A few minutes ago the death of Carmen Sevilla (92), one of the most famous faces in Europe, was announced. an actress who has been able to stay on screen for a long time and that she was a television icon in the 90s. The popular interpreter suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and after being admitted to a hospital in Madrid, she died at the age of 92.
Carmen Sevilla was one of those classic mid-20th century artistic phenomena, known not only for her role as actress, surely the most important, but also as singer and television presenter. It is in this last stage that he makes himself known to a much younger audience who has not lived through his time as a movie star.
One of the most famous programs in which he participated was the Telecupón, a brief early night space in which the winning number of the ONCE daily draw was announced But Carmen Sevilla took this space to a new level, especially with the inclusion of a pioneering video game for the time, the one that It was controlled remotely, using a telephone. Hugo.
Carmen and Hugo
There is a whole generation of Spaniards whose first memory of Carmen Sevilla is a small, but color, television set in the early 90s parties, with a very charismatic lady on screen and a strange animated doll who played in a very advanced graphics video game for its time. From 1991 to 1997, then exactriz and ex-singer was in charge of this popular program by Andoni Ferreño.
Hugo was a product of its time, a way to connect the viewer to the program, extend it, and create a unique space that family members of all ages could watch. The idea of Carmen Sevilla commented on what was happening on screen as viewers checked on Hugo with the buttons of their landline phones for many it will look like the casters of video games. Someone even said that, that Carmen Sevilla was the first Spanish streamer.
Hugo (Telecupon)
The control mode was extremely simplebe able to move the character to the right or to the left simply press keys 6 and 4 on landline telephones. The contestant was on the phone and, in addition to talking to Carmen Sevilla through the headset, he could take Hugo through the different phases with these two keys. Like a good platform game, you just had to dodge obstacles to reach the end of the stage.
[El juego de Cristiano Ronaldo y Hugo el Troll que nunca esperaste llega a Google Play]
This video game was created in Denmark, where it was very successful and it was exported to other countries such as Europe, but also to Argentina or Chile. In the Spanish case, the success was such that a program was created especially for him, Hugolandia, presented by Beatriz Rico.
In this version of the video game, they faced two schools selected from all those in Europe and played to see who would go further. Whoever managed to save Hugolina, the protagonist’s wife, would win the prize, computer equipment for her entire school. This idea has been very well received by both the schools and the students themselves.
The popular presenter of spaces such as Telecupón or Cine de Barrio died in Madrid and leaves a huge memory to millions of Spaniards who saw her as a friend, mother or grandmother on television.
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