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{{short description|Children's interactive television show}}
{{Infobox television
| image       = Ugo TV logo.jpg
| caption     = One of many logos for the ''Hugo'' shows, this one was used by Kabel 1 in 1996.
| genre       = Game show
| creator     = Ivan Sølvason and Niels Krogh Mortensen<ref name=co>{{cite web|author=Jacob Andersen |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130212163942/http://www.comon.dk/art/150758/hugos-far-bortadopterer-tv-trolden|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-02-12|url=http://www.comon.dk/art/150758/hugos-far-bortadopterer-tv-trolden |title=Hugos far bortadopterer tv-trolden - Computerworld |website=Comon.dk |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref>
| presenter   = Nina Klinker Jørgensen (Denmark),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seoghoer.dk/Nyheder/Royalt/Royalt%20Arkiv/2010/10/Se%20de%20vinker%20gal%202.aspx?img=2&tmb=0 |title=Galleri: Frederiks gamle flammer {{pipe}} SE og HØR |language=da |website=Seoghoer.dk |access-date=2016-08-28 |archive-date=20 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120103700/http://www.seoghoer.dk/Nyheder/Royalt/Royalt%20Arkiv/2010/10/Se%20de%20vinker%20gal%202.aspx?img=2&tmb=0 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tjektv.dk/Bizart-TV/2011-27-kiksede-90er-shows.aspx |title=Se Og Hør |language=da |website=Tjektv.dk |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> various in other countries (including Andrea Molina, Carmen Sevilla, Hoàng Thùy Linh, Ivette Vergara, Julia Haacke, Karen Cheryl, Pedro Pinto, Sonja Zietlow, and Tal Berman, among others)
| company     = Interactive Television Entertainment
| country     = {{wipe|Denmark}}
| network     = TV2
| first_aired = {{start date|1990|9}}<ref name=tvh>{{cite web|author=Nico Schimmelpfennig |url=http://www.hugo-troll.de/infos/historie/tv/index.html |title=TV-Historie |website=Hugo-troll.de |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref>
| last_aired  = {{end date|1995|5}}
| related     = ''Hexana'' (Germany) <br> ''Stinky & Stomper''<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.c21media.net/news/danish-kids-gameshow-heads-to-asia-lat-am/ | title=Danish kids gameshow heads to Asia, Lat-Am }}</ref>
}}
'''''Hugo''''' (Danish: ''Skærmtrolden Hugo'', often referred to as "Hugo the Troll" in English) was a children's [[Engineering:Interactive television|interactive television]] show created by the Danish company Interactive Television Entertainment (ITE). Since its premiere on TV2 in 1990, this popular live one-player interactive game show has aired in more than 40 countries. The program's audience callers used their telephones to guide the titular character, a sympathetic small "TV troll" named Hugo, in various simple video-game scenarios to help him brave various dangers. Typically, the goal of the game was to reach and overcome an evil witch and thus rescue Hugo's family, after which the players would be rewarded based on their performance. The show has been adapted into multiple video-game releases and into various merchandise and other media in an extended media and merchandise franchise.

== Show ==

''Hugo'', created by Danish company SilverRock Productions, later known as ITE since 1992, was originally made for Nordisk Film. It was first aired on the Danish television channel TV2 as part of the program ''Eleva2ren'' in September 1990, following the earlier success of the company's previous show, ''[[Software:OsWALD|OsWALD]]''.<ref name="tua" /><ref>{{cite web |author=Nico Schimmelpfennig |url=http://www.hugo-troll.de/infos/historie/firma/index.html |title=Firma Historie |website=Hugo-troll.de |access-date=2016-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113131031/http://www.hugo-troll.de/infos/historie/firma/index.html |archive-date=13 November 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=ite>{{cite web|url=http://www.ite.dk/hugo.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961107145926/http://www.ite.dk/hugo.htm |archive-date=1996-11-07 |title=ITE Hugo |date=1996-11-07 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://tvtid.tv2.dk/nytomtv/article.php/id-45261368.html |title=Video: Skærmtrolden Hugo vender tilbage - TV 2 |language=da |website=Tvtid.tv2.dk |access-date=2016-08-28 |archive-date=9 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111109012044/http://tvtid.tv2.dk/nytomtv/article.php/id-45261368.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The show featured a video game that was remotely played by a contestant via telephone connection. A player randomly chosen from among the callers would be tasked with controlling the titular cartoon character on the TV screen by pressing digit keys on the phone (either 1,2, 3<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mynet.com/haber/guncel/hugoya-kim-kufur-etti-2280582-1 |title=Hugoya Kim Küfür Etti? Haberi ve Son Dakika Haberler Mynet |publisher=Mynet.com |date=2016-01-22 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> or 2, 4, 6<ref>{{cite web|url=https://90larmuzesi.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/hugo/ |title=Hugo {{pipe}} 90'lar Mßzesi |publisher=90larmuzesi.wordpress.com |date=2011-03-21 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref>) which represented different character actions or storyline options.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pop-gamer.com/2012/02/this-mobile-game-will-troll-you/ |title=This Mobile Game Will Troll You « PopGamer |author=Doug Fairall |publisher=Pop-gamer.com |access-date=2012-09-17}}</ref> It was targeted for the children audience between the ages of four to 14.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20030315042813/http://www.ite.dk/newsletters/HugoFormatbrochure-indhold.pdf Hugo – an international, interactive TV star!] (2001 ITE press release)</ref> Target age was alternatively presented as 2-12<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hugo: The World's Favourite Interactive Troll |url=http://www.ite.dk/newsletters/HugoFormatBrochlores.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030403110544/http://www.ite.dk/newsletters/HugoFormatBrochlores.pdf |archive-date=3 April 2003 |access-date=3 August 2023 |publisher=Interactive Television Entertainment ApS |language=en}}</ref> and varied depending on the country in licensed content, for example 6–16 in Portugal<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nit.pt/cultura/03-10-2016-os-concursos-da-rtp-nos-quais-toda-a-gente-queria-participar/attachment/19813 | title="Hugo" (1996) }}</ref> and 6–14 in Vietnam,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://kenh14.vn/8x-9x-doi-dau-con-nho-chu-lun-hugo-mot-thoi-lam-dien-dao-man-hinh-tv-nay-chu-20161115153635644.chn | title=8X, 9X đời đầu còn nhớ chú lùn Hugo một thời làm điên đảo màn hình TV này chứ? | date=23 November 2016 }}</ref> with some family (group play) or even adult editions. The original show ''Skærmtrolden Hugo'' ("Hugo the Screen Troll") proved to be an instant hit,<ref name=dk2>{{cite web | url=https://underholdning.tv2.dk/kendte/2018-10-07-han-var-manden-bag-hugo-og-omsatte-for-880-millioner-her-er-han-i-dag | title=Han var manden bag Hugo og omsatte for 880 millioner - her er han i dag - TV 2 | date=7 October 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Lee West |url=http://www.gamereactor.dk/anmeldelser/87051/Hugo+Retro+Mania/ |title=Hugo Retro Mania Anmeldelse - Gamereactor Danmark |publisher=Gamereactor.dk |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> achieving extremely high average TV ratings of 42%,<ref name=tvrat>{{cite web | url=http://www.ite.dk/tvrating.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961107150538/http://www.ite.dk/tvrating.htm | archive-date=7 November 1996 | title=ITE TV-Ratings }}</ref> and aired continuously on TV2 for five years.<ref name="mile">{{cite web|url=http://www.ite.dk/newsletters/HugoFormatbrochure-omslag.pdf |title=Hugo : ITE |access-date=2016-08-28 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030314233302/http://www.ite.dk/newsletters/HugoFormatbrochure-omslag.pdf |archive-date=2003-03-14 }}</ref> Since then, ''Hugo'' has been [[Finance:License|license]]d to more than 40<ref name="ji">{{cite web|url=http://www.ite.dk/?content=jungleTV.htm|title=Hugo Jungle Island|publisher=Ite.dk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070218235919/http://www.ite.dk/?content=jungleTV.htm|archive-date=2007-02-18|url-status=dead|access-date=2012-01-06}}</ref> (43 as of 2007<ref name="edk">{{cite web|url=http://www.erhvervsbladet.dk/virksomheder/hugos-far-er-umulig-slaa-ud|title=Hugos far er umulig at slå ud - Virksomheder - Erhvervsbladet.dk|date=27 May 2012|website=archive.is|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120527062014/http://www.erhvervsbladet.dk/virksomheder/hugos-far-er-umulig-slaa-ud|archive-date=27 May 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref>) TV shows around the world, beginning with the Spanish and French versions in 1992.<ref name="mile" /> Many international viewers believed that the program was native to their countries, as Hugo spoke Danish only in Denmark's original version.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Kultur/2011/12/22/150008.htm|title=20 år gamle Hugo hitter i udlandet {{pipe}} Kultur {{pipe}} DR|website=Dr.dk|date=21 December 2011|language=da|access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> Its worldwide success also inspired several other similar shows during the 1990s, such as ''Games World'' (UK/Germany 1993-1998), ''Pizza Rollo'' (France 1994-1995), ''Joe Razz'' (Sweden 1994), ''Game Over'' (Finland 1994-1997), ''Galilei the Dog'' (Finland 1996-1997), ''Maxihra'' (Slovakia 1997-2000), and ITE's own ''Throut & Neck'' (Denmark/Brazil 1997-1999).<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/66873|title=The foundations of Let's Play : Live action representation of video games in television and online 1975-2018|first=Tero|last=Kerttula|date=30 July 2019|journal=CEUR Workshop Proceedings|issue=2359|via=jyx.jyu.fi}}</ref>

