Same. Mostly because I played it all the time as a kid and never beat it, lol. Well, legitimately that is. My sister taught me a hack of some sort that let you beat it in like less than a minute. If you did something (I forget what) you could go straight to the final cave with the gold already in your hand, and then all you had to do was give the guy the gold and go in and rescue the girl. But I didn't think that counted as actually beating it.
This was my favorite game series as an 8 year old. Playing them without the use of walkthroughs/internet, I was stuck on the question of "What was the name of Roy Rogers' dog?" for about a month before my mother finally found someone at work who knew the answer. Looking back, I really don't know how I had the patience to play these games.
Hahah!! Me too! After throwing a tantrum my mom asked me what all the fuss was about and I shouted out the question. Then my dad calmly answered from the other room, “bullet” 🤦♀️
wow... this game is a solid memory from my childhood. I was too young to think abstractly enough to beat it at the time, and always got stuck... after all these years to find out how the story ends is very satisfying, like an unsolvable mystery from my past was unlocked :o thanks
english being my native language dident help me one bit. i was about 8 and me and all my mates were stuck, we eneded up getting the key but that was as far as we got
More than likely because as kids we spent a lot of time fucking around with Hugo, telling him to go fuck himself and typing other juvenile things to him.
Yeah I remember this game. So I cruised thru it til I got to the basement with the door. Took me forever to try walking behind the rocks. Never got past old man questions
I remember playing this with my friends before we had Internet and asking our parents the name of Roy Roger's dog. They all replied, "I don't remember his dog, but his horse was named Trigger." And when we sitting there trying to think of a logical name, I was like, "Fuck it, let's try Bullet." I couldn't believe that was right.
I cant believe this game was completed in 8 minutes. As a 10 year old kid I spent hours upon hours moving Hugo back and forth and I don't believe I beat the game until I got some tips from the internet in like 1995, lol..
I miss the days when we all had patience....I stayed up all night and tried to beat this game. I eventually gave up after a month. Thank you for the nostalgia! I think this is one of the hardest games ever!!
I've been looking for this game for years. Saw it played at a friend's house when I was maybe 6 years old. Crazy to have finally found it because King's Quest reminded me of it.
I remember frantically typing 'throw chop' and 'blow whistle' as a kid because it never occurred to me to pre-type phrases in the text bar. I didn't think the text you had waiting would persist between rooms.
OMG He asked book trivia???!!!! I played this game when I was like 6 years old, and I always got stuck at that old man in the lake. I thought I must have missed something. I didn't know what the fuck The Hobbit was... Well now I feel vindicated for having never finished the game.
@@Nyerguds I think I remember it being written in bloody letters in the bathroom or something. It's the same every time, so there's no reason to go there.
@@DarkD112 Ah, mkay. Haven't played the game, so the video left me wondering. I guess if you actually pay it it's something you stumble upon fairly easily.
i never got past the bit with the dog when i was a young kid. i never thought of dropping the meat. But i went back and played it when i was like 14 and managed to get past the dog at least. still hard as game, especially the weird questions you have to answer at the end
Omggg I have memories of playing this game with my Mother's ex fiancé Tom and us all trying to figure it out together huddled around the computer with extra chairs. He got me into video games and bought us our first computer well before AOL 3.0. I had looked for the name of this game before but to no avail. I had also searched for Tom to no avail, but finally was able to find his facebook a month ago. I sent a friend request, I planned to ask him about this game as it was something I thought about now and then, but he never accepted my request. However his daughter did. Then 5 days ago I learned of his passing through his daughters post. I never got to tell Tom how this game stayed with me all these years and some other things too which I guess is why I am writing this big thing, as a memoir. I'm sad, but it's strange how on my search for it tonight I got the answer right away. Moments ago I watched this gameplay video with my mom. The good old days... Rest in Peace Tom H.🙏🏼
I remember watching my dad, mom, and brother play this when I was between 4 and 5 (32 now) then I tried a few times even though back then I didn’t know how to read yet lol but strangely enjoyed it even though I kept asking them for the spelling part, but mostly enjoyed watching them play it. It was fun to observe back then, I wish my pc could handle this game. Thanks for uploading, brought back good memories
As a young kid this game was extremely frustrating to play. I mean, how the hell are you supposed to know about needing to get rid of the bolts of the friggin trap door before opening it? It doesn't even say on the bloody screen! And way too many meta-reference questions for a game prior to the age of the internet, requiring the player to have read LotR, Narnia, Hitchhiker's Guide and trivia of a singer whom a kid from outside of America would have no knowledge of.
