeing a screenshot? That’s just an odd curiosity, like seeing a picture of a deleted scene from a movie. Maybe it’s because one screen doesn’t look that much different from the next. There’s no context, so it’s not as meaningful.

Still interesting to see, though. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen an entire news story devoted to a screenshot of a long-canceled game. Another RPS first?

By: Pod

Pod — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:03:35 +0000

This makes me cry.