Biing!
As hospital director, it is your job to manage and run a profitable medical institution down to the smallest detail. To stimulate the player's imagination, the hospital's business is transacted in a comic-book combination of silliness and satire that will keep you laughing throughout.Watch the nurses with their truly
outstandingskills as they make both the doctors' jobs and yours, the future head-of-hospital's job, so much easier and enjoyable.The growing pains of a prospering enterprise
Your beginnings are modest. You have your own office, a personnel secretary, a
personalsecretary and a real estate agent who is located next door. You begin by buying or renting plots of land on which your future hospital will be built. First to be built are the Reception Area and Treatment Room. Once the money starts rolling in, you can spend it on further additions to the hospital from Dental Surgery to Torture Chamber, from Pathology to Golf. Each new department gives the player more options. Meanwhile you start interviewingqualifiedpeople who have responded to your job offers placed in the newspaper. Carefully, you select each female respondent according to chest-size, and each male respondent according to their golf handicap. As befits the game, wages are paid in dongs. After hiring aqualifiedperson for each job vacancy, there is only one thing missing: the victims—our patients.How sick is a hospital allowed to be?
To keep your business running smoothly, you are required, at the very least, first: to train your
qualifiedpersonnel in the art of robbing the patients; second: to be involved in the juggling of hospital supplies and other miscellanea such as a missing button for your nurse's shirt and a chisel for the dentist. Even the level of occupancy of your hospital beds can be controlled through the judicious use of your own personal hooligans. With your hospital ambulance, a converted used car, you race the ambulances of other hospitals to the location of the next accident. In your Waiting Room, new patients, lured by your last marketing campaign sloganWe have the best nurses with the best busts!, await their treatments with anticipation.Patients' Files gives you the health status of each of your guests. Does Mrs. X get sent to Neurology or does Mr. Y get sent to Intensive Care? And what's to be done if a patient dies by mistake? One can easily lose their order of importance, but, fortunately, there is a First Aid Box that keeps us up to date and reminds us of what's to be done next. In the Treatment Room, the doctor, instead of examining his patient, prefers to examine his assistant's rear view. Loud derisive laughter and masochistic cries of pleasure mixed with the shrill sound of a grinding drill are heard in Dental Surgery. And while a happy tune is being hummed in Pathology during the slicing of a cadaver, one of our live guests is being anesthetized and carved in the Operating Room.
Biing! was released in 1995 in four different versions (I have
included the original recommended
prices as a curiosity,
divide them by two to get an approximate Dollar/Euro equivalent):
Whether or not any of these versions were translated into English, I cannot say with absolute certainty, since I have never seen an English box scan or screenshot, but it is highly probable. The reLINE website was completely bilingual, and they listed an American vendor specifically in connection with Biing! Most likely only the PC version was available in English. If it existed, it has become quite rare.
While the PC versions were listed as SVGA on the reLINE website, they actually could run under pure VGA. For ECS there had to be 16-color graphics anyway. But since SVGA was so obviously the default setting, I have included it in my list of SVGA games. In the archive floating around the Internet, the 16-color graphics files are missing.
