Games We Used to Play

[Gromit]

We've had old time music, old time TV shows, what was happening when you born et al. So how about, games we used to play and sometimes still do.

Our 12 year old has a peg board "Battleships" game, about 4 years old. We play it quite often and truth be known, I love the game. He also loves Monopoly, Uno, Gin Rummy, and if I'm not looking, a quick game of blackjack with his mates.

So what did you play, still play and do any families sit around around a table playing cards or board games anymore??

 

[Candy]

i have credit card Monopoly......

yeah but used to play battle ships, rummy, uno.......... those were the days!!!!

 

[DaveM]

I never played many board type games we were mostly in the bush exploring and building forts and stuff. Then the time came and I had my scrambler so I was still mostly in the bush :y18:

 

[CarlS]

Whenever we are blessed to get together with our kids, we play Uno and Trivial Pursuit. Lot's of fun. Since the whole family is adventuresome, we usually kayak, ride, mountain bike, or climb rather than sit around indoors. During our next get together, we are all going to sky dive. My oldest daughter is the only one of us who is jump qualified already.

 

[Gromit]

Geez Carl - skydive!!!! That's brilliant. Closest I came is doing the course, going up in the plane for my first static line jump. In the plane was a girl who was doing her first free-fall and she was praying all the way up in the plane! I figured that if she was praying after all her previous jumps, there wasn't a snowballs hope in hell I was jumping. So I went back to ground with the plane and never attempted it again!

Still love Trivial Pursuit though.

When we were kids we used to play hopscotch, skipping, french skipping, marbles, shoot potato pop guns at each other - just run amock. Don't think kids today know what these games are. Oops - showing my age again. :silent:

 

[DaveM]

[quote author=CarlS link=topic=2539.msg17588#msg17588 date=1227018893]
During our next get together, we are all going to sky dive.
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:y112: :y108:

 

[Rocky]

As a kid we used to play Chinese checkers, regular checkers, snakes and ladders, crokinole, monopoly, canasta with playing cards.
Outside we played cowboys & Indians, hide and seek, war with home made wooden guns.
I lived on a farm until I was 12 years-old so we had lots of space to explore and play.
I haven't played any games since my kids grew up. I read or play with the internet these days.

 

[Dilligaf]

Do you guys remember the old football game that used the vibrating field. You set up all the players and turned it on. They would move from the vibration, the QB's arm would toss a felt football.

Outdoors we played red rover, baseball, and simon says.

 

[CarlS]

I do remember that football game. When I was young, we played mostly outdoors.

 

[Gromit]

Kids here still play Red Rover. I think farm kids have more fun than city kids. We swam in the dam, picked fruit and stuffed our faces while sitting in whatever fruit tree, made bows and arrows from bamboo or whatever sticks would hold up to the challenge, had watermelon fights, built forts and castles out of mud, got dirty and tried to avoid having a bath. Shoes were for Sunday church service as were dresses. We built go-carts using tomato boxes and pram wheels - no brakes!

 

[CarlS]

I agree with you, Gromit; I was blessed to be raised in the sticks.

 

[jmv2006]

[quote author=Gromit link=topic=2539.msg17621#msg17621 date=1227025904]
I think farm kids have more fun than city kids...[/quote]I had a lot of fun on both sides: Town & Country :y18:
Probably it will be "politically incorrect" to say it here but I had fantastic toys.
I always liked the most technical ones.
The first toys I will never forget were a Meccano set and a small collection of Dinky Toys and Corgi toys cars. I still have quite a few of them.

Then I had a Marklïn train with just a couple of lines and buildings. I wish I still had it!

On my teens I had a Scalextric 1:24 racetrack.

I loved to build my own cars. My favourite was a BRG & yellow Lotus 30 made by Cox.

In the farm I will never forget the old grey Ferguson tractor on which I learned to drive when I was less than 10 years old (much less actually )

 

[CarlS]

The Mecanno was called and Erector Set here in the US. I never had one; but I enjoyed playing with those of my friends. That train is a fine collectors item today!

 

[Rocky]

Yes indeed, I remember having Meccano sets too - and I also drove that very same tractor on the farm when I was ten years old. As long as we could reach the pedals we were allowed to drive whatever machine we wanted to help with the harvest or whatever.
That's just what farm kids did back in the old days. Driving a tractor was quite natural and the expected thing to do as soon as you were big enough.
Such freedom these days would probably be considered child abuse or irresponsible parenting :ya2:

 

[CarlS]

[quote author=Rocky link=topic=2539.msg17642#msg17642 date=1227048805]
Yes indeed, I remember having Meccano sets too - and I also drove that very same tractor on the farm when I was ten years old. As long as we could reach the pedals we were allowed to drive whatever machine we wanted to help with the harvest or whatever.
That's just what farm kids did back in the old days. Driving a tractor was quite natural and the expected thing to do as soon as you were big enough.
Such freedom these days would probably be considered child abuse or irresponsible parenting :ya2:
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Or forbidden by nanny governemnt. I remember driving a tractor and about nine years old and a truck a couple of years later. All part of rural life back then.

 

[Silli]

[quote author=DaveM link=topic=2539.msg17584#msg17584 date=1227018365]
............................so I was still mostly in the bush :y18:
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h: :wink:

 

[Silli]

Meccano was the best.......
Also has Scalextric.... Subuteo, which was cr@p.
We lived in a pub, and I used to distill beer dregs into "whiskey" with my trusty old chemistry set.
Monopoly is a great game, which I still enjoy
Scrabble
Also spent a lot of my youth working with my brother-in-law on a farm, and have driven a similar tractor.

Wish kids today would play like this, instead of having cell phones glued to their ears!!!!!!!

 

[DaveM]

So Silli let me get this straight, what you are saying you would like to see more kids running moonshine then h: :y114: :y18:

 

[Gromit]

Loved my Scalelectrix! My dad died when I was born so my eldest brother, 16 years older than me, become my "dad" too. When I was about 5 he bought me a scalelectrix so he could play with it!!! :y115: Dinky Toys!!!!!!!!!! Silli, I haven't seen those for years. Loved those too.

 

[DaveB]

I was in the UK.

Indoors:
Meccano,
Airfix & Revell plastic kits
Aeromodelling (sharp knives- I've still got the scars)
A type of whist card game
Chess

Outdoors:
Bicycle
Football (soccer)
Aeromodelling
Cowboys & Indians
Low intensity fighting with my buddies (we called the fights 'bundles') & it was just for fun
There were four of us & we all thought we were tunneling engineers. Every tunnel we ever dug collapsed & we got absolutely filthy.

Our parents made the basic rules clear & then allowed us to go out and play. It was seen as natural. We got covered in scratches and our mums used lots of Elastoplast on us & we'd be fixed up & good to go again. I don't remember any kids getting hurt. On the other hand, playing cricket as a teenager sent me to hospital twice, but then I'm English & we're not terribly good at cricket :happy:.

DaveB.