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In the early 1990s, Hugo, under the real name of Hugo Délire, was a French television programme that was broadcast on France 3.
Presented by the lovely Karen Cheryl, this pure entertainment show was available every morning before you picked up your bag or satchel to go to school. Some time after its launch, Hugo Délire changed its format to weekly. This change brought with it an advantage. The advantage of being able to compete with the player who was physically present on the television set where the Hugo Délire programme was broadcast live.
This was a first in the audiovisual landscape. A game that offered the chance to be entertained in real time from one's television set while playing this revolutionary video game where the goal was to guide Hugo Délire through his many adventures (gold mining in a mine, dangerous swimming in the middle of alligators and crocodiles, aeroplane excursions, etc.) using one's mobile phone.
Some of the keys on the mobile phones of that time could then allow Hugo to move for the example in a mine full of gold but also to avoid traps of various kinds. In the early 1990s, mobile phones were light years ahead of what we can hold in our hands today.
The quality of the game and its playability still had a long way to go to allow live players to enjoy great victories. But at this time in our history, the technological level of the game Hugo Délire was of the most grandiose. For two beautiful years, the Hugo Délire game show was a great success before disappearing from the screens with a wave of the magic wand.
It didn't disappear completely from the radar because it had plans to convert to the already expanding video game world, but without a real rise in popularity. In the end, Hugo is a family game that has been forgotten.
Today, the publishers Play'n Go have taken up the torch to revive Hugo Délire from its ashes. To do this, they have developed a slot machine with the title Hugo. A sort of tribute that in the gameplay of the game allows connoisseurs of this ancestor of video games to relive its key moments.
Hugo is an online casino game with a particularly colourful background where Hugo does not hesitate to handle dynamite to collect whole wagons of gold. Yes, for those who don't know yet, this troll is obsessed with this valuable yellow metal. Not really in its entirety but if we could compare it to a cartoon character we could easily do so with the miser himself named Scrooge.
The Hugo online slot interface sits on a railway track a few steps away from a disused mine. That's what the locals think, but in reality, or rather according to a local legend, this deposit is home to an ugly monster who is armed with a large, sharp knife and likes to use it whenever he gets the chance.
You'll have to be wary as you explore this golden site, but Hugo Delirium relies on the players to guide him through this unknown world. The Hugo game of chance is constructed of 5 reels, 3 rows and 10 activatable paylines.
The symbols in the game refer to Hugo, a witch whose plan is not to help players but to kidnap Hugoline, the tender friend of the troll, the greenish monster who hides in the depths of the mine where the biggest gold nuggets obviously reside.
In addition to these characters, which encompass Hugo's crazy and perilous adventures, there are TNT sticks, linen bags filled with small gold nuggets, a pickaxe as well as capital letters and several numbers.
In this fantasy world ruled by a troll who is not in his right mind to see it up close, the Hugo game offers a good range of features to allow each of the game's players to get into action.
In the heat of the action there will be single wilds with X2 win multipliers, scatters that open the door to free spins which in turn will open the door to extra free spins, a bonus game that will open up a x500 win multiplier in the event of a clean run and finally a chance to maybe bag a jackpot worth 1 million coins!
Hugo is a video slot that has the advantage of merging its single wilds with a X2 win multiplier. Admittedly, the multiplier value is minimal but I can say that it does its job relatively well.
A wild multiplier that proves its effectiveness by having the strength of being able to show up like the morning dew on multiple areas of the slot. All areas are valid to allow the Hugo wilds to transform all the game's icons except for bonuses and scatters to activate the most generous payline of the moment.
In addition to giving players a serious boost to reap the benefits, the wilds symbolised by the Hugo Delirium troll offer varying amounts of chips. By appearing 2, 3, 4 or 5 times on the screen, this substitute feature will distribute respectively 10, 100, 1000 or 2000 chips!
Hugo has a feature in its gameplay that many players appreciate. This is the case for me and I am of course referring to the free play option which translates into a feature that aims to offer free games.
With Hugo, the principle for achieving such a status in the game is to collect 3 scatter icons on your screen. Symbols that illustrate the portrait of a wicked witch who has found no better way to kidnap Hugoline, who is the girlfriend of the main character, the troll named Hugo.
Once this configuration of scatters has come to life anywhere on the 5 reels of the slot machine, the free games will not start immediately as we are used to with the Play'n GO game settings.
There will be a transition between the main game and the free spins sequence. A splash page will then appear in a fraction of a second. This will present 3 game modes with free spins and by logic, you will be asked to select one of them to start the free fun.
The first mode offers 5 free games with the evil witch as a character. The second one represented by Hugo with 10 free spins and finally the third one with 15 free spins accompanied by the green monster named Don Croco.
By logic, we would all go for the game with the creature because it offers the most free spins. Yes, but what you need to know is that in this world a new icon will magically appear.
An item that will look like Hugo's girlfriend. The lower the number of free spins selected, the more powerful this new symbol will be. With the witch it will be 150, with Hugo 100 and with the monster 50 chips for each appearance.
As with the single wilds, the scatters have the power to transmit lots of chips in addition to offering free spins. By getting 2, 3, 4 or 5 times this not-so-common witch icon, the game will give out 1, 3, 15 or 150 coins respectively.
The Hugo online game goes even further in its gameplay features with a bonus level gameplay.
In this particular mode, players who manage to access it will have to listen to their instincts, but before doing so, the one-armed bandit will have to present on his interface 3 icons that carefully illustrate a chest that presumably contains kilos of solid gold.
Once this configuration has come to life, the players will be exported to the depths of the mine that Hugo so desperately wants to visit, to blow up with dynamite to extract the maximum amount of gold and become the richest man on earth.
This is how he sees his life and he will ask the players to guide him so that his childhood dream becomes reality and not an infinite illusion as he has always lived until now. In this special level, the aim will be to progress through rooms by randomly opening access doors.
Each time this will result in hundreds or even thousands of tokens being offered. But be careful, because the Don Crocco monster is never far away. A repulsive being who looks like a crocodile escaped from a zoo.
He holds a machete firmly in his powerful hand, wears a spelunker's helmet and gives a mocking laugh every time he scares Hugo again. If the players suddenly discover him behind a door, it will be the end of the bonus game for Hugo and he will have to resume his so-called normal course.
However, by making good encounters with either gold, Hugo will be able to go even lower in the deposit. The first room has 4 doors, the second 3, the third 2 and the last one if you are lucky will offer a multiplier of X500 which will multiply with all the profits obtained since the beginning of the Hugo bonus game feature.
