What was your favorite game when you were a kid?

[Hawkeye-X]

This was mine. They still exist, but they are not made anymore. I'm going to re-start my Dark Tower hunting in October and repair a few more of those and sell it in time for Christmas. They are a very POPULAR gifts for nostalgia, believe it or not. I'll eventually keep one for myself so I can teach my son how to play and enjoy the game. I've already got a PM from one DU'er who shares the same sentiments....

[brendan120678]

1. Pitfall, for my Atari 2600...

(Yes, my favorite game was a video game, so sue me!)

[motely36]

2. I loved dark towers

I don't know what happened to my copy. :( Every once in a while, I go to eBay to see what they are going for. More than I can afford!

[Crankie Avalon]

3. Table hockey

I was real good, too. Never lost.

[Fleshdancer]

4. OMG Dark Tower!!!!

:rofl:

I forgot about that game! I'm pretty sure my mom still has it in her guest room closet. If I remember the next time I'm at her house, I'll try to hunt it down and see what condition it's in.

My favorite games as a kid:

self play: (young) barbies, (tween) Nintendo (Super Mario bros)

group play: red rover red rover and kickball

[Hawkeye-X]

25. if it's borked, sell it to me.

I'll make you an reasonable offer.

[LaurenG]

5. Ok but they were outside games

things we played outside like hide and seek. My favorite was something called "there are no ghosts tonight." It was fun and scary. Other than that we had board games and hand held electronic games like chess. I was older by the time pong came along, followed shortly by pac man. I did very well with a game called megamania.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megamania

[Tikki]

6. Jacks...

I was an Elementary School champ...I still play, often, 40+ years later.


I prefer the metal jacks and small 'all rubber' ball...swoosh..


Tikki

[marzipanni]

14. I was just telling my son, who's 15, about the jacks championship

One of my brothers went to a small, free-thinking 7th-12th grade school in our town in the mid-sixties. One year it was "the thing" to practice playing jacks, and kids had competitions in the quad at lunchtime and after school. A friend of ours, a boy, was known to be the best player.
I have a set and think it's fun to play, too, and teach young kids how to play. :)

[Curmudgeoness]

29. I was going to say jacks, figured no one would have it.

Oh well, I loved playing jacks, although I was never in a contest. I still have my metal jacks, but the good balls are all rotted.

[Redstone]

7. Going outside and hiding from our parents.

Redstone

[yankeepants]

8. We used to have epic monopoly games

and leave the board on the floor overnight and resume playing the next day until our big boy cat Binney decided to pee in the fake $$$$.

[HERVEPA]

9. Boxball and wireball

Video game (no longer young) - Dark Castle

[mitchum]

10. Tie between Hump the Hostess and Get the Guests

[Rabrrrrrr]

11. Oh, yeah - Dark Tower! I haven't played that since high school. loved it!!

Great game.

We played D&D and similar games mostly, but hauled out a few Avalon Hill games on occasion: Titan, Third Reich, and so on. Some I can't remember the names of. Plus chess, of course.

As a younger kid, I loved Monopoly, Stratego, chess, Life, Pacheesi, Don't Crack the Ice, and Aggravation.

And though not really games per se, I loved the Legos, Tinker Toys, and Lincoln Logs.

[TK421]

12. Doctor...there was no board-game associated with it, though

but it was still lots of fun!

[slay]

22. +1

indeed. :evilgrin:

[REP]

13. Statues

One kid was the "swinger" and swung the other kids, one at a time, by an arm then released them. The swung kids froze in the position they landed in. The swinger then came around and tapped each kid, one at a time. When tapped, the kid had to perform a parody commercial or other pop culture thing. The funniest one won and became the swinger. Repeat until everyone is exhausted from laughing.

[redwitch]

27. I loved statues!

Also, 1, 2, 3 red light.
We also played ragtag- make a ball out of rags and run through the neighborhood screaming and laughing. Get hit with the rag ball and you are it. The game goes until mom called us in at dark. We had a neighborhood full of kids.

[Zorra]

15. Baseball. nt

[marzipanni]

16. Mad Libs

noun: dog-doo:rofl:! plural noun: underpants :rofl:! adjective: smelly :rofl:!


http://www.madglibs.com/showglib.php?glibid=187

[Fleshdancer]

20. I play mad libs with my kid

it never gets old :D

[JonLP24]

17. When it comes to board games

Risk was my favorite but I rarely found people in my lifetime willing to sit through a game so I haven't played it more than a few times. I recently tried to find a Risk video game for XBox but couldn't find one. Found two different versions of Monopoly though. The latest one is due to be released within a couple months.

[redwitch]

28. My brothers and I played Risk.

Still do every so often. A great game!

[frogmarch]

18. Stretch 'em

We'd take turns throwing knives toward each other's bare feet. Wherever the knife stuck the ground, the person had to move his foot to the spot. Then it was that person's turn to throw the knife toward one of the feet of the other person's. The object was to make your opponent unable to stretch any further, and fall down. It was fun, but painful sometimes. Why our parents didn't find out about our playing stretch 'em is a mystery. Or maybe they knew, but using 50s logic they thought, "If they get stuck by the knife, maybe that will teach them!"

[PJPhreak]

19. Foosball,Galaga,Pinball.

[jobycom]

21. Foosball was mine, too. We even had a table.

I ruled the skating rink. :) Yeah, I was that guy at times.

[Maccagirl]

23. Checkers (Chinese or otherwise)

KING ME! KING ME!

Also a game called "Racko".

Outside:
Duck, Duck Goose and Hide-N-Seek.

It didn't take much to entertain us.

[kimi]

24. Kick the Can, for sure

late summer nights, lots of kids in the neighborhood, parents all inside. Ah, memories.

The other one I remember from elementary school, but I've never heard of it anywhere else. It was a sort of Dodgeball type game, called - and this is phonetic, cause I have no idea how it's really spelled = "Monken-eye". Big thing in 3rd and 4th and 5th grade, played during PE all the time.

And of course, Hide and Seek, whiffle ball, and baseball in the street, scattering when a car came through. Do kids even do any of these things anymore? :shrug:

[Odin2005]

26. Final Fantasy 3.

[RandomThoughts]

30. I like seeing shapes in clouds.

Don't tell anyone, but when not much to do, you can always find lots of smiles and pictures in clouds :P

:shrug:

Or you can tell people :) LOL

[femmocrat]

31. Hide-and-seek, jump rope, jacks, dodgeball, Four-square....

We made up a lot of our own games too. We would be outside from morning until it got dark. Neighborhood with no shortage of playmates.

NO, kids have no idea about those games anymore.

I was teaching a lesson on Winslow Homer and trying to explain "Snap the Whip". They looked at me like I was insane. How could that be a game? I sure hope they didn't try it on the playground or I would probably get sued!

[applegrove]

32. Capture the flag. We would attack the other person's property to get into the jail free so we could

then start looking for the flag. We'd travel by path, road, woods or lake. Games would go on for hours. Either that or 'Pig'ping pong where all 10 people have a paddle and you run around the ping pong table until someone misses and they get a "p". Once you missed three balls you were out. It was really fun when only three people were left running around the table.

[texanwitch]

33. We played I see a ghost.

This game took courage.

One person was picked to be the one to go into very dark back yards to find everyone else.

No flashlights, and the yards were so dark you couldn't see you hand in front of you.

If you found someone before they found you, they took your place.

No one wanted to be the one person, it was scary.