Biing!
| Biing! - Sex, intrigue and scalpels | |||
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| Studio | reline software | ||
| Publisher | Magic bytes | ||
| Senior Developer | Holger Gehrmann | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
1995 | ||
| platform | Commodore Amiga , MS-DOS | ||
| genre | Economic simulation | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | mouse | ||
| medium | Floppy disk , CD-ROM | ||
| language | German English | ||
| copy protection | Manual query for floppy version | ||
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Biing! - Sex, intrigue and scalpels is an erotic , satirical -humorous hospital “ simulation ” by the company reline Software , which was created in 1995 under the direction of Olaf Patzenhauer. In the game, the player has to manage a hospital called the Brainworm Memorial and earn as many louts as possible (that's the currency in the game).
action
Biing! is a real-time economic simulation. So you have to make sure that you have your own account at the end of each game day. If this is not the case, you have lost the game. You can make money by treating patients and issuing bills for them. For customer acquisition, the typical instruments of a business simulation are available on the one hand, such as advertising by errand boys (success criterion here: how often was the errand boy beaten), but also more “exotic” measures such as bats that take care of more patients.
In order to remain competitive (you play against several computer opponents), you have to expand your own hospital. You can buy and expand various rooms in the game, such as treatment rooms, dental practices, operating theaters, etc. In order for these rooms to function properly, you have to employ suitable staff. In the case of applications from nurses, for example, the size of the bust is much more important than the training, doctors primarily need a good golf handicap and warehouse workers are selected based on their liver values.
The player has direct influence on most actions, at least at the beginning, while the staff does not yet have enough experience to be able to act independently. Despite the ostensible humor and eroticism, every decision made by the player has a direct impact on the course of the game.
Game principle and technology
The game is completely in the same comic style as Wet - The Sexy Empire or Mag !!! drawn. Each room consists of a background with objects and a foreground in which the current people (doctors, patients) are shown. The game has no animations; in a few cases, movements are indicated by switching back and forth between two graphics. The rooms are drawn very lovingly, they often contain little jokes such as eyes looking out of mouse holes, etc.
All rooms are full of sexual innuendo: Located a nurse in the room can, this usually by a mouse click for stripping brought what the game is graphically.
Ogan and Celâl Kandemiroğlu , who designed the graphics for numerous German games in the 1990s, are responsible for the graphics . Some of the Biing graphics were also featured in the British comic Wicked Wanda . For example, the dentist is the Wicked Wanda character Homer Sapiens.
Production notes
The intro to the game has nothing to do with the game itself. It is about a "Princess Rosenrot" who was captured by a space aggressor and is to be saved by a hero. The last words in the intro are a sample from the Monty Python film “The Wonderful World of Gravity”: “But let's move on to something completely different” - then the main program starts. The name of the game was also inspired by a Monty Python film: In The Meaning of Life , John Cleese, as chief physician, names various medical devices, including the most expensive machine in the entire hospital and the device that always does “Biing!”.
After the floppy disk version was denounced for its sexism, there were some minor changes in the CD version, which was released a few months later: Statistics were no longer kept on the average bust size of the nurses (ranking of all hospitals with a direct impact on patient opinion), but without further ado declares work experience to be the most important characteristic. Some graphics have also been defused. For example, vibrators disappeared from the personnel office and the graphics of the golf room were completely replaced, as the nurse sitting in the diskette version with her legs spread in front of the golf hole was probably perceived as too sexist.
During the credits at the beginning, the theme music of the Black Forest Clinic can be heard, while the overview map plays Crockett's Theme by Jan Hammer .
A beach bar in a leisure pool in Arad , Romania was called Biing 2 . The bar was operated by a former business partner of reLine Software, but closed after the end of the 2007 season.
In 1999 reLINE released a follow-up to Biing !. This time you didn't have to manage a hospital, but a holiday complex. In the second part, even more attention was paid to the erotic (significantly more nude photos etc. were used and more detailed graphics). There are some technical difficulties in supporting Windows 2000 and later Windows versions, but these have been resolved by fan patches .
reception
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Due to the hitherto unprecedented combination of economic elements, satire and eroticism, the trade press was divided. The game was rated by the following specialist magazines, among others:
- Amiga Games : "Award" 87%
- Amiga Joker : "Hit" 86%
- Amiga magazine : "Tip" 95%
- PC Games : "Award" 88%
- Playtime: "Star" 89%
Biing! was named "Game of the Year 1995" by Amiga Games.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biing! 2 v1.09 (unofficial) on biing-fansite.de (German)
- ↑ Peter Schwindt: Doktorspiele: Biing . In: Power Play . June 1995, p. 87.