=== Story, gameplay and rules ===
{{Further|Software:Hugo (video game)}}

The show's first season, which ran on Danish television for a year, featured only the titular cartoonish character placed in a computer-animated world. The protagonist Hugo was a friendly and small, yet brave and resourceful, cheerful Scandinavian [[Unsolved:Troll|troll]] of 220 years (which is still a young age for a troll),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ladomoderno.com/nostalgia-hora-h/ |title=Nostalgia: Hora H |publisher=Lado Moderno |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> who would navigate a maze in a dangerous old goldmine in a quest for hidden treasure, his movements controlled by the player through a press-button telephone.<ref name=tele/> The first season introduced how the in-game Hugo would often communicate with the player to comment on the game's progress (in addition to the commentary by the show's live hosts observing in the studio), as well as to feature a variety of other animated [[Software:Cutscene|cutscene]]s including humorous death animations. In the next season, the show was vastly expanded for new adventures on the request from Nordisk Film asking for more characters,<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DyUOa1CHFWUC&pg=PA386 | title=Marketing Management: A Relationship Approach | isbn=9780273643784 | last1=Hollensen | first1=Svend | date=4 August 2023 | publisher=Financial Times/Prentice Hall }}</ref> adding Hugo's 215-year-old beloved wife Hugolina (Hugoline) and their three kids: Rit (TrolleRit), Rat (TrolleRat), and Rut (TrolleRut, Ruth in some countries), who were aged between 20 (toddler) and 50 (little child). Also added was Hugo's archenemy, the beautiful but hateful and cruel ancient witch that would become internationally best known as Scylla, but originally was named Afskylia in Denmark (with several alternative names in foreign-language editions, such as Hexana in German, Maldicia in Spanish, Maldiva in Portuguese, Mordana in Croatian, Bosnian and Slovenian, Skylla in Swedish, Tarastella in Finnish, Cadı Sila in Turkish, and Simla in Vietnamese). The terrible menace of the realm of Trollwood (in which she been trapped by a wizard very long ago<ref name=sin/>) and beyond, she constantly kept kidnapping Hugo's family for him to try to rescue them and defeat her.<ref name="ite" /><ref>{{cite web |author=Elessandro De Almeida |url=http://elessandroalternativo.blogspot.com/2013/09/hugo-game-show-brasil_6.html |title=Elessandro Alternativo: Hugo Game Show Brasil |publisher=Elessandroalternativo.blogspot.com |access-date=2016-08-28 |archive-date=19 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019201851/https://elessandroalternativo.blogspot.com/2013/09/hugo-game-show-brasil_6.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The following editions gradually expanded on this concept to involve more characters of good (Hugo's friends) and evil (Scylla's minions) talking and humanoid or regular animals. Scylla remained the only (not counting the original scenario's old miner) in-game human character to be met within the game's fantastic take on modern Denmark, however many human characters were later featured in the 2000s ''Agent Hugo'' reboot game series set in an alternative hi-tech world.

The globally familiar standard content of subsequent ''Hugo'' programs and basic rules have been established in 1991 by the vastly expanded second season of the original Danish show, featuring Hugo's journeys in search of his family and the witch. The contest's objective became guiding the on-screen Hugo through a given a series of game scenarios, each made of an either two-dimensional (side-scrolling) or pseudo three-dimensional (seen from behind Hugo) [[Software:Level (video games)|level]] representing a different adventure, to reach his family held captive in one Scylla's skull themed lairs before running out of his three [[Software:Life (video games)|lives]]. Hugo would keep constantly moving by various means (for example, riding a snowboard down a mountain or a skateboard on a half-pipe like dry watermill chute, or flying a biplane through a thunderstorm) while avoiding obstacles in his way and surviving the witch's assorted traps and her evil magic spells. Usually, the players had to react to ''[[Software:Dragon's Lair|Dragon's Lair]]'' style,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://cyber.sports.ru/amp/post/2887104/ | title="Позвоните Кузе" – главная замена приставкам в 90-х. Шоу знали во всем мире, оно породило мегафраншизу| date=10 February 2021}}</ref> albeit more repetitive but less scripted, quick time events requiring the caller to press the correct button in time. A failure to avoid any of the dangers caused the loss of one of Hugo's lives. The [[Software:Game over|game over]] state could be further triggered by running out of time (usually represented by either some sort of a deadly peril constantly chasing Hugo, such as an avalanche or a flood, or by his remaining amount of fuel or oxygen) or by entering an incorrect password-like puzzle sequence at the end of some levels (the latter required the players to first discover and memorize the solution, presented in the form of a particular set of three symbols randomised for each session, and then to enter it correctly). Failing in any of such cases would make the game end instantly, no matter how many lives have remained in reserve. Several scenarios further required the player to use a map of the level (with the time countdown continuing while checking it) as Hugo would have to keep choosing correctly between alternating paths where choosing wrong would have Hugo eventually reach a dead end. While advancing through towards one of the witch's hideouts, the players were given an opportunity to collect the scattered treasure (initially mostly bars and bags of gold) to increase their game scores.

During the course of the game, Hugo often gave various messages directly to the players in cutscenes, encouraging them with his rhyming catchphrases while breaking the fourth wall. Losing any of the lives would also play a relevant cutscene showing Hugo dying or being otherwise stopped in a cartoonish way, often uttering a sarcastic line to comment on this. Meanwhile, Scylla, watching Hugo through her magic ball, would loudly laugh at the player's minor mistakes (such as picking up bags of rocks decreasing the game's score) and occasionally react to Hugo's progress in her own cutscenes. The most iconic of such scenes involved the illusion of Hugo knocking on the TV screen from the inside when on his last life, and a similar animation of Scylla scratching the screen with her nails before taunting the player about Hugo being hopeless against her. Television hosts meanwhile also cheered on the callers, as would the live audience if any such were<!-- subjunctive singular --> present. After finishing the main game by either winning or losing (only winning in some versions), the number of score points determine the value of the real-world prizes to be awarded to the player, which were calculated depending on the amount of gold and other valuables collected along the way, with any lost lives negatively impacting the score. Such prizes varied widely in the different programs across the world. (In Poland, for example, even just the participation-award items were already valuable.<ref name=polsat>{{Cite web|url=https://tygodnik.polsatnews.pl/news/2020-09-04/bardzo-sie-starales-lecz-z-gry-wyleciales-hugo-od-kulis/|title="Bardzo się starałeś, lecz z gry wyleciałeś". Hugo od kulis - Tygodnik PolsatNews.pl|date=4 September 2020|website=tygodnik.polsatnews.pl}}</ref>) Usually, several people would participate as players during the typical half an hour of airtime.<ref name="by">{{cite web|url=http://42.tut.by/389865|title="Позвоните Кузе": откуда взялись видеоигры в прямом ТВ-эфире|publisher=42.TUT.BY|access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref name="hwzone">{{cite web|url=https://hwzone.co.il/%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%92%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%97%D7%A7%D7%99-%D7%94%D7%95%D7%92%D7%95/ |title=פינת הנוסטלגיה: משחקי הוגו • HWzone |publisher=Hwzone.co.il |date=2016-08-24 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> The game could sometimes become much more difficult to play due to input lag problems.<ref name=eska/>

A potential large bonus awaited those who successfully reached the end of the given scenario(s), during the iconic final scene in which Hugo had arrived at his destination and now stood face-to-face with Scylla. She would present Hugo a set of hanging ropes next to his abducted family watching from their cage, and now the player had to choose between  three or four options, where sheer luck determined both whether the troll family could be rescued and the witch's fate. Depending on which rope were pulled, either Hugo managed to both liberate his family and decisively defeat Scylla (who would be magically tied up and gotten rid of with the help of a spring launcher device in the game-winning best outcome), she would still triumph in the end after all (capturing Hugo and disposing of him in the same way in an alternative game over losing state), or the family would be freed but with Scylla getting away (turning herself into a bird to escape safely in the canonical happy end); some version would also have the witch lose her youth and beauty and become a hideous old hunchback. Accordingly, the score was doubled (tripled in some versions), halved (erased completely in some versions), or left at its current state (doubled in some versions).<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Spiel mit mir!|date=January 1995|url=https://archive.org/details/Aktueller_Software_Markt_-_Ausgabe_1995.01|journal=Aktueller Software Markt|volume=1/95|pages=[https://archive.org/details/Aktueller_Software_Markt_-_Ausgabe_1995.01/page/n75 78]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Der Troll vom Kabelkanal|date=July 1994|url=https://archive.org/details/64er_1994_07|journal=64'er|volume=7/94|pages=[https://archive.org/details/64er_1994_07/page/n71 72]–75}}</ref> Over the next years, not only various new scenarios, but also alternative end scenes have been added to the show (and consequently also to its video-game adaptation series), one of them was no longer chance-based and involving Hugo having to steal the key to Scylla's treasure chamber while avoiding her lightning bolt spells.

A new program format titled ''[[Software:Hugo: Jungle Island|Hugo]]''<ref name="ji" /> (''Hugo Vulkanøen'') premiered in Denmark in January 1999,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ite.dk/ite/frame/start3.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010429153917/http://www.ite.dk/ite/frame/start3.htm |archive-date=2001-04-29 |title=Interactive Television Entertainment |date=2001-04-29 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> replacing the content of all the ''Hugo'' programs from that point (usually still as ''Hugo'', with the subtitle ''Jungle Island'' limited to its video-game adaptations). Its set changed from the familiar magical woods of northern Europe to a remote and exotic island somewhere along the coast of Peru, where Scylla has moved after once again abducting Hugo's family and built a new home for herself on the top of a volcano located in the center of the island. The various ways leading there were as always full of traps, and now also populated by pirates loyal to the witch and infested with stupid and mean monkeys that she sends after Hugo. It featured all-different main scenarios and end scenes, with diamonds replacing gold as score items, as well as introducing several new major characters such as Scylla's devoted chief henchman Don Croco and Hugo's local talking-animal helpers and guides Fernando and Jean Paul. As before, the game ended with the chance-based final confrontation with Scylla, featured in two different versions (choosing the correct magic elixir or pulling the correct lever), but with both of them this time having only two possible outcomes: Hugo would either fail entirely or he would sneakily free his family and capture the witch, with no middle result. One particular ''Jungle Island'' scenario, set inside Scylla's weird magic mirror world from the 2002 video game ''[[Software:Hugo: The Evil Mirror|Hugo]]'', was aired in some select countries such as Poland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDpkEr00raU?t=530|title=Polsat - Hugo (prawie cały odcinek) - 22.05.2005|last=Świat Ogólnego Człowieka|via=YouTube}}</ref>

