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summer06

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What were your fave games to play as a kid… before PS2s and Nintendo’s where around..

Mine was Kick the Can…

The ruels were you played with 5 or more people and someone had to count to 52 and everyone else hid???? When the person who is "on" has finished counting he/she turns round and tries to find the others.* When he/she spots somebody, he/she runs back to den and Shouts "Kick the can , I see (name). The named player tries to beat the "0n"player back to den, and shouts "Kick the can all free " if he/she
gets back their first.

Maybe its just an Irish thing..

We’d spend hours of fun playing this as kids on the streets… :)
 
We used to play that although it was called Block Home Stable or something like that, all the kids in the street used to play.
We would play it from the lampost outside my house and you all hid, same thing, and then all had to get back without the person on the lampost calling your name and blocking you
 
FA singles and doubles. footy, one on one or two on two with one keeps.

My question though is why 'FA' - was it officially sanctioned?!

oh and kerby. Stand on either side of the road and try and hit the kerb with a football.
 
the usual board games:

guess who
game of life
buckeroo even though the noise scared me :oops:

My friends and I use to love making tapes, like Top of the Tops :lol: I wish I still had them!

My Gran use to make me play count the cars driving past in the street. It was only until I was older I realised why :twisted:
 
Sirens said:
My Gran use to make me play count the cars driving past in the street. It was only until I was older I realised why :twisted:
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We were made to look for car number plates counting from 1 to 999 :twisted: :lol:

Me and my sis used to make up our own games in the northern countryside - things like pretending to be Banarama on a haystack (our stage) would amuse us for hours :oops: :lol:
 
summer06 said:
What were your fave games to play as a kid… before PS2s and Nintendo’s where around..

Mine was Kick the Can…

The ruels were you played with 5 or more people and someone had to count to 52 and everyone else hid???? When the person who is "on" has finished counting he/she turns round and tries to find the others.* When he/she spots somebody, he/she runs back to den and Shouts "Kick the can , I see (name). The named player tries to beat the "0n"player back to den, and shouts "Kick the can all free " if he/she
gets back their first.

Maybe its just an Irish thing..

We’d spend hours of fun playing this as kids on the streets… :)
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hahah we had the same called blockie....home then shout block 123 then the name......still it was a quality game like!!
 
mostly just teasing my sisters :oops: :lol:

Once tried to convince my little sister that the queen wanted all emily's dead so she was going to have to change her name 8O :lol:

I wasn't really into action man or things like that though as a kid, quite like chemistry kits/trolls (god I loved trolls :oops: )/lego/ sticker collecting

I was a bit of a gay geek child really :lol:
 
haha good thread.

- sardines (hide 'n' seek backwards)
- football (adding to agentundercover - pass + shoot, heads and Vs, 60 seconds)
- postman's knock
- i also played the car counting game but with the added excitement of noting down colours
- tick/allio (sp?)
- offground tick
- stuck in the mud
- kerby also
- british bulldog
- burning things
 
Knicky Knocky Nine Doors - acutually still play this occasionally on the way home from the pub.

I went to a Catholic School and we once horrified the teachers for arranging games of:

Romans versus the Christians - went all the lads (Romans) would hunt down and torture anyone one else in the playground (Christians).

And We also tried to crucify a girl in the playground by tying her to a palisade fence, which warrented a letter home.

Well they will give us bloodthirsty religious lessons....
 
zarbtron said:
mostly just teasing my sisters :oops: :lol:

Once tried to convince my little sister that the queen wanted all emily's dead so she was going to have to change her name 8O :lol:

I wasn't really into action man or things like that though as a kid, quite like chemistry kits/trolls (god I loved trolls :oops: )/lego/ sticker collecting

I was a bit of a gay geek child really :lol:
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I loved trolls! We still have them all somewhere in my house.

One of my friends had a great story about when she used to sleepwalk, her mum found her in the cupboard cutting all the hair off her trolls 8O
 
:lol: omg what a great thread!!

we grew up in a cul-de-sac and we played out ill late in relative safety (it was the 70's)

we had

"rallyvo" which was a kind of rowdy hide & seek involving pile ons & other mild forms of violence

"knock a door runaway" self explanatory really

"colditz" which had no method and involved walking to the outskirts of the estate and making our way back to our street only via peoples back gardens

"kingy" a mad game like "tig" where if you were "it" you had a tennis ball which you had to throw and hit someone to make them "it"

"tiggy on high" which was "tig" where as long as you were off the floor you couldn't be made "it"
 
jjinit said:
"colditz" which had no method and involved walking to the outskirts of the estate and making our way back to our street only via peoples back gardens
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we called this grand national, we had it very realistic. beecher's brook was a sheer drop of about 15ft and the water jump was mrs.mcrae's pond at number 15!:lol: :lol:
 
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