It looks so simple now, but I remember playing this for hours trying to solve it. My friend and I were 11 and got stuck at the old man asking questions. We hadn't read LOTR and didn't know the answer to the first question.
I remember the scariest part was the dog and the mummy. I took my mask off at the dinner table and I think they ate me. Lol. I didn't know what a bung or a chop was, I just kept trying a bunch of things. The version I played though gave me the answers when I got them wrong, I didn't know anything about Lord of the Rings, or Narnia back then. I still don't know who Roy Rogers is.
I remember having to go to the library with the Narnia bit! This game took me months to complete and giving up on. Total trial by error game and remember was extremely frustrating!
The leaps of logic you needed to actually play this game... not to mention knowing trivia about Roy Rogers :( No wonder i never got past the first screen.
Best game ever. It was so much part of my childhood. Opening up my imagination and creativity. It was so well done for its time. 2 and 3 were good too.
There are so many game over states in this adventure game, it's where most of the challenge comes from. Without a guide you will die and have to learn what to do from trial and error hundreds of times. Man old games sure were obtuse.
I loved these Hugo games! Did anyone play the 3D one that followed those 2D adventure ones? I forgot it's full name but that game really damn well shaped my fantasy in my childhood. Those games are precious. I even had a contact with the series creator before, he's also a really cool guy.
Oh wow. I really used to love playing this game. I think I still have some old floppies lying around with the files on them. All three of the Hugo games were great. I can still remember all of those hard parts like throwing the meat to the dog, getting around the venus flytraps, getting the matches over the bridge, shooting the elephant...etc etc...
Ha ha! I remember this old game. We had it on our first computer [along with Commander Keen 4, Shooting Gallery, Duke Nukum, Wolfenstein 3D and more]. I never knew the whistle worked on the bats. Every time I used it, that bastard dog would come and kill me. Try getting a chop from the Butler without wearing the mask..............I dare you.
It's funny you said that cos the first time I tried to play this with my cousin at her place, she said to me "We can't play that, it doesn't work. He just walks up and down the street. It's boring". I remember eyeing the pumpkin suspiciously but trusted her judgement, so we played something else instead. Years later, I scored a copy of the game myself and the first thing I tried to do was open the pumpkin, and behold! A Key! Lol. I don't think my cousin realised it was a type-text game even.
That was Hugo's version of a serial key. You'd need to consult the manual that came with the game to beat that part. That way, if you shared it with all your friends and they shared with theirs, they would get part way through the game and never finish.
Great job on the walkthroughs. I remember spending hours on this game with my cousins when we were kids. We only managed to complete the first episode. The second episode was WAY harder than I imagined judging by your walkthrough of the game. I almost managed to finish episode 3 over the years, but some parts towards the end of the game had me stumped. Thanks a bunch for these fantastic walkthroughs. :D
Oh boy, your first non-Sierra series, and it's a good one! I wish there had been more shareware adventures like this... Although this seems to be the non-shareware, paid-up-front version of HHH, as I seem to recall the last question asked by the old man in the shareware version is "Did you register this shareware?" Good job all around!
"Hey there you 90's kid! Do you know who Roy Rogers is? Didn't think so! But you're in luck, you don't have to know who Roy Rogers is, you just have to know who his dog is! Good luck saving Penelope!" Fuck this game.
ahh same for me. I remember I used to watch my brother play this for hours on end :) One or two of my fonder childhood memories revolved around this game.
