- Hugo's House of Horrors
Infobox VG| title = Hugo's House of Horrors
developer =Gray Design Associates
publisher =Gray Design Associates
released =1990
genre =Adventure game
modes =Single player
platforms =DOS , Windows"Hugo's House of Horrors" is a
computer game released in1990 . Gray Design Associates (GDA) created a parser-basedadventure game , reminiscent of theSierra Entertainment "Quest" games (such asKing's Quest andSpace Quest ). The game is also a strange and unique adventure into the realm oftongue-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 in1987 , where the main character enters a mansion in order to rescue his girlfriend from a mad scientist.The player moves Hugo around by using the arrow keys on the keyboard, and controls his actions by entering commands on the keyboard (or, in the later-released Windows version, one can use the mouse).
In 1991 GDA released a sequel, "Whodunit?", and in 1992 a third installment, "
Jungle of Doom ". "Nitemare 3-D", a game that came out in 1994, is arguably the fourth (and so far final) installment of the Hugo series, though "Nitemare 3-D", instead of being an adventure game, is a "Wolfenstein 3D " clone, in which Hugo ventures into the haunted mansion to rescue Penelope by shooting enemies with various guns. The Hugo Trilogy can also be found on The Complete Encyclopedia of Games for DOS.External links
* [http://www.dgray.com/hwpage.htm Official site]
*moby game|id=/hugos-house-of-horrors|name="Hugo's House of Horrors"
* [http://www.classicdosgames.com/publisher/gray.html Classic DOS Games] has all of the Hugo shareware demos for download.
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