HUGO THE TV TROLL (PS1) - Fiction Addiction

[@FictionAddiction]

Do YOU remember Hugo? Does your country have any little-talked about gaming mascots of its own?

[@javimarquez13]

We had our own Hugo shows in Germany, call-in challenges were featured in every show, the best known host was (voice) actress Julia Haacke, I enjoyed watching this back in the 90s. 😁👍🏻

[@TrocaTheNero]

I think I may have played a Hugo game when I was young, or at least seeing something that had to do with Hugo. He was a thing in Sweden too. I do also know we had that "play it on TV via phone" here in Sweden too, we also had Rummel & Rabalder as well as the Woodii games.

[@moavideogamer8417]

I had the mobile games when i was a kid

[@gracekim25]

Nope 😅

[@JusushiKun]

Hugo was my childhood hero, and we recorded the TV show to VHS casette tapes. Oh and I remember seeing the Hugo suit at some kids birthday back then. I still quote the Finnish lines Hugo said :3

[@Son-Michael]

This is amazing! Fantastic video 😂 Also you just scarred me with Vtuber Hugo 😂

[@FictionAddiction]

All according to plan

[@amelialonelyfart8848]

As an American whose never stepped foot outside of her corner of America, I've had a strange obsession with Hugo for years (not just because I had a crush on the villain lady at one point) because the franchise just seemed so... arbitrary? Like it existed for the sake of existing, and that was really weird to me growing up.

[@fixedfunshow]

As someone from Argentina we love Hugo too!

[@elpizo1789]

In Poland, we got the Hugo show during the "tropical jungle island" era, a constant part of my Saturday mornings.

[@jaborsey_joseph]

I actually streamed this game awhile ago having no effing clue what or who Hugo was so this video helps more than you'd think.

[@FictionAddiction]

Welp, hope you got some much needed context, then

[@benderbendingrodriguez420]

Learning Hitman is a Denmark property is so cool! Had no idea about that since thats obviously probably the biggest franchise in terms of global recognition

[@FictionAddiction]

Yes, IO Interactive is a Danish company. They're also the folks behind Kane & Lynch, if I am not mistaken.

[@TrocaTheNero]

@@FictionAddiction Makes it so much funnier that in the 2016 Hitman game there's a Swedish target. Very subtle, IO.

[@goranisacson2502]

As I watched this with my sister, I paused, I kid you not, RIGHT before you had your VTuber realization about Hugo and said the exact same thing. She winced in pain when I said it, but look who's the caring and considerate brother- when you did it AND showed waifu Hugo, she wasn't in NEARLY as much pain as she could have been if that attack had caught her unprepared! Also WOW this is a massive blast from the past. As a gaming older 30's man myself you bet I remember Hugo from his heyday here in Sweden, and even some of the games he inspired over here. Jumping across the crystals always seemed the worst path, and learning the rope-pulls really were randomized... yeah. I get it, you couldn't have the little callers win ALL the time just because they managed to make it all the way through, but dear God hitting them with a lottery after their skill at taking the delayed inputs got them all the way there... my empathy for those of my generation / older who made it in just to stumble due to events that weren't even their own fault has skyrocketed. It also makes me think how these "call-in games" might have effected or molded people's view or expectations of video games, primarily the older generations who just saw their kids play... and put into perspective that once upon a time, our government-funded tv channels really did just put funds into making video games for kids to call in and play on prime time television. I wonder what lead them to go down this road, considering these experiments disappeared as the 90's went on. Nostalgia aside it was also cool to learn how wide-spread Hugo was throughout the world as I didn't even know he was Danish until WAY later in life, and and finding out in the comments that Morgenthaler had a cartoon(?) going on all the way back then was a trip when I only know him from Wulfmorgenthaler from comic magazines over here. You really never know what you'll learn from youtube, these days.

