This is just too much. I can't take it anymore.

Hasbro thinks that changing the characters' names/descriptions will make them more competitive with action video games?!

Now who's Clue-less?

Kids still play board games?

Seriously though, this is pretty lame. Clue is a classic and should never be changed to make it more "modern."

This is just wrong.

Hasbro hasn't got a Clue.
Of course, they don't have a Monopoly on the "modernization" of board games. I have an electronic version of the Parker Brothers classic that is uber-lame-o.

My kids actually enjoy playing board games with their mom and dad. My 20-year-old Yahtzee game, as simple and unglamorous as it is, is a big hit.

Does anybody else remember Qubic? Essentially a 3D tic-tac-toe-tic (4 in a row). The kids like that one too.

Board games, like books, require using one's imagination more than video games and TV do.

Life is my favorite board game anyway. However every time I play I end up in the poor-house with 2 car loads of children (just like in my real life).

FF for Lippy. Life is a great one.

I always thought Clue sucks.

Miley killed Skylar in the pool house with a Glock.

Mr. Plum couldn't have been fruitier... he probably killed Mustard in the Conservatory with the AIDS...

It was time for that coward YELLOW bastard to go....

Signed,

HASBRO Management (and Hasbro workers too)

Next game piece change will be out with the king and queen and in with Ellen DeGeneres and George Takei.

Mr. Plum couldn't have been fruitier... he probably killed Mustard in the Conservatory with the AIDS...

Posted by Rob_The_A_Hole

Now that's funny.

"Mr. Plum couldn't have been fruitier... he probably killed Mustard in the Conservatory with the AIDS..."

hahahahahhahahahahah

ff

It was Mohmmed with a glock in the ghetto.

"Life is my favorite board game anyway. However every time I play I end up in the poor-house with 2 car loads of children (just like in my real life)."

The Robot Chicken spoof of Life was great.

shirts

wrong stereotype

mohammed with klashinakov in the desert

he probably killed Mustard in the Conservatory with the AIDS...

Impossible..... Mustard wasn't black.

Rufus kills Motisha with a baseball bat in the crackhouse

Hasbro kills Joy in the (game) boardroom.

A few years ago at a roadstop in Ithaca, New York I came across a little jewish deli that sold the most delightful sandwiches.

The specialties for that day included sandiwches named "Professor Plum" which was plum chutney and roast chicken on toasted sourdough, "Colonel Mustard" which was a hot pastrami on pumpernickel with a lights out mustard-seed sauce, and "Mister Green" which was some vegetarian concoction with alfalfa sprouts and avocado. I bought the Plum one and had the mustard one to take with me and they were awesome!

I thought that was a great way to sell sandwiches and keep with a certain theme. That's what Clue means to me now, LOL.

Clue was fun when I was a kid. And we used to suck on the miniature lead-fashioned weapons, LOL!!!!

Strawberrysteriodcake killed Professor Jesusfreak with an IED...

Next they'll be changing Monopoly. Baltic Ave will become Martin Luther King Blvd and Boardwalk will become JFK Ave.

...Baltic Ave will become Martin Luther King Blvd...

This just in:

Hasbro has officially changed other games and products as well:

Among them:

***After protests by both liberal rights groups and Christian fundamentalist homeschooler moms, Candy Land will now be called "Wholesome Foods World". Gumdrop Mountains was renamed "Granola Range" and the Molasses Swamp has been renamed, "Omega 3 Spa". The playing board has also been certified 100% lead and arsenic free.

***Light Brite has removed the separeately colored plastic pegs in favor of a single multicolored peg to reflect diversity and interracial mixing and has done away with the controversial "black peg"

***Ship design in Battleship has been altered so that it does not compromise top secret blueprints for latest US Aircraft Carrier designs. The Nuclear Sub piece is no longer made of radioactive material. Also, the trademarked sound of a launched shell has been replaced by the voice of Paris Hilton saying, "Bombs away, like y'know?"

***Risk has been merged with Sorry to take out controversial military interventionist elements. Players can now draw cute looking cards and slide pretty colored tokens into other nations and territories instead of invading them.

***The almost naked Operation man now is wearing a full length burka keeping in line with Muslim sentiments.

***Finally, Whac-a-mole has also been renamed "US Foreign Policy in the Middle East"

Did they do it in the Den with a candlestick?
Or in the bedroom wearing nylons, a garter belt and high heels?

Whac-a-mole has also been renamed "US Foreign Policy in the Middle East"

"Playfully ironic" flag!
Kinda sickening too.....

I'm afraid to look at possible changes Hasbro might make to "Candyland"
and "Chutes and Ladders"

I'm afraid to look at possible changes Hasbro might make to "Candyland"
and "Chutes and Ladders"

Posted by CalifChris at 2008-08-15 06:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

What the hell can you possibly do to those that hasn't already been done? (Remember, it was SNAKES and Ladders originally) The tokens are all already pastel colored. I mean, the most they could do is throw a few Asian and Hispanic kids in amongst the ones drawn all over the board. That doesn't have any effect; and my copies of the game already had that in the 80's. Though I agree the bellbottoms could stand to go.

As for Clue, however, I had to send my wife to ensure we had a copy of the old one before it vanishes. The outfits and archetypes used in Clue are timeless. I don't want to have to speak the phrase "The Emo chick... err Miss White.. did it in the poolhouse with the barbell. I determined this because my Myspace Search power eliminated all the rest of the people."

Updated Clue game?

Yeesh!

How stupid is this idea?

Monopoly has the right idea.

It makes various different special versions of Monopoly but it never stops making the original.

Spud's guess?

It was Gothgrrrl22 in the media room with lead I-phone!

Spud's second guess?

This here idea makes "New Coke" seem savvy.

Wot next, a version of Risk that eliminates Irkutsk and Kamchatka?

Heaven Forfend!

Be Well.