Reception
The program won awards for a best entertainment show in eight countries, including the Golden Cable award for the best children's program in 1995 in Germany, a title for best rated children's show of all time in 1996 in Sweden, a 1999 Troféu Nova Gente award in Portugal, and the TV Presenter of the Year award in Ireland in 2000.
Hugo game sales exceeded 6 million copies by 2001 and 8.5 million copies by 2005. In 2012, mobile game Hugo Troll Race "has beaten all records when it comes to Danish game sales" by selling more than 1 million copies worldwide in just three days as "the fastest selling Danish game on the App Store of all time, and currently the most downloaded app in 25 countries."
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.”
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)