Clue Game gets Update

August 27, 2008 by Chris · 4 Comments
Filed under: Writer's Life

Nothing can avoid the march of time, including the beloved Clue game of the past. Hasboro announced an updated version of the game supposedly with the thought to appeal to the younger set. Ah, but there are big changes in store that might make some of us cringe and moan. New rooms have been added including a guest house (OK), spa (hmm-mm), and a theater (c’mon). Not only that, characters have been changed, of course. My favorite, Miss Scarlet, is now Kasandra Scarlet who often finds herself featured in the tabloids. Alas, Colonel Mustard is no more either. He is Jack Mustard, a former football player.

Now as if that weren’t enough, the means of murder were also “updated”. The lead pipe, wrench, and revolver are no more. The lead pipe was a good murder weapon, efficient and quick. And the revolver. How can there not be a revolver at a country home? The wrench, I’ll give you. Kind of redundant with a lead pipe laying around. New weapons include a dumbbell (what?), trophy (maybe), or poison (finally a good one and one that was sorely missing).

All things have to change, I guess. Whether the changes were necessary to attract kids weaned on video games is subject to debate. Oh, but for the good old days.