[@FictionAddiction]

Well, Yo know what they say, great minds think alike. And what is the internet if not a place where absolutely everything can and will eventuelly be Waif-ified? Glad to have tickled your funny bones and your nostalgia with this one.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

*knock, knock* Æææh, hvor ska' vi hen, du? I still have my Hugo doll from like 20 years ago.

[@benderbendingrodriguez420]

Another great video Esh! Can tell alot of love & effort was put into this one. Looking forward to the future!

[@jurtheorc8117]

*Hugo was one of the first V-tubers* Great digital TV show mascots gallivanting through the forgotten deserts of landline-operated TV-games, Esh, that's a horrible quote to drop about a little big-footed horned cavern-dwelling potato man who had a more special history to him than i could have ever anticipated. Only three and a half minutes in and the vide's great already. And yes, my good man, i HAVE read through the chat gags. I shan't drive thee off KZbin. Yet.

[@FictionAddiction]

Listen, if Hugolina can be kidnapped for her beauty, Hugo can be a pretty pretty Vtuber girl.

[@Greatdictator]

Ahh Hugo, we had it here in Croatia and me and a friend REALLY wanted to get a chance to play on TV, but sadly i dont think we ever got picked for it, but still always brings me a bit back when i see this charachter mostly cause of how rarely i see him (we can blame that on the americans not haveing him most likely )

[@FictionAddiction]

To my understanding, Hugo has next to ko foot in the US aside from, I think, one of the early-2000s platformens being released there. Not the strongest showing they could give the guy.

[@GameGenie1121]

Yeah, Hugo was very popular in Croatia. The TV show began in 1996 and lasted up until 2004. Such a shame he became forgotten... :(

[@ellybanelly3656]

Okay, 6:12 actually gave me a mild jumpscare. I don't know why that got me so bad, but it did 😅 If you ever do a horror skit, please do that type of editing for villain or monster! That freaked me out! 😵‍💫😂

[@MiroFloydtan]

You must be the first non-finnish youtuber to mention Galilei!!! Great video but that part made me really happy

[@FictionAddiction]

I mean I will be honest, I only learned of Gallilei through researching this video, but I did have to bring him up.

[@skapokonroll]

Hugo was apparently super big in Spain but he was way before my time, although I did knew about him thanks to an old KZbin series that constantly brought him up. I'm surprised to see the TV games got faithful ports so early on, as I was convinced those never happened until the era of digital download games like Xbox Live and the like Also I'm super excited about the prospect of you covering the rest of the Hugo games from the 2000s. A while ago I remember trying out the DS game about him and it suuucked

[@Soynereh]

A jugar con Hugo! Quite popular in Argentina in the second half of the 90s. I think its a really solid first game for young ages. Maybe 5 to 7 years old, something like that. It has a nice Sega CD look to it, , and there is penalty for failing.

[@Leghend]

Hugo was so huge in sweden, we made are on version called Rummel and Rabalder, it's about mice flying on a carpet collecting cheez doodles.

[@Dankleosteus]

Allans byrå, där är det alltid nånting på gång! Rummel och Rabalder, är deckarna som jämt är på språng!

[@GetlemanNightmare]

Hugo was huge in Finland too. PS1 version my first video game ❤ Later I found out about tv game. I was born 1995 when tv game had ended...But oh my God things you could won. Low scores was candy but most highest score you got a Car 😮

[@FictionAddiction]

Some of the prices on the kids' game show were nuts. Stuff like a Discman, TVs with inbuilt VCRs, speakers... pretty wild stuff.

[@GetlemanNightmare]

@@FictionAddiction Yeah and kitchen applaises too..At least on Finland. I wuold like to know other prices in other countries. And here is game museum where you can play Hugo on telephone line 😀

[@henriklarsson6870]

Yeah i remember Hugo. Always thought he was a Swedish creation but apparently he was Danish. Internet is a fantastic place. Great Video on the subject!

[@jadominek7116]

3:27 - my country :) At the peak of Hugo's popularity in Poland we had "Hugo" magazine and daily (!) 10-minutes program called "Hugo Express" besides normal, 30 minutes long show.