===Production===

''Hugo'' was created by animator Niels Krogh Mortensen after ITE founder Ivan Sølvason commissioned him to design a new game produced by Pekka Kossila<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T1tiCQAAQBAJ&pg=PP53|title=Finnish Video Games: A History and Catalog|first=Juho|last=Kuorikoski|date=18 May 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786499625 |via=Google Books}}</ref> for ''Eleva2ren'' to replace their earlier ''OsWALD''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oldschoolgamermagazine.com/that-time-when-we-played-video-games-over-the-landline/|title=That Time When We Played Video Games Over the Landline|first=Suzana|last=Krcmarek|date=28 October 2022}}</ref> The troll's character was originally portrayed by Michael Brockdorf, who developed the voice while serving in the Danish Army.<ref name="tv2">{{Cite web|url=http://tv.tv2.dk/articlenew.php/id-51801809:sk%C3%A6rmtrolden-hugo--hvor-blev-han-af.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730043240/http://programmer.tv2.dk/articlenew.php/id-51801809%3Ask%C3%A6rmtrolden-hugo--hvor-blev-han-af.html|url-status=dead|title=Skærmtrolden Hugo - Hvor blev han af? - TV 2|date=14 July 2012|archive-date=30 July 2012|website=tv.tv2.dk}}</ref> Several others have since taken over the role of voicing the character, including Amin Jensen and Torben Simonsen. Hugolina was originally voiced by Louise Engell, sister of Thomas Engell who composed the show's symphonic music and its [[18-bit|18-bit]] sound effects. Their mother Winnie Engell was the original voice of the antagonist Scylla,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jyllands-posten.dk/indland/kbh/article3828054.ece?service=printversion |title=Hele filmuniverset er hans legeplads |language=da |website=Jyllands-posten.dk |date=10 January 2006 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> whose visual design was modeled after ''Hugo'' producer Sølvason's aunt Vivi Feltman. The game's early pixel graphics were created by Mortensen assisted by his brother Lars with [[Software:Deluxe Paint|Deluxe Paint]]. The expanding company would keep developing the show's gameplay and basic assets, as well as [[Computer hardware|computer hardware]] to run it on, for more than decade. The rest of the content for each of the licensed programs, however, were produced locally by various companies in their countries, tailored by them for local audiences. Because Hugo and other characters spoke Danish only in Denmark, foreign viewers often believed their localised programs to be local inventions.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pZb5CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA454|title=Video Games Around the World|first=Mark J. P.|last=Wolf|date=1 May 2015|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=9780262527163 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

===Technology===
For ''Hugo'' and its related television program projects, ITE made the custom-built computer system named ITE 3000. It was able to convert any [[Engineering:Push-button telephone|push-button telephone]]'s [[Engineering:Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling|dual-tone multi-frequency signaling]] (DTMF) into control commands for the characters in the game,<ref name=tele>{{Cite web|url=https://stiften.dk/kultur/jacob-jensen-skrev-dansk-designhistorie-telefonen-blev-saa-populaer-at-folk-huggede-den-fra-hotelvaerelserne|title=Jacob Jensen skrev dansk designhistorie: Telefonen blev så populær, at folk huggede den fra hotelværelserne {{pipe}} stiften.dk|date=9 August 2023|website=stiften.dk}}</ref> allowing the callers to remotely interact with the action on TV from their homes during the live broadcast.<ref>{{cite web |author=Nico Schimmelpfennig |url=http://www.hugo-troll.de/tvshow/hugoshow/backstage/index.html |title=Backstage - Hinter den Kulissen |publisher=Hugo-troll.de |access-date=2012-01-06 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113211132/http://www.hugo-troll.de/tvshow/hugoshow/backstage/index.html |archive-date=13 January 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> This complex and difficult to use<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.concierto.cl/2018/08/ivette-vergara-confeso-como-era-el-sistema-para-jugar-hugo/amp/ | title=Ivette Vergara confesó cómo era el sistema para jugar Hugo | date=2 August 2018 }}</ref> system was based on two [[Engineering:Amiga 3000|Amiga 3000]] computers combined with a new audio control system, [[MIDI]] sampler, and other hardware, all of which reportedly cost $100,000.<ref name="tua" /> Special versions had to be modified to fit the telephone systems in some countries such as Spain.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://go64.dk/super-oswald-skaermtrolden-hugo/|title=Super OsWald & Skærmtrolden Hugo {{pipe}} GO64|date=4 November 2019|website=go64.dk}}</ref> The ITE 3000 was later replaced by the PC-based ITE 4000, which used a real-time [[Motion capture|motion capture]] Animation Mask System (AMS).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ite.dk/ams.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961107150310/http://www.ite.dk/ams.htm |archive-date=1996-11-07 |title=ITE Animation Mask System |date=1996-11-07 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> The new system was invented by Bjarne Sølvason (father of Ivan) and could transfer an actor's body, head, eye movements, and facial expressions to Hugo's character on screen.<ref name="ite2">{{cite web|url=http://www.ite.dk/newsletters/HugoFormatbrochure-indhold.pdf |title=Hugo : ITE |access-date=2016-08-28 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030315042813/http://www.ite.dk/newsletters/HugoFormatbrochure-indhold.pdf |archive-date=2003-03-15 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvKiyUV0X9g#!  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/hvKiyUV0X9g |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=DIE HUGO SHOW (1995) - Hinter den Kulissen (1/2) |publisher=[[Company:YouTube|YouTube]] |access-date=2016-08-28}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The actor providing the voice of Hugo wore a helmet containing sensors that would capture his facial expressions and translate them to the character, however, all of the characters' body movements have been [[Pre-rendering|pre-rendered]] in advance.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.awn.com/mag/issue4.06/4.06pages/schatzinteractivetv/schatzinteractivetv.php3 |title=Interactive Television: Are We There Yet? |author=Sharon Schatz |publisher=Awn.com |access-date=2012-09-17}}</ref> In 1996, ITE created a 3D graphics system for ''Hugo'' using [[Company:Silicon Graphics|Silicon Graphics]]' Onyx Reality Engine.<ref name="ite" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|title=Der TV-Hugo|url=https://archive.org/details/AmigaJoker199602|journal=Amiga Joker|volume=2/96|pages=[https://archive.org/details/AmigaJoker199602/page/n66 13]}}</ref> A new technology for the real-time 3D animation of Hugo was unveiled in 2005, but was aimed only for export, specifically to Asian countries.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ite.dk/newsletters/newsletter_dec2005_lowres.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060902043549/http://www.ite.dk/newsletters/newsletter_dec2005_lowres.pdf |archive-date=2006-09-02 |title=ITE Newsletter |date=December 2005 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref>

== List of programs ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ The ''Hugo'' shows airings in chronological order<ref name=tvh/>
|-
! scope="col" | Country
! scope="col" | Date
! scope="col" | Channel
! scope="col" | Broadcasting Schedule
|-
|{{flag|Denmark}} (I) || 7 September 1990<ref name=tvrat/> – May 1995 || TV2 || Friday
|-
|{{flag|Spain}} || 29 June 1992<ref name=f1>{{cite web|url=http://www.formulatv.com/noticias/1720/el-troll-hugo-sigue-triunfando-tras-desaparecer-de-telecinco-hace-14-anos/ |title=El troll Hugo sigue triunfando tras desaparecer de Telecinco hace 14 años |publisher=FormulaTV |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> – June 1994 || Tele5 || Monday-Friday
|-
|{{flag|France}} || 7 September 1992<ref name=tvrat/> – August 1994 || France3 || Monday–Saturday (season 1) Wednesday (season 2)
|-
|{{flag|Turkey}} (I) || March 1993<ref name=tvrat/> – October 1996 || Kanal 6 || Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Sweden}} (I) || March 1993<ref name=tvrat/> – December 1993 || Sverige 1 || Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Finland}} || 17 March 1993<ref name=fin/> – 12 December 1995<ref name=fin>{{cite web|url=http://yle.fi/vintti/yle.fi/muistikuvaputki/muistikuvaputki/rouvaruutu/hugo-ohjelma.htm |title=Hugo-ohjelma {{pipe}} Muistikuvaputki |publisher=yle.fi |date=1993-03-17 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> || TV2 || Tuesday / Thursday
|-
|{{flag|United States}} (I) || May 1993<ref name=tvrat/> – April 1994 || Telemundo ||
|-
|{{flag|Norway}} || June 1993<ref name=tvrat/> – May 1995 || TV2 || Friday
|-
|{{flag|Mexico}} || 15 October 1993 – 30 April 2009 || Canal 5 || Monday-Friday
|-
|{{flag|Israel}} || July 1994 – August 1997 || Arutz HaYeladim ||
|-
|{{flag|United Kingdom}} (I) || 14 January 1994<ref name=tvrat/> – January 1995 || ITV || Saturday
|-
|{{flag|Germany}} (I) || 17 April 1994<ref name=tvrat/> – December 1996 || Der Kabelkanal / Kabel-1 || Monday–Saturday
|-
|{{flag|Austria}} (I) <br /> {{flag|Switzerland}} (I) || December 1994 – December 1996 || Kabel-1 || Monday–Saturday
|-
|{{flag|United States}} (II) || 15 January 1995<ref name=tvrat/> – ? || Telemundo Puerto Rico ||
|-
|{{flag|United Kingdom}} (II) || January 1995 – October 1995  || ITV || Saturday
|-
|{{flag|Slovenia}} || January 1995 – December 1997  || TV Slovenija || Saturday / Sunday
|-
|{{flag|Chile}} || 12 June 1995<ref name=tvrat/> – December 1997  || Televisión Nacional de Chile  || Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Brazil}} || 30 October 1995<ref name=tvrat/> - 23 October 1998<ref>{{in lang|pt}} [http://tvwonders.net/2011/08/recordar-e-viver-hugo/ Recordar é viver: 'Hugo'] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140127165924/http://tvwonders.net/2011/08/recordar-e-viver-hugo/ |date=27 January 2014 }}, TV Wonders, 19 August 2011</ref> || CNT Gazeta || Monday-Friday
|-
|{{flag|China}} (I) || February 1996<ref name=tvrat/> – ? ||  ||
|-
|{{flag|Thailand}} || 1 March 1996<ref name=tvrat/> – May 1998 || Channel 7, TV 5|| Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Croatia}} || 1 January 1995<ref name=tvrat/> – 15 June 2004<ref name=cro>{{in lang|hr}} Marina Harpin, [http://srednja.hr/Zabava/Ekran/Hugo---najbolja-TV-igra-djece-devedesetih HUGO - NAJBOLJA TV IGRA DJECE DEVEDESETIH] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130414093321/http://www.srednja.hr/Zabava/Ekran/Hugo---najbolja-TV-igra-djece-devedesetih |date=14 April 2013 }}, srednja.hr, 10/10/2012.</ref> || HRT  || Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Argentina}} || 4 November 1996 – 31 December 2005 ||Magic Kids || Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Ireland}} (I) || November 1996 - November 1997 || TnG / TG4 || Saturday
|-
|{{flag|Austria}} (II) <br /> {{flag|Germany}} (II) <br /> {{flag|Switzerland}} (II) || 18 December 1996 – 13 December 1997 || Kabel-1 || Saturday
|-
|{{flag|Sweden}} (II) || 21 August 1995<ref name=tvrat/> – December 1998 || TV4 || Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Denmark}} (II) || February 1997 – May 1997 || TV2 || Friday
|-
|{{flag|Portugal}} (I) || November 1997 – June 2000 || RTP1,  RTP2 || Saturday / Sunday, Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Russia}} (I) || 31 December 1997 – 30 October 1998<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fresher.ru/2014/09/08/televidenie-nashego-detstva/ |title=Звёздный час |website=Fresher.ru |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> || RTR2 || Saturday / Sunday
|-
|{{flag|Ireland}} (II) || 1998 – ? || TG4 || Monday–Sunday
|-
|{{flag|Switzerland}} (III) || January 1998 – July 1998 || SF / DSR ||
|-
|{{flag|Germany}} (III) || May 1998 – 5 June 1998 || Nickelodeon || Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Colombia}} || February 1999 – 31 January 2001 || Canal Capital || Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Denmark}} (III) || February 1999 – December 2000 || TV2 || Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Austria}} (III) || March 1999  – ?|| ORT ||
|-
|{{flag|Russia}} (II) || 18 June 1999 – 25 August 1999 || RTR2 || Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Singapore}} || 13 January 2000<ref name=sin/> – 9 April 2000<ref name=sin>{{cite web|url=http://www.u4media.com/mpp.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010429195808/http://www.u4media.com/mpp.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=2001-04-29 |title=u4media.com |website=U4Media |access-date=2019-08-07}}</ref>  || Vasantham Central ||
|-
|{{flag|Serbia}} || 28 February 2000 – 5 March 2004 || BK TV || Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Malaysia}} || May 2000 – April 2001 || ntv7 || Saturday / Sunday
|-
|{{flag|Poland}} || 3 September 2000<ref name=kult/> – 28 February 2009<ref name=eska>{{Cite web|url=https://www.eska.pl/nerdsfera/to-on-prowadzil-program-hugo-tak-dzisiaj-wyglada-piotr-galus-niewiarygodne-jak-sie-zmienil-aa-hB3d-BQLn-4QEp.html|title=Każdy marzył, by usłyszeć go w słuchawce. Tak dziś wygląda prowadzący HUGO|website=www.eska.pl}}</ref> || Polsat || Sunday, Saturday
|-
|{{flag|Singapore}} (II) || December – January 2003  || TV12 ||
|-
|{{flag|Denmark}} (IV) || January 2001 – 31 December 2002 || TV2 || Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Saudi Arabia}} || January 2001 – December 2003 || ART || Monday–Saturday
|-
|{{flag|Portugal}} (II) || April 2001 – July 2001 || RTP2 || Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Turkey}} (II) || May 2001 – 30 September 2002 || Show TV || Monday–Saturday
|-
|{{flag|Venezuela}} (I) || November 2001 – June 2002 || Venevision || Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Bosnia & Herzegovina}} || 27 March 2002 – 19 September 2008 || Federalna TV || Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Denmark}} (V) || June 2003 – December 2004 || TV2 || Monday–Sunday
|-
|{{flag|Bermuda}} || June 2003 – 2006 || Fresh TV ||
|-
|{{flag|Turkey}} (III) || November 2003 – October 2004  || Cine5 || Monday–Saturday
|-
|{{flag|Vietnam}} (I) || 17 May 2004 – 30 June 2006<ref>{{in lang|vi}}[http://www.sggp.org.vn/vanhoavannghe/2006/6/49908/ HTV: Đổi mới các chương trình giải trí]'','' 2 June 2006. '''Như Hoa:''' "Sau 208 chương trình được phát sóng, "Vui cùng Hugo" chấm dứt..."</ref>||Hanoi TV<br>HTV7 || Monday / Wednesday / Friday / Sunday
|-
|{{flag|China}} (II) || July 2004 – ? || Guangdong TV || Monday–Sunday
|-
|{{flag|Turkey}} (IV) || September 2004 – June 2005 || ATV || Monday–Saturday
|-
|{{flag|Venezuela}} (II) || March 2005 – February 2006 ||Venevision|| Monday–Friday
|-
|{{flag|Romania}} || October 2005 – December 2007 || Prima TV || Friday–Sunday
|-
|{{flag|Vietnam}} (II) || 2006  – 2008 || Ha Noi TV || Wednesday evening / Sunday afternoon
|-
|{{flag|China}} (III) || 26 January 2006  – || Hubei Province TV || Once a week
|-
|{{flag|Argentina}} (II) || October 2016 – || Magic Kids ([[Company:YouTube|YouTube]] channel)||
|}

