Dammit - I thought this thread was going to be about video games. Atari, ZX spectrum etc... 
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Games We Used to Play
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Dammit - I thought this thread was going to be about video games. Atari, ZX spectrum etc...
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You gotta remember G
We're a bunch of old farts here
I can remember the first tv's,.... I think :ya2:
:y18:
Dammit - I thought this thread was going to be about video games. Atari, ZX spectrum etc...
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You gotta remember G
We're a bunch of old farts here
I can remember the first tv's,.... I think :ya2:
:y18:
Geoff587
Well-Known Member
I can,t recall a game we played outdoors wich did not involve throwing things at cans, bottles or each other. Mud balls on the end of willow sticks flew quite true and straight, throwing arrows about 2 feet long, flights made out of cigarette packets soft wire around the pointed end so it stuck in better and a notch down from the flights you crossed a piece of knotted string the length of the arrow over for launching it into space.
My favourite was a pistol made from bicycle handlebars, cut the bars in half, block the end with mud, throw down a firecracker followed by a ballbearing or glass marble, point at row of cans , tuck throbbing fingers under armpit when firecracker was too powerful.
I think my parents were quite relived when I joined the Army at 15 :cash: :y18:
My favourite was a pistol made from bicycle handlebars, cut the bars in half, block the end with mud, throw down a firecracker followed by a ballbearing or glass marble, point at row of cans , tuck throbbing fingers under armpit when firecracker was too powerful.
I think my parents were quite relived when I joined the Army at 15 :cash: :y18:
Sunshine Jim
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toys and treasure! old TV shows! my first remembered and well loved toy was a rocket bank that would shoot a penny into the bank. this whas when "Captain Video" was a series in Ohio.
3 generations of erector sets to start out with, we'd scrounge the local dump and ended up with a footlocker of them. lincoln logs, my dad would fill an apple box with cabinet making scrap blocks occasionally.
we would dig up the biggest rocks in the driveway sure that we'd dig down to hell or China and not sure which one would come first.
when we discovered slingshots we also had the worlds best supply of exploding red round messabe iron ore balls. mountains of them! we'd shoot the sides of the iron ore freighters tied up in the Black River till the engineers would storm out of the wheel house yelling at us! they exploded against those black hulls that had delivered them and left a dandy red mark!
lesse... rubber band guns and fence staple shoots with those big square rubber bands we all had from delivering papers! wicked! i still have scars from that period. bows and arrows of every kind, home made firecrackers, zip guns, cross bows and later surplus military rifles, $5.00 at the surplus stores Ammo a buck a clip. (this is all wayyyy before we were in our teens)
Hunting, trapping, every day in the woods camp outs summer and winter, fishing in the river and lakes, boating on anything that would float, learning how to hop freights, nearly killing ourselves frequently.
pioneering. loved that! axes and learning the ropes, building towers, forts, bridges.
cooking outdoors, game we hunted and learned to dress.
model airplanes and trains of every sort. lost a huge collection when i was 14 when our house caught on fire, major heartbreak that one.
Baseball cards and marbles! we had stacks of the one and shoeboxes of marbles
first two wheeler was a "tote goat' gramps had.
first car i repaired was a 48 Packard.
3 generations of erector sets to start out with, we'd scrounge the local dump and ended up with a footlocker of them. lincoln logs, my dad would fill an apple box with cabinet making scrap blocks occasionally.
we would dig up the biggest rocks in the driveway sure that we'd dig down to hell or China and not sure which one would come first.
when we discovered slingshots we also had the worlds best supply of exploding red round messabe iron ore balls. mountains of them! we'd shoot the sides of the iron ore freighters tied up in the Black River till the engineers would storm out of the wheel house yelling at us! they exploded against those black hulls that had delivered them and left a dandy red mark!
lesse... rubber band guns and fence staple shoots with those big square rubber bands we all had from delivering papers! wicked! i still have scars from that period. bows and arrows of every kind, home made firecrackers, zip guns, cross bows and later surplus military rifles, $5.00 at the surplus stores Ammo a buck a clip. (this is all wayyyy before we were in our teens)
Hunting, trapping, every day in the woods camp outs summer and winter, fishing in the river and lakes, boating on anything that would float, learning how to hop freights, nearly killing ourselves frequently.
pioneering. loved that! axes and learning the ropes, building towers, forts, bridges.
cooking outdoors, game we hunted and learned to dress.
model airplanes and trains of every sort. lost a huge collection when i was 14 when our house caught on fire, major heartbreak that one.
Baseball cards and marbles! we had stacks of the one and shoeboxes of marbles
first two wheeler was a "tote goat' gramps had.
first car i repaired was a 48 Packard.
Sprocket
Blondie
Shooo scaletrix, action men, marbles, scrabble, monopoly.
Our favorite as kids was "Tok Tokkie" we also used to dress up in long coats, sit on top on each other shoulders and put scary masks and and walk the neighbor hood.
We built tree houses and had big "Foofi Slides" . We also took a bicycle tyre filled it up with sand attached a piece of rope to one end, then used to pull it across the road as
cars approached. The would stop reverse, drive around it, boy kept us occupied for hours.
Those were the days, I dont think the kids of today play anymore. Most of the games today are virtual and kids dont experience physical play like we did as kids.
Our favorite as kids was "Tok Tokkie" we also used to dress up in long coats, sit on top on each other shoulders and put scary masks and and walk the neighbor hood.
We built tree houses and had big "Foofi Slides" . We also took a bicycle tyre filled it up with sand attached a piece of rope to one end, then used to pull it across the road as
cars approached. The would stop reverse, drive around it, boy kept us occupied for hours.
Those were the days, I dont think the kids of today play anymore. Most of the games today are virtual and kids dont experience physical play like we did as kids.
Avion, you are just a young squirt! :y114:
Geoff, we did very similar things. With orange groves all around the aea, orange fights reigned supreme. On either looked for the hardest orange one could find to throw or the most rotten orange one could throw with out it coming apart in the air. One of my friend's parent had a poultry farms and he saved the rotten eggs for egg fights.
Jim, we did very similar things to you. We could rabbit hunt year round and we trapped and hunted at every opportunity. We fished two or three times a week in the lakes and creeks in Central Florida. Fishing was necessary to put food on the table as was hunting.
Geoff, we did very similar things. With orange groves all around the aea, orange fights reigned supreme. On either looked for the hardest orange one could find to throw or the most rotten orange one could throw with out it coming apart in the air. One of my friend's parent had a poultry farms and he saved the rotten eggs for egg fights.
Jim, we did very similar things to you. We could rabbit hunt year round and we trapped and hunted at every opportunity. We fished two or three times a week in the lakes and creeks in Central Florida. Fishing was necessary to put food on the table as was hunting.
[quote author=CarlS link=topic=2539.msg18027#msg18027 date=1227363173]
Avion, you are just a young squirt! :y114:[/quote]
He's just a whippersnapper, barely out of swaddling :happy:. Video games, pah!
DaveB.
Avion, you are just a young squirt! :y114:[/quote]
He's just a whippersnapper, barely out of swaddling :happy:. Video games, pah!
DaveB.
