ADG Episode 225 - Hugo's House of Horrors

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Күн бұрын

I wonder how many people will get the joke with the drinks...?
Today on Ancient DOS Games Gemini's taking a look at Hugo's House of Horrors, one of the first independently made graphical inventory-based adventures, made by David Gray of Gray Design Associates, mimicking Sierra's popular AGI games such as King's Quest and Space Quest.
This was actually a pretty fair go at doing a game in that style, with only minor issues or shortcomings by comparison to an AGI title. Although, it's a REALLY short game, so it's debatable whether it was worth the original asking price or not. Nowadays though, it's a lot cheaper AND you get all three games in the series when you buy it! :)
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@KitsuneZeta 6 жыл бұрын

3:02 - "Not that you can't track down the shareware versions if you go hunting for them" - well, you could just grab the Game Empires shareware disc. 6:06 - I'm going to point out that Gemini typed in "Looka t mask" and the parser figured out what he was intending to do.

@fisk0 3 жыл бұрын

Fun fact, the first screen (house exterior) and several other backgrounds/screens in the game are just old clipart. If you just do a search for "haunted house clipart" you'll find the house he used quickly, even the bat graphics that are used throughout the game are from that image.

@AnOriginalNickname 6 жыл бұрын

You can actually return to the top of the house after passing the dog. You're able to pick up the chop as soon as you throw it without the dog harming you. Clearly an oversight as you're able to overflow the score counter by doing this. I was one of those people who grew up with this game pre-Internet. Finding the questions for that man took a few days of research, asking several people who knew them. It was actually the first time I had heard of both LoTR and Narnia series, and I can credit this very game which helped me learn to spell 'pumpkin'.

@mikemcgrumpy 6 жыл бұрын

You get an extra thumbs up for going the extra mile and hex editing the game to confirm it was an alien.

@OisEucalypt 6 жыл бұрын

Ahhh, I recall playing this on my dad's office PC while waiting for him to finished after school. Got to the water old man guy and had the office staff collaborate on getting all the answers correct.

@DookNookim 6 жыл бұрын

I went to the library to read the summary of The Hobbit and it said the hero's name is Blibo.

@nodakamakadon 6 жыл бұрын

I had to bug my mum because I didn't know The Hobbit at a young age. I still remember asking about it clearly.

@alexanderfreeman Жыл бұрын

I knew the the answers to the Hobbit and Narnia questions, but I had to ask my mom about Roy Rogers. I had to use the encyclopedia for the Dracula question. I simply got the pan galactic gargle blaster question through process of elimination. I did figure out the riddle on my own.

@SMNtenshinoneko 6 жыл бұрын

liked the speed run at the end, should be awesome to see this on every of your games :D

@wulfman15 6 жыл бұрын

YES! I've been waiting for this game to get covered. I miss the playthrough PushingUpRoses and Pawdugan did years ago.

6 жыл бұрын

Hey Kris, I like how you are making the editing and script more dinamic. Your channel was always very informative but I think puting some spice on things is good. Keep it up!

@elimalinsky7069 6 жыл бұрын

I found ScummVM to be an excellent emulator for old adventure games. It's incredible how something that started out as a poject exclusively for the emulation of SCUMM based games (mostly the LucasArts point-and-clicks), turned out to be great for emulating other interpreters as well, including the Sierra graphic adventure interpreter, which was hugely popular in the late 80s and early 90s. If a game runs on ScummVM, I would always prefer to play it using that and not through DosBox, as to me, ScummVM feels like a more accurate emulation, for speed, sound and visuals.

@ADarkandStormyNight 6 жыл бұрын

Oddly I missed out on this series as a kid, despite playing almost exclusively PC adventure games. Cool to see it in such details

@IllidanS4 6 жыл бұрын

Really good review and nice attempt at the speedrun. If I may, I would like to suggest Oxyd Magnum, it's a unique puzzle game with real-time elements.