Hahaha my friend and I had this game downloaded to every computer we had access to. We could never figure out the dog 😆 This brings back memories, and people think games are hard today…
I used to love playing this series of games. I spent hours s a kid trying to figure out some of the puzzles! Now, it would take me seconds to find out on Google!
theres a few simpler commands you could use to make the game a bit faster too, 1, dont pick up the pumpkin just type smash pumpkin while its on ground. 2 just throw chop dont throw the chop at the dog.
I forget, what was in the other room upstairs? There's the bedroom with the mask, the mad scientist's lab, and a third room you never went in... Nostalgia!
Man, thats a great game!! I loved the fact I could "talk" to the game. I remember I could, after tough work, beat this game, but looking back now, I can't figure out how I did that! I just know I did!
I got stuck on that dang mammal riddle every time and never beat the game. I remember digging through my moms childhood books to find the names of Narnia and the Hobbit. If you wrote “F*** you” on the screen in frustration, Hugo would call you a loser. Hard to beat back in the days before Google.
No, Hugo and Maniac Mansion aren't related. Hugo was an independent shareware game from 1990, Maniac Mansion was from Lucasarts in 1987. Style-wise, Hugo is more similar to old Sierra adventure games than Lucasarts'.
I remember I phoned the library as a kid to get the answers to the questions. The lady on the phone thought I was crazy and hung up. This was before the internet.
@indricablurrmyIS Scared the carp out of me way back when too. I recall getting to the basement and seeing the rock. After examining it, it said it contained 'Zilch'. I didn't know what zilch was then. So I spent an hour trying to get it. Fun times.
Jesus. I never even made it to the basement in this one. 🤦🏼♀️ Jungle of Doom was even harder at the age of maybe 10. I wouldn’t have even known to roll up the rug 😂 Ah, back when you had to type commands into PC games.
Barely knowing any English back then, I was in front of the house for weeks. I got so pissed, I looked up "kick" in the dictionary and started kicking everything in sight. It worked on the pumpkin. But never got much further when finally inside the house. 😅
Yes it wasn't a manual like you'd think of one today, a couple pieces of paper. I definitely remember because I was a kid and I would have never figured these out otherwise.
While I beat the 3rd one and came close to being the 2nd. This one always stomped me as a kid when playing it back in the 90’s. I could make it all the way to the guy in the boat, but the stupid questions from diff. Books I never read always annoyed me. I could answer the first two as I could ask friends, but after that it was just GG. I honestly think for a puzzle game if they had left out this one part of the game it would have been so much better and more enjoyable by so many to play.
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I played this game when I was 8 years old. I'm now 30. So thank you for giving me closure lol!! I never got past the dog.
Same lol
Are you me? Also played when I was 8, also 30, also never made it past the dog, lol.
@@oblivion2k490 How funny lol I'm in Australia though.. something tells me you might not be :P
@@whatamachine89 So you were able to answer all of the old mans questions correctly?
@@planetX15 if I got up to the dog, then your question is already answered 🤔😒🤣
I can't believe this game is only 8.5 minutes long. It felt like an eternity back when I was a kid.
Same. Mostly because I played it all the time as a kid and never beat it, lol. Well, legitimately that is. My sister taught me a hack of some sort that let you beat it in like less than a minute. If you did something (I forget what) you could go straight to the final cave with the gold already in your hand, and then all you had to do was give the guy the gold and go in and rescue the girl. But I didn't think that counted as actually beating it.
me and my friend played this game forever when we were kids lol, and we never beat it XD
Same. Imagine playing and not knowing English 🤣 my mum and I learned a few Halloween words with this. Plot twist: I am now a translator 😊
This game has been lodged in my subconscious for over 20 years. I have just now rediscovered it.
Same
This was my favorite game series as an 8 year old. Playing them without the use of walkthroughs/internet, I was stuck on the question of "What was the name of Roy Rogers' dog?" for about a month before my mother finally found someone at work who knew the answer. Looking back, I really don't know how I had the patience to play these games.
Wow, same exact story as me.
I was stuck on the “Where did the Asian live” question. What Asian, dammit!??