==Local versions by country==
''Hugo'' never aired in South Africa because the local TV station involved in licensing negotiations demanded that ITE remove horns in all animations for all games, as their superstitious viewers believed that Hugo would appear as a demon from local beliefs. Hugo's horns also caused problems in the Middle East.<ref name="memo" />

===Argentina===
Argentina's '''''A Jugar Con Hugo''''', hosted on Magic Kids by the popular presenter Gabriela "Gaby" Royfe,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pronto.com.ar/articulo/famosos/luego-anos-reaparecio-conductora-jugar-hugo-confesion-inesperada/20160401192746207393.html |title=Luego de nueve años, reapareció la conductora de A jugar con Hugo con una confesión inesperada |website=Pronto.com.ar |access-date=2016-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404153140/https://www.pronto.com.ar/articulo/famosos/luego-anos-reaparecio-conductora-jugar-hugo-confesion-inesperada/20160401192746207393.html |archive-date=4 April 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pronto.com.ar/articulo/famosos/misterio-detras-conductora-jugar-hugo/20150311201723167273.html |title=El misterio detrás de la conductora de A jugar con Hugo |website=Pronto.com.ar |access-date=2016-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150314213023/https://www.pronto.com.ar/articulo/famosos/misterio-detras-conductora-jugar-hugo/20150311201723167273.html |archive-date=14 March 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/espectaculos/gabriela-roife-la-exconductora-de-a-jugar-con-hugo-deslumbro-con-su-figura-nid24092021/ | title=Gabriela Roife, la exconductora de a jugar con Hugo, deslumbró con su figura | date=24 September 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.minutoar.com.ar/entretenimiento/2021/10/8/asi-es-el-presente-de-gaby-la-reconocida-conductora-de-a-jugar-con-hugo-35119.html | title=Así es el presente de Gaby, la reconocida conductora de "A jugar con Hugo" }}</ref> ran for seven seasons (343 episodes),<ref>{{cite web|author=Axel Marazzi |url=http://www.minutouno.com/notas/1488946-la-conductora-jugar-hugo-quiere-volver-la-tv-fui-super-feliz |title=La conductora de A Jugar con Hugo quiere volver a la TV: Fui súper feliz {{pipe}} Televisión |website=Minutouno.com |date=27 May 2016 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> winning a Martín Fierro Award for "Best Kids Show" in 2003.<ref name=pdf>{{cite web|url=http://www.ite.dk/newsletters/ITE_Newsletter_July.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050404165156/http://www.ite.dk/newsletters/ITE_Newsletter_July.pdf |archive-date=2005-04-04 |title=ITE Newsletter |date=July 2004 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> The program was produced by Promofilm,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.infobae.com/teleshow/infoshow/2020/10/24/el-drama-al-inicio-de-su-carrera-los-secretos-de-a-jugar-con-hugo-y-el-deseo-de-volver-a-conducir-gabriela-roife-un-simbolo-de-la-tv-de-los-90/|title=El drama al inicio de su carrera, los secretos de "A jugar con Hugo" y el deseo de volver a conducir: Gabriela Roife, un símbolo de la TV de los 90|author=Pablo Riggio|date=24 October 2020|website=infobae}}</ref> and its cast included Carlos Burgos (classic scenario), César Ledesma (1999 - April 2002) and Cristian Bello (until the end of the program) as Hugo, and Roxana Pulido as both Hugolina and Scylla. A paper magazine was also published for the show. In 2016, Gaby Royfe returned to host the program again, this time using the Internet and a mobile app instead of the original television and landline telephone. This 30th anniversary event was attended in-person by an audience of 1,600 and was watched by half million people on TV.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clarin.com/sociedad/amigos-quiere-relanzar-TV-infancia_0_1631236966.html |title=Un grupo de amigos quiere relanzar el canal de TV de su infancia |publisher=Clarin.com |date=2016-08-13 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ellitoral.com/index.php/id_um/133832-vuelve-a-jugar-con-hugo-un-clasico-para-los-mas-chico-se-transmitiria-por-internet |title=Vuelve "A jugar con Hugo", un clásico para los más chicos : : Diario El Litoral - Santa Fe - Argentina |publisher=Ellitoral.com |date=2016-07-30 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metro951.com/2016/07/adi-esta-gaby-de-a-jugar-con-hugo-en-2016/ |title=Adí está Gaby de a "Jugar con Hugo en 2016" |website=Metro951.com |date=2016-08-09 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvuKKi7hpTg  |title=A Jugar con Hugo EN VIVO - Feria Gamer 2016 |publisher=[[Company:YouTube|YouTube]] |date=2016-05-29 |access-date=2016-08-28}}{{dead link|date=September 2023}}</ref> She would later host ''Hugo'' show reenactments at other events.<ref>https://www.mendotaku.com.ar/front/guests/16?r=42099b4af02</ref> The ''Hugo'' format was also replicated in Magic Kids' own game show ''Kito Pizzas'' during the early 2000s.