@quarkbent9165 Жыл бұрын

The bung bit got me to laugh :)

@bluekewne 28 күн бұрын

5:16 I caught that Star Trek reference :P

@Pixelmusement 28 күн бұрын

I somehow crammed a LOT of references into this one; didn't even really think about it until I had it all put together. :B

@TheMoogleMaster 6 жыл бұрын

Oh it's this game, I remember NOT being able to get inside the house.

@RadioPoultry 6 жыл бұрын

Text adventure games tend to not employ the verb "USE" because it's too generic. Maybe Mr. Gray decided to build on that tradition. Or, since it looks like he was using a two-word parser (with one word identified at the beginning of the string and one word at the end), maybe he was trying to avoid verbs that would encourage additional words in sentences (such as USE KEY ON KEYHOLE). I honestly don't remember using USE in a Sierra game, but I probably assumed it wouldn't work! I like how this video didn't attempt to avoid story and puzzle spoilers, but then, I've completed this game before. :)

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+RadioPoultry For a game as short as this one, covering it at all essentially means spoiling it. Also, the game IS doing more than two-word checking. For instance, if you try "PLUG BOAT" it'll ask you what you intend to plug it with. Or, if you try to push a button in the lab, without specifically typing in to tell Igor to push the button, it'll complain that Igor is better suited for pushing buttons.

@RadioPoultry 6 жыл бұрын

Ah, thanks. I should have watched the speedrun more closely!

@linushyper300 6 жыл бұрын

No violence warning? This game is so fucking brutal, Kris! I'm gonna get serious nightmares now.

@RanFuRe 6 жыл бұрын

Hugo was frustrating, but I loved it. It took ages for me, to find out how to get hugo to lift the carpet. I like the new style, btw! Very well edited :)

@DafeAllen 6 жыл бұрын

I was one of the "lucky" ones who had an earlier version of the shareware where the old man wouldn't let you pass because the game was unregistered. Super frustrating after spending days finding out the answers to some of his earlier questions! Luckily I found a way to sneak by him using the mask and finish the game anyway. ;)

@mrbigmouth502 6 жыл бұрын

I think the green beverage they're enjoying is absinthe. Or maybe it could be Surge. :P

@solsticeprojekt1937 17 күн бұрын

**head drops** "Oh" .... AHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA OMFG I REMEMBER THIS AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA ... oh wow, that is quite the different episode. Six years ago. You're on a totally different mood here.

@only257 6 жыл бұрын

Brings back memories😊

@Nokatus 6 жыл бұрын

6:00 a grotesque monkey mask in the closet, omg. True story: at one point I moved into an old wooden building, built at the turn of the 19th and 20th century, and the only thing the previous owners left behind was... a grotesque monkey mask in the closet. Seriously. It was a hilariously creepy story all by itself, but now I'm thinking, there's a small but realistic chance it was a Hugo's House of Horrors reference. Hah!

@AndiousWandarier 6 жыл бұрын

I have to ask: was getting the broom a very well-edited joke, or did you actually manage to pick it up somehow?

@Osiris11235 5 жыл бұрын

I'm curious too, but I'm guessing it was a joke.

@wardrich 3 жыл бұрын

That bunghole bit 😂 My fiancee learned the term from me a few years ago when I asked her why the pharmacy didn't give her a bung for the syrup she got. She looked at me like I have 3 eyes lol

@JomasterTheSecond 6 жыл бұрын

I'm so spooked. Quickly, THROW CHOP!

@GTXDash 6 жыл бұрын

5:12 Star Trek reference? :D

@Mech4 4 жыл бұрын

Stupid old man questions. Still one of my fondest remembered games I played in the early 90s. Hex editing? Hm, is there any commands in the game that aren't used in normal playthrough? I found things in Hugo 2 that I didn't actually expect the game to count as an object to look at.

@SmokingTaters 6 жыл бұрын

Are a lot of these game assets from Maniac Mansion? Is this just a slightly modified version of this?

@lvkeyne 6 жыл бұрын

Oh my God, JC! A BUNG!

