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What games did you play as a kid?
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Alyallen



Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!

PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 1:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

handball, stickball, wiffleball, tag, freeze tag, hide and go seek, basketball, Carwash: Put a kink in the gardenhose, wait for a car to come by and unloosen the kink, and then run away when pissed off drivers would come looking for the culprits Laughing, double dutch, jump rope, high jump:like limbo but the stick goes higher and you have to jump over it....

We also used to race each other. I used to bet on myself and win money because I could even outrun the boys. Gotta love when arrogance works to your advantage Laughing
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princess



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia

PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tag
Freeze Tag
Hide and Go Seek
Red Rover
Dodgeball
Kickball
Marco Polo

I also played dress up, house, and I went to a tea party...hehehe^^

I also had my own tea set and a toy kitchen, and of course Barbie Dolls.
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pest2



Joined: 01 Jun 2005
Location: Vancouver, Canada

PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

on the more criminal side:

trash can fire

steal the tire valve covers - game (but dont play with stupid kids who, after stealing the caps, proceed to let all the air out the tires WHEN PEOPLE ARE IN THE CAR, STILL!)

write your name in a car's paint with tartar control crest - game

toilet paper the house - game

put eggs, vinegar, poo, and garlic in a jar and light in on fire on your music teacher's porch - game

try to derail a train with a penny - game


Luckily for me, I moved away from the town in which I had friends who liked to play these games before I had to play the, "spend the night in jail" game.....
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Beej



Joined: 05 Mar 2005
Location: Eungam Loop

PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 3:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a very rambunctious and lightly supervised childhood. Oh the memories. At school we played dodge ball. The ball was the size and hardness of a standard soccer ball. We always aimed for headshots. We tried to inflict pain. On a few occasions kids ended up at the hospital with broken noses or mild concussions.
The whole month of June was a fireworks extravaganza. Firecrackers, bottle rockets, Roman candles. The fun was limitless.
Halloween: eggings and free candy. One of my most vivid Halloween memories was a house egging fest with a buddy from the neighborhood: he is now on California's death row. I guess egging could be considered a "gateway" crime to home invasion and multiple homocide.

Mostly we just played sports: basketball, baseball and strikeouts, street football. Craziest game: street football played wearing roller skates. Brutal.
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HapKi



Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL

PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

conkers
break the pencil
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Bondrock



Joined: 08 Oct 2006
Location: ^_^

PostPosted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

anti -I-over .....

throwing a ball over a gable roof.... if it does not make it....
you shout "pigtail"
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thorin



Joined: 14 Apr 2003

PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 12:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

HapKi wrote:

break the pencil


That game was great except I usually broke my own pencil going for the kill.
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korea252



Joined: 17 Jul 2006
Location: Seoul, Haebangchon

PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 1:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kick the can and kiss, cuddle, or torture.
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yingwenlaoshi



Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!

PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ROAD HOCKEY!!!!!!!!

and SPIN THE BOTTLE!!!!
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JMO



Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu

PostPosted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 4:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My ma bought my brother a magic set for xmas once in a misguided attempt to get him to do something constructive. We took out the juggling balls and ditched the rest of the set. Got a shoe, placed it beside the sofa and us and our friends had a "throw balls into the shoe game". We even developed a set system and it got pretty serious. I noticed the wuality of xmas presents went down after that year.


We also had a game that we played between the gable wall of our house and the wall of our garage. You couldn't hit the wall but had to get the ball(soccer) past the guy at the other end. That was also taken very seriously.

And last but not least, the ultimae summer game. Big blue barrel of water(doesn;t have to be blue), everybody stand around it with their heads over the water whilst somebody pushes a soccer ball as far as they can down into the water, then lets go. That's it.
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jajdude



Joined: 18 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

We invented quite a few games, some were pretty good. We had versions of baseball using a tin can, and another one with a basketball. We used to hit golf balls with bats and tennis rackets, and wear hockey helmets. We were a creative bunch, me, Coe and Murly.
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The Chewbacca Defense



Joined: 29 May 2004
Location: The ROK and a hard place

PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:15 am    Post subject: ,,, Reply with quote

2 of my favs

Kiss and Catch

and Spotlight (game you play with flashlights and nighttime)


Now I like to play blackjack.

Oh the innocence of youth
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robot



Joined: 07 Mar 2006

PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

as a kid?

forget that -- we made a killer one 2 years ago called squareball.

it's a cross between four-square (awesomeness) and tennis.
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wo buxihuan hanguoren



Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis

PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow, no one here played Super Mario Bros 3 as a kid?
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jajdude



Joined: 18 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wo buxihuan hanguoren wrote:
Wow, no one here played Super Mario Bros 3 as a kid?


Damn I'd play it now if I had Nintendo.
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