Hugo | Video Review - A Worse PS1 Game Than Bubsy 3D!? 

Interesting, it seems like the original version is better in many ways over the PS1 version. I suppose he could lose his balance but that isn't shown to be the case in the cutscene that plays after standing on a log too long. He just remains on the log without falling in! It makes no sense!

These games do seem nostalgic to a lot of people, I played this one fairly often when I was a kid so I know exactly what you mean. Wow, that's crazy! The English dub doesn't say anything like that, they must have re-recorded the English voice acting, or just selected voice clips that actually made sense. Like you say it seems like they put no care at all into the Spanish dub and probably didn't re-record anything.

Yeah, I really don't know how it's possible to miss that prompt, it even makes a noise as well as flashing haha!

Additional fact: In Brazil the pulse telephone system was working so poorly that the production company pre-chose the players in advance (several weeks) and sent a small DTMF handheld tone sender that the player put on the telefon handset and pressed the desired key. This reduced the lag from 6-8 second to about 2-3 - pretty nice improvement. The system naturally then supported both tone and pulse for this to work, since not all players was able to receive the tone sender via mail (yes, the mail system wasn't than good back in the early 90's...) A unit very similar to this: www.mpja.com/DTMF-TONE-DIALER/productinfo/12150%20EN/

If you were a fan it must have been pretty awesome to be able to play the games from the TV show for yourself when the PS1 game came out! But yeah, if you consider someone like myself who had no prior knowledge of the Hugo brand, the game does come across as far too simple for it's time :D Jeez, I imagine not a lot of people would have been able to complete many of the games on the TV with that amount of lag! It's amazing that they sent out a device like that to remove the lag just so they could play Hugo on the TV. That just goes to show how popular Hugo must have been back then! If Hugo ever made a comeback, this whole interactive TV show idea could be executed much more efficiently nowadays with smart phones. Maybe Hugo was ahead of it's time!

@@PixelPursuit It was considered HIGH tech with a capital H back then... These days... well... wouldn't even raise an eyebrowse. But yeah, it was very hard to have a proper continuity with those circumstances. A part of me doesn't miss that part - only the feeling of being part of something innovative and new

I bet it was! There's was nothing else doing anything like that at the time to that extent. Yeah, being a part of a huge project like that must have been incredible at the time, it must have been exciting working on something that was completely fresh like that.

Haha, yeah for sure! I only ever played this game when I was a kid, all of the others were brand new to me. From what people have told me it seems like the English voice acting is the worst version of the dub! But I have to admit I do kinda like it because of how obnoxious it is :P Yeah but from what I remember aren't you walking up the mountain anyway? So if you missed the button press you'd still eventually make your way to the top anyway realistically haha!

@@PixelPursuit The best PS1 game is Pac-Man World 1 like how the best game for the PS2 is its earlier sequel. But then again, there are a lot of great games for the PS5’s predecessors

Huh, I haven't ever seen that glitch! I'm not surprised that there's something like that in this game though! Yeah the remarks he makes in the English dub sometimes outright don't make sense, but in a way I think that makes it funnier. I just think it's ridiculous how Arcade Mode isn't the top option on the menu and isn't called 'Story Mode' or something. It's very misleading! Overall it's just not a very well made game! It has it's charm though!

I think this Hugo game probably worked better as a TV game rather than being on an actual console. It’s a bit too simple to be a full on PS1 game really. Yeah, the original voice acting is known for being a lot better than the dub I’m used to haha!

Haha, you should do it! I would love to see more people take a look at the Hugo series :D

@@PixelPursuit My first one is Hugo meets Cuphead, it is half like donkey kong country, but also half minigames.

Haha, that's a good story! Whenever you see Hugo the Troll it probably just makes you think about the oil caddy guy now though! Maybe he secretly was Hugo the Troll...

Yeah, it's a really cool concept that was probably too ahead of it's time. Wow, you actually played it? What game did you play? Haha, that probably explains why the PS1 game feels disjointed. It wasn't ever intended to be a single game like this!