@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 11 ай бұрын

5:09 canonically, his name is pea head

@AncientElectronics 6 жыл бұрын

An alien huh? that's interesting. I always just assumed it was the Joker for some reason. That guy at the end with the questions was infuriating since when I played this game recently I refused to use the internet for help....I spent a lot of time asking old men if they knew the name of Roy Rodgers pets.

@SchizoMelody 3 жыл бұрын

Donut forget to vigorously strike the bung with your bung hammer in order to ensure that it is properly seated within the bunghole.

@MarianoDevourment 3 жыл бұрын

7:12 hahaha I laughed so much

@MrGenyaAvacado Жыл бұрын

Inventory based adventure games are the best!

@OleCrankyGamer 6 жыл бұрын

Found you through a Reddit thread on patient gamers talking about old games

@BesterP12 6 жыл бұрын

Huh. If all versions of the registered version had the list of answers, I'd say it was copy protection. Odd

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+BesterP12 Admittedly, they're all trivia questions, so the answers were out there, but hunting down answers to these questions pre-internet would've been much more challenging. :P

@EdmondDantes224 6 жыл бұрын

Just out of curiosity, how many of the old man's questions were you able to get *without* a walkthru? (I myself would've been stumped at the one about Roy Rodger's dog as I don't even know who Roy Rogers *is* )

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+Jispy Moe Dantes Five... technically four. The riddle about what can and can't fly I tried to answer "human" and it wouldn't accept it. The two I otherwise couldn't get were the Narnia and Roy Rogers questions. :P

@EdmondDantes224 6 жыл бұрын

I remember the quiz part stumping me as a kid. Really just seems odd to design a game to require knowledge of things external to the game itself. Of course, nowadays I've read every Chronicles of Narnia book and I'm trying to memorize Tolkien so anything based on those two is easy pickin's, but old TV shows.... ehm... I might know Dragnet and Perry Mason but that's about it. And yeah the "can and can't fly" one... that's just confusing. My problem was I thought it must refer to like penguins or something. In a lot of ways the Hugo games are badly designed but since most people got them for essentially free it was hard to really mind. Hugo III: Jungle of Doom was the first adventure game I beat without a walkthru. Hugo II: Whodunit on the other hand is absolute B.S. (Incidentally there's a Doctor Who reference in that one so watch some Tom Baker episodes before playing it)

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+Jispy Moe Dantes Designing a game in this way by having random trivia is more a way of padding out the game to make it feel longer than it actually is, rather than solid game design. As you saw, I could beat the game in just over 5 minutes once I knew exactly what to do. :P

@EdmondDantes224 6 жыл бұрын

And I'm sure the "Did you register this game?" question in the Shareware version was supposed to make people think the game was literally unbeatable unless they registered (which of course it wasn't unless you're so honest that you can't lie to a nonsentient computer game). Still better than that damn box of matches in the second game where you have to cross the bridge absolutely perfectly or they get wet and become unusable...

@djramen 6 жыл бұрын

I have the sense of humor of a 12-year-old so thank you for the bunghole explanation. Signed, tofu Age 28

@NeilRoy 6 жыл бұрын

I actually found that educational. Never knew that outside of Beavus and Butthead references. ;)

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+Neil Roy This was the first and probably last time in my entire life I'll ever get to say "bunghole" in a proper context. ;D

@Imgema 6 жыл бұрын

Wait, this was a high price game in 1990? I mean even by 1990 standards this would look like retro. You had full VGA games by then and the PC was slowly starting to surpass the Amiga. Sure, it was a one man project and it's like how indies are today but that means it should be a budget title.

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+Imgema I think the reason David Gray got away with charging as much as he did is because of the lack of competition and the high quality expected due to Sierra's titles. The price wasn't as high as a boxed commercial game, but still more than a typical shareware game at the time.

@alexanderfreeman Жыл бұрын

The registered version cost $20 in 1990. That works out to about $47 in 2023.

@hobbified 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it wasn't until I built an old PC to play old games, that I realized... everything GOG sells is updated to run on modern systems, which is nice, but it means it's frequently impossible to run the games on the systems that they originally supported.

