Hugo The Troll And His AWFUL PlayStation Games
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2020
- A brief history of Hugo the Troll (Hiúdaí as he is known in Ireland) then a look at every Hugo game released on the PlayStation/PS1/PSX/PSOne.
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• Hiudai TNT end of show...
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I have so much nostalgia for Hugo. I'm from Denmark and I remember Hugo was everywhere back in the day. I hold the old classic mini-games from the 90s so dear to my heart. But I remember I also had a cassette tape with songs sung by Hugo, a board game, clothing, a figure and plushies of Hugo and his wife. Hugo was indeed quite popular back then!
I know that a Danish animation studio, called "Einstein Film", was set to make a feature film starring Hugo in 2012.
Idk if it got cancelled or if it's just on hold. Can't find anything about it.
I hope the little troll will get a proper comeback some day.
Hugo was my first game for PS1. I was a big fan of a show as a kid, and I got PS1 with Hugo 1 and 2 to satisfy my dream of playing Hugo myself. Sure, I didn't play much Hugo once I got into some better games, but that was a fine starting point
I remember the TV show and how bad most callers seemed at the most simple of video games. I even called a few times myself because I thought I could absolutely do better (but I never made it through). Of course, at the time, I didn't realize how horrible the delay must have been between a button press and what you saw on screen. That must've been a quite shocking realization right then and there on the spot and definitely would ramp up the difficulty significantly. That and the nerves of knowing you're being watched by thou-... hundreds... maybe even tens of people and harshly judged by dickheads like me and knowing you have just one shot do not miss your chance, Hugo, this opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo
The TV show's host was the best part 😅 In Finland we also had a show where CD-I games were controlled remotely over phone. That was a total disaster in every way...
hey now vito was great! it was like youtube, some rubber dude making people play the crappy cd-i games with 1 button at a time phone beep controls. and if you won the episode I think you got a cdi? what a kick on the balls, good luck selling it on the keltainen-porssi to buy something one would want. Great weekend tv-content, up there with remonttireiska giving tiling instructions on a sunday morning
@@lasskinn474 Controlling CD-i over the phone had so much lag that you'd have to predict your keypresses seconds ahead.
@@HannuPulli I think that was the secret of the successful attempts at it, helped by that the games were mostly FMV games with little or zero randomization, so you could actually kinda do that after watching the show.
@@lasskinn474 For tool-assisted speedruns, You could record the sequence of dial tones for the perfect run
Hugo and Moorhuhn are truly the two most weird popular mascots out there
I've seen that Moorhuhn thing now and again but I know very little about it since I'm not german. Same with Hugo
@@noaht2005 It was HUGE because you could play it without an install on pretty much every PC of that era. Still don't know why people still cared for any of the sequels tho. Even as a kid I wanted more out of video games.
Seeing Moorhuhn storm PSN these days is surreal
These games are the last thing I'd expect to hit PS5
@@shards-of-glass-man The PS5 games are sadly of bad quality but they are still a fun time and suprisingly difficult platinum throphies lol
@@shards-of-glass-man Even more odd to see Moorhuhn games in America, albeit named "Crazy Chicken" which always felt wrong to me since Moorhuhn is the name of a kind of bird.
The English Hugo VA sounds eerily similar to Chris Chan
It's wild seeing something you vaguely remember from your childhood has become an international thing.
These looked painful to play! Though I can vaguely recall Hugo as a child, I don't think nostalgia would help me get through these! Great video man!
**Looks onto my shelf of games** Say... can it be true that Hugo 1 and 2 are the only PS1 games to actually have a logo on its spine rather than the boring white text all the other games have?
I actually grew up in Denmark and I also remember Hugo being freakin' huge over here.
It was part of this grown-up show where they would have guests, talk about news, have bands play, and do other stuff but the only thing I really cared about was watching Hugo.
In fact, I don't remember it ever being anything but adults who called in to play.
