Games that you remember playing as a child while gowing up

Used to love Red Rover, Tig, and all the other games I cannot remember the names to :)

Anyone remember queeny queeny? was more of a girls game but was fun to annoy them playing it.

Remember playing soldiers in the local woods, with sling shots and water pistols.
 
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VaderDSL said:
Remember playing soldiers in the local woods, with sling shots and water pistols.
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We use to do that only we use to make peg guns.

My mum use to go balistic at me for using all the pegs :eek:
 
We spent a whole summer playing a game we called BMX bandits (after a film or something IIRC). Basically it was hide and seek but on bikes. It started off as two people being the seekers, but they had to actually touch you to get you on their side.
Thinking back, it was probably stupidly hard to win as we set these big huge boundaries that covered half of Radcliffe as the playing area. LOL.
 
football
cricket
60 seconds (football game)
hide n seek
tag
kerby
kingsy

...are the ones I can remember, good old days!
 
surfsquid said:
and thats just a variation on the 40-40 we used to play. The kid nobody liked had to be the post.
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There are so many variations of this game. We used to call it 45 and in, when you person who was it would count to 45 at the post/homey and everyone would try and get there first and say "45 and in". Oh i used to love that one :)
 
Blocker - Sound the the 4040/Can game mentioned above but using a lamp post or whatever for the base.
Stuck/Stick in the mud
Tiggy on High - As long as you were above the level of the school yard you were safe.
Japs and Commandos - which was basically dodge ball with two teams and loads of tennis balls, mint :D
 
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Used to love Red Rover, Tig, and all the other games I cannot remember the names to :)
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remeber red rover in primary school. Tried to ban it but it kept coming back.

All i remember in primary school was fighting, between 2 groups in the same class. Everyone belonged to one group or the other.

Primary school was very working class, but when i went to a relative posh high school so no more fun games then :(
 
Jimmi said:
Back in the day it would have been fine though, its only in the last 5 years or so people might get scared about some 10 year olds running round with "guns"
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Yea, back in the day of regular bombings, the IRA, and driveby shootings in Ireland it was all roses, much better than now :confused:
 
We used to play a game called Letters, need at least 10 people playing.

5v5 etc , one team running, others chasing. The running team have to make a word up and have a letter each. Chasing team have to catch the others and beat the <insert word here> out of others to get there letter so they can guess the final word.
 
hide n seek
44 save all
bulldog
it-ball
it (tag/tig or whatever the hell you wanna call it)
varying football
manhunt was probably the best though, i remember being about 10, and staying out till about 10 pm playing it, it was quite dark so it was even cooler :cool:

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wall ball
seeing how high up the scaffolding we could get then they were doing maintenance on the flats roof- that was also quite fun

oh, and there was a tree by one of the other flats (group of 3 flats) which was easy to climb into, i remember playing games like: throw rocks into the tree and see who falls out last :D
 
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marbles for the win


oh and we used to throw stones at some old miserable mans window and door everyday until couple of weeks went by and he came running out of his house crying and screaming " why me , why me "
 
I remember one in particular that I used to love playing, we had an old WW2 bunker near. The game was you'd have 4 people, 2 on each team.

2 stay on the bunker and 2 go out into fields and forest thats surrounds the bunker. Basically, the two had to get into the bunker without being spotted, was so much fun especially running along the field then seeing them come round the bunker almost spotting you and having to drop quickly into the mud.

Was so much fun :( I wanna play again

But the others were bulldog, knock and run (unfortunatley :(), wrestling, kurby and loads more, those were the days lol
 
Well:

Tig

Tig 1-2-3

Semi-semi (A copy of British Bulldog [it was banned at school :p]).

Cops and Robbers (A copy of British Bulldog [it was banned at school {and then "Semi-semi" was banned :p}]).

Hot Rice

That's about it really. We could never play football at school, or anything other than with a small sponge ball (tennis ball size). I never really "played" outside much as my friends did not live close to me. After Primary School I didn't really "play" games, I have found that the library is a much nicer environment (provided one is around the right people).

Angus Higgins
 
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