Games that you remember playing as a child while gowing up

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Games that you remember playing as a child while growing up

I'm wondering what games and other activities did you play with your mates as a kid while growing up, in your local area?

A few of mine: -

Kerby ( ball game )
Hide 'n Seek
Tick
Alarleo (sp?)
Spin the Bottle
Ball Tag ( that hurt! )
Manhunt
Garages ( football game )
3 and in ( football game )

O yes and that army game that you played when you went swimming, were you all stood on the edge of the pool bar one guy / gal. And you had to pick a way to die ( i.e. machine gun, grenade, rocket launcher ) and jump back into the pool. :)

For the record, I always chose the hand grenade. :cool:
 
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British Bulldogs, with various rules of what was "caught". Shoulders on the ground for a count of three was probably the most brutal version. Especially when we played on gravel...


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Football
40 40
Dodgeball
Piggy back wrestling
Motorcross
Target shooting
Hide and Hunt (hide and seek with air rifles, yes we were stupid!)
Tennis
Fishing
Mountain biking
and past 14 hill walking.
 
ahh the good old days :
runouts
40 40 home
kirby
world cup (football)
60 seconds (football)
dart wars (me and friends played this when we got bored with throwing darts at dart board we threw them at each other)
fence jumping
and knock down ginger

and just remembered piggy back boxing (this game didnt last long due to getting gash in my head and having to have sticthes.

also a junior playgroung game called lobsey's (amazing names kids come up with )anyway need 10-20 ppl split into equal groups standing on far opposite sides of football pitch basicallyon goal line. then to throw a tennis ball at the other side. you got points for getting past the other team and if you caught the ball the person who threw it was out.
 
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Civilisation,
F-19 Stealth Fighter,
Knights of the Sky,
Battle of Britain: 1940,
Elite,
sokoban!
Many many old green screen games.

I was a solitary child :(

Well okay not all the time. We just weren't mad into playing games in our school. Just soccer, murder-ball, hurling. Occasionally cops and robbers or that game were two teams hold hands and run like **ck at eachother as fast as they can.
 
The stupidest game I remember playing was as follows:

Two of us would steal a case of bullets from someone at the local range (we did this by me grabbing my buds legs and lowering him into the pit where the shooters lie), the shooters wore ear defenders and blinkers so it was easy, he'd grab a box of bullets (not sure what calibre, .22 maybe?) and we'd leg it.

We'd go to a clearing in the trees, where there was a huge flat rock, then place a bullet in the middle and take turns at dropping another huge rock on top, I guess the object of the game was to avoid getting shot.

Manhunt was good, I remember one of my mates being so good we hunted him for hours, we reckoned he'd gone home so we did the same. Turns out he was still playing well past dusk and didn't speak to us for months.
 
Slaps
Knuckles
Punch for Punch
British Bulldog

I think Tru wins for the dumbest game to play like :p

KaHn
 
Manhunt was fantastic. still used to play that well into our late teens. We used to wait until it went dark and play on a local estate. I was a master at using shadow to hide in such obvious places that people wouldn't think of looking there (The kind of place where you'd be in plain view in daylight). One time I was just laying in some grass and someone stood on my hand and still didn't find me :D

At school we played rebounds with a tennis ball every break time for years. We also had a game that we kind of made up with no name using a grid of large squares that was painted on the playing field. Basically everyone started in a particular square. If your body went entirely out of the square you were out. Last person left wins :D
 
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kaiowas said:
At school we played rebounds with a tennis ball every break time for years. We also had a game that we kind of made up with no name using a grid of large squares that was painted on the playing field. Basically everyone started in a particular square. If your body went entirely out of the square you were out. Last person left wins :D
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Hopskotch for men?
 
Can't beat a game of British Bulldogs ;)

and how can anyone forget the ever-great 13-down
 
Stuck in the mud. Like tag, but when you were caught, you had to stand still with your legs open, then remaining players had to crawl under you to unstick you.
 
British Bulldog on skates, sadly we got banned from it after a broken leg incident :(

Foxes and Hounds.
 
We played tig (or tag or tick I guess), although after the Hungerford massacre in 1987 we played a slightly altered game called "Michael Ryan". Basically the same as tig except the person who was "on" had to should MICHAEL RYAN! is the same voice that we used to imitate a spastic. Kids are so un-PC lol.
 
Mainly British Bulldog and Football in school but we must have hurt that many dinnerladies they both got banned :(.

Manhunt was the ultimate game out of school and in the dark.
 
Kerby
Bulldog
Conkers (without eye protection :p - in your face PC ***** although it was 15 years ago :D )

and my favourite game

How much longer past the specified time could I stay outside playing with friends without getting told off by my parents. I found out it was 6 minutes :p
 
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