@@TheWaynelds Aslan the lion in Narnia lol
We literally had nothing better to do besides catching fireflies 🤣
Hahah!! Me too! After throwing a tantrum my mom asked me what all the fuss was about and I shouted out the question. Then my dad calmly answered from the other room, “bullet” 🤦♀️
In the bathroom (which didn't appear in this playthrough):
"have a shit"
"Yeugh! How uncouth!"
XD
wow... this game is a solid memory from my childhood. I was too young to think abstractly enough to beat it at the time, and always got stuck... after all these years to find out how the story ends is very satisfying, like an unsolvable mystery from my past was unlocked :o
thanks
Hugo!!! You still alive? Been 15 years
I took me three months as a kid to figure out that the key was in the pumpkin (English isn't my native language...)
so do I .... i really was frustrating because i didn't know so much words...
I read an interview with the author. He told that many Americans got stuck because they could not spell "pumpkin" correctly.
english being my native language dident help me one bit. i was about 8 and me and all my mates were stuck, we eneded up getting the key but that was as far as we got
@@leandrodfcorreia2 how do Americans spell it?
I remembered this game was short, but I didn't remember it was THIS short.
More than likely because as kids we spent a lot of time fucking around with Hugo, telling him to go fuck himself and typing other juvenile things to him.
@@FistSaidToTheFace also that old man and his questions did not help the situation
Yeah I remember this game. So I cruised thru it til I got to the basement with the door. Took me forever to try walking behind the rocks. Never got past old man questions
The dining room TERRIFIED me as a kid. Especially how if you dont have a mask on, they eat you.
That was the best part.
Care for a chop sir?
I remember playing this with my friends before we had Internet and asking our parents the name of Roy Roger's dog. They all replied, "I don't remember his dog, but his horse was named Trigger." And when we sitting there trying to think of a logical name, I was like, "Fuck it, let's try Bullet." I couldn't believe that was right.
'use knife on dog' you shouldn't have such violent tendencies.... 'Dog has eaten you'
lol my favorite part
PETA in a nutshell!
I cant believe this game was completed in 8 minutes. As a 10 year old kid I spent hours upon hours moving Hugo back and forth and I don't believe I beat the game until I got some tips from the internet in like 1995, lol..
He beat this game in 8 minutes. I spent hours of my childhoood not knowing what to do next.
I miss the days when we all had patience....I stayed up all night and tried to beat this game. I eventually gave up after a month. Thank you for the nostalgia! I think this is one of the hardest games ever!!
That's one long night!
Same here, I remember going to the library to look up the answer to the Narnia part. This game literally took months for me to complete
I've been looking for this game for years. Saw it played at a friend's house when I was maybe 6 years old. Crazy to have finally found it because King's Quest reminded me of it.
I spent hours outside the house and gave up every time until I got angry and wrote "kick pumpkin"........ and it worked!!
I remember frantically typing 'throw chop' and 'blow whistle' as a kid because it never occurred to me to pre-type phrases in the text bar. I didn't think the text you had waiting would persist between rooms.
Games like these that last a few minutes knowing what to do would take months or years back in the early 90's when you didn't have Internet lol
Happily ever after!...
Until her uncle gets murdered...
And they get stranded in a jungle.
I never made it past giving the dog the chops :(
Me neither! This is changing m life!!
I only just beat this game today and I used to play of on my dos Pc lol. Had to look up a guide tho
Same here, glad I'm not the only one.
OMG He asked book trivia???!!!! I played this game when I was like 6 years old, and I always got stuck at that old man in the lake. I thought I must have missed something. I didn't know what the fuck The Hobbit was... Well now I feel vindicated for having never finished the game.
That was the lamest part of the game. Apparently, 6yo me thought this game was awesome. Maybe I should've never watched the playthrough.
@@HSukePup got stuck there aswell nothing in game to help you
I'm just wondering how he got the shed combination... nothing in this playthrough shows him getting a hint to that.
@@Nyerguds I think I remember it being written in bloody letters in the bathroom or something. It's the same every time, so there's no reason to go there.
