who else used to play "war"

[datasuspect]

when they were kids? with bb guns? homemade incendiary devices?

[LaraMN]

1. There were only boys in my neighborhood, so I did.

Although I don't recall actual weapons, beyond guns made from twigs.

[MrCoffee]

2. all the time. the best games were around the 4th/New Year's

because we could buy fireworks and have bottle rocket/roman candle/black cat fights.

[datasuspect]

6. we used to play "vietnam"

built perimeters, holding cells for "hostiles"

this stuff would take all day.

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. We used to play war too...hey my best friend was a boy

and this was only 15 years ago...we used to use old socks as grenades

[ZombieNixon]

4. When I was a teenager, I played "war" of a sort,

with trebuchets and swords. :P

When I was a kid, I played the card game. :D

[hfojvt]

5. mostly only the card game

but one of our playground 'games' was called 'kill the carrier'

[datasuspect]

7. "kill the carrier?"

sounds fun!

[mark414]

8. it was

you gave one person a ball and everyone else had to run after him and kick his ass

[hfojvt]

15. usually more fun

when you were not the carrier. Although when Les first entered our class he was so big that he ran all over and nobody could bring him down or catch him. Everntually though, he got tired.

[livetohike]

9. How about war with rocks, mud clods, and crabapples??

Whatever was handy :-).

[reyd reid reed]

10. I did when I was a kid

I had brothers and wasn't ever into dolls, so yeah. We played war...with pop guns and cap guns and whatever.

[Ravenseye]

11. Sure

War. Cowboys and Indians. Cops and Robbers. Anything involving running around with fake but very realistic looking guns we did.

Though my favorite was when we got buried in snow thanks to the lake effect and we built immense forts and tunnels and ditches and trenches with snowball emplacements and the whole like. Two yards on our side of the street, two on the other, the street being no mans land, which remained unplowed for 2 days.

It was insanely fun.

[madinmaryland]

12. Yes, but with squirt guns and plastic guns.

Simple stuff for six and seven year olds, until we outgrew it.

[AllegroRondo]

13. heck, we played with bottle rockets and smoke bombs

I'm amazed no one got seriously injured.

[MrCoffee]

14. i couldn't even tell you how many times i've been hit with a bottle rocket

or a roman candle ball.


great fun.

[Oeditpus Rex]

16. We played 'Peace Talks'

But we couldn't decide what height the flagpoles should be, and that escalated into a fight and everyone was killed.

[_testify_]

23. !

:spray:

[Left Is Write]

17. I only played "war" the card game.

[BarenakedLady]

18. I played house

I made all the boys in the neighborhood serve me.

:evilgrin:

[Burma Jones]

19. Absolutely

Guns, Rocks, Dirt, Sticks etc...

And, if you owned Walkie Talkies, you were the General.

[izzybeans]

20. I preferred to play doctor.

While you were off playing He-Man I...well...let's just say soldiers have a high divorce rate.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

21. Yes, and I think this thread disproves the crap that playing with toy guns

and such is bad for kids. Obviously, we all did it and we all grew up to be liberals.

[mark414]

24. yes...if you are going to go crazy and shoot a bunch of people

i doubt it has anything to do with games you played when you were a little kid, rather, it has to do with the fact that YOU'RE CRAZY

[datasuspect]

27. and they used to have such REALISTIC toy guns back then

and candy cigarettes. don't know if they still sell them anymore.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

29. They still sell candy cigarettes, but usually only in ethnic markets.

[SeattleGirl]

22. I did.

Used squirt guns, or sometimes, just our hands held in the shape of a gun.

[cwydro]

25. we played all the time

both my sister and me and the girls next door. We were fond of pine cones and magnolia thingies (look like a hand grenade). Crabapples also...but otherwise just pretend guns. When the new neighbors moved in they were so upset because they had girls and thought the whole neighborhood was tough little boys....:bounce: :bounce: :rofl:

[SteppingRazor]

26. I used to dress up in camo and use toy guns when I was a kid...

it was only after I grew a little older and turned into a juvenile delinquent that I grew to appreciate homemade incendiary devices

[Roon]

28. We played war with bottle rockets

firecrakers, smoke bombs, and all the other stuff, (roman candles) and we had fun doing it too!!

[Vidar]

30. Yep, built lots of forts too.

[catmandu57]

31. With bb guns?, hell I've still got a bb lodged in my chin

from a shootout with my brother and his friends. Usually though we played war all through growing up, anything handy could be a weapon.