Hugo would later appear on some kids programming in the morning on other channels and here it would, in fact, be kids calling in but on the original show, it was mainly adults. The score you got would reflect the amount of money you'd actually win. Could go as far as 15,000DKK which I suppose must've been 7- 9,000USD. as well as them usually throwing some other swag your way. Not bad for an experimental Amiga game.
The most iconic game was probably the one where Hugo had to navigate through a mine/labyrinth and then make his way over a long bridge full of holes... Which strangely are all absent from the PS1 ports.
The coolest thing I remember about Hugo tho was that he appeared in an episode of one of our Daily TV Advent Calendars during Christmas where one of the elves accidentally managed to magic his girlfriend into a computer where he then had to go in after her and play through the Hugo game along with Hugo himself. It was really crazy to me as a kid to see something like this and I kinda wish they had made a Christmas edition of the game based on that episode.
Should you want to check out the interesting part of the episode, you can check it out here ruclips.net/video/JVqx75vvy-U/видео.html Don't mind that weirdly superimposed kid, that isn't part of the video and I'm not sure what it's about.
I actually remember there being a predecessor to Hugo games which focused on the same type of telephone technology where you could call in. I believe it was made by Silverrock Studio as well. He was called Super Oswald.
Although, Hugo is probably the closest Denmark has to a game mascot... If you don't count Hitman.
I remember watching this as a kid in Portugal. Didn't know they had the games in home consoles. Thanks for letting me know.
this is one of my favorite vids on this channel. I like the mix of TV nostalgia, Irish culture, awful gameplay & suffering. Chef's kiss.
Just remember everybody. It's cool to be nice!
Hey Sean stop being mean to Scylla, she was just born that way she can't control it.
oh damn
HUGO!
he was a stapple of argentinian tv
glad to see other countries got to experience his adventures too
PRESS 5!
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Oh man, Hugo. I remember it from TV and wasn't even too interested in watching it on TV. But one day someone gave me pirates copies of the Amiga version and my mind was blown. "The TV game ported to my Amiga?! Whooaaaa!". And say what you will about the gameplay, I always appreciated the 2D pixel art as well as the crazy amount of parallax scrolling. Sections like that mountain hopping looked pretty rad as well with all that sprite scaling going on. Oh and it featured a ton of speech, which amazed me quite a bit as well, heh.
Tbh, the PSone ports do look pretty god actually and that Hugo 2 has a pretty nifty synth score!
I actually managed to call into one of these shows in Poland. To say that there was input lag would be a grave understatement. Unsurprisingly, TV shows were not made with latency in mind. I imagine people's mileage here varies wildly, but I would have less latency trying to just scream out my controls till someone in the studio heard me. So if you remember anyone doing incredibly poorly, this is likely why.
My god that game was so depressing... I think that it might be the cause of one of my first episodes of depression.
I know, they're hard to get through!
39:00: Those are Squirrels. But…
41:53: Those are definitely Beavers.
I absolutely love your low-key style of humor, like I don't think so many silent stares have ever had me LOL so much.
hugo was the personification of my memories living in germany
I thought he was an exclusive there (or at least had a disproportionately major following like donald duck) but apparently I am mistaken
Likewise I thought he was an Irish exclusive creation as a kid.
It just does to show easy it was to successfuly adapt the character to new locations.
Great video. Shocking this or any of the other excellent videos on your channel haven't been blown up by the algorithm yet
Hugo was really popular here in Finland during the 90's. Any time the show would be on TV, you bet I was gonna watch it. What made it memorable for me was the Finnish Hugo's voice actor Harri Hyttinen and his comments when something happened in the game. I got the first two Hugo PS-One games and played them a lot.
Yeah, the Finnish Hugo actor is so much better. Rare case where I prefer the Finnish version over the English version.
2:46 and 3:30 Do you have link to these two clips? I couldn't find it by searching.
they're tough to find. You need to search using the Irish language name of Hugo. You can find one of them by typing 'Get out of that chimney Hiúdaí'
Thankyou for being a recovering emo instead of going full Thor.