@@DarkD112 Ah, mkay. Haven't played the game, so the video left me wondering. I guess if you actually pay it it's something you stumble upon fairly easily.
i never got past the bit with the dog when i was a young kid. i never thought of dropping the meat. But i went back and played it when i was like 14 and managed to get past the dog at least. still hard as game, especially the weird questions you have to answer at the end
Gman lives so easy and I had cheat codes at the time 😌
I always got stuck on the questions
Wow, the last time I played this was 25 years ago!
"Score: 198 of 190" Whoa.
He took back the chop so got an extra 8 points lol.
I love how the audio doesn't loop and it's dead silence after a time
I never knew how little gameplay was left after the boatman, whose questions I could never answer 😂
Omg those memories! I never could get pass the front door of the mansion though.....
The butler always killed me though....
Omggg
I have memories of playing this game with my Mother's ex fiancé Tom and us all trying to figure it out together huddled around the computer with extra chairs. He got me into video games and bought us our first computer well before AOL 3.0.
I had looked for the name of this game before but to no avail. I had also searched for Tom to no avail, but finally was able to find his facebook a month ago. I sent a friend request, I planned to ask him about this game as it was something I thought about now and then, but he never accepted my request. However his daughter did.
Then 5 days ago I learned of his passing through his daughters post.
I never got to tell Tom how this game stayed with me all these years and some other things too which I guess is why I am writing this big thing, as a memoir.
I'm sad, but it's strange how on my search for it tonight I got the answer right away.
Moments ago I watched this gameplay video with my mom. The good old days...
Rest in Peace Tom H.🙏🏼
This game taught me how to type
odd seeing 2 months of my life pass by in 8 minutes.
No kidding, it took me forever to figure out what to do
Raeyne Jaymeson No walkthroughs back then :P
Yup, you had to figure everything out then
I remember watching my dad, mom, and brother play this when I was between 4 and 5 (32 now) then I tried a few times even though back then I didn’t know how to read yet lol but strangely enjoyed it even though I kept asking them for the spelling part, but mostly enjoyed watching them play it. It was fun to observe back then, I wish my pc could handle this game. Thanks for uploading, brought back good memories
As a young kid this game was extremely frustrating to play. I mean, how the hell are you supposed to know about needing to get rid of the bolts of the friggin trap door before opening it? It doesn't even say on the bloody screen! And way too many meta-reference questions for a game prior to the age of the internet, requiring the player to have read LotR, Narnia, Hitchhiker's Guide and trivia of a singer whom a kid from outside of America would have no knowledge of.
That's what made it so great. I played this for years trying to solve it.
This video changed my life
It looks so simple now, but I remember playing this for hours trying to solve it. My friend and I were 11 and got stuck at the old man asking questions. We hadn't read LOTR and didn't know the answer to the first question.
I remember the scariest part was the dog and the mummy. I took my mask off at the dinner table and I think they ate me. Lol. I didn't know what a bung or a chop was, I just kept trying a bunch of things.
The version I played though gave me the answers when I got them wrong, I didn't know anything about Lord of the Rings, or Narnia back then. I still don't know who Roy Rogers is.
I remember having to go to the library with the Narnia bit! This game took me months to complete and giving up on. Total trial by error game and remember was extremely frustrating!
If only I knew to move that damn rug as a kid....
The leaps of logic you needed to actually play this game... not to mention knowing trivia about Roy Rogers :(
No wonder i never got past the first screen.
Best game ever. It was so much part of my childhood. Opening up my imagination and creativity. It was so well done for its time. 2 and 3 were good too.
There are so many game over states in this adventure game, it's where most of the challenge comes from. Without a guide you will die and have to learn what to do from trial and error hundreds of times. Man old games sure were obtuse.
I loved these Hugo games! Did anyone play the 3D one that followed those 2D adventure ones? I forgot it's full name but that game really damn well shaped my fantasy in my childhood. Those games are precious. I even had a contact with the series creator before, he's also a really cool guy.
