| Hugo | |
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&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Hugo_CD.png) Cover art of the 1996 PC CD-ROM release, also known as Hugo 3. | |
| Developer(s) | Silverrock Productions (ITE) |
| Publisher(s) | Silverrock Productions (ITE) |
| Producer(s) | Ivan Sølvason |
| Programmer(s) | Esben Hansen Henrik Christensen Martin Pedersen |
| Artist(s) | Niels Mortensen Lars Mortensen Torben Larsen |
| Composer(s) | Thomas Engell |
| Series | Hugo |
| Platform(s) | Amiga, Macintosh, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, Windows |
| Release | 1992–2000 |
| Genre(s) | Action |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Hugo video game refers to more than a dozen video game adaptations of the early seasons of the originally Danish ITE's interactive entertainment show Hugo in the Hugo franchise. From 1992 to 2000, ITE would develop and publish various compilations of different scenarios of the essentially one game, as well as their later updated versions, for several computer and console platforms, in most cases targeted exclusively for the European markets.
The classic Hugo releases from the 1990s are action games that closely resemble the early editions of the children's television game show that they are based on, having the player guide the titular character or a small, friendly troll to navigate safely through dangerous environments in a collection of diverse but simple minigame scenarios. Completing a given set of the main scenarios followed by the final end-game scene results in Hugo either rescuing his wife and children from an evil witch or finding a hidden treasure.
Since 2011, Krea Media (Hugo Games / 5th Planet Games) has developed a series of mobile game remakes of some the classic minigames turned into endless runners. A series of inspired online slot machine have been also released since 2016.