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4993459 No.4993459 [Reply] [Original]

Did anyone play the Hugo games growing up? I have no idea why they left such an impact on me. They weren't even that good.

>> No.4993476
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yes
>input: HUGO IS A HUGE QUEER
>CPU: Same to you, loser!

>> No.4993519

It's the poor man's Maniac Mansion is why

>> No.4993538

Yes. It was kinda fun, like Maniac Mansion but creepier and campier. I used to play it on the school library PCs.

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>>4993459
I did a bit. I had a bunch of shareware CDs & diskettes and it was impossible to not come across. I remember the constant disappointment of running yet another HUGO.exe and hoping against hope it'd be this guy instead.

>> No.4993768

>>4993459
Yes, I did, I love them too and give them a spin again every 5+ years.

They're just silly and light-hearted fun, but also objectively good adventure games.

The puzzles aren't too hard and generally make sense (except the outdated American old man trivia which every kid outside of USA born after 1970 had to look up).

The interface is simple and doesn't suck like the arrow key control of the cursor in early Scumm games.

The art is amateurish and pretty terrible but that just left more to your imagination.

I wonder if David P Gray realises the impact he had. He's probably dead now or close to it.

>> No.4993871

>>4993743
Played the first one after my brother downloading it expecting the troll in your pic. I hadn't played many adventure games at the time (only Space Quest 1 and King's Quest 1, I believe), but Hugo still felt like a pretty bad one.

>> No.4993906

I played the first two games a lot when i was around 7 years old. They were the only games my dad had other than shareware doom. Parents are divorced and i would only see my dad every 2nd weekend. I found out there was a 3rd game based in a jungle years later; bought and played it just for nostalgia of the other two games. Warm fuzzy memories those games bring back. I never thought they were good by any means but they did help me with my critical thinking and typing skills when i was younger. Thankyou for the post.

>> No.4993956

>>4993459
Played the first one, I remember having trouble with the trivia questions the old man asks you cause it was before my time, like Rodney Dangerfield's dog's name. It was a simple little adventure that was easier for kids to understand though.

>> No.4993960

>>4993956
Oops, I meant Roy Roger's dog, lol

I don't know this stuff

>> No.4994030

>>4993459
hugo was big 4me

>> No.4994045

>>4993960
Roy Rogers' horse, George Steinbeck's dog.

>> No.4994745

My dad bought these from those $5 software store racks they had at grocery stores and stuff. Loved them. Had all three. These and NES Maniac Mansion got me hooked on adventure games. Top nostalgia.

>> No.4994783

my favorite part of each Hugo game was the inevitable point where there would be some unrecognizable orange/gray/brown pixel blob of an object you needed to interact with in order to progress the game and you had no way of knowing what the fuck to call it so the text interpreter would know what you're talking about. I still don't know what any of those objects were.