Man it would have been so cool to have the equivalent for the Nick Arcade games that were made by Psygnosis. They were already running on the Amiga, should've been easy enough to make a home version for SNES or Gen/MD. I also remember Nickelodeon doing a few special events where you played a game live over the phone, but it was always existing games. I specifically remember once the game was Cool Spot on SNES, and nobody could manage it with the laggy phone controls as well as the broadcast delay of live TV (I'm not sure if there were different rules in UK vs US for live TV, I think our live TV requires a specific time delay so that if anything bad happens the feed can be cut seconds before it actually broadcasts).
1) Obviously, brilliant video. 👍
2) 1:40- we had a precursor to this in NY in the early 80s.. weekday afternoons, callers to WPIX could "play" Intellivision games by saying "Pix" to activate a button press.. tho most times the kids would just scream/spam it, going pix!pix!pix!pix!pix!pix! etc.. usually getting no score at all. Ah, memories...
i remember hugo being an interactive phone game on itvs Saturday show 'whats up doc' in 1992/3 and I also remember being baffled as to why the hugo game got released on the ps1 5 years after the fact......
.......i had NO idea that this character has had the shelf life and media phenomenon that it has had over the last 30 years..... this genuinely frightens me.....😂
Me too
What are the link of the Christmas songs you've putted here fella,can u tell me plz:/
Thank you for your sacrifice, now we don't have to play those Hugo games ever
One of my favourite youtube channels, for the love of god never stop making content! do you plan on branching out to PS2 content eventually?
Thank you so much!
I sure do, if I ever get lucky enough to dedicate myself full time to these videos I'll use the extra time to make PS2 vids alongside PS1 content.
the only game missing in 2 first PSX games, is the origiinal, where he walks in the mine, where you have to use the map, when you come out, then their is a bridge he walks on, where you have to jumps over holes
I hope for a follow up video as I need to know what else happens in the Hugo saga and why that game is called Agent Hugo Lemon Twist.
Nostalgic stuff. Me and my brother used to play the second hugo game on PS1.
I never knew the background of Hugo. And seeing this video was just perfect to remind myself of the games but also to learn about his history.
I actually bought Hugo Frog Frighter yesterday ahah Nice video btw!
Thanks for watching, enjoy the froggy fun! :)
TG4 just have no archives of their older shows available. Doesn't matter if they produced it wholly, it doesn't matter if they're just dubbing Irish Langauage versions of some cartoon, like Teen Titans or Avatar the Last Airbender. If they have it, they're not showing it to any of us.
I'm told that they've actually given out footage to some folk that email them. But I've not a request even so much as answered.
Side note, it's probably just from a mix of watching little of the channel as a child, though I watched more than a bit given we only had six channels when I was a child, but never have I heard someone before you call the channel TG Four. I've only heard people call it TG Ceathair.
they 100% have an archive of this stuff, wether they've converted everything to digital or not thats another story but it's there somewhere. theres plenty of legal and copyright reasons preventing them from just giving it out to the public mind you, so unless you know somebody on the inside the chances of getting that stuff out and onto the net is slim.
Also I'm fully aware the majoirty of my audience for this video is people in north and south america so stating Ceathair = 4 is just to not confuse the poor folks looking for a video about playstation games. Most people I know still refer to it as TnaG
I liked your framed Alexisonfire poster. It's really cool. I'm so sad I was a bit too young and too remote to have been able to travel far enough to have seen a show during the Farewell Tour.
Little did I know they'd be back touring again in no time :P
Those scenes from German TV with Sonja Zietlow was sending me straight back to my childhood. 😍
Man, in Brazil we had the Hugo game on television too
Edit: Hugo in english sounds suspiciously like chris chan.
Hugo in Argentina was kind of a big deal, not as big as in Ireland by a long shot, but it had it's own show with phone gameplay and all, "A jugar con Hugo" (Let's play with Hugo) with it's own cute host and all. Ah, memories
I think the cute host was part of the concept really. our country didn't have a studio audience, the show was done with pennies but I think it got very good viewcounts regardless.