This was really hard to play when I was younger. I could barely read at the time lol
That was me too.
Oh wow. I really used to love playing this game. I think I still have some old floppies lying around with the files on them. All three of the Hugo games were great. I can still remember all of those hard parts like throwing the meat to the dog, getting around the venus flytraps, getting the matches over the bridge, shooting the elephant...etc etc...
Once I went into the kitchen and the chef chopped my head off I think!😂😂
Your Head Asplode!
@@stevenpavelish6017 What the hell is a ”head asplode”?
@@TheWaynelds it's from homestar Runner
These games really caused you to think. Not just point and click randomness.
Ha ha! I remember this old game.
We had it on our first computer [along with Commander Keen 4, Shooting Gallery, Duke Nukum, Wolfenstein 3D and more].
I never knew the whistle worked on the bats. Every time I used it, that bastard dog would come and kill me.
Try getting a chop from the Butler without wearing the mask..............I dare you.
I remember finally beating this game as a kid. After all, after playing the Space Quest games, I was quite used to the parser interface.
It's funny you said that cos the first time I tried to play this with my cousin at her place, she said to me "We can't play that, it doesn't work. He just walks up and down the street. It's boring". I remember eyeing the pumpkin suspiciously but trusted her judgement, so we played something else instead. Years later, I scored a copy of the game myself and the first thing I tried to do was open the pumpkin, and behold! A Key! Lol. I don't think my cousin realised it was a type-text game even.
5:51
He plugged the bung hole lmfao
That was Hugo's version of a serial key. You'd need to consult the manual that came with the game to beat that part. That way, if you shared it with all your friends and they shared with theirs, they would get part way through the game and never finish.
I thought I only ever played a demo.. turns out it was the whole thing!
lol seemed appropriate to put a command line in a game like this at the time.
haha you have no idea how much i loved these games as a kid (still do). even the graphics are still awesome to me.
Oh man, I remember this game so well and how bad I was at it.
I could never answer the old man's questions. No internet available back then and some books and stories weren't that popular in my country back then.
Great job on the walkthroughs. I remember spending hours on this game with my cousins when we were kids. We only managed to complete the first episode. The second episode was WAY harder than I imagined judging by your walkthrough of the game. I almost managed to finish episode 3 over the years, but some parts towards the end of the game had me stumped.
Thanks a bunch for these fantastic walkthroughs. :D
Oh boy, your first non-Sierra series, and it's a good one! I wish there had been more shareware adventures like this... Although this seems to be the non-shareware, paid-up-front version of HHH, as I seem to recall the last question asked by the old man in the shareware version is "Did you register this shareware?" Good job all around!
I remember playing all HUGO games my sis and I completed the third one together but got stuck halfway on the second and never finished the first lol
This is a huge blast from the past. I remember me and my friend got to the mummy and quit. GOTCHER!
I love playing these type of games on rainy days.
that was a real slick mummy dodge
Wow, that was one hell of a flashback. Thanks for uploading this. Brings me back.
0:09 Get Pumpkin Open The Pumpkin And To Get A Key To Open The Door
"Hey there you 90's kid! Do you know who Roy Rogers is? Didn't think so! But you're in luck, you don't have to know who Roy Rogers is, you just have to know who his dog is! Good luck saving Penelope!"
Fuck this game.
It reminds me to Maniac Mansion
That mummy scared the crap out of me.
So satisfying to finally see the end of this game! I couldn't get past the mummy.
Holy crap! I remember this. I was 5 yrs old when I first played this. Wow.
ahh same for me. I remember I used to watch my brother play this for hours on end :) One or two of my fonder childhood memories revolved around this game.
This brings back memories.... Thanks!
i used to play this back in the day on windows 93, miss it so much!
I played this when I was 5 and I couldn't spell pumpkin. It was a frustrating time for me..
Don't feel bad. I was an adult in my thirties at the time (this was late '90's); and I still needed a walkthrough! lol.
First thing he does when he walks in the house is what stumped me when I was a kid. I never got passed that damn hole in the stairs.
