Games from your childhood.

[Gothic Sponge]

"Gotcha... four across" "Where?" "I don't see it..." "Here... Diagonally" "Pretty sneaky, Sis."

[jpgray]

1. Got three in a row, go for one more

Watch for the block
Forget it you're stuck.

[soothsayer]

2. Hey, Pa, There's A Goat on the Roof!

One of our favorites. I've got two of 'em!

[Parche]

3. games

Sorry..........I have no Clue on which games we played, and I am
not even going to Risk saying them

[johnnie]

4. Back in my day.........

We didn't have these fancy-shmancie plastic games that came in a "box". All this rollin' of the dice, poppin' little poppers, electric light bulbs for noses and other new fangled contraptions.
We would play "poke the eyes" with sticks that we had to break off the trees in the yard.
"Steal the shoe" was one where we would find the kid who was lucky enough to have shoes and we would see who could steal the shoe. The winner got to keep the one shoe for a week to hop around the neighborhood so they could feel what it was like to have money.
My favorite game was "Jump up and down"..we would ummmmm....jump up and down.
Sure they weren't the games of you young spoilt brats..what, with your battleships and ants in the pants, but we had fun...and we liked it!

[shraby]

5. How about "Kick the can" played after dark?

[johnnie]

6. It was always "after dark" for us kids

We couldn't even afford sunshine where I lived.

[Gothic Sponge]

9. Couldn't your family get on some kind of sunshine welfare program?

[miss_kitty]

26. Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssss!

kick the can. after dark...those were the gd days!

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. Mystery Date game. I always opened the door and found the Dud.

:(



And, I just found out that my game is worth $125.00!!!!! :hi:

[redqueen]

8. I loved ... oh heck now I can't remember the name

Where one person chooses four colored pegs and then the other person tries to guess the pattern using a kind of coded response. Also loved pente and chess.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. Mastermind?

I loved that game too! :hi:

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. Mastermind!

[redqueen]

13. That's it!

Thanks, you two! :hi:

[Lavender Brown]

10. Battleship

I always wanted the electronic one with the flashing lights, but never got it.

[Tikki]

14. Jacks....

5th and 6th grade champion, here...

I'm in my 50's and I still practice and play.....

[tsakshaug]

15. kickball

that was big.
Running after the DDT truck was always fun.
Riding bikes out to the dump and shooting rats with BB guns.

Never understood Monopoly.

Lots of card games.

[The empressof all]

16. Anyone remember Stoop Ball?

I don't remember the rules but I sure remember playing it alot.

[Mizmoon]

17. Sorry

No, it's not an apology. That was my fav board game.

We also used to play "boys chase the girls and try to kiss them". I liked that one too ;)

[Enraged_Ape]

18. Anyone here remember 'Acquire'?

It was sort of like Monopoly, but a LOT easier, faster and more fun to play.

It involved buying stock in hotel chains that you and your opponents created and built with randomly-drawn tiles. It was a fast-paced game that was the perfect blend of chance and strategy. Every game was different; tactics that worked in the last game might sink you in the current game as you struggled to amass the greatest value on your holdings.

Man, I miss that game. As a kid, I played a LOT of games around this time of year, when the air got crisp and the weather turned ugly.

[kick-ass-bob]

19. I always wanted 'Hungry Hungry Hippos'

but never got it...
:cry:

Connect Four, Risk, Stratego, Mastermind - I had all these at some point.

But what about:

Yahtzee!!

[flamingyouth]

20. Jarts!

And I managed to not kill anyone - or even maim them! :D

[bif]

25. How about indoor Jarts while drinking?

Wouldn't that be fun?

[flamingyouth]

27. It's fun - until someone loses an eye!

:evilgrin:

[Debi]

21. How about Red Rover

and Mother May I?

and Flashlight Tag?

OOOOO DODGE BALL!!!!!


(edited to add dodge ball cuz it's sooooo cool).

[Carson]

22. Lost a tooth in 3rd grade due to Red Rover.

Instead of heading for the linked arms, this huge kid barrelled right into me, knocking me to the ground. His head hit my mouth. Sayonara, tooth!

Still loved to play, though!

[Carson]

23. Risk (the original with *wooden* game pieces)

As kids, my brother and I would have games that lasted for days.

[Dookus]

24. played a lot of

Trouble



Don't Break the Ice



and Mouse Trap!

[Kadie]

28. Flinch.

[miss_kitty]

29. Capture the Flag

Mouse Trap, Checkers, Chinese Checkers, Double Solitaire, Kick the Can, Hide and Seek, Nasty Barbies:evilgrin:, House, Go Fish, Hearts, Spades, Canasta, Doctor:evilgrin:, Old Maid...

[7th_Sephiroth]

30. monopoly

4 square, fooseball, galaga, soopur mar-e-o