I find the idea of being able to interact with a tv show via phone fascinating, but to me as someone with absolutely no nostalgia for Hugo, as he never appeared on Australian television, he has to have the ugliest, most unappealing character design I've ever seen.
Hugo persisted on the PS2. There's even a dang car combat game.
I'll stick to Rare ZX Specky games for euro retro nostalgia. A period in gaming history we missed in the US. Or maybe a little Jet Set Willy. As regards to that games difficulty I'll quote my brothers across the pond, "Bloody hell". It's amazing what programmers did with that computers limitations btw
Wow the memories come flooding back from watching the games getting played on Saturday morning TV. Thank you for reminding me of the show's name! I had forgotten it decades ago lol.
My brother amazingly got a Hugo game for the Playstation when we were in Switzerland called "Hugo and the Black Diamond". It was in French which helped us learn it but only one word comes to mind when thinking of it...merde!
In the late 80's early 90's in the UK we had a phone in game for a Saturday Morning kids show called Motormouth. The game was Magic Pockets by the Bitmap Brothers, which was later released for the Amiga and ST. Suffice to say it's not an amazing game, but far greater than Hugo's outings lol =)
We had a Hugo show back in Argentina, looked really laggy though... there was also a Hugo show in Chile, and it looked just as laggy. i saw the ps1 game bsck in the day, but dodged that bullet. The advantage of being friends with the guy that runs the videogames shop.
Wow this was nostalgic. Thanks for making this video! I thought I was the only one who remembered watching that strange show back in the day.
I loved watching him on tv u Ireland and in BBC Saturday mornings where he was Hugo.
HUGO was very popular for a very short time in Brazilian TV Stations aswell... it was a very weird fucking anomaly.
i have a very vivid memory of suffering from a very Strong Cold, shivering hard under three thick sheets as i watched a TV Show where callers would play it to win prizes.
Before Hugo there was Oswald, a blue polar bear jumping on ice.
there is an indescribable sense of disappointment that there is not a ps2 Hugo games video yet :(
Never lose hope
Surprised that the first and second one weren't released in Ireland as Gaeilge, considering the ports existed, and at the very least they could have taken character audio from T na G - in the age of Millionaire Irish Edition, and before the Gaelic Games, eh, games
Oh the nostalgia!! Here in Argentina it was very popular too! It had a show called "A jugar con Hugo" (Let's play with Hugo) with those weird walking minigames with a weird plot (about the kids of Hugo being kidnapped or something like that)
It was a bad show but it was very popular.
Funny, I remember years ago seeing a promo for Hugo The Evil Mirror in my Nintendo Power magazines. Had no idea it was part of a huge franchise at the time since from what I looked up, this was the first Hugo material to come state side though it was only for the Game Boy Advance version of the game.
Late era Hugo sounds like Micolash and I love it.
35:45 Lol, that's literally just a percussion sample from a Methods of Mayhem sample CD on loop.
This video is longer than a Hugo 2 longplay.
Ice cavern level reminds me of the game 'The Simpsons Bart's nightmare'
The Indiana Jones lvl
Finally someone exposes the lies and crimes of Hiúdaí/Hugo
4 and 6 I might try at some point. They seem like serviceable kid's games.
Hugo's 4 and 6 voice sounds like Wallace (as in & Gromit) trying to do an Inspector Gadget impersonation.
Accurate description
If it werent for its poor controls, i honestly could find it a bit decent. Hugo its funny, the soundtrack is great and the graphics are cartoony even though it resembles more of an SNES game.
Hugo 3 looks like Croc and Crash had a baby. the environments remind me of an ugly Spyro.
I used to love the Evil Mirror game so much, i played that nonstop
Of all 6 Hugo games released on PS1, only The Evil Mirror seems to have released in the US, where I live. And we never got any of the PS2 games onward either.