===Bosnia and Herzegovina===
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, ''Hugo'' was aired from 1995 to 2004 on the country's public federal channel where it was hosted by Emela Burdžović, Mario Drmać and Elvir Hadžijamaković.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://radiosarajevo.ba/magazin/zanimljivosti/stisni-peticu-i-zapocni-igricu-sjecate-li-se-ove-popularne-igrice/342599|title=Stisni peticu i započni igricu: Sjećate li se ove popularne igrice|date=2 July 2019|website=radiosarajevo.ba}}</ref> Its voice cast included Mirela Lambić as Hugolina.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sarajevo.ba/en/article/2616/u-organizaciji-gradonacelnika-u-nedjelju-novogodisnji-program-za-djecu-vrtica-ju-djeca-sarajeva|title=U organizaciji gradonačelnika u nedjelju Novogodišnji program za djecu vrtića JU „Djeca Sarajeva" &#124; Sarajevo.ba|website=www.sarajevo.ba}}</ref>

===Brazil===
Brazil's ''Hugo'' show (later '''''Hugo Game'''''), aired on CNT Gazeta,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.propagandashistoricas.com.br/2014/12/programa-hugo-cnt-gazeta-1998.html |title=Programa Hugo (CNT / Gazeta) - 1998 - Propagandas Históricas {{pipe}} Propagandas Antigas {{pipe}} História da Publicidade |publisher=Propagandashistoricas.com.br |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> peaked at 500% above the expected rating level, with the record of 1.8 million callers in a single day, resulting in fires at two overwhelmed telephone exchange offices.<ref name=media>{{cite web |url=http://static.sdu.dk/mediafiles//Files/Om_SDU/Institutter/Ier/CESFO/Aarsrapporter/Aarsrapport%202000%202001.pdf |title=Årsrapport 2000/2001 |access-date=2012-09-17 |language=da |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113125748/http://static.sdu.dk/mediafiles//Files/Om_SDU/Institutter/Ier/CESFO/Aarsrapporter/Aarsrapport%202000%202001.pdf |archive-date=13 November 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=facts2/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arkade.com.br/retroarkade-lembra-hugo-jogar-telefone-antes-smartphone/ |title=RetroArkade: Lembra do Hugo? Ele nos fez jogar pelo telefone antes dos smartphones |date=25 May 2014 |publisher=Arkade |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref name=ks>{{Cite web|url=https://www.komputerswiat.pl/artykuly/redakcyjne/pamietacie-ten-program-przyciagal-przed-telewizory-cala-polske/nq204g1.amp|title=Pamiętacie ten program? Przyciągał przed telewizory całą Polskę|website=www.komputerswiat.pl|date=28 June 2022 }}</ref> The program was directed by Herbert Richards and hosted by Mateus Petinatti and Vanessa Vholker, who were later replaced by Andréa Pujol and Rodrigo Brassoloto.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.redbull.com/br-pt/hugo-game-tv|title=Hugo Game: o primeiro jogo interativo da TV|website=Red Bull|language=pt|access-date=2019-03-17}}</ref> Instead of a troll, the country's version of Hugo's character was presented as a duende.<ref>{{in lang|pt}} [http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/fsp/1995/9/06/informatica/23.html Jogadores salvam vida de duende por telefone], Folha de S.Paulo, 6 September 1995.</ref> At first, he was played by an animatronic puppet,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv-pesquisa.com.puc-rio.br/ImprimDoc.asp?CodRegistro=50229 |title=TV-Pesquisa |website=Tv-pesquisa.com.puc-rio.br |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> later only appearing on the studio screens, and was voiced by Orlando Viggiani.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUKQYCReEdg|title=ORLANDO VIGGIANI {{pipe}} Marty McFly (clássico) {{pipe}} Voz do Ryu {{pipe}} Hugo O Game|via=www.youtube.com}}</ref>

===Chile===
''Hugo'' was a success in Chile,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvn.cl/especiales/nuestrahistoria/decada90/hugo-1458630 |title=Hugo - Nuestra Historia - Década 90 - Televisión Nacional de Chile |publisher=Tvn.cl |date=2014-10-17 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> where it was quickly extended from a 15-minute segment to 30 minutes in the latter half of 1995, before eventually receiving a daily one-hour time slot on Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) as '''''La Hora de Hugo''''' ("The Hour of Hugo").<ref>{{cite web |url=http://showbiz.publimetro.cl/un-clasico-hace-20-anos-se-estreno-hugo/showbiz/2015-07-06/130515.html |title=¡Un clásico! Hace 20 años se estrenó "Hugo" |publisher=showbiz.publimetro.cl |access-date=2016-08-28 |archive-date=20 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920172530/http://showbiz.publimetro.cl/un-clasico-hace-20-anos-se-estreno-hugo/showbiz/2015-07-06/130515.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Winners of the daily editions would meet in a weekend grand finale,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.agendachilena.cl/recordando-un-clasico-de-la-tv-chilena-hugo-a-18-anos-de-su-salida-del-aire/ |title=¡Recordando un clásico de la TV chilena! Hugo, a 18 años de su salida del aire – Agenda Chilena |publisher=Agendachilena.cl |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> and the journalist van called Hugomovil ('Hugomobile') traveled around [[Place:Santiago|Santiago]] to interview the program's participants.<ref name=facts2>{{cite web|url=http://www.ite.dk/custom.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19961107144444/http://www.ite.dk/custom.htm |archive-date=1996-11-07 |title=ITE Customers |date=1996-11-07 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> The show was initially hosted by Ivette Vergara until her pregnancy and then by Andrea Molina,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://lalegal.cl/noticia/400 |title=Encuentran a Hugo en el sótano de Ivette Vergara - LA LEGAL |access-date=2016-08-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160917221216/https://lalegal.cl/noticia/400 |archive-date=2016-09-17 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://andreamolina.mx/mispublicaciones/ |title=mispublicaciones {{pipe}} Andrea Molina |publisher=Andreamolina.mx |date=2014-06-20 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> with Sandro Larenas voicing Hugo<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mqltv.com/10-razones-las-chile-no-olvidara-hugo/ |title=10 razones por las que Chile no olvidará a Hugo |publisher=Mqltv.com |access-date=2016-08-28 |archive-date=27 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160827112038/http://mqltv.com/10-razones-las-chile-no-olvidara-hugo/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the opening theme song performed by Willy Sabor (Guillermo Andrés González Bravo). A similar format was used in the video game show program ''Sega Acción''.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.agendachilena.cl/recordando-un-clasico-de-la-tv-chilena-hugo-a-18-anos-de-su-salida-del-aire/ | title=¡Recordando un clásico de la TV chilena! Hugo, a 18 años de su salida del aire – Agenda Chilena }}</ref>

=== China ===
In the People's Republic of China, Hugo was known as a "European troll" and the participants played the games within the studio. The show could not be broadcast live, and consequently also could not be played remotely, because at least a 30-second delay was required by the authorities to cut off the feed in case if anyone said anything negative about the government.<ref name="memo">{{cite web|title=''Hugo'' memories Facebook thread by the former ITE crew|url=https://www.facebook.com/groups/8840411612/permalink/10151086817581613/|access-date=2012-09-17|publisher=Facebook.com}}</ref>

=== Croatia ===
In Croatia, the show run for eight years between 1996 and 2004 on the public Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT). Croatian ''Hugo'' was highly popular, in particular during the late 1990s<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.srednja.hr/svastara/hugo-najbolja-tv-igra-djece-devedesetih/ | title=Hugo - najbolja TV igra djece devedesetih | date=10 October 2012 }}</ref> at the time when it enjoyed an average viewership of 800,000.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.ite.dk/Develop/Tvrating.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19990202233230/http://www.ite.dk/Develop/Tvrating.htm | archive-date=2 February 1999 | title=TV Ratings }}</ref> The program was presented by Boris Mirković, Ivana Plechinger and Kristijan Ugrina,<ref name="cro" /> with Hugo voiced by Ivo Rogulja. Its particularly iconic part was the taunt of Mordana (Scylla), ''Hajde, izaberi jedan broj, sigurno ćeš pogriješiti!'' ("Go on, choose a number, you will surely fail!").<ref name="cro" /><ref>{{cite web | url=https://miss7.24sata.hr/lifestyle/sjecas-li-se-huga-prije-20-godina-smo-strepili-od-vjestice-mordane-i-navijali-za-malenog-trola-26150 | title=Sjećaš li se Huga? Prije 20 godina smo strepili od vještice Mordane i navijali za malenog trola }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://sibenskiportal.hr/scenoskop/video-tko-se-sjeca-huga-omiljene-televizijske-igre-devedesetih/ | title=VIDEO: Tko se sjeća Huga, omiljene televizijske igre devedesetih? | date=30 March 2016 }}</ref>

===Finland===
The Finnish ''Hugo'' was introduced by game journalist-turned-producer Jussi-Pekka Kossila after he saw it Denmark in 1992,<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGRiCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA53 |title=Finnish Video Games: A History and Catalog - Juho Kuorikoski - Google Books |date=2015-05-18 |isbn=9781476621197 |access-date=2016-08-28|last1=Kuorikoski |first1=Juho |publisher=McFarland }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.iltalehti.fi/viihdeuutiset/a/1b541466-477e-4709-84d0-5b04ba590fe5 | title="Herää pahvi!" Hugo-peliohjelma villitsi ysärillä – ohjaaja avaa poikkeuksellista tuotantoa: "Ei voisi enää tehdä" }}</ref> two different 30-minute ''Hugo'' shows were aired at the same time by Yle TV2, one for adults and one for children, achieving an 18% market share by 1996.<ref name=facts2/> The programs were originally presented by Taru Valkeapää (1993–94),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hs.fi/radiotelevisio/a1447392059861 |title=Kävipä peikkomainen flaksi {{pipe}} Radio ja TV {{pipe}} HS |publisher=Hs.fi |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.suomikassu.fi/tietokanta/ohjelmatiedot/viihde-ja-reality/hugo/ | title=Ohjelmatiedot: Hugo {{pipe}} Suomikassu - Elokuva- ja TV-sivusto }}</ref> who was chosen from among 45 candidates,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://yle.fi/vintti/yle.fi/muistikuvaputki/muistikuvaputki/rouvaruutu/hugo-taru-valkeapaa.htm |title=Hugo, Taru Valkeapää {{pipe}} Muistikuvaputki |publisher=yle.fi |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> and later by Marika Saukkonen,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iltalehti.fi/viihde/2016012921034894_vi.shtml |title=Muistatko nämä legendaariset tv-visailuhahmot? |publisher=Iltalehti.fi |date=2016-01-30 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> with Hugo voiced by Harri Hyttinen<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.fi/lifestyle/tunteet/artikkeli/voi-mita-muistoja-menneisyydesta-tiedatko-edes-mita-nailla-tehtiin/5599760 |title=Voi, mitä muistoja menneisyydestä! Tiedätkö edes, mitä näillä tehtiin? - Lifestyle |date=17 December 2015 |language=fi |publisher=MTV.fi |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> and Skylla (Scylla) voiced by Eija Ahvo. Even after the game show had ended, Hugo's character would continue to appear a host of an educational program.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2020/07/31/heraa-pahvi-hugo-peikko-naulitsi-ysari-lapset-ruudun-aareen-ja-pisti-vanhemmat | title="Herää pahvi!" Hugo-peikko naulitsi ysäri-lapset ruudun ääreen ja pisti vanhemmat hankkimaan näppäinpuhelimia | date=31 July 2020 }}</ref> Finland's original ''Hugo'' merchandise included a music CD release ''DJ Hugo'' with dance hits of 1993.

