Mysteries Of Old Peking (1988 MB Games) DFTA 88 

We loved this game when it was released. I was 10. One of the best.

Those "reveal" features look really cool and the board looks AmaZiNg. Love the use of the mirror and the overlays. Going to have to give this one a try!

Imagine if this game had a Blade-Runner theme, Each player is on the hunt for a rogue murderous replicant that is blending into the human populous of dystopian Los Angeles 2019.

It was a fun game when we played. Great review.

Some of the reveal techniques look really clever!

Always a great day when Luke posts! Love your videos, man 😁

Thank u i bought it now too, love those old games with detective mechanics, greetings from germany

Always get excited seeing a new video! Looks like a lot of fun, interesting game for sure

This is wild. The cultural depiction is definitely intense, but design does look promising. I’d be curious if any retheme has actually been attempted. I feel like I would be surprised if it truly hasn’t. Solid review as always!

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So glad youre back!

If the updated, more acceptable version has the same idea and gameplay, and at least some of the humourous names, I might consider digging for a copy.

I had this when I was a kid in the 80/90s. I'm (British) Chinese and my family found the names quite funny. I wouldn't want to be playing this with non-Chinese kids though.

Ah, the start of a great weekend! 😁 And speaking of starts-if Iʼm not mistaken, this is the first time the episodeʼs featured game has been spotlighted within the opening title sequence. And I did enjoy the latest tweak to the sequenceʼs, er, _smashing_ finale…! Although Chinese inspiration is quite evident, I wonder if Belgian influence on this mystery adventure was even more substantial. This is the first brand‐new _DFTA_ I have watched on my new TV, and I was rewarded by a clue: In the Tintinesque art in the center of the box cover, that appears to be the young reporter himself looking on! (Or is it a certain RU-vid host sporting a previous hairstyle?) The board art looks like an Hergé tableau… I would play this game, but I wouldnʼt buy it-I confess I would be too bothered by the fixed, memorizable solutions, even though I probably would not remember the solutions by the next cycle! But I like deduction, and if those detection mechanisms could be applied to a mystery game with Cluedoʼs randomness, we could really have a winner. Regardless of my reservations, this was a cool look at an interesting release that I had no knowledge of. Thanks! 😎

Looks fun, I was thinking of checking ebay for it until I realized I already have the US reimplement Clue Mysteries! Apparently it's pretty much the same thing, board layout and rules wise, just with cluedo characters. Came out in 2005. The board and box art on your copy 1st edition of mysteries of old peking is far superior though

I'd argue those fake names are more insensitive than the portraits

واو لعبة جميلة لعبة الغاز بكين القديمة, ,, لو تكون لعبة اونلاين ياسلام بس من يحطها .. GREAT GAME AND I LIKE IT GOOD IDEA TOBE ONLINE GAME OVER PC,CONSOLES SUCH PS5 OR XBOX ...

easy dice movement fix: if you roll a 1 and move onto a fortune cookie space, draw 2 cards, resolve 1, discard the other.

I'm half Chinese and played this without being offended

Yeah the artwork and board does look nice but very stereotypical, if it was redone today, maybe more accurate or base on Avatar the last Air Bender, or modern times or a 80's 90's kungfu theme China town XD

Kinda like 221 b Baker Street game but for kids

4:11 ironically, that sound effect is from japanese kabuki

Great review! Where can I pick up that beautiful DFTA swag!!! Also, have you heard of a game call Return to Dark Tower? I hear it sucks. : )

Wasn’t this rethemed into a Cluedo spinoff?

I wouldn't mind seeing this rethemed, it looks fun. The stereotyping, caricatures and chopstick font make it too uncomfortable for me. The pun names are different to English as they are creating mock "Chinese" sounding names, to create an English pun. Though amusing, Claude Balls is likely a name. For it to be the same, they'd have to be native names and wordplay.

Honestly woulda been funnier if you stopped making videos after poo curling that woulda been an amazing way to quit but either way good to see u making more stuff

Yesterday at Attic Raiders Retro Reviews, under the comparison of the Waddingtons ʼ86 and ʼ96 versions of Escape From Atlantis which Mark posted about a year ago (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TmWL2r0i-co.html), designer Julian Courtland‐Smith submitted a few comments; among other things, he mentioned that another of his games, Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs, was recently republished by a French company, Lansay. Lansayʼs version, la Vallée des Dinosaures, is an interesting edition, and I saw that Courtland‐Smith posted on BoardGameGeek about six months ago that he expected Lansay to “publish the game in English in due course” and that its gameplay differences bring it closer to the original design. (I know one member of my game group who will be happy to stop falling into the swamp…) So whatʼs this all got to do with Mysteries of Old Peking? Plenty! On Lansayʼs website I saw that Lansay publishes a few other familiar‐looking games, including an edition of Mysteries of Old Peking. Lansayʼs version is called les Mystères de Pékin and, true to the original, retains the gimmicky feel, and it innovates-one of the gimmicks in the Lansay edition comprises cards with invisible ink that becomes visible when warmed by the playerʼs hand. Whatʼs more-Lansay actually publishes a whole family of Mystères de Pékin games: a “junior” edition, a card game, a ghost‐themed version called les Mystères de Pékin : le Temple des fantômes (Mysteries of Peking: The Temple of Ghosts) which incorporates an electronic sound device governing the distribution of clues, and a version called les Mystères de la Cité Perdue (Mysteries of the Lost City) that probes the ancient mysteries of a temple in the jungles of India. It appears that Lansayʼs current catalog is exclusively in French; if itʼs true that they will soon be publishing an English edition of Lost Valley of the Dinosaurs, could English editions of the Mysteries of Old Peking games be on the horizon too? Some of the sequels, including the electronic Temple des fantômes game (whose gadget gives clues via shrieks, spooky laughter, etc.) and the Cité Perdue game, lack the language dependence of the core game, and so it would largely be a matter of translating the instructions and revising the box text. Who knows?