Rob's Retro Reviews I played one called Ice cavern, you had to jump constantly collecting some symbols. The rope scene was like the second part of you survived the mini game and then if you score a lot of points you won a bike or a game. I didn’t win hahahaha and this was in the 90s (I’m from Argentina) so Hugo was very popular...imagine was the same period of the Power rangers (first 90s season). So the only way you could play it in your home was buying the computer games (100% similar to the TV Show) or the PS1 collection

Oh no, I didn't like that one. I think that game was featured in Hugo 2 for the PS1 (which I've also reviewed)! That's really cool how you actually won stuff, it's a shame you didn't win! I imagine a lot of people saw you play though! Although Hugo did air here in the UK, I don't think it was as big as in other European countries. I only have a very vague recollection of ever seeing it on TV so I mainly knew about him from this PS1 game.

Haha! Yeah, the whole game is a disturbing experience to be honest :D I'm still disturbed from it even all these years later!

Huh! I actually didn't know that, I've never looked up what it actually means haha!

Woah, I will be trying that out as soon as I can! Who would have thought this game would still have content left in it that I haven’t played! If I can successfully unlock it, I’ll cover the minigame in my Hugo retrospective video that I’ll be doing eventually!

Rob's Retro Reviews Great! To unlock it, you gotta play arcade mode and play every minigame and get every extra items (I don't remember all of 'em, but one of them was a flower lol). And in the ropes minigame there's 3 possible outcomes for Scylla: There's an ending where Scylla (as a bird) escapes and you DON'T get the secret minigame. If you pick the correct ending, a cutscene will appear where Hugo will reveal you just unlocked the minigame. So you go to the main menu and the minigame should be there!

You don't need to watch the credits, I watched it to check for any easter eggs and I didn't notice the minigame.

Clem Ventos Oh yeah i didnt know about that either! Love you for sharing this :P. I found gameplay of it on youtube

I know exactly the one you mean. It's called Hugo: Troll Race I think. I've never played it, but while researching for other Hugo videos, I've come across it multiple times! Good to know they brought back the knocking for those newer games!

Hahaha, I completely forgot about that! What was even going on with these early Hugo games! I'm guessing maybe they meant 'rounders' which is an actual game. It has to be right up there with the most epic boss fights in video game history!

Yeah, I'm 100% not it's intended audience haha! But even so, I can't see many kids enjoying this game when there are so many better alternatives and I didn't like this game even as a kid! Either way, I hope you enjoyed the video!

Exactly! One of the things you need to accomplish with any minigame collection is making sure that the controls are simple and easy to instantly understand. If it's too complicated than people will just never play the minigame because it's too difficult to explain to other people how it works. I've actually never played a WarioWare game... I hear that they're amazing though! I should probably give them a go!

I know... I would have loved to have seen Hugo make it to the big screen!

Is it because you would not be playing as him and also, the movie would have been awful as the game

Yeah everybody always says that the Finnish dub is way better 😂 I kinda like how bad the English dub is though, it never fails to make me laugh. Oh wow, I would love to visit a museum and come across Hugo haha! The PC versions are definitely better than the PS1 ones. But seeing as the PS1 game is all I had as a kid, I just decided to stick to that one.

Thank you! This is actually the first video I ever made for the channel! :D

Haha! Was it named after the Hugo game? You should do an album where all of the song titles are mini games from Hugo 😂

@@PixelPursuit no definitely not I made it after playing the train mission in Condemned

Everyone always says that the Finnish dub is better! I was stuck with the English dub unfortunately! I have memories of playing the first Hugo too! I don't know if I would call them good though :D I suppose at the very least, Hugo is very entertaining!

@@PixelPursuit haha same here, might be just nostalgia, although i would argue that hugo cannoncruise is great(atleast in my nostalgic head) loved it as a kid. still own it so i should give bukkazoom and cannoncruise a play someday. overall hugo is a pretty flawed franchise but i still loved around half of them as a kid lol :)

Stay tuned... I'm working on a video review of Hugo 2 which should (hopefully) be uploaded in May!

Bro i wish i never went to my cousin and played this piece of shit. These games are so horrible.

@@maxderholzrusse7301 No, they're not

Haha, yeah, it's not the best game ever is it! I have a kind of love hate relationship with this game though because although it's bad, it's weirdly charming and funny in a bad way, so it's actually kind of entertaining. But yeah, Crash and Spyro are obviously way better than this! That's a good point actually, I never really thought about the similar cover art before!

I don't remember exactly when I got this game but to be honest it was probably one of my first games too! The reason I reviewed it in the first place was purely because of nostalgia so I'm the same in that way too! I just ended up going down a long road and reviewed 13 of the Hugo games which I never knew even existed. Yeah, graphically it's pretty bad considering it's on the PS1. The sounds are okay but the music is a bit hit and miss, some levels don't even have music at all which is really weird! If it had been expanded from the TV show and had way more depth to it, there's a slight possibility it could have been good, but they completely messed it up! No problem! And your English is fine don't worry! :)

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Yeah, I've definitely never played a game series like Hugo before!

Yeah I know, I'm pretty sure I talk about that in the video don't I? It was a long time ago that I made this so I don't remember if it was this video or another one where I talk about that! :)

Yeah I figured that out after a while of playing haha, I still think it's weird how the modes aren't more clearly named and it's also weird how the main mode of the game isn't at the top of the menu too. Wait, I didn't know there was a final menu option, what is that? You mean just the last level where you beat Scylla? Or is there some kind of secret mode of the game on the main menu? Oh damn, I actually didn't know you could save the game like that! I never thought of pausing the game on the level select menu because in practically every other game you can't do that! Loads of people have said the Finnish version of the voice acting is a lot better! I'm just glad people agree with me that the UK dub is pretty bad haha!

RE: Final main menu option - that is a hidden one, once you go through every level in Arcade and get the score multiplier ye unlock Magic Hands, which works like Rope End, which is actually RANDOM each time. RE: Saving - yes, it works like that. You don't have to do all that stuff in one go kek. RE: Finland - the original Finnish dub voice for Hugo (who died in 2006) is at legendary status over 'ere, them one liners we have are pretty creative and amusing, as we can WORD PLAY somewhat, also how the voice is done is one reason for that as well. Too bad all the Hugo longplays on RU-vid use the English versions.

All these years later and I'm still learning new stuff about this game haha! I didn't know you could save or that there was an unlockable minigame either! Oh damn, I didn't know the Finnish Hugo voice actor died... That's sad. It's a shame I don't understand Finnish otherwise I would probably choose that version over the English one.

RE: Stuff - Perhaps taking a closer looksie at the manual would've helped with saving, as it is mentioned over there (I checked). I've unlocked that minigame, the only thing annoyed me that I did find the Forest and Lumber to be the most difficult things to complete. Lumber was the last one. Then I had to work my way back to the end... I discovered a cheat code, but ultimately didn't use it at any point. RE: General Hugo stuff - Yes, R.I.P. Harri Hyttinen, the OG Finnish dub voice. The man did acting, muzak and general dubbing over 'ere. Also, there's a video game museum in the city I live in, showcasing Finnish game history, there's a Hugo game you control with a telephone! Sound also comes from the phone itself. This page has an image of it: fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_(pelihahmo) - I've played it myself, was fun. We also had this, which doesn't interest me that much, but it has the theme our version of the game show used: fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Hugo

Yeah it most likely would have! I probably would have checked the manual if I made this video nowadays, but back then I didn't really know what I was doing haha! In fact this is the very first video I ever did on the channel! I don't normally struggle with Forest that much but Lumber is pretty annoying! A lot of the time you just get stuck on a log and can't do anything! That's such a shame that he isn't with us anymore. Still, at least he'll be remembered for his work on Hugo and other things! That's amazing, Hugo was nowhere near that popular over here so we have nothing like that. It would be quite a rare thing to even see any of his games in any stores. In fact to this day I have never seen any of the PS2 Hugo games in a shop ever. That's amazing that Hugo even had an album! :D

The right of the screen is meaningless if the trains can choose whether or not they want to turn. It's almost entirely luck based getting through this minigame because you have to predict what they will do.

