The games hung together with their own twisted, crazed consistencies and that’s certainly what I fell in love with. The Bullfrog games each manifested their setting differently, making you either feel like some literal overlord with a huge hand you could slap your imps with or like a crazy inventor who made increasingly dangerous rollercoasters.

It was the continued chance to exist in the strange world of Horned Reapers and Dark Mistresses, of Bloaty Head and Invisibility Disease. Yes, there was a lot of little fun bits added in, like riding the rollercoasters in Theme Park and shooting rats in Theme Hospital, which gave the game that irreverent and very English sense of humour – but that wasn’t what kept you playing.

In Theme Hospital you’d actually feel like an NHS administrator. Playing Dungeon Keeper, you could actually feel like a bad guy.

What those games did have that other games didn’t though was a proper sense of setting and character. The games were definitely fun, but there were lots of much better balanced RTS games available even back then. None of them are particularly well-balanced games and, even when I used cheats to get unlimited everything, I always had problems finishing Theme Hospital. It’s obvious when you look at the most successful games they made – Theme Park, Theme Hospital, Dungeon Keeper.

Dungeon keeper 2 dark mistress