OT: Games We Played as Kids

[DaBronxPats14]

Anyone here ever play speedball/stickball (drawn strikeout box on wall, tennis ball, hockey stick for "bat")? Only the Lord knows how many tennis balls we lost to school and church roofs.

Deus we played stick ball with a box on wall for balls & strikes and Fungo toss ball up bounce a couple of times and hit then run bases.

 

[1960Pats]

We used to play a game where we would run around in the woods. One of us would have a BB gun (Only pumped up once or twice) while the other kids would hide. Then the guy with the gun would simply try to shoot the other kids. Fun with Guns!

Another (Fun?) game was to have "Roman Candle Wars" where 2 kids would stand 25-30 yards away from one another and shoot Roman Candles at each other life we were battling wizards casting fireballs.

My god... its amazing that nobody was every "seriously" hurt. What the hell were we thinking?!

You kids were nuts. So were some of the others here. Glad I never ran into you.

 

[Deus Irae]

You kids were nuts. So were some of the others here. Glad I never ran into you.

It is a miracle, perhaps literally, that none of us were killed. The number of close calls surely defies statistical analysis.

Those were some of the very best times, too.

 

[FCB02062]

We used to play a game called Relievio...i think this game or name of the game was unique from W Roxbury, JP down route 1 to maybe Walpole and out towards south shore - Quincy, weymouth etc.....2 teams run around capture each other type game.... Have to tag the kid in "jail" to let them out... I sucked at it cuz I was fat and slow... I might even be messing up the description because I don't really remember - we're talking late 70s-early 80s....
Other than that wiffle ball, pickle....

Here's one - how many people put in their "potata"(fist) and went 1 potata, 2 potata to choose sides?

Indoor games were Atari, Commodore 64, GI Joe, Transformers, GoBots....and bonus points to anyone who remembers Godaikin robots from Mr Big Toyland in waltham

 

[1960Pats]

I have a game that I came up with for my kids that they absolutely loved. They still talk about it now in their 30's and one of my sons even introduced it to his school kids in Korea.

The game is Wall Ball. It's real simple and we used to play it in the living room when mom was out. It started with me throwing a ball off of one of the walls in the living room (after I moved a few things) and the kids would try to run across in front of the wall without being hit. It was great when they were young because I would tell them I was going to fire the ball real hard and they would get up more for that. It makes me smile just thinking back to those games of Wall Ball.

 

[StockingAnarchyNumber12]

Pokemon and Yugioh cards....... I was the worst duelist at school though...

 

[1960Pats]

It is a miracle, perhaps literally, that none of us were killed. The number of close calls surely defies statistical analysis.

Those were some of the very best times, too.

I think those are the kind of memories that makes being a parent a little harder.

 

[Clonamery]

Played a lot of muckle myself.

Oh for a second i thought it read, "by myself."

 

[1960Pats]

Red Rover: Two teams line up opposite each other, no more than 30 feet apart. The first team agrees to call one player from the opposite team, and chants, "Red Rover, Red Rover, send (player's name) on over!" The person called runs to the other line and attempts to break the chain (formed by the linking of hands). If the player fails to break the chain, they join the team that called Red Rover. If the player suceeds, they take one of the players who "broke" back to their team.

I remember that one. My how time flies.

 

[1960Pats]

Of course, nothing wrong with a good board game of "Risk". Psychological warfare on a grand scale.

We used to have some pretty long Risk games.

 

[1960Pats]

Hide the Salami was my favorite game.

It was your favorite because smaller things are easier to hide.

 

[Horace's Ivories]

German Dodgeball

 

[OhExaulted1]

1. Spin the bottle
2. Hide the pickle
3. Naked twister
4 . Pyramids and ***hole (cards). We actually had an A-hole hat that consisted of a toilet seat and an orange road cone.
5. ...and of course scotch-hops, which was a variation of hop-scotch which involved alcohol poisoning and limb damage

Ohhh....to be a kid again.....

 

[patfanken]

It is a miracle, perhaps literally, that none of us were killed. The number of close calls surely defies statistical analysis.

Those were some of the very best times, too.

I have to think we were lucky to live in a time when boys were expected to come home from play with a few bumps and bruises. Now days a kid gets a scrape and his parents are looking for a lawyer in the phone book.

 

[1960Pats]

We used to play a game called Relievio...i think this game or name of the game was unique from W Roxbury, JP down route 1 to maybe Walpole and out towards south shore - Quincy, weymouth etc.....2 teams run around capture each other type game.... Have to tag the kid in "jail" to let them out... I sucked at it cuz I was fat and slow... I might even be messing up the description because I don't really remember - we're talking late 70s-early 80s....
Other than that wiffle ball, pickle....

Here's one - how many people put in their "potata"(fist) and went 1 potata, 2 potata to choose sides?

Indoor games were Atari, Commodore 64, GI Joe, Transformers, GoBots....and bonus points to anyone who remembers Godaikin robots from Mr Big Toyland in waltham

7 potata more

Finally someone mentioned wiffle ball. That alone brings back great memories. Growing up we had a spot that was the perfect wiffle ball setup.

Picture a quiet street with a dead end street running high on a hill along side of that quiet street. That created a yard that consisted of a 4 foot high stone wall with a higher stockade fence above that and another stockade fence above that one.

We could set home plate up on the quiet street hitting toward the fences and any ball that was hit and made it to the wall on the ground was a single. A ball that hit the wall in the air was a double, over the first stockade fence was a triple and a homer was over everything.

The only problem we had was one of the houses nearby had a couple of nutty brothers who liked to shoot their bb guns at us when we played. It could have been @TheFlyingWedge shooting at us.

 

[pats4life12]

For me nothing beat a good ol game of kickball. We use to play for hours or at least until the street lights came on.

 

[1960Pats]

I have to think we were lucky to live in a time when boys were expected to come home from play with a few bumps and bruises. Now days a kid gets a scrape and his parents are looking for a lawyer in the phone book.

And they have the nerve to call it progress.

 

[1960Pats]

For me nothing beat a good ol game of kickball. We use to play for hours or at least until the street lights came on.

Did you prefer to kick off your toe or the top of your foot? I used to love it when there was a slight bounce in the pitch so I could nail it with the top of my foot. Timed right it was deadly.

 

[PlanB]

I have to think we were lucky to live in a time when boys were expected to come home from play with a few bumps and bruises. Now days a kid gets a scrape and his parents are looking for a lawyer in the phone book.

and if you're a single parent and take your child to the doctors , you get grilled about every scrape and bruise

 

[1960Pats]

How about badminton? What a blast that game was (and still is).