===France===
The French version of the program was called '''''Hugo Délire''''' ("Hugo Madness").<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gameblog.fr/blogs/ironbobbi/p_52516_hugo-delire-la-1ere-bonus-player-one-a-senna |title=Hugo Délire, la 1ère + Bonus : Player One, A. Senna - Ironbloggi |publisher=Gameblog.fr |date=2011-11-16 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> ''Hugo Délire'' was hosted on France3 by Karen Cheryl, with the actor Philippe Bruneau voicing Hugo,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2015/06/04/hugo-delire-et-cristiano-ronaldo-un-improbable-duo-de-jeu-video_4647707_4408996.html |title=" Hugo Délire " et Cristiano Ronaldo, un improbable duo de jeu vidéo |newspaper=Le Monde.fr |date=4 June 2015 |publisher=Lemonde.fr |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ina.fr/video/I08288853/karen-cheryl-a-propos-de-son-emission-hugo-delire-sa-vie-privee-video.html |title=Karen Cheryl à propos de son émission "Hugo délire", sa vie privée - Vidéo |language=fr |publisher=Ina.fr |date=1970-01-01 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.lematin.ch/story/le-jeu-hugo-delire-fete-ses-30-ans-195960022778|title=Le jeu "Hugo Délire" fête ses 30 ans|newspaper=Le Matin |date=5 September 2022|via=www.lematin.ch}}</ref> and was produced by Jacques Antoine's company Tilt Productions (later Adventure Lines Productions). It garnered an average of 25,000 participants per evening, the figure that might have climbed to 40,000 at the peak of its popularity when it was amassing up to 6 million simultaneous viewers.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://level-1.fr/dans-la-peau-du-personnage-de-skaermtrolden-hugo-hugo-delire/ | title=Dans la peau du personnage de... Skærmtrolden Hugo (Hugo Délire) | date=26 April 2021 }}</ref> The show achieved cult status among French children of the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|date=2016-06-23|title=Foot - Euro 2016 - Jeux vidéo - " Cristiano Ronaldo : Kick'n'Run ", le nouveau jeu vidéo pour smartphones et tablettes de CR7|url=https://www.lequipe.fr/Jeuxvideo/Actualites/-cristiano-ronaldo-kick-n-run-le-nouveau-jeu-video-pour-smartphones-et-tablettes-de-cr7/698343|access-date=2016-08-28|publisher=Lequipe.fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sortie d'un jeu vidéo réunissant Cristiano Ronaldo et Hugo Délire - Libération|url=http://www.liberation.fr/direct/element/sortie-dun-jeu-video-reunissant-cristiano-ronaldo-et-hugo-delire_9076/|access-date=2016-08-28|publisher=Liberation.fr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Mickaël Frison |url=http://www.europe1.fr/medias-tele/annees-90-ces-30-emissions-tele-qui-nous-manquent-2-2-2229431 |title=Années 90 : ces 30 émissions télé qui nous manquent (2/2) |publisher=Europe1.fr |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Fabien Morin|url=http://tvmag.lefigaro.fr/le-scan-tele/actu-tele/2015/04/01/28001-20150401ARTFIG00313-20-preuves-que-vous-etes-ou-pas-un-enfant-de-la-tele-des-annees-90.php |title=20 preuves que vous êtes (ou pas) un enfant de la télé des |date=April 2015 |publisher=Tvmag.lefigaro.fr |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref>

===German-speaking countries===
In Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (the most significant program being in Germany), '''''Die Hugo-Show''''',<ref>{{cite web|author=Nico Schimmelpfennig |url=http://www.hugo-troll.de/tvshow/index.html |title=Hugo-Show |publisher=Hugo-troll.de |access-date=2012-01-06|language=de}}</ref> scored with techno music,<ref name=stern/> would draw up to 200,000 phone calls every day at its peak, achieving a 40% viewer share in its target age of 3–13 with its audience of 700,000 in Germany.<ref name=":0" /> It used a [[Virtual reality|virtual reality]]-like studio and the "Hugomobile" van for live gameplay broadcasting all around the country in the ''Das Hugo-Mobil'' edition,<ref name=facts2/> becoming a cult show.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dwdl.de/magazin/35014/20_jahre_kabel_eins_nostalgie_ohne_alt_auszusehen/ |title=20 Jahre kabel eins: Nostalgie ohne alt auszusehen |publisher=DWDL.de |date=2012-02-29 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> The German version of ''Hugo'' won a Golden Cable award in 1995 for "Best Children's Program".<ref name=ite2/> Several celebrity musician guests occasionally appeared the show, including Masterboy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-DV_nFvNC8  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/P-DV_nFvNC8 |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=DIE HUGO SHOW (1996) mit Tania Schleef & Masterboy |publisher=YouTube |access-date=2016-08-28}}{{cbignore}}</ref> German presenters included Minh-Khai Phan-Thi, Yvette Dankou, Tania Schleef and Judith Hildebrandt.<ref name=stern>{{cite web|url=http://www.stern.de/kultur/tv/-adam-und-eva--und-seine-vorgaenger--9-absurde-tv-shows-5950264.html |title="Adam und Eva" und seine Vorgänger: 9 Absurde TV-Shows |language=de |publisher=Stern.De |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Nico Schimmelpfennig |url=http://www.hugo-troll.de/tvshow/hugoshow/moderatoren/index.html |title=Die Moderatoren |publisher=Hugo-troll.de |access-date=2016-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209093645/http://hugo-troll.de/tvshow/hugoshow/moderatoren/index.html |archive-date=9 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Sonja Zietlow hosted the spin-off program '''''Hugo & Hexana'''''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tz.de/muenchen/stadt/90er-jahre-generation-tamagotchi-gameboy-kassettenrekorder-meta-4705966.html |title=90er-Jahre-Generation: Tamagotchi, Gameboy und Kassettenrekorder {{pipe}} Stadt |language=de |publisher=Tz.de |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> The German show run for the total of 861 episodes, at first hour-long, then half-hour, and eventually just 10-minute.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.quotenmeter.de/n/38542/der-fernsehfriedhof-der-telefon-troll|title=Der Fernsehfriedhof: Der Telefon-Troll|date=19 November 2009|website=Quotenmeter}}</ref> Hugo's voice actor was originally Michael Habeck, followed by Oliver Grimm, Oliver Baier and Sven Blümel, while Karen Kernke voiced Hexana (German name for Scylla). In December 1996, ''Hugo-Show'' was replaced by the Kabel 1 program titled '''''Hugo im Hexana-Schloss''''' ("Hugo in Hexana's Castle"). The  castle was a virtual studio that could represent different rooms where, instead of a team of presenters, the show was hosted only by the virtual troll (sometimes described in Germany as a [[Unsolved:Kobold|kobold]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.nbg-online.de/endkunden/hugo.xtml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010208212242/http://www.nbg-online.de/endkunden/hugo.xtml | archive-date=8 February 2001 | title=NBG-Shop - die besten CD-Roms für den PC --- Spiele Games Edutainment }}</ref>) Hugo and the live-action version of the evil witch Hexana, played by Julia Haacke.<ref>{{cite web |author=Nico Schimmelpfennig |url=http://www.hugo-troll.de/tvshow/hugoshow/moderatoren/index.html#50110095f210b6a26 |title=Julia Haacke (alias Hexana) |publisher=Hugo-troll.de |access-date=2012-01-06 |language=de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209093645/http://hugo-troll.de/tvshow/hugoshow/moderatoren/index.html#50110095f210b6a26 |archive-date=9 February 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> It was broadcast only on Saturday mornings in several episodes of ten minutes each between cartoon series. The spin-off '''''Hexana''''' was derived from this show,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wunschliste.de/links.pl?p=1&s=9235 |title=Hexana (TV-serie) |publisher=Wunschliste.de |access-date=2012-01-06}}</ref> sponsored by [[Engineering:PlayStation|PlayStation]] with the sub-title "Club PlayStation".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrhRgav4nVw  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211215/YrhRgav4nVw |archive-date=2021-12-15 |url-status=live|title=Hexana 27.12.1997 |publisher=YouTube |access-date=2012-09-17}}{{cbignore}}</ref> There was a German ''Hugo'' magazine and a wide variety of merchandise, including numerous music CD releases.<ref>{{cite web|author=Nico Schimmelpfennig |url=http://www.hugoswelt.de/merchandising/index.html |title=Hugo Merchandising |publisher=Hugoswelt.de |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref>

=== Ireland ===
Ireland's '''''Hiúdaí''''' (the Irish name for Hugo) airing on TnaG won the Houses of the Oireachtas Channel awards "TV Presenter of the Year" in 2001 and "Personality of the Year" in 2004.<ref name="pdf" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishexaminer.com/technow/games/cristiano-ronaldo-will-appear-beside-tg4s-hiudai-in-video-game-335822.html|title=Cristiano Ronaldo will appear beside TG4's Hiudai in video game|date=2015-06-04|publisher=Irish Examiner|access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> Previously, Hiúdaí also surprised many when he won as the country's TV personality of the year in the Irish Film & Television Awards in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/hiudais-the-most-animated-tv-star/26257599.html|title=Hiudai's the most animated TV star|date=10 December 2000|website=Independent.ie}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Hiudai's+our+hero;+TG4+cartoon+named+TV+personality+of+the+year.-a067525935|title=Hiudai's our hero; TG4 cartoon named TV personality of the year. - Free Online Library|website=www.thefreelibrary.com}}</ref> The program was very different than the Danish original and most other versions.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/what-s-all-that-sludge-on-tnag-1.205764|title=What's all that sludge on TnaG?|website=The Irish Times}}</ref>

===Israel===
The Israeli ''Hugo'' (''הוגו'') began as a 30-minute show on the Arutz HaYeladim (Children's Channel) and quickly became the channel's most popular program.<ref name=facts2/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ishim.co.il/m.php?s%3D%D7%94%D7%95%D7%92%D7%95 |title=הוגו |access-date=2013-05-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130702085551/http://www.ishim.co.il/m.php?s=%D7%94%D7%95%D7%92%D7%95 |archive-date=2013-07-02 }}</ref> The show inspired a three-hour spin-off, '''''Hugo's World''''' (''עולמו של הוגו''), in 1996,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ishim.co.il/m.php?s=%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%95+%D7%A9%D7%9C+%D7%94%D7%95%D7%92%D7%95 |title=עולמו של הוגו |website=Ishim.co.il |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> in which children used a large step-on number pad to enter character movements. From 1997 to 2001, Hugo starred in a children's electricity safety campaign by Israel Electric Corporation and offered a contest related to this campaign in 1997.<ref name=hwzone/> The program's presenters included Tal Berman. In addition to various local merchandise, it was adapted into a comic book miniseries and a children's musical stage show.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4052483,00.html |title=ynet "הלו! להתעורר שם!" - תרבות ובידור |newspaper=Ynet |publisher=Ynet.co.il |date=2014-09-17 |access-date=2016-08-28|last1=ברנע |first1=אור }}</ref>

