Sinclair User


Mad Nurse

Author: Graham Taylor
Publisher: Firebird
Machine: Spectrum 48K/Plus

 
Published in Sinclair User #64

Mad Nurse

If you look at this game in a highly critical manner and take it at first glance you could almost be forgiven for thinking that it is a complete and utter load of rubbish.

Mad Nurse however, is, a very whacky and entertaining little game.

It reminds me somewhat of a hospitalised Skool Daze in its layout - with three levels, connected by lifts, of nursery wards, each with various cots, medicines, and electrical sockets.

Mad Nurse

The scenario has you as a trainee nurse in the baby wards, and it's you job to scour the wards for naughty babies who have climbed out of their cots and causing havoc wherever that go. As you move your nurse around (they have delightful names like Brenda Bumwasher and Tracey Toetickler) you find babies about to put their fingers in to plug sockets or opening medicine bottles, or intent on chucking themselves down the lift shaft.

You've got to overcome any powerful urge to just let them go ahead and write themselves off and build up your score by saving the tots, and returning them to their cots.

Get too many babies in one cot, and they all hop out again twice as fast! Collecting the bottles also gives you a bonus score, but you don't get much time for that.

It's all in extremely bad taste which is to say it's definitely a game to look out for.

Overall Summary

All about nurses maintaining law and order in a babies hospital ward. Apart from attribute clash it's an entertaining little toddler.

Graham Taylor

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