Have always wondered how PAL regions always seemed to have exclusive shitty games on PlayStation platforms, including stuff from the infamous Midas Interactive and Phoenix Games.
It all stems back to european and uk game development from the 80's, quality control wasn't really a thing for the longest time. It gave us some wonderful games, but also mountains of trash.
@@SeanSeanson Jeez.😧
Well, at least with the magic of emulation (and some official rereleases), Europeans can now finally experience a bunch of the good games (and a bunch of trash) that weirdly skipped PAL regions but went to America and Japan.
And now Americans have the ability to play the PAL exclusive trash for bile fascination, as well as a few good games that never made in here, like Mickey’s Wild Adventure
Were these sold at full price? I think a tiny shred of sympathy could be mustered for the games if they're meant to be evocative of ZX Spectrum/C64/Amiga budget Euro games; insanely cheap, short/questionable quality/both. Less competitive with full-length games, closer to an impulse buy by the checkout line. Some of those games were as cheap as 2 pounds.
With that perspective these would be a little more permissible; maybe you've finished Crash Bandicoot, but you'd like to have more Crash, and here's a $10 Crash clone you get along with the groceries.
Ah yeah roughly 20-30 quid if I remember correctly, but often found on sale for much cheaper. Could certainly do much worse
I wanted to comment that you forgot thd Hugo kart racer, but then I checked and it was actually for PS2, that's bizarre, I could have sworn it was a PS1 game XD
sometimes they all just blur together haha
@@SeanSeanson Well, it just looks and feels like a PS1 game, I guess XD
Hugo seems odd as a kids television personality. I wonder what we Americans watch(ed) that foreigners would find a bit odd. But American media companies export and localize so much of our media you may be familiar with most of it anyway.
Hugo Trolled us all.
i remember the brazilian version of the Hugo game show use to had background music
Damn the Hugo you guys had sounds so dull. Very often in kids media we had really poor quality for voice acting (outside for disney who had enough money to actually invest into professionals) but the Hugo we got was cracking with jokes and had more personality. Like... the show ran what.. 20 years ago? And people STILL are sometimes repeating some of the lines Hugo spit at us. Edit: 10:22 for example i think was badly translated in english. Hugo means that the fish (or player) thought he was mistaken for bait (which at least here we often use earthworms on hooks).
I loved hugo 6 as a kid got my ps1 in 2001 and played it untill till 2005
I still can't stand the English voices they gave him, so much off.
I grew up with Hugo here in Denmark and yeah, those games didn't hold up, especially on consoles.
Awesome video!
I have seen so many of these games on Ebay, but never taken the plunge on any of them. They looked kind of cheap and never broke the £5 mark. This video sure makes me glad I didn't.
They're almost worth owning for novelty value at that price. Except Frog Fighters. Never buy Frog fighters...
The content I didn't know I needed in my life
Never heard of him here in the US
I have to find those Christmas songs, specially the second one. It's so stupid I absolutely need to listen to the entire thing. However I couldn't find it on Google, even by entering the name shown on screen...
pop this into youtube 'Get out of that chimney Hiúdaí!' and enjoy :)
@@SeanSeanson thanks bro
god i renember those hugo games on pc, wild pre/justpost millenium memories
also my god its a PS1 game and it doesnt even have music during the levels? imagine how much you can improve the gameplay w/ some DnB!
I remember there being a lot of hugo games. Som of them was however made directly for pc instead which did make them a lot better than the original phone games... Not good just a lot better.
Hugo was big on brazil... So ofc we played. And we liked... Haha
Sean and Hugo are the most charming mascots in Europe
Class, keep it up
Like the Alexisonfire poster.
Man I used to love watching Huidai on TG4 even though not being the best at me Irish lol It was pretty unique concept for what it was in the 90s. When I seen that a copy of it on ps1, i wanted to get it and try out the games as if were on the show XD but really the games aren't great unless for the nostalgia and having the craic and a good laugh at it's utter shiteness. Never really played the 3d games but looking at them they are just crash bandicoot rip offs.