===Poland===
In Poland, the main ''Hugo'' show and a spin-off aired on Sundays (later Saturdays),<ref name=kult>{{Cite web|url=https://kultura.gazeta.pl/kultura/7,127222,29842861,kulisy-programu-hugo-tysiace-chetnych-telefony-z-korbka.html|title=Pamiętacie "Hugo"? Wielu marzyło, żeby się dodzwonić. Tak wyglądał program od kulis|date=11 June 2023|website=gazetapl}}</ref> while another spin-off aired Monday through Friday. All of these programs were shown on the Polsat network, being filmed at first in the ''Informacje'' (a predecessor of ''Wydarzenia'') news program's weather room before being moved to a blue box studio.<ref name=polsat/> The content was originally modeled after the German version of the show,<ref name=tp>{{Cite web|url=https://tygodnik.polsatnews.pl/news/2020-09-04/bardzo-sie-starales-lecz-z-gry-wyleciales-hugo-od-kulis/|title="Bardzo się starałeś, lecz z gry wyleciałeś". Hugo od kulis - Tygodnik PolsatNews.pl|website=tygodnik.polsatnews.pl}}</ref> and later developed in cooperation with the company Cenega publishing the localized ''Hugo'' video games in Poland.<ref name=ks/> The main program spawned two spin-offs: '''''Hugo Family''''' (running from 2002 to 2006) where entire families competed in the show featuring puzzles rather than action sequences and without the final endgames, and '''''Hugo Express''''' (launched in 2003) airing on workdays without hosts and endgames.<ref name=ks/><ref name=ts>{{cite web | url=https://truestory.pl/hugo-najpiekniejszy-troll-polsatu/ | title=Hugo. Najpiękniejszy troll Polsatu | date=6 January 2022 }}</ref> ''Hugo'' was the most popular children's program in Poland for several years,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://teleshow.wp.pl/sid,2984,title,Hugo,program.html?ticaid=1179a2 |title=Hugo - Teleshow - WP.PL |publisher=Teleshow |date=2015-05-25 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref>  with the country's "Hugomania" lasting between 2002 and 2006.<ref name=ks/> During this period, an episode would watched by between two-and-half and three million Polish viewers at the peak of the show's popularity.<ref name=ts/> ''Hugo'' was originally hosted by Wojciech Asiński and Andrzej Krucz, later (2005 to 2009<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.se.pl/wiadomosci/exclusive/byl-prowadzacym-kultowego-hugo-a-potem-zniknal-z-telewizji-czym-zajmuje-sie-dzisiaj-piotr-galus-aa-R3vw-jx3B-paVK.html|title=Był prowadzącym kultowego "Hugo", a potem zniknął z telewizji. Czym zajmuje się dzisiaj Piotr Galus?|website=www.se.pl}}</ref>) replaced by Piotr Galus, while Aleksandra Woźniak hosted ''Hugo Family''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tvpolsat.info/news.php?readmore%3D7340 |title="SuperDzieciak" w Polsacie. Przypominamy inne programy z udziałem dzieci |access-date=2016-08-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826104131/http://tvpolsat.info/news.php?readmore=7340 |archive-date=2016-08-26 }}</ref> The character of Hugo was originally voiced by Andrzej Niemirski<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gazetakaszubska.pl/22820/szalenstwa-z-hugo-czyli-udane-mikolajki-w-damincy |title=Szaleństwa z Hugo, czyli udane Mikołajki w Damincy |publisher=GazetaKaszubska.pl |date=2016-08-05 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> and later by Mariusz Czajka.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.teleman.pl/tv/Hugo-662 |title=Hugo - program dla dzieci |language=pl |publisher=Teleman.pl |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> According to Niemirski, a single episode might have been watched in 2.5 million households.<ref name=tp/> Similar to as in Germany, there was a long-running monthly (later bi-monthly) children's magazine with a coloring-book spin-off magazine, in addition to various kinds of locally produced merchandise such as food products.<ref name=ks/> It ranked as the fourth best-remembered classic Polsat program in the network's 30th anniversary poll in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.polsat.pl/news/2022-11-14/te-programy-polsatu-widzowie-wspominaja-najlepiej-a-ty/|title=Te programy Polsatu widzowie wspominają najlepiej. A Ty?|website=www.polsat.pl}}</ref>

===Portugal===
In Portugal, the show's presenters included Alexandra Cruz, Fernando Martins, Pedro Mendonça, Pedro Pinto, Joana Seixas and Susana Bento Ramos, and the voice actors included Frederico Trancoso (Hugo), Graça Ferreira (Hugolina), and Mónica Garcez (Maldiva/Scylla).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sabado.pt/ultima-hora/detalhe/viajamos-no-tempo-com-o-hugo-e-com-quem-o-apresentou|title=Viajámos no tempo com o Hugo e com quem o apresentou|website=www.sabado.pt|language=pt-pt|access-date=2019-03-17}}</ref> ''Hugo'' won a Troféu Nova Gente award in 1999.<ref name=ite2/> The show was ended by Emilío Rangel as soon as he became the RTP1 director,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.record.pt/record-gaming/retrogaming/detalhe/viajamos-no-tempo-com-o-hugo-e-com-quem-o-apresentou|title=Viajámos no tempo com o Hugo e com quem o apresentou|website=www.record.pt}}</ref> but was later revived on RTP2 as the daily programs '''''Hora H - Hugo e os amigos''''' (''H Hour - Hugo and His Friends'') in 2000 and '''''Hugo, o Regresso''''' (''Hugo, the Return'') in 2001.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.midiainteressante.com/2008/10/hugo-mania-quando-o-videogame-foi-para.html |title=HUGO MANIA: O jogo que fez o videogame parar na televisão "Ao Vivo" - Mídia Interessante |publisher=Midiainteressante.com |access-date=2016-08-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120124221802/http://www.midiainteressante.com/2008/10/hugo-mania-quando-o-videogame-foi-para.html |archive-date=24 January 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.rtp.pt/programa/tv/p3974 | title=HUGO, O REGRESSO - Infantis e Juvenis - RTP }}</ref>

=== Russia ===
'''''Позвоните Кузе''''' ("Call Kuzya") was the first interactive program in the history of Russian television,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mixnews.lv/nostalgiya/2020/07/24/nashi-lyubimye-teleperedachi-rodom-iz-90-h-chast-pervaya/|title=Наши любимые телепередачи родом из 90-х (часть первая) {{pipe}} Mixnews|date=24 July 2020}}</ref> hosted on RTR-2 by Inna Gomes and Andrei Fedorov.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dtf.ru/retro/67434-hugo-pozvonite-kuze|title=Hugo/Позвоните Кузе — Ретро на DTF|date=2 September 2019|website=DTF}}</ref> Hugo was renamed to Kuzya (Кузя), possibly after Kuzya the Domovoi (Домовёнок Кузя), the hero of a classic Soviet cartoon series. He was voiced by Aleksander Lenkov and Dmitry Polonsky,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://best90.ru/teleperedachi/133-pozvonite-kuze-interaktivnaya-igra-6-foto.html|title="Позвоните Кузе" - интерактивная игра (6 фото)|author=Телепередачи|date=3 March 2015|publisher=best90.ru|access-date=2016-08-28|archive-date=14 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161014010025/http://best90.ru/teleperedachi/133-pozvonite-kuze-interaktivnaya-igra-6-foto.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://kanobu.ru/articles/pozvonite-kuze-otkuda-vzyalis-videoigryi-v-pryamom-tv-efire-367988/|title="Позвоните Кузе": откуда взялись видеоигры в прямом ТВ-эфире|website=Kanobu.ru|access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> while Scylla was voiced by Aleksandra Ravenskih.

=== Slovenia ===
The Slovenian ''Hugo'' show was hosted by Gregor Krajc (who later went to become the State Secretary of the Republic of Slovenia) on TV Slovenija.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://svet24.si/clanek/novice/slovenija/541d5fa017c28/voditelj-televizijske-igre-hugo-postal-sekretar-vlade|title=Voditelj televizijske igre Hugo bo vodil Cerarjev kabinet|publisher=Svet24.si|access-date=2016-08-28|archive-date=13 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913235309/http://svet24.si/clanek/novice/slovenija/541d5fa017c28/voditelj-televizijske-igre-hugo-postal-sekretar-vlade|url-status=dead}}</ref> It became the country's #1 entertainment show by 1996, reaching 38% viewer share among its target demographic.<ref name="facts2" />

===Spain===
In Spain, a quarter of the TV watchers tuned in to watch ''Hugo'' as part of the program ''Telecupón'' on Telecinco, a viewing figure that would remain unsurpassed since 1994. It was hosted by Carmen Sevilla and Hugo was changed from a troll to a duende. The success of the show, launched in June 1992 as the first non-Danish ''Hugo'' program, prompted the addition of the standalone show '''''Hugolandia''''' that began  airing three months later. Directed by Sebastian Junyent, it was presented by Beatriz Rico, Luis Alberto Vazquez, and Roma and Eva Morales. "Pepe Carabias" (José Carabias Lorenzo) voiced Hugo in Spain.<ref name="tua">Simon Byron, "Work in progress: Halt! Hugo's There!", ''The One Amiga'' 65, page 46 (March 1994).</ref><ref name=f1/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pixfans.com/hugo-el-videojuego-de-la-tv/ |title=Hugo: El videojuego de la TV – PixFans |date=28 July 2007 |publisher=Pixfans.com |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.20minutos.es/videojuegos/2009/07/27/hugo-troll-del-telecupain/ |title=Hugo, el troll del Telecupón {{pipe}} 20 hit combo |publisher=Blogs.20minutos.es |date=2009-07-27 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.20minutos.es/que-fue-de-todos-los-demas/2015/11/11/que-fue-de-agustin-bravo-y-del-resto-de-companeros-de-carmen-sevilla-en-el-telecupon/ |title=Qué fue de Agustín Bravo y del resto de compañeros de Carmen Sevilla en el 'Telecupón' {{pipe}} Qué fue de... todos los demás |publisher=Blogs.20minutos.es |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.que.es/television/201509230800-personajes-inolvidables-television-anos.html |title=Personajes inolvidables de la televisión de los años 80 y 90 - Qué.es |date=23 September 2015 |publisher=Que.es |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.emezeta.com/articulos/juego-telecupon-hugo-es-la-estrella|title=Juego telecupón: Hugo es la estrella {{pipe}} Emezeta.com|website=www.emezeta.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://pixelmaniacos.com/hugo-el-troll-mas-televisivo/ | title=Hugo, el Troll Más Televisivo | date=3 February 2015 }}</ref>

=== Sweden ===
'''''Trollet Hugo''''' (''Hugo the Troll'') was greatly successful among Swedish children during the 1990s.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/trollet-hugo|title=Trollet Hugo - P3 Tech|first=Sveriges|last=Radio|date=27 March 2019|website=sverigesradio.se}}</ref> The TV4 version of the show became the country's best-rated children's show of all time in 1996.<ref name="ite2" /><ref name="facts2" /> The voice cast included Staffan Thomée as Hugo, Annika Sundberg as Hugolina, and Katarina Ewerlöf as Skylla.

