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[El Driver]

I've been meaning to make this topic for a time so here it goes.

What games did you play when you were little? And by games I don't mean video games, I mean games that you played outside with friends like hide-and-seek for example.

My favorite ones where hide-and-seek because I was SOOOOO good at hiding, though I always picked the most uncomfortable places to hide.

Cops and robbers was another one I remember playing a lot, I still remember the arguments whether someone was killed or not

Playing marbles! I used to have my cool bag where I used to carry my marbles and let's not lie for those who play, we all used to have that special marble that could beat any marble.

Spin the bottle! That's where you dared the girl you had a crush on to give you a kiss *wink* (though if something I have learned in life is that people still play spin the bottle later on in life *another wink*)

And last but not least tag! I ran very fast and used to climb trees so people couldn't catch me *suckers*

So what was your favorite games! Come on post them so we can remember those fun times we had when we were kids!

[Lamor]

I remember that we were pretending to be Pokemon trainers that travelled across all the regions. Got stuck at Shinnoh 'cause we were a bit too old for this stuff and felt stupid when playing.

ALIENS! Remember that scary movie about huge, awful black aliens that eat your brain with inner mouth? Of course you do! My friend watched it once when his parents weren't looking and told me about it. Later we made our stories involving us as a Marines battling Aliens. Was fun. Especially that I didn't knew hoe Aliens looked like.....

FRIGIN YU-GI-OH!!! We were collecting cards and later played with them pretending to be characters from the show. I still have 200+ cards somewhere.

And last but not least Gormiti!

Cool figurines we used to have fun with. We had lots of these.

Too bad I grew up :/
Wish I could have fun just like the old days of my early childhood.

[743-E.D. Missile]

Imaginary pseudo roleplay with a friend I have not had contact with for years due to not knowing his phone number or where he lives (poor memory on my part). Let's just say it involved me and my friend pretending we were Super Saiyan Jedi who were also Minicons from Transformers Armada. And my lightsaber was rainbow colored.

[Jango]

Oh dude, I had the habit to create games with my friends. Some of them could be played only at night, like Ghost. One team should hide (the ghosts), while the other team (the ghostbusters) should find and catch the ghosts. The fun part is, at night you can't see very well, and the apartment complex I live is pretty big and has lots of places to hide (behind cars, alleys, bushes). Like this, the ghosts should scare or surprise the ghostbusters to avoid been catch by them Really awesome game. I used to create games based on videogames too (yeah, I created a game based on Sonic). There's too much to remember and if I want to write everything, it will be a book hehe

Edited by Jango, 17 July 2012 - 02:58 PM.

[shimapun]

My cousins and I used to always play blind man's bluff down in my great aunt's basement. For those who don't know, it's basically a variant of tag where the person who's "It" is blindfolded, and everyone else has to avoid her/him while still making some noise to guide them. It's kinda like Marco Polo but not in a pool.

Needless to say, being that we played in an old basement, we always ran into shit, which was where most of the fun came from. One of my cousins ran headfirst into a refrigerator once. We reminisce on that particular event a lot.

[Agent Jack]

Everything was pokemon related when I was little. Since it was new at the time and every child who had a pack of pokemon cards and a gameboy was considered "cool", my friends and I would run around the playground pretending to be our favorite pokemon, and having fake "battles" with each other. Probably the funniest part was that there was this kid who was obsessed with Yu-gi-oh, who would come over and start blathering on about how Yu-gi-oh was SO much better than Pokemon. In which he'd then proceed to pretend being a Dark Magician or something and start chasing us around.

My friends and I all thought he was a weirdo.

[Jango]

My cousins and I used to always play blind man's bluff down in my great aunt's basement. For those who don't know, it's basically a variant of tag where the person who's "It" is blindfolded, and everyone else has to avoid her/him while still making some noise to guide them. It's kinda like Marco Polo but not in a pool.

Needless to say, being that we played in an old basement, we always ran into shit, which was where most of the fun came from. One of my cousins ran headfirst into a refrigerator once. We reminisce on that particular event a lot.

Wow, I used to play that too. The blindfolded person is rotated for 20 seconds and then all the other players must go away from him/her and stand still. Once someone is touched, he/she must make some noise and the blind player must guess who is it XD

Edited by Jango, 17 July 2012 - 05:03 PM.

[Nepenthe]

Hide and seek was one, although with the way our neighborhood is set up and the "no hiding in each others' houses rule," it was extremely hard to hide. So we quickly switched to tag, and from time to time had pretend adventures in the woods over yonder until I cut my arm lengthwise on a branch; fun times. Red Light, Green Light was another popular game, as well as Tips. Tips is basically Hot Potato where the catch is that your feet cannot touch the ground as you're catching and returning the ball. We must've looked like idiots playing that one. xD

Once we got older, we started playing actual sports, namely basketball, croquet, volleyball, badminton, and kickball.

[Lennox]

So there was this one guy in school who created his own little version of Calvinball. It was a game that was like Rock, Paper, Scissors, but we had to be constantly reloading, trying to use (or rather, come up with) all sorts of different weapons that matched our current stock of reloads. Plus, you only had two HP.

The name of the game was aptly enough...

Spoiler

RELOADDDDDDDDDDDD.

