History VideoGame / HugosHouseOfHorrors

* AscendedExtra: In the first game, Penelope was a DamselInDistress who only appeared at the very end, and even then we only saw her shadow. In the second game, she becomes the player character.

* WitchDoctor: Hugo 3 features a witch doctor. If you look through the window of his hut, you see "the witch doctor, a cooking pot (big enough to put somebody in), and a cage for imprisoning people".

* PaletteSwap: A specific sprite for a fat moustached man walking with his hands joined together is used several times throughtout the games for a different character, with minor modifications. He is green and bald as TheIgor in the first game, and pale red as the guardian of the jail. In the second game, he is a gardener and a genie.

*** You only get one chance to retrieve the photo album after luring the maid out of the kitchen.

* DecoyProtagonist: You start the second game playing as Hugo, just like in the first. But after a grand total of two actions, Hugo goes missing, and you take control of Penelope.

%%* AmateurSleuth: Penelope.

%%* AscendedExtra: Penelope in the second game.

%%* DamselInDistress: Penelope in the first and third games.
%%* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Hugo in the second game.]]

%%* FunetikAksent: The FrenchMaid in the second game.
%%* GoFetch: In Hugo 1 and 2, this is the way to get past a dog.

%%* HenpeckedHusband: [[spoiler: Hugo, once he marries Penelope.]]
%%* HeroesWantRedheads

* UnwinnableByDesign: In the second game, woe betide you if you get those matches wet when they accidentally drop into the water. The solution is to [[ViolationOfCommonSense drop the matches, pick them up, drop them again, pick them up again]]... It ''is'' possible to get across the bridge without dropping the matches, if you walk across the bridge ''very'' carefully.

%%* WeWereRehearsingAPlay: In the second game, when describing a certain event.

* InheritanceMurder: [[spoiler: Penelope discovers Great-Uncle Horace's will, which leaves a fortune to Hugo, which is a possible motive for the murder.]]
* JungleJapes: The third game takes place there, where you must save Penelope from a poisonous demise.

%%* LetsPlay: WebVideo/PushingUpRoses and her companion WebVideo/PawDugan tackle this adventure with innuendos all around!

* MadScientist: in the first game. His apparent goal is to use his machine to do...something...to people.

* WeWereRehearsingAPlay: In the second game, when describing a certain event.

* LetsPlay: WebVideo/PushingUpRoses and her companion WebVideo/PawDugan tackle this adventure with innuendos all around!
%%* LockedDoor: A couple.
* LimitedWardrobe: Averted in ''Jungle of Doom'': just after they crash land, Penelope tells Hugo to change his usual cyan and magenta duds, as they clash with the jungle scenery; he changes into an ''Franchise/IndianaJones''-style AdventurerOutfit with a leather jacket and brimmed hat.

%%* RedheadInGreen: Penelope.

* PaletteSwap: A specific sprite for a fat moustached man walking with his hands joined together is used several times throughtout the games for a different character, with minor modifications. He is green and bald as TheIgor in the first game, he is a gardener and a genie in the second game.

** In the third game, forget to go to the plane first and you're screwed as soon as you visit the witch doctor. There's literally no way out.

* RedheadInGreen: Penelope.

* PaletteSwap / ReusedCharacterDesign: A specific sprite for a fat moustached man walking with his hands joined together is used several times throughtout the games for a different character, with minor modifications. He is green and bald as TheIgor in the first game, he is a gardener and a genie in the second game.

* {{Payphone}}: In Hugo 2, Penelope uses one (a British red phone box) to call the police, and then to travel to the planet Retupmoc.

%%the character without the cliché motive.

A short adventure game from 1990. You play Hugo in a quest to rescue your girlfriend from a house inhabited by monsters. Followed up by two sequels, ''Whodunnit?'' and ''Jungle of Doom'', and the basic premise was retooled as a ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein 3D}}'' clone called ''VideoGame/{{Nitemare 3D}}'' in 1994.

* SchmuckBait: When you pick up the whistle in the first game, the game asks, "I wonder what the whistle is for?" But if you blow it right away and go into the next room, [[spoiler:you get killed by the dog]]. However, the whistle actually ''does'' have an important, positive use in the game.