@@PixelPursuit Hmm. It might be me, but if I had to choose between a track with gold or the middle track, I would take the gold.

Yeah, but then if you go and get the gold, a train might turn and hit you. Or you could not go for the gold and a train might turn and hit you. So either way is a risk haha!

@@PixelPursuit Actually, your footage seems to suggest that if you go for the gold (literally), you won't get hurt, particularly around 10:13.

Hmm, I'm pretty sure that, that isn't how the game works, but it's been years since I've played it so I can't say for sure. Even if that is how it works though, that's not made obvious enough in the game itself! Most of the time in the other minigames, going for the gold is more risky than taking the direct route, so it would be weird if it wasn't the same for this minigame.

I wasn't aware that the PC version was that much different, maybe eventually I'll give those a look! It's good to know the difficulty is more balanced in those versions because in the PS1 version it's all over the place! I'll be trying out and reviewing more Hugo games in the future for sure, but I'll probably be sticking to the PS1 games to begin with just to keep things simple! Thanks for commenting by the way! :)

Thanks! There's many more Hugo videos I've done on the channel too if you're looking for more Hugo content!

Yeah it's quite bad isn't it! At the same time though, I think the constant bad voice acting is what gives the game a lot of it's charm!

The German dub has its charm too though I wouldn't call it bad. I like it much better than the English dub

Hugo sounds like Stitch from Lilo and Stitch in the original version. The english dub makes Hugo sound like ChrisChan.

Huh. A while ago someone said that going for the treasure is the way to get through this without being hit. Maybe one day I'll have to test this out haha.

Yeah! I mean, I don't like Black Diamond Fever that much, but they definitely improved as time went on!

@@PixelPursuit there is almost nothing wrong with black diamond fever, maybe you dont like it that much because you havent played the pc version

Maybe... A lot of people have said the PC versions are better! I'm more of a console person myself though!

@@PixelPursuit almost every game is better on PC bro haha

Yeah I think a lot of the charm of the TV show was lost when it was translated to consoles. I can imagine the Hugo TV show would have been really interesting to watch at the time because there wasn't really a lot else like that. Strange to think that at one point in time Hugo could have been considered revolutionary haha!

Yeah... They aren't much better than you remember them either haha!

Believe me, I know that Hugo is trash! I've given him more of a chance than most people! I've reviewed 13 of his games at this point! I never watched the TV show unfortunately :( I would have liked to have laughed at it but I never got the chance!

@@PixelPursuit I mean, it wasn't that bad back in those days, we will watch it and even enjoy it at times, internet was primitive and we didn't have it, so tv & videogames were pretty much all we have. I never knew that Hugo was also a console game, I always tought it was a phone game, but we would just sit and watch it. Over here there were other tv shows featuring phone games (mostly shitty) with even worse voices, but we had our fun time with it xD. Those afternoon shows were our company during those bread & milk afternoon snacks. But the one I remember the most was Pokemon, that anime was amazing at the time, that one I would love to watch it as a kid but not as an adult

Maybe very slightly, but not by much!

Wrong

Shut up, hater

I didn't mean to insult anyone or anything! I just made this video as more of a joke than anything else, but I do genuinely think it's pretty bad, especially for a PS1 game. I'm also pretty sure that there's absolutely no misinformation in this video either. They might have originally been made for a smaller audience, but being published across all of Europe on a major console will lead to it being compared to everything else on that console. To be fair, I feel like some of my videos talking about the PS2 Hugo games are probably slightly more positive than this, I did also end up slightly enjoying some of the other PS1 ones as well!

The TV show was revolutionary, but not the PS1 game.