Hugo's House of Horrors (PC/DOS) 1990-92, Gray Design Associates

Hugo's House of Horrors is a computer game released in 1990. Gray Design Associates (GDA) created a parser-based adventure game, reminiscent of the Sierra Entertainment "Quest" games (such as King's Quest) and thematically similar to Maniac Mansion. The game also features tongue-in-cheek comedy.
In the game, the player controls the protagonist, Hugo, who has come to a haunted house to look for his girlfriend Penelope, who hasn't been seen since she went to babysit there. The premise bears similarity to Lucasfilm Games' Maniac Mansion, released in 1987, where the main character enters a mansion in order to rescue his girlfriend from a mad scientist.

[@Cake...]

Arguably the best game in gamer history.

[@malafob]

Played this with my mom and dad together. The hardest thing was to find the right English words as Germans lol. Had so much fun with this !!!!!

[@totalgeezerok]

Been looking to buy this on ebay for a long time, not easy to find boxed version. Cool game :)

[@bajskuk]

Finally found it. Couldn't remember the title of this game from my childhood, all my googling only lead to Maniac Mansion.

[@stevenphillips3506]

Wow , the wallpaper is trippy af lol.

[@Mountainmonths]

cool i remember playing this as a kid after finding it on a shovelware disc

[@OldNerdPlayingOldPCGames]

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[@r.l.royalljr.3905]

My best friend bought this thinking it was a sequel to Maniac Mansion. It wasn't, but it was still a whole lot of fun. "Care for a chop, sir?" 🤣

[@remnantoftheeye5580]

There was a game called Maniac Mansion that seems to have pilfered a lot of ideas from this.

[@bynderson]

Maniac Mansion came out in 1987, this came in 1990.