[@girlywolfpup1588]

That "partner swapping" skit caused me to laugh my ass off at my desk xD

[@FictionAddiction]

I will admit to giggling while editing it, like the very mature adult I am

[@cordaxg6261]

Growing up in the 90z in Sweden. Hugo was on every morning on Channel 4. It was a kids show and kids called in. Into the studio live and played. It was always the same. Moron kids who didnt understand anything and the host yelling LeFT! Right right ! And when the kid hit something you heard beep beep from the telephone 😂 The delay was mercyless! Like full 2-3 seconds 😂. Recently it was discovered or admitted that LAG was delibirately added so the one calling in didnt hog all the time the show had 🎉🎉

[@FictionAddiction]

oof. I don't believe the lag was on purpose in the original danish show, but I can imagine that primitive technnology and variations in phone models caused quite a bit of it.

[@BroNovaGaming]

Love the vids covering stuff from your homeland, always learn something new.

[@FictionAddiction]

Half the reason I enjoy review videos is to learn about stuff I didn't know existed, so I try to provide what I can that doesn't get talked about much elsewhere.

[@Shindoun]

Hugo was a hit in Swedish television as well and the games were fun to. When it comes to a Swedish gaming mascot? Steve from Minecraft isn't exactly little-talked considering his inclusion in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate broke the internet, but he is the first one I could think of when it comes to Swedish gaming mascots. Most Swedish PC games in the 90s usually used characters from children books.

[@DisneySonic1991]

Hugo was used on a kids TV block for an Irish channel to be a cohost. That's where I knew Hugo from. Cúla 4 was the channel

[@Chives1797]

ESHBALL I DIDNT KNOW YOU MADE A SECOND CHANNEL!!! I was a young lad when i would binge your old show

[@3L_B4R7O]

Sweet, sweet 90s-Nostalgia

[@xcar0982]

I saw some of the Hugo tv show's episodes when my cable operator open a South American channel in compensation for not having Disney channels

[@BrandonCroker]

What a unique troll.

[@Crashfan97879]

Dude...I remember playing the first Hugo ps1 game and getting childhood scars from it...those were the times. Although, looking at this video, I'd love to see/maybe hear what you think about the Hugo Bandicoot games on ps1 (Those in particular being Hugo: Quest for the Sun Stones and Hugo: Black Diamond Fever). I played BDF for hours as a kid and loved the crap out of it. Love the vid, my dude, keep us Danes proud and loud...mostly loud, but still XD. Also, I know this is kind of off topic, considering this is a video about our favorite danish big-nose, but...Do you by any chance happen to have plans to cover Swat Kats at some point? I remember watching that tv show basically every morning when I was a kid, and it's honestly my favorite old-school cartoon. But for the life of me, I CANNOT Find any danish clips for it, no matter how hard I look! And it's driving me up every wall in my damn apartment! I'd pay good fucking money for just one episode in danish to appear somewhere!

[@Alejandroigarabide]

Hugo is very popular in Argentina (and where I live, the neighbour country of Uruguay).

[@kyranios6355]

I remember having nightmares because of him knocking on the screen as a child, i thought he would come out of the tv at night, LMAO

[@peterghoulferatu3555]

I'm from Germany and enjoyed Hogo as a kid but that intro with the witch skretching the screen - boy, that made me pee in my pants as a child.

[@robiu013]

if i'm honest, i probably mostly loved the hugo series for the graphics and characters. i remember i had a christmas version game for pc which combined point & click exploration of santa's house and featured a couple winter-themed games and i mostly just avoided playing the main games cause i sucked at them. also, they made the witch way too hot and in hindsight i'm convinced that affected my development on a subconscious level, lol.

[@FictionAddiction]

Like I said, I am pretty convinced a lot of the success came from the charming character himself more than the actual games, fun as they were.

