ELECTRONIC VERSION OF CLUE TO BE RELEASED ON COMPACT DISC

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DATE: THURSDAY, January 7, 1993                   TAG: 9301060221
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 6   EDITION: METRO   
SOURCE: Los Angeles Daily News
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES                                LENGTH: Short
ELECTRONIC VERSION OF CLUE TO BE RELEASED ON COMPACT DISC
Parker Brothers will produce a interactive version of its CLUE board game that will allow players to interrogate Col. Mustard, walk through the billiard room and examine the candlestick.
CLUE allows players to solve a murder mystery and Col. Mustard is one of the key characters. The billiard room is a possible scene of the crime. And the candlestick might be the murder weapon. It's up to the players to figure it out.
Friends and families have played the CLUE board game for years. Now Parker Brothers is using interactive technology to add another dimension.
The game - with movie-like visual and audio effects - will be recorded on a compact disc, company officials said last week.
"You will be able to interrogate the characters as though you are really dealing with them in full-motion video," said Gary Carlin, senior product manager of Beverly, Mass.-based Parker Bros., a subsidiary of Hasbro Inc.
The new version of the 49-year-old board game will be released in the fourth quarter of 1993 and will run on the Philips Imagination Machine, a compact disc-interactive player that retails for $599. The CLUE compact disc likely will retail for about $50, Carlin said.
The move is a further step in a strategy by Parker Bros. to introduce its evergreen board games like CLUE, Monopoly, Boggle, Trivial Pursuit, Sorry, and Risk in electronic formats, said Tom Dusenberry, director of product acquisition for Parker Bros., in a statement.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB