Hugo: The Magic Oak
Hugo: The Magic Oak or The Magic Oak is a 1998 video game developed and published by ITE Media for the PC as part of the "Play and Learn" series. It was titled Den Fortryllede Eg / Hugo: Leg Og Lær 1 in…
Hugo: The Magic Oak is an adventure, released 1 June 1998 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Hugo: The Magic Oak is
Hugo: The Magic Oak was released in 1998. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The evil witch Scylla casts a spell on an old oak to set a trap for Hugo. During a family picnic, Hugo's young son Rat is suddenly swallowed by the cursed tree and spirited away. Only with the help of the player can he find his way back home. Rat meets a friendly mole, who gives him an old, dirty map that is the only way he can orient himself in the unknown part of the woods. He needs to use it navigate and to return before all sand in the hourglass trickles away. If Rat succeeds, he happily reunites with his family, and Scylla gets her comeuppance by being launched in the air across the Troll Forest and smashed into the Skull Cave wall.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are educational and kids. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Hugo series
Hugo: The Magic Oak is the seventh of 45 entries we hold in the Hugo series. The next entry was Hugo in 1998.
What it launched against
Hugo: The Magic Oak launched on 1 June 1998, within three weeks of Radiant Silvergun, Wetrix and Vigilante 8.
Released around the same time: Radiant Silvergun, Wetrix, Vigilante 8.
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