[@ShogunGin0]

Your videos about Danish--made content are always my favorites since just about all of it was never brought here, apart from a few animated films that got crappy English dubs. Even Benny's Bathtub only just released on home video here, and that is through a specialty distributor that primarily brings over European and Russian content. Thankfully, the HD transfer looks pretty great, but the subtitles could have been better, which sucks because their other blu rays do have better subtitles. I wouldn't mind seeing a video about the other Hugo games, but personally, I'd be more interested in videos about Danish comics and animated films. A video about the Valhalla series would be cool. Being American, all of our mascots have already been talked about to death, so channels and videos like these are more interesting to me since characters like Hugo never made it over here. Can't say I'm a fan of Hugo's voice, though. It sounds exactly like the kind of lazy, annoying type of voice a bunch of 80's-to-mid 90's cartoons had. I remember characters from Star Wars Droids, the Mega Man cartoon, and even Gurgi from Disney's Black Cauldron all sounding like that, and I dislike most of them. Also, I'm not that disturbed about the partner swapping joke. That's pretty typical adolescent humor. I'm more disturbed by the fact that you used the Pac-Man death sound effect, implying that Hugo banged Ms. Pac-Man to death and then told her that she's really good at this. You sick bastard.

[@EyeoftheU]

>Hugo banged Ms. Pac-Man to death Let's just say, she experienced "the little death".

[@cordaxg6261]

Love That Trefa Bravestarr VHS 🎉❤

[@FictionAddiction]

It's the Danish Dub, too! Was lucky enough to find it at Sci Fi Con last year.

[@mattsherlock9636]

I love to learn about other cultures icons, i would love to see you talk more about hugo.

[@FictionAddiction]

Noted. Already considering scraping together the PS1 platformers.

[@fixedfunshow]

Our videogame mascot might as well be Hugo too

[@Melvinwacko]

Cool to see you reviewing more danish media. Any chance of videos on Valhalla or the other Hugo? (The Jungledyret one)

[@FictionAddiction]

Jungledyret has definitely been something I have considered, knowing that he actually has a bit of an American fandom (and subbing the movies once many years ago). I am not sure what I could really do with Valhalla other than say "it's good", but maybe someday.

[@poisondart]

When you dreamed og using the phone to call a tv show so that you could press numbers to jump a troll. Good times

[@spectradusker4305]

Wow... Never knew Hitman was from our country 😮

[@gracekim25]

I must say that’s very cool

[@spectradusker4305]

​@@gracekim25Indeed ^^

[@spectradusker4305]

@@gracekim25 It sure is ^^

[@gracekim25]

I appreciate the fact that you’re helping me learn more about games❤

[@jaygooese4242]

I heard of Hugo games

[@Snome23]

Finnish dub Hugo is the best

[@jaygooese4242]

But you may not heard of Blasto PS1

[@legbender1584]

In lumberjack u can just change position on middle log and u will be absolutely fine 😊

[@snbsixteen6stars201]

I had a pc platform game of this little platform troll

[@jaygooese4242]

Can you review the Anime Jungle Book 1989 show please?

[@BenderWaffles]

That guy is nightmare fuel...

[@JaxCoolKartunes]

There is a hugo game for the game boy I know of which is also the reason I even know the existence of hugo LMFAO

[@gracekim25]

Ooo 😮

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

3:31 Hvad kaldte du den her? Der kom lige et noget med 22 år gammelt minde frem da jeg så den isbjørn.

[@FictionAddiction]

Nelly Nut. Hun var også dansk, og var en del af "Børne-1'eren" i gamle dage. Du kan finde nogle hele afsnit af det program på KZbin, hvor hun er med. Hun var også tegnet af Anders Morgenthaler, som senere blev berømt med Wulffmorgenthaler.

[@adamolsen838]

I am from Danmark

[@user-zn3uj3gg5g]

Where did get that in 16:16

[@FictionAddiction]

If you mean the "Sony Bullshit" graphic, that's just me editing the original PS1 startup screen image a bit and re-creating the fade-in in Premiere