Games you played as a kid

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

When we were children, my brother and sister and I would play "Rock Concert" on a rainy Saturday morning.

We all took roles, such as "rock star", concet promoter. ticket taker, roadie...etc...
We'd make flyers and paste them around the house promoting the big event, use Monopoly money to purchase "tickets", then we'd decorate the living room to look like a concert hall.
Grabbing anything we could find...throw pillows as drums...hockey sticks as mic stands...we would turn off the lights as the promoter would intro the "big act".
I remember being Burton Cummings (The Guess Who), Rush, Foreigner...that sort of thing. We didn't lip-sync to the records, we just belted out our own interpretation of their hits.

My mom would freak because we would tear pages out of the phone book and shred them into confetti to throw during the concerts.
I don't know why we thought confetti was an integral part of a rock concert experience, but it was...to us.

[Moving Sale]

We had a thing called nice weather. We played there.

[Y2K]

We had a thing called nice weather. We played there.

Yep...

[poptart]

In the basement, we played floor hockey.


Curtain rods as sticks...




Pop bottle lids as pucks...




Boxes propped up as goals...




Digital clock to time the periods...

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

RACK 'tart

[Screw_Michigan]

Smear the queer

[smackaholic]

Marty, did sis play drunk groupie? Or was that later on in HS?

[Wolfman]

Whiffle ball in the street. Basketball too. Ralph Monticello's garage was on a dead end street and we hung a basket on it. Had a neighborhood 6 man football team and we'd play kids from other neighborhoods. I guess you get the picture.

[Goober McTuber]

[Goober McTuber]

Oh, yeah. "Doctor".

[jiminphilly]

Kick the can
stick ball

and a shit load of "fort" in the woods

[BSmack]

On rainy days we tried turning the house into this...

[Goober McTuber]

When we weren't fishing or working, we played 500 a lot (when there were either too few or too many kids to play a baseball game). The batter would throw the ball up with one hand, then hit the shit out of it into the field. The fielders could stand anywhere. You got 100 for catching the ball in the air, 50 if you got it on one bounce and 25 if you fielded it cleanly while it was still moving. A dead ball wasn't worth shit. Collisions and fights were common.

"High Flies and Grounders" we called it. I believe you lost all of your points if you mis-handled a ball.

[Smackie Chan]

Over the line

Check 'em - basically street hockey w/ no sticks, skates, pucks, or scoring. Just body checking each other into the neighbors' hedges, shrubbery, yards, curbs, & driveways

Kung Fu (why we called it that I have no idea) - pretty much check 'em played at night in a Xmas tree farm. Running through the maze of trees while others laid in ambush waiting for those running to come by, at which point they'd get mauled by the ambushers

Football, baseball, basketball, street hockey, smear the queer, kickball, 4-square, tetherball, ping pong, pool, carom, pinball...

[mvscal]

"Sink the Submarine" with Father Flannigan.

--Diego

[Left Seater]

We played a ton of football mostly. It didn't matter if it was two of us or twenty, football was always the first choice.

We also played tag back in the day with our BB guns. We were safety conscious though as we always wore ski goggles or those huge clear shop goggles. On a bad day you went home looking like you were fighting a bout of chicken pox. All was good until one kid started playing with one of those pump guns that looked like an M-16.

[BSmack]

Outdoors we used to weaponize the crabapples our neighbors would dump. We would use bikes as barricades and hurl apples at each other. The point was to drive the other side off their ground.

At night we played hide and seek with flashlights. We called it "German Spotlight" after the spotlights in Hogan's Heroes. The person who was "it" would use the flashlight to identify the escapee. We had the run of about 3 acres worth of woods so finding people was a challenge, so to make it fun, we would move around a lot.

Of course having a half acre back yard meant we played all the usual sports. Baseball, football, b-ball on the hoop on the garage and in the winter we would play street hockey on a iced up driveway because it was the 70s bitches.

Oh yea, and we know this kid whose dad was a "legitimate businessman" who would get fireworks for us at dirt cheap prices. So there were always fireworks going on.

[War Wagon]

Many of those listed above but I'm sorta' surprised nobody has mentioned turning on the corner fire hydrant full blast and playing in that all day long or until the Fire Dept. came by, shut it off, and chewed our ass.

[mvscal]

We had swimming pools like proper white folk.

[Sirfindafold]

[BSmack]

Many of those listed above but I'm sorta' surprised nobody has mentioned turning on the corner fire hydrant full blast and playing in that all day long or until the Fire Dept. came by, shut it off, and chewed our ass.