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+hobbified GOG's a lot better about that now with releases than they once were, although it really does depend on the game a lot of the time. :P

@nodakamakadon 6 жыл бұрын

I don't know about the change of direction to attempts at humour. I quite liked the original format.

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+stuntaneous Part of the reason for the change as well is that a few people have been taking me TOO seriously, and truly, I'm not even a remotely serious guy, even though I sound it, so I'm trying to take the edge off a bit. Most people like the change so I'll be sticking with it, but rest assured it's not going to get excessive and the vids will still primarily be info about the games themselves! :B

@prozzac85 6 жыл бұрын

This could be the best episode yet! You get a like from me :) (even if you did'nt like Raptor call of the shadows!!!!!!)

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+Stefan Johansson It'd be a boring world if we all liked the same things. ;)

@prozzac85 6 жыл бұрын

Very true, but still...

@solsticeprojekt1937 17 күн бұрын

OMFG YOU TOOK THE BROOM! THE BROOM! D: D: WHAT HAPPENS THEN? WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH IT? WHY DID YOU STOP THERE?????????? D: D: D:

@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 11 ай бұрын

11:16 how did you do that?! he*

@Pixelmusement 11 ай бұрын

MAGIC. :B

@LeonardGr 6 жыл бұрын

So how's your game? Does GMG will continue?

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+Leonard Greenland Haven't had time to work on it properly, but that will change soon. I'll be officially announcing how I plan to get GMG going again in the upcoming filler video, but the basic gist is that it's better than I turn GMG into a sort of monthly update thing instead of trying to do a weekly step-by-step showcase of the process, which literally eats up some of the time I should be spending actually making the games involved. :P

@DamienCooley 6 жыл бұрын

Expected PushingUpRoses cameo, got bunghole. :(

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+Damien Cooley I'm hoping to collab with Roses on something someday, it's just a matter of finding the right time and the right thing to collab on. :)

@arboris 6 жыл бұрын

So, i take it you're training for the coming AGDQ?

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+arboris Pfffft, no. Those guys are insanely well versed in the games they run. I have the skill to speedrun stuff if I put effort into it, but I don't really enjoy it, so there's no way I'd ever get THAT good at it. :P

@arboris 6 жыл бұрын

It was but a light hearted joke :P

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+Pixelmusement I know. Part of my sense of humour is to take people seriously when they're clearly not being completely serious! ;)

@vmvolcano 6 жыл бұрын

No ADG for 2 months? FeelsBadMan

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+vmvolcano No "regular" episodes. There'll be several fillers and they're going to be covering the Windows sequels to DOS games!

@mikesilva3868 3 жыл бұрын

Use to play this game at a neighbor's house I was 9 in 1993 he had the cheat codes took me 5 mins to beat it 🍔

@EdmondDantes224 6 жыл бұрын

"I'll be the item you need the plug in this boat I'll be the bungy every bunghole should know..." ;) (Seriously, why didn't the game just call it a cork?)

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+Jispy Moe Dantes Technically, a cork needs to actually be made of cork. The bung in this game is made of rubber, so it can't be a cork. :P

@1300l 6 жыл бұрын

I noted that in the last ADG videos there are some humor elements on the script. I usualy prefere when there wasn't/isn't.. But that's just a personal preference (not just with you or your videos, to any review). But GJ, love your videos ;)

@XanthinZarda 6 жыл бұрын

I beg to differ. While he is normally highly informative, sometimes the videos are a bit... _dry_ . Which while not a bad thing, you try doing 200 episodes of a series without some spice.

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+1300l Based on the comments I've received you're definitely part of the minority there. Still, I didn't get this far by spouting jokes non-stop so I'll be continuing to keep things informative too! :B

@1300l 6 жыл бұрын

I understand Gemini, i hope you didn't see it as a criticism ;) Was just a opinion but i do understand why it is as it is now :P

@Pixelmusement 6 жыл бұрын

+1300l I saw it as a personal opinion; no worries. ;)