Hugo: Jungle Island

Hugo: Jungle Island is a defunct interactive television program that was an improved replacement to the early 1990s' original children's game show in the Hugo franchise. It was originally launched by ITE Media in Denmark as Hugo Vulkanøen ("Hugo: Volcanic") in January 1999, and was promptly licensed and broadcast in many other countries.[1]

Not to be confused with Hugo III, Jungle of Doom!.

In this scenario, the friendly troll Hugo's the arch-enemy, the evil witch Scylla (Afskylia in the original Danish version), has moved to a jungle island, where she teamed up with the local tyrant Don Croco. Scylla then once again kidnapped Hugo's wife Hugolina and the children but this time she keeps them captive in a cage in her new lair, located at a top of volcano in the center of the island. The player controls Hugo, aided by the monkey Jean Paul and the toucan Ferdinand, as he needs to complete a series minigames ("hugocopter", ostrich jockey ride, liana climbing, volcano lava chase, etc.) to reach and defeat the witch and free his family.[2]

Video games
Hugo: Jungle Island
Developer(s)ITE Media
Publisher(s)ITE Media
Platform(s)Windows
Release1999-2000,[3] 2004[4]
Genre(s)Action, puzzle
Mode(s)Single-player

A series of two video games based on it were released by ITE Media for the PC adaptation in 1999–2000,[5][6][7][8] followed by a third game in 2004.[4] They were released under localized titles in various countries (such as Hugo: Dschungelinsel in Germany and Hugo: Tropikalna Wyspa in Poland).[9] The games' content was later effectively re-released as the fifth and sixth volume in the Hugo Classic series.[10][11] Some of other Hugo video games are also located on that island, including Hugo: Quest for the Sunstones and Hugo: Black Diamond Fever.

The Hugo: Jungle Island series' review scores included a thee stars out of five from Wirtualna Polska[12] and a 7.5/10 from GRYOnline.pl[13] for the first game, and a 15% from PC Games,[14] 23% from PC Action,[15] a 43% from PC Player,[16] and an 8/10 from Gamesector.dk[17] for the second one. The first two games reached the top of PC sales charts in Turkey.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Interactive Television Entertainment". Archived from the original on April 29, 2001.
  2. "ITE". Archived from the original on February 18, 2007.
  3. Nico Schimmelpfennig. "Games-Historie".
  5. Nico Schimmelpfennig. "Hugo 7 - Dschungelinsel".
  6. Nico Schimmelpfennig. "Hugo 8 - Dschungelinsel 2".
  7. "Hugo - Vulkanøen - bibliotek.dk".
  8. "Hugo - Vulkanøen 2 - bibliotek.dk".
  9. "Hugo: Tropikalna Wyspa, Hugo: Jungle Island (PC) - GRY-Online.pl". GRY-Online.pl.
  10. Nico Schimmelpfennig. "Hugo Classic#5".
  11. Nico Schimmelpfennig. "Hugo Classic#6".
  12. Grupa Wirtualna Polska. "Hugo: Tropikalna Wyspa". Archived from the original on 2017-01-18.
  13. "Hugo: Tropikalna Wyspa - recenzja gry". GRY-Online.pl. 1 March 2001.
  14. "Hugo 8". PC Games. 100: 132. January 2001.
  15. "Hugo 8". PC Action. 1/01: 118. January 2001.
  16. "HUGO 8: DSCHUNGELINSEL 2". PC Player. 3/01: 114. March 2001.
  17. "Hugo Vulkanøen 2". Gamesector.dk.
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