I never lived in a ghetto.

[Dinsdale]

Many of those listed above but I'm sorta' surprised nobody has mentioned turning on the corner fire hydrant full blast and playing in that all day long or until the Fire Dept. came by, shut it off, and chewed our ass.

I never lived in a ghetto.

Even in the 70's, that wouldn't have flown in my area -- and we have more water than we know what to do with.

When it got hot, we'd go play in the fountains downtown (aka the Bum Baths).

Or just keep playing football, baseball, and basketball.

[Left Seater]

Many of those listed above but I'm sorta' surprised nobody has mentioned turning on the corner fire hydrant full blast and playing in that all day long or until the Fire Dept. came by, shut it off, and chewed our ass.

I never lived in a ghetto.

Bwahahahahaha.

2nd.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

The black man would sneak into my bedroom late at night and we'd play, "Shhhh, don't tell anybody."

-Colon Fail

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

P.S. He used to tell me "nice white flag." :(

[War Wagon]

"I never lived in a ghetto".

Well ain't you fucking special.

[Goober McTuber]

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Marty, did sis play drunk groupie? Or was that later on in HS?

No. Her favourite performer to mimic was Freddie Mercury. She's the biggest Queen fan, to this very day.
My brother's was Elton John (no dipshits, he's not a fudge packer...he just liked to sing "Crocodile Rock").

[Truman]

The per usualm as listed above. Some of our favorites:

Indian ball (automatic out for hitting a ball into a "closed" field), hotbox, .500 and pepper; football (tackle, natch) and basketball (lotsa "horse", 1-on-1, and around-the-moon too) in-season; and this one:



Think we saw all of 10 minutes of a game one Saturday on ABC's Wide World of Sports, and it was ON! You "hiked" the ball by heeling it back to a player stationed behind you; a series of backward laterals advanced the ball down the field while the opposition tried to run you down and kill you. "Touchdowns" counted for 3 points; punts-on-the-run over the telephone wire running to the house counted for 2. I still don't know the rules of the game, but there was nothing like coming home bruised and muddy from a neighborhood game of what we called "rugby".

[trev]

Red Rover Red Rover, Red Light Green Light, Hopscotch, Kickball, tetherball, dodgeball, tag, hide n seek

[trev]

Also, my friend next door and I would play Batman and Robin with her mom's tv tray table. The bottom part folded up was our bat car. We took turns on who got to be Batman or Robin.

[Smackie Chan]

Red Light Green Light

Statue Maker?

[War Wagon]

We took turns....

:swoon:

Marty and mv

[Moving Sale]

We had swimming pools like proper white folk.

I laughed.

[smackaholic]

tackle football, smear the queer, softball, basketball (usually 3 on 3 halfcourt or 21) and lots of hockey at the town rink (an old cranberry bog) in the town my grandparents lived in. Hockey was easily my favorite. Would play all day long.

And, I did live in the ghetto, back when there were still a handful of honkeys living there. We did crank open the hydrants, but then the damn firemen put special nuts on the screw that required a special wrench. They did put sprinkler attachments on them and run them on hot days.

My brother and I would pitch to each other using a tennis ball and a strike zone painted on the wall of a nearby building. He is a lefty, so to this day, I absolutely can't hit RH pitching because I rarely saw it. Can hit the shit out of a lefty though. Occasionally we would play using one of those sponge rubber balls. Absolutely no telling what that fukking thing would do. It could break a foot left or right depending on how it came off your hand. If you guessed wrong on the break, you'd swing at something that ended up beaning you or dive on a pitch that ended up a strike.

And for you ancient fukks that were around before the aluminum soda can, do you remember tennis ball cannons?

Without a doubt, being a kid in the 70s was better than being one today.

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

Moved around a bit as a kid so the activities depended on my friends at the time. But a lot of...

Baseball (real baseball, not that wiffle ball bullshit)
Football (touch, tackle, $500)
Hide-n-seek
Truth-or-dare
Four square
And a whole lot of general mischief and hijinks...

[smackaholic]

up until the age of about 10 or 11, we would spend hours digging up the yard to stage little plastic army man battles. That was some fun shit.

[Screw_Michigan]

Moved around a bit as a kid so the activities depended on my friends at the time. But a lot of...

Baseball (real baseball, not that wiffle ball bullshit)
Football (touch, tackle, $500)
Hide-n-seek
Truth-or-dare
Four square
And a whole lot of general mischief and hijinks...

You forgot basketball. How can you forget Jerry's bullshit ass-out post maneuvers?