It would go like this: every turn of combat started and ended by two (or more, can reach as far as six) peeps doing the first part of patty cake (the double high-five), and during that turn of combat, you could reload. With that reload, you could do anything with that reload, and any subsequent reloads stacked.

Here are a list of things you can do with reloads:

Spoiler

1 reload: Bang (a handgun), Reflect (a reflective barrier), Sack (a knife, dunno why it's sack)
2 reloads: Pistol, Dagger
3 reloads: Machine Gun, Rifle, Sniper
4 reloads: Bazooka, Gattling Gun, Broadsword
5 reloads: Medicine, M-16, Epee, Japanese knives, BOMBS
...

10 reloads: Rocket-propelled grenade, Katana
...

9,001 reloads (addendum by moi): GIGA. DRILL! BREAKERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR~~~~~!

Ayup. In a game of Reload, anything can happen. <3

Edited by Lennox, 17 July 2012 - 07:01 PM.

[Mollfie]

Most of my games involved pretending to be an animal, usually a dog, fox, cat or horse. I also liked pretending to be the footstool/dog from Beauty and the Beast. I also liked playing school or library with my soft toy animals. I often played with my toy farm, zoo and puppy in my pockets/kitty in my pockets or plastic horses too.

At home I played by myself a lot because my sisters are 9 and 12 years older than me, so not really interested in play games any more. At school I tended to play with one or two people and we'd usually pretend to be animals, play skipping games or french skipping, clapping games, hopscotch and stuck in the mud. You couldn't play hide-and-seek because it was too open =/

I mostly played pretending games rather than actual games.

Edited by Mollfie, 17 July 2012 - 07:09 PM.

[El Driver]

Ah yes pretending games were awesome! Really shows how kids have a lot of imagination!

I used to pretend I was a treasure hunter looking for gold in abandoned houses, though everytime I would hear a weird noise I will hide/run because I thought it was the spirits of the house trying to prevent me from find it.

Another pretend game was playing monster hunter and look for creatures like bigfoot or the chupacabra

[Metal Gear (sting)RAY]

I remember my old friend and I were huge fans of Kirby 64 back in the day, so we used to pretend to be Dark Matter and Miracle Matter and do... general playground stuff.

[El Driver]

My cousins and I used to always play blind man's bluff down in my great aunt's basement. For those who don't know, it's basically a variant of tag where the person who's "It" is blindfolded, and everyone else has to avoid her/him while still making some noise to guide them. It's kinda like Marco Polo but not in a pool.

Needless to say, being that we played in an old basement, we always ran into shit, which was where most of the fun came from. One of my cousins ran headfirst into a refrigerator once. We reminisce on that particular event a lot.

THIS! We used to play this exact game until a friend bumped into a small bookshelf and the damn thing actually fell on him. Luckily nothing critical happened and he just had bruises here and there. Needless to say we never played that game again.

[One-Liner Sam]

"Red Rover, Red Rover, send [player's name] right over!"

Yep, that was one of them. And sometimes we play Thumbs Up, Seven Up (if I recall the name correctly) whenever we're in a school classroom, and also a classic game of Hopscotch at the playground.

[batson]

Pretty much my whole class used to play "Sonic-tag", which was just like regular tag expect everyone was a Sonic character, and the one who was "it" was always Robotnik. Since there weren't enough characters for each person to get his/her own unique one, we would have like "Knuckles 1" and "Knuckles 2" and so forth. I was in luck though because i always wanted to be professor von schlemmer who nobody else ever wanted to be.

[El Driver]

Pretty much my whole class used to play "Sonic-tag", which was just like regular tag expect everyone was a Sonic character, and the one who was "it" was always Robotnik. Since there weren't enough characters for each person to get his/her own unique one, we would have like "Knuckles 1" and "Knuckles 2" and so forth. I was in luck though because i always wanted to be professor von schlemmer who nobody else ever wanted to be.

This reminds me that after playing a sport/game/video game we will race to the store to buy candy and junk food. One day my cousins were like, "let's play Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles!" I was like "cool a new Sonic game came out!"It turns out it was just pretending to be one of them and race to the store, facepalm

[Metal Gear (sting)RAY]

Anyone else here ever have "that friend" who made up games and changed the rules whenever he's losing?

[El Driver]

Anyone else here ever have "that friend" who made up games and changed the rules whenever he's losing?

I think we all had that friend, it was very.....annoying. Though is funny when you beat them at their own game.

[743-E.D. Missile]

Imaginary pseudo roleplay with a friend I have not had contact with for years due to not knowing his phone number or where he lives (poor memory on my part). Let's just say it involved me and my friend pretending we were Super Saiyan Jedi who were also Minicons from Transformers Armada. And my lightsaber was rainbow colored.

Oh, and I forgot to mention, we acquired some poles and metal rods from a storeroom we found in under the bridge...

I wonder if anyone was using that? If so, they probably noticed the loss of some of their poles.

[El Driver]

Oh, and I forgot to mention, we acquired some poles and metal rods from a storeroom we found in under the bridge...

I wonder if anyone was using that? If so, they probably noticed the loss of some of their poles.

A storeroom below a bridge?......a serial killer's hideout? O_OThis made me remember of how me and my friends will sneak into the backyard of this business that collected plastic bottles to recycle them to put them in the wheel of our bikes to make them sound like motorcycles.