Exactly, I loved the show but the novelty of those games really wares off when you take away the phone aspect.
Theres definately some fun to be had, but like you said it's mostly at the expense of how bad the games are haha. Couldnt recomend any of them otherwise.
Appreciate the comment and thanks for watching!
@@SeanSeanson no prob lad, always cool to see a fellow irish youtube gamer :)
Despite the show was in Irish I still watch the show for the games.
I remember kids tv in the uk usin them as phone games
I remember this troll from a long running kids TV show (Sweden) where they had to play using the buttons on the phone with, apparently, delay... It sucked to watch as well. Had a PC version of it later. Apparently they could just mix and match these shitty games because I remember the snowboard and climb the mountain but there were others (so the PS1 games I guess weren't just ported).
COULD play it on a small emulation handheld nowadays I guess but, unless it's optional (?), not having the annoying Swedish voice takes away ALL of the charm for me though: "Kom igen kompis! Sista chansen nu!"
5:58 Sweet baby Jayzus that witch flies slow AF
All I remember was the hot witch
I take great offence at this. Hugo Cannon Cruise was either the first or second game that I owned and it defined my childhood. What's more is I've played it recently and it still holds up fantastically to this day. It's a phenomonal game.
I've yet to try any of the later Hugo PC/PS2 Games, like Agent or Cannon Cruise, but your recommendation makes me want to give Cannon Cruise a try, looks pretty fun!
Sean Son of Sean, you made this. WELL DONE.
I have fond memories of Hugo on the GB. Mostly because it's a Crazy Castle reskin. But also this track is too damn catchy.
ruclips.net/video/OgoYK36Xx9c/видео.html
Crazy Castle Reskins are wild, there's so many and Hugo is probably the weirdest of the bunch.
Great tune, the gameboy has some wonderful music.
hugo? nah, i'll stay.
We also had it in France with a wonderful morphing at the beginning of the show. Look at this here ruclips.net/video/RkyNdt1alOw/видео.html (INA is the national archive of french television)
"He beat real people" 😆
Ah amazing! I love seeing the different regional variants, thanks for sharing ☺️
Why are Hugo's footsteps so wet
WHY DO THEY SOUND WET
Classic case of swamp feet, happens commonly to ogres and trolls!
33:04 gosh i wish that was me
Hugo pc games looked great and same like TV version. But Playstation version is just... disgusting.
(we had it in Brazil too)
Namco actually made a GBA version of Hugo: The Evil Mirror.
Oh that's fun! Is it any good?
@@SeanSeanson I haven't played it.
@@Nathan-rb3qp ah, im gonna asumme its probably not great 😅
@@SeanSeanson It's a single screen puzzle platformer that looks like a rejected amiga game.
31:27 this almost killed me, jesus christ. Put a spooky terrfying warning on the video pls
👻
Ok officially watched all your videos and now I have no reason to live. Also wow you really said “beaver’s gaff.” If you have a beaver you don’t need a gaff! (Get it because gaff means drag queen tucking panty)
Oh wow, Gaff is slang for a house in Ireland haha. We learn something new every day!
@@SeanSeanson also I have a suggestion. You know how RUclips channels like Game Sack and Matt McMuscles have 4-hour compilations of their own videos? Those videos are always their most viewed. I often fall asleep watching Game Sack’s “left in japan crunch”. I think you’d get lots of views if you compiled a 4-hour “obscure PS1 games crunch” or “Japan only crunch” type video. I play your videos all day anyway
@@nesaaliyah4821 aw thank you! Yeah, it's something I've considered. I always worry about compilation videos just siphoning the views out of the old videos, but it seems to work for other people, so I might give it a try down the line.
I loved watching the Hudaí games on tv.
And then we had Google Stadia
39:02 Those are squirrels, just saying
Damn you're right!
I must have zoned out by that point into the Hugo marathon :)