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Revision as of 10:42, 22 January 2020
Hugo's House of Horrors is an graphical adventure puzzle game developed and published by David Gray and released for MS-DOS on 1990-01-01 and later ported to Windows. It uses a game engine similar to those used by Sierra On-Line years earlier. It is the first game in the Hugo series of games and followed up by Hugo II: Whodunit? The story is rather typical: the girlfriend of Hugo has been kidnapped and taken into a mansion. The game uses a haunted house theme with various Halloween and horror movie tropes.
David Gray began programming Hugo's House of Horrors in 1989 writing in Quick C, and drawing graphics in PC Paintbrush.
I believe my mother got me this game at a shareware game swap. I played the game so much that I not only beat it, but made a hand-written full-score walk-though, complete game script, and documented various game bugs.
Contents
Status
I do not own the game, but I have beaten the game with a full score, without hints.
Review
- Overall: 3/10
- Best Version: DOS
— This section contains spoilers! —
Good
- The game gives a charming trope-heavy adventure.
- There is a decent variety of puzzles and none of them are unfair.
- I like the trivia section which includes references to The Hobbit, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Bad
- The graphic and sound fidelity was very dated (King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder! came out less than a year later). The art and music production is also clearly amateur.
- All of the puzzles are pretty straight-forward and there aren't really any alternate methods of defeating them.
- There are a couple bugs in the game that can be exploited, but they're minor.
- It's possible to put the game in an unwinnable state, but it's pretty obvious.
Ugly
- The story is lacking, the theme is tired, the game is too short, and the ending is unfulfilling.
Media
Maps
Dr. Hammerstein's house.
Beneath the house.
Screenshots
Title screen.
Design Notes
Design notes.
Design notes.
Videos
- youtube.com/watch?v=UijhBRheB8k - Longplay.
Download
This is all of the shareware versions of the Hugo games I could find including Hugo's House of Horrors for DOS and Windows. You can still buy the game from the author.
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