What was your favorite game you played when you were a kid?

Wayne P · Jun 16, 2011

Growing up in the inner city of Pgh. we played "Kick the Stick". Using the four manhole covers as bases and a broom handle broken to about 10" and sharpened at the end it was played like baseball. You stuck the sharpened end of the stick into the hole in the manhole cover and kicked it at the opposing team who tried to catch it or throw you out as you ran the bases. Nightime we switched to Gangster waterguns and water ballon battles between "Gangs".

Produce Guy · Jun 16, 2011

We used to play Trouble,Battleship,Life,Sorry or we played outside allot.

poorhunter78 · Jun 16, 2011

How about Rollie Pollie.

thrillathahunt · Jun 16, 2011

poorhunter78 said:
How about Rollie Pollie.

You mean as in rolling down a hill? or the bug? :dontknow:

Bigcypresshunter · Jun 16, 2011

packerbacker said:
Is lighting off cherry bombs and m80's in the movie theater considered a "game"? On one occasion I was walking by my girlfriend's house in the middle of the night with a friend of mine. For some reason her dad and I didn't get along at all and we had to be sneaky about our relationship. Anyway, it was around the 4th of July and I had a few cherry bombs left over. I knew which windows were to her parents bedroom and I noticed one of them was open and a gentle breeze was causing the lightweight curtains to flow in and out of the window. Need I say more?

No that doesnt qualify as a childs game neither does dropping a cherry bomb in a school toilet.

thrillathahunt · Jun 16, 2011

Neither does throwing a smoke bomb through the window into the girls dressing room!!! >:D

Bad, bad, bad.

lonesomebob · Jun 16, 2011

Any kind of game, activity,or promotion that involved in kissing girls. love the ladies. Bob

worldtalker · Jun 16, 2011

Don't recall playin any games as a kid,my Brother and I were always outside,down the crik fishing,swimming,throwing stones at gaters,cotton mouths,catchin cradads and just really looking for adventure in life.The children of today are a different breed,no morals,no values,selfish.Now don't go blamin the kids,after all they are a reflection,an image,an image of the PARENT,which PARENT?The ONE who STANDS on what HE or SHE KNOWS in their heart,what is RIGHT.I don't see that in people,well two that I know personally.These MEN are MEN of GOD.That is what was driving me as a child.I had my stumbles and falls growing along the way,I'm growing out of it,I stopped BLAMING people for what ever went WRONG in my life.What was WRONG was ME!LORD THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE show me how to be a MAN of GOD.Recon theres no sense playin games,set aside distractions that draw you into your THINKING and FEELING self.Be STILL,simply observe what is going on{pure craziness,from our own familys}I for one don't live in that world,I am in it but I'm not of it .Are YOU?

gadigger81 · Jun 16, 2011

Battleship!!

poorhunter78 · Jun 16, 2011

thrillathahunt said:
poorhunter78 said:

How about Rollie Pollie.

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You mean as in rolling down a hill? or the bug?

played with ball and bat. after the batter hit the ball he layed the bat down. Whoever caught the ball. sometimes a scuffle for it. had to roll the ball and if he hit the bat. it was his turn to bat. Now the batter wanted to stay up. so the farther yuh hit the ball the better yer chance to stay at bat.

thrillathahunt · Jun 16, 2011

Oh yeah, I remember that game, didn't know what it was called though. :thumbsup:

poorhunter78 · Jun 16, 2011

Never had a name fer it but we would pull the cat tails out by the roots. Make like a spear with a mud bomb on end. Brother stuck 1 to the side of neighbors head filled his ear with mud. We were threatened to not play that anymore. So we would venture farther from home to play.

Bigcypresshunter · Jun 16, 2011

poorhunter78 said:
Never had a name fer it but we would pull the cat tails out by the roots. Make like a spear with a mud bomb on end. Brother stuck 1 to the side of neighbors head filled his ear with mud.

lol I dont know why that made me laugh. I hope he was not hurt.

Dano Sverige · Jun 17, 2011

"Mumbly peg" eh? Lol, we called it "split the kipper" in the UK, and did it the opposite way around. We'd start with our feet together and move a foot to where the knife landed, the object being to make your opponent fall over or "give up". If you had your opponent at full stretch you could then try to throw the knife directly between his legs (into the ground thank you lol) "splitting the kipper", which if completed succesfully allowed you to restart from the feet together position while your opponent remained stretched. We didn't use a peg. A "kipper" is a fish, in my house usually "smoked" with a wonderful taste, but wayyyyyyyyy too many little bones. I have no idea where the names for some of these games originated ,lol.

The amount of things i used to do as a child of the 60's & 70's outside of the house would bore you all to death, but most are very similar to your own experiences. This was at a time when "America" (it was never the "USA" or the "US" until the mid 80's) was "a country somewhere full of cowboys and indians!" American infuence only came to us via TV through the lone ranger, the Virginian, the Rifleman, and the high chapperal. Think i was about 16 before i realised America was actually a modern country! :laughing9: