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Message: [QUOTE="Parasite_Steve, post: 13943, member: 5378"] Oh man I loved Hugo. Genius concept for a game show. The visuals and sounds are hard-coded in my memory and the technology that made it all possible is quite interesting too. I think it ran entirely on Amigas. By today's standards it looks like the stone age but back then it was fascinating. "Die Hugo Show" was massive here in Germany too and ran from 94 to late 97. Some of the hosts became relatively famous too. I've always wanted to be a participant but iirc it was relatively expensive to call. I never played the hugo games though. Even as a child my trash sensors went off immediately. Interestingly enough it wasn't the first show like it on tv. There was another one way before I was born named "Telespiele" (tele games) that started in 1977 and ran for a few years. I've never seen it, but callers could apparently play Pong against each other, controlling the paddle with the volume of their voices. Must have been pretty popular. An older colleague of mine who watched it as a child still calls every video game a "tele game" Edit: Ok, Telespiele looks incredible. Skip ahead a little to see the studio audience play Pong with their voices: [MEDIA=youtube]hyrUMvTgSgE[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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