===Turkey===
''Hugo'' became Turkey's highest ranking children's show and achieved a 12% share of the total market at the time when the country was new to private TV channels.<ref name=facts2/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radikal.com.tr/turkiye/90larda-cocuk-olmak-da-kitap-oldu-1074254/ |title=90'larda çocuk olmak da kitap oldu - Türkiye Haberleri |publisher=Radikal |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> The program was enormously popular, especially at the beginning in 1993 when it was being watched by millions of children, thousands of whom would compete to play as callers. The show was primarily hosted by Tolga Abi (Tolga Gariboğlu) for over a decade.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://onedio.com/haber/super-kahramanliktan-boluculuge-15-adimda-hugo-nun-turkiye-macerasi-584681 |title=Süper Kahramanlıktan Bölücülüğe 15 Adımda Hugo'nun Türkiye Macerası |publisher=onedio.com |date=2016-05-26 |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/hugoda-kufur-olayi-yasandi-mi-tolga-abi-gercegi-acikladi-28018206 |title=Hugo'da küfür olayı yaşandı mı? Tolga Abi gerçeği açıkladı... - Keyif Haberleri |date=21 January 2015 |publisher=Hurriyet.com.tr |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> There was also a Hugo-themed theatrical show and a collection of locally made merchandise. In the Turkish version, Scylla (cadı Sila, was voiced by Eylem Şenkal<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biyografi.info/kisi/eylem-senkal|title=Eylem Şenkal kimdir?|website=www.biyografi.info|access-date=2019-05-24}}</ref>) kidnapped Hugo's family to fulfill her desire to gain eternal beauty by drinking their sweat obtained from being worked to death,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Onedio.com|title=Hakkı Yenen 12 Kötü Kalpli Kraliçe|url=https://onedio.com/haber/kraliceler-524154|access-date=2019-05-24|website=Onedio|language=tr}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=cadı sila - uludağ sözlük|url=https://www.uludagsozluk.com/k/cad%C4%B1-sila/|access-date=2016-08-28|publisher=Uludagsozluk.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://eksisozluk.com/cadi-sila--80122 |title=cadı sila - ekşi sözlük |publisher=Eksisozluk.com |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://eksisozluk.com/cadi-sila--80122?p=2 |title=cadı sila - sayfa 2 - ekşi sözlük |publisher=Eksisozluk.com |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> a motif not mentioned in the other versions. An often repeated urban legend tells of a boy shouting obscenities at both Hugo and the show's host Tolga upon losing in his game before being cut off, with many claiming having witnessed this aired on live television, although such incident has been denied by Tolga himself and there is no record of it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mynet.com/hugoya-kim-kufur-etti-110102280582|title=Hugo'ya kim küfür etti?|website=Mynet Haber|date=22 January 2016 |language=tr|access-date=2019-05-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://onedio.com/haber/televizyon-hafizan-ne-kadar-iyi--736157|title=Televizyon Hafızan Ne Kadar İyi?|website=Onedio|language=tr|access-date=2019-05-24}}</ref>

=== United Kingdom ===
In the UK, ''Hugo'' was played on ''What's Up Doc?''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gladyouremember.webs.com/whatsupdoc.htm|title=What's Up Doc? - Glad You Remember|publisher=Gladyouremember.webs.com|access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref> and ''The Shiny Show'', reaching up to 38% viewer share on the latter.<ref name="facts2" />

===United States===
''Hugo'' was known as '''''Tino''''' in a successful 6-minute long program running on the Spanish-language network Telemundo.<ref name="facts2" /> It was hosted by Jessica Fox while Hugo was a duende instead of a troll.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com.mx/cl%C3%A1sico-Photos-1993-Jessica-Tino/dp/B07QXTX2MY|title=clásico Photos 1993 Jessica Fox of Tino - Póster de la Actriz Jessica de Tino con una máscara de Dibujos Animados en Telemundo : Amazon.com.mx: Hogar y Cocina|website=www.amazon.com.mx}}</ref>

===Vietnam===
In Vietnam, the show was first aired in 2004 with the title '''''Vui cùng Hugo''''' ("Fun with Hugo") on Ho Chi Minh City Television (HTV). It was hosted by Ngoc Linh and Thanh Thao, with Hugo voiced by Quach Ho Ninh.<ref>{{cite web|title=Quách Hồ Ninh – Người bước qua lời nguyền|date=July 2004 |url=http://nld.com.vn/van-hoa-van-nghe/quach-ho-ninh-nguoi-buoc-qua-loi-nguyen-94743.htm|access-date=2016-08-28|publisher=Nld.com.vn}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=SGGP Online- Đầm Sen sôi động|date=22 April 2006 |url=http://www.sggp.org.vn/vanhoavannghe/2006/4/45884/|access-date=2016-08-28|publisher=Sggp.org.vn}}</ref> Since December 2005, a Northern version of the show has been aired on Hanoi Radio Television along with the HTV version. It was called '''''Hugo và các bạn''''' ("Hugo and friends") and was hosted by Hoàng Thùy Linh, Lê Đức Anh (Đức Anh Hugo), Nguyen Thanh Vân (Thanh Vân Hugo) and Thu Hằng.<ref>{{cite web|date=2015-08-15|title=Đọ độ nóng bỏng của 2 MC 'Vui cùng Hugo' một thời|url=http://soha.vn/giai-tri/ve-dep-nong-bong-cua-2-mc-vui-cung-hugo-noi-tieng-mot-thoi-20150815081814692.htm|access-date=2016-08-28|publisher=Soha.vn}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Theo Trí Thức Trẻ|date=1979-12-24|title=Cuộc sống viên mãn của ca sĩ "Lựa chọn một vì sao" Ngọc Linh|url=http://kenh14.vn/star/cuoc-song-vien-man-cua-ca-si-lua-chon-mot-vi-sao-ngoc-linh-20140609095745391.chn|access-date=2016-08-28|publisher=Kenh14.vn}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sự thay đổi chóng mặt về ngoại hình của Đức Anh Hugo|date=2 December 2014 |url=http://soha.vn/giai-tri/su-thay-doi-chong-mat-ve-ngoai-hinh-cua-duc-anh-hugo-20141201231927745.htm|access-date=2016-08-28|publisher=Soha.vn}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=2015-10-16|title=3 ngôi sao Nhật Ký Vàng Anh có chuyện tình 'sốc' nhất|url=http://soha.vn/giai-tri/3-ngoi-sao-nhat-ky-vang-anh-co-chuyen-tinh-soc-nhat-2015101610074293.htm|access-date=2016-08-28|publisher=Soha.vn}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=4 MC thông minh và hóm hỉnh của "Hugo và các bạn"|url=http://hanoimoi.com.vn/Tin-tuc/Van-hoa/112602/4-mc-thong-minh-va-hom-h7881;nh-c7911;a-hugo-va-cac-b7841;n|access-date=2020-07-25|website=hanoimoi.com.vn}}</ref> The show became one of the highest rated shows in Vietnam by 2008, receiving an average of 20,000 phone calls per episode<ref>{{cite web |language=vi |url=http://vietbao.vn/Van-hoa/Vui-cung-Hugo-tren-20.000-cuoc-goi-lan/40036515/183/ |title=Vui cùng Hugo: trên 20.000 cuộc gọi/lần |publisher=Vietbao.vn |date=2008-07-14 |access-date=2012-01-06 |archive-date=15 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315084003/http://vietbao.vn/Van-hoa/Vui-cung-Hugo-tren-20.000-cuoc-goi-lan/40036515/183 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and up to 500,000 weekly at the peak.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://genk.vn/14-nam-truoc-hang-trieu-8x-9x-viet-tung-phat-sot-vi-tro-choi-nay-20180320084958597.chn | title=14 năm trước, hàng triệu 8X, 9X Việt từng phát sốt vì trò chơi này }}</ref> The program became a household name and a favorite among both children and adults.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vietnamnet.vn/vn/giai-tri/236658/phan-lenh-denh-cua-nhung-nguoi-dau-tien-duoc-goi-la-hotgirl-viet.html |title=Phận lênh đênh của những người đầu tiên được gọi là hotgirl Việt |publisher=Vietnamnet.vn |access-date=2016-08-28}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://phununews.vn/ca-si-ngoc-linh-bo-hat-vi-so-con-bi-ap-luc-boi-me-la-nguoi-noi-tieng-204688.html |title=Ca sĩ Ngọc Linh bỏ hát vì sợ con bị áp lực bởi mẹ là người nổi tiếng |publisher=Phununews.vn |access-date=2016-08-28 |archive-date=28 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160828101240/http://phununews.vn/ca-si-ngoc-linh-bo-hat-vi-so-con-bi-ap-luc-boi-me-la-nguoi-noi-tieng-204688.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''Hugo và các bạn'' was axed in 2008 as a part of Hanoi TV's mass gameshow cancellation, with almost every such program made by the station being discontinued and replaced with HTV gameshows and a movie block.

==Other media and merchandise==

Various video games, including [[Software:Hugo (video game)|a series directly adapted from the 1990s show]], and other media and licensed merchandise have been produced in Denmark to be distributed around the world. There have been also two attempts to adapt the show into an animated film, among various other developments. By the 2018 estimate of former ''Hugo'' producer Ivan Sølvason, there have been a total of some 6,500 different ''Hugo'' products worldwide.<ref name=dk2/>

==References==
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