Emergency Room is a simulation video game series in which the player assumes the role of a medical person who treats hospital patients.

[2][3] Set in an emergency room at Legacy Memorial Hospital,[2] the player takes control of a rookie medical student who reviews patients' charts and performs various procedures to diagnose and treat illnesses and injuries.

Procedures used to make a diagnosis include checking patients' blood pressure and pulse, and multiple-choice options are presented to the player throughout the game.

[1] The game was produced by Dr. Ariella Lehrer, a cognitive psychologist and the eventual founder and chief executive officer of Legacy Interactive Inc.[4] Emergency Room sold over 230,000 copies.

[5] Ken Neville of Entertainment Weekly gave the game a "C−" and criticized its simplicity, noting the player's inability to question patients to determine their ailments.

Neville concluded that people who enjoy pretending to be doctors are "best advised to watch television's ER, because this Emergency Room makes you want to pull the plug.

"[3] The Miami Herald stated that the game offers "a realistic experience in a hospital ER without the threat of a malpractice suit.

"[2] Emergency Room 2 was developed and published by Legacy Interactive Inc.[5] The game was released in January 1999,[6] for Macintosh and Microsoft Windows.

[5] The player engages in various tasks to diagnose each patient, such as taking X-rays and CT scans, and performing stool tests.

[5] The game includes voiceover work from Joey Lauren Adams and Steve Park, who respectively portray a nurse and a radiology technician.

Park was critical of the game's graphics and grainy full motion videos (FMV), its sensitive controls, and the lack of background music.

Park praised the large amount of medical information and stated that the game "seems like a decent piece of edutainment software.

The player chooses which of the three disaster sites to report to, and then selects a patient to bring back to the hospital for an examination, tests, and treatment.

[12] The player begins as a Medical Student at Legacy Memorial Hospital, and must work up through the ranks of Intern, Resident, Attending, and ultimately Chief of Staff.

[16] As with its predecessors, the game is set in Legacy Memorial Hospital, and features rankings that range from medical student to chief of staff.

With each case, the player stabilizes the patient, asks questions about their condition and symptoms, performs an examination, makes a tentative diagnosis, and then devises a treatment plan.

"[21] Emergency Room: Real Life Rescues was developed and published by Legacy Interactive, and was released for the Nintendo DS on August 25, 2009.