Life and Death

Genre:

Simulation

Year:

1988

Developer:

Software Toolworks, The

Publisher:

Software Toolworks, The

Perspective:

1st-person

Theme:

Medical

Releases:

DOS (1988), Macintosh (1988), Amiga (1991), Atari ST (1991)

Also known as:

Life & Death: You are the Surgeon!

Life and Death is, as the name suggests a game about life and death, and you will decide what is gonna be. You play the role of a doctor in a hospital, where you take care of your patients. As new patients appear in the hospital, you have to start diagnosis of the disease: go to the patient's room, diagnose him/her and determine what the next step is gonna be. You can send the patient for further diagnosis (such as X-ray, or ultrasoung), send him to another specialist, send him home or operate. If choose to send the patient for surgery, guess who will perform that? Correct: You will! In surgery, you need to follow the exact procedure and make it very carefully (observe strict hygiene, put patient to sleep, etc.), otherwise the operation may not be successful and your patient dies.