A friend had a massive collection of lego and we used to build and play for hours. I'm still convinced that lego is great for helping kids creativity.
We would go into the bush for hours and build forts, have sword fights with sticks, we even found a huge stash of sunshine girls once. Running around the neighborhood playing kick the can in the dark until our parents forced us inside. Kick hockey with a tennis ball beside the school using a ball cap as a catcher.
I got my foot caught in the railing jumping off the deck one time and broke my wrist. Took a good hour before my dad was convinced we should go to the hospital, but only happened after dinner.
I was a kid in the later 80's/early 90's, fortunate enough to have the freedom of childhood but young enough that we got our first computer when I was about 10, still remember those giant 5" floppy disc's.
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