I used to think you had to have the mad professor shrink you and then get inside the stair hole.
Hurray Hugo finally gets P! I always blew the whistle too soon a got eaten by the dog but you did it right good job!
Hahaha my friend and I had this game downloaded to every computer we had access to. We could never figure out the dog 😆 This brings back memories, and people think games are hard today…
I used to love playing this series of games. I spent hours s a kid trying to figure out some of the puzzles!
Now, it would take me seconds to find out on Google!
Ah, the good 'ol days...
Well, not really. Considering my cell phone is about 20 times more powerful than the computer I first played this on.
They should remake it for Android, lol.
theres a few simpler commands you could use to make the game a bit faster too, 1, dont pick up the pumpkin just type smash pumpkin while its on ground. 2 just throw chop dont throw the chop at the dog.
I could never get past the guy in the lake. So close and yet so far :'(
I forget, what was in the other room upstairs? There's the bedroom with the mask, the mad scientist's lab, and a third room you never went in...
Nostalgia!
It’s the bathroom. The combination for the lock on the shed is written on the bathroom mirror.
love it when u tell hugo "fuck you" and says yeah you too buddy or whatever
epic stuff
bung, lol
Bunghole!
Damn, I remember being 6 years old back in 1995 and getting to the boat before giving up. I had no idea what the fuck a bung was. 🤣
Man, thats a great game!! I loved the fact I could "talk" to the game. I remember I could, after tough work, beat this game, but looking back now, I can't figure out how I did that! I just know I did!
I got stuck on that dang mammal riddle every time and never beat the game. I remember digging through my moms childhood books to find the names of Narnia and the Hobbit. If you wrote “F*** you” on the screen in frustration, Hugo would call you a loser. Hard to beat back in the days before Google.
lol man I was scared as fuck when I was like 7 playing this
Use to play these games all the time at my summer camp when I was a kid, these, wolfenstein and some Chex game that was similar to wolfenstein
No, Hugo and Maniac Mansion aren't related. Hugo was an independent shareware game from 1990, Maniac Mansion was from Lucasarts in 1987. Style-wise, Hugo is more similar to old Sierra adventure games than Lucasarts'.
I had the shareware version of this game as a kid. Man, this brings back some good memories.
Played this back in the day when I was 10, never could solve the trivia from the old man on the pier until a friend of mine came over to solve them.
I remember I phoned the library as a kid to get the answers to the questions. The lady on the phone thought I was crazy and hung up. This was before the internet.
@indricablurrmyIS Scared the carp out of me way back when too. I recall getting to the basement and seeing the rock. After examining it, it said it contained 'Zilch'. I didn't know what zilch was then. So I spent an hour trying to get it.
Fun times.
Jesus. I never even made it to the basement in this one. 🤦🏼♀️ Jungle of Doom was even harder at the age of maybe 10. I wouldn’t have even known to roll up the rug 😂 Ah, back when you had to type commands into PC games.
Barely knowing any English back then, I was in front of the house for weeks. I got so pissed, I looked up "kick" in the dictionary and started kicking everything in sight. It worked on the pumpkin. But never got much further when finally inside the house. 😅
I don't think he was meant to take the chop after giving it to the dog.
Oh my gosh I miss this game so much.
Yes it wasn't a manual like you'd think of one today, a couple pieces of paper. I definitely remember because I was a kid and I would have never figured these out otherwise.
While I beat the 3rd one and came close to being the 2nd. This one always stomped me as a kid when playing it back in the 90’s.
I could make it all the way to the guy in the boat, but the stupid questions from diff. Books I never read always annoyed me. I could answer the first two as I could ask friends, but after that it was just GG.
I honestly think for a puzzle game if they had left out this one part of the game it would have been so much better and more enjoyable by so many to play.
The Hobbit was based on a book that was written on September 21, 1937...
I never made it past the dog, because I never figured out that this thing in the closet was supposed to be a mask.
The mask has no effect on the dog.
0:00 Starring Hugo!
Oh God! Why is that cartoon troll in it?!