Games we played in school... - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

metallicat · 07-19-2008, 07:45 PM

I am packing up my things as I am moving on Monday, and I came across my old marble collection. We used to play this in elementary school, so that is going back about 16+ years ago (man I'm getting old). Do kids still play with these? What about pogs? These were fads that seemed to die out relatively quickly, or did they? I guess some of you guys with kids would know if these things are still popular or not.

Rathji · 07-19-2008, 08:02 PM

They probably play Pokemon.

I still regret the days when we would toss hockey cards against the school yard wall and the closest person to the wall kept both cards. I figure I wrecked enough hockey cards in the 1985-89 era that they could have paid for me to go to school.

arsenal · 07-19-2008, 08:07 PM

phft.. kids now a days are busy texting and playing with psp's and nintendo ds's.
If you gave them a marble today, they would be like "WTF is that?"

Yeah_Baby · 07-19-2008, 08:18 PM

No I'm sure there is some Marble game online somewhere, now if you showed them a Pog the looks you get.

chid · 07-19-2008, 08:19 PM

The only thing Ive seen kids do that has anything to do with marbles is that cool Marble Works toy set
I still have my Pogs, we use them as poker chips hehe.

arsenal · 07-19-2008, 08:23 PM

wow.. you guys are young. I was too old when the pog fad hit to take interest.
When I was in grade school we had to use things like imagination, and make up our own games and stuff.
Although, I played Magic: The Gathering in high school. No wonder I got beat up..

JiriHrdina · 07-19-2008, 08:32 PM

Spring was the big marble season at my school. However they got banned.

Basically the biggest prize on the marble scene was something called a King Kong Steely.Which in reality was nothing more than a big ball bearing - but as kids we didn't know that.

Anyhoo if you were playing the kid that had it - you had to hit him five times and he only had to hit you once. For this reason no one could get the frickin King Kong Steely of this kid. Until one day another kid managed to win a match for the King Kong Steely...but the other kid wouldn't give up the marble/ball bearing. Big fight broke out because of it and later that afternoon they announced over the PA that marbles were banned. I believe a letter also went home to parents.

Dark day indeed.

Jude · 07-19-2008, 08:35 PM

On a semi-related note, did any of you guys play games like WALL-BALL, Over-the-Fence or Foot Hockey?

Man I wish I was back in elementry...

arsenal · 07-19-2008, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Jude

On a semi-related note, did any of you guys play games like WALL-BALL, Over-the-Fence or Foot Hockey?

Man I wish I was back in elementry...

yah, i played stuff like that.

Displaced Flames fan · 07-19-2008, 08:38 PM

From about grade 3 through middle school I played football every day, at recess and after school. In middle school we would even show up an hour early and play in the gym (before Arena ball...we were innovators!). I seriously believed I was going to be an NFL wide receiver until I was about 14 and found out I was a slow white guy.

I had hands though!

chid · 07-19-2008, 08:55 PM

I loved wall ball.

CaptainCrunch · 07-19-2008, 09:07 PM

There were only two games that we played.

One was called Atomic Wedgie.

the other was called Swirly the geek.

Azure · 07-19-2008, 09:10 PM

Killer Hackie.

Well, until someone broke his foot trying to get away once.

smoothessence · 07-19-2008, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by chid

I loved wall ball.

is wall ball the same thing as red ass? throw the ball and it can only bounce once after it hits the wall or else you have to tag the wall before the other guy throws it at th wall? remember tetherball in the schoolyard?

Azure · 07-19-2008, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by fotze

Spanish Dodgeball was the NHL in my school. It had agility, ball beaming, speed and dexterity, great game.

Plus it was fun to pick on the dumb, ######ed kids.

What?

Buff · 07-19-2008, 09:26 PM

I'll assume wall ball is what I played. Not sure if that is what we called it but sounds like the name could fit. I was also a bit of a geek, I remember playing <insert name of popular tv show here>.

There was also a tonne of people in my grade who had those fisher price walkie talkies, and we all brought them to school, and then got them banned when we realized that we can secretly (ok, not so secretly) talk on them in class.

metallicat · 07-19-2008, 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Spring was the big marble season at my school. However they got banned.

Basically the biggest prize on the marble scene was something called a King Kong Steely.Which in reality was nothing more than a big ball bearing - but as kids we didn't know that.

Anyhoo if you were playing the kid that had it - you had to hit him five times and he only had to hit you once. For this reason no one could get the frickin King Kong Steely of this kid. Until one day another kid managed to win a match for the King Kong Steely...but the other kid wouldn't give up the marble/ball bearing. Big fight broke out because of it and later that afternoon they announced over the PA that marbles were banned. I believe a letter also went home to parents.

Dark day indeed.

I found some steely's today, LOL. In fact, I remembered just about every marble that I have.

chid · 07-19-2008, 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by smoothessence

is wall ball the same thing as red ass? throw the ball and it can only bounce once after it hits the wall or else you have to tag the wall before the other guy throws it at th wall? remember tetherball in the schoolyard?

yeah basically same thing, yours is a better name though. heh..

I really liked playing four-square as well. Tetherball wasn't bad, but I hated when my arm would get caught as the ball was swinging around the pole

Tron_fdc · 07-19-2008, 10:13 PM

We had a hallway at our school that we used to play "pinball" during lunch. Basically you would have a bunch of guys standing on either side of the hall, and if anyone walked past you would bodycheck them back and forth.

Other games included throw stuff at the smoke doors (fruit, eggs, a 2x4) and change room boxing. One of our buddies brought in a pair of kids boxing gloves, and we'd have fights with each other during lunch.

driveway · 07-19-2008, 10:15 PM

We played a variation on wall-ball called "two-bounce". The way it was played at Ecole Banff Trail School back in the 80's was you'd get a whole mess of kids playing and whoever was closest to the ball on its second bounce had it whipped at their ass. There was also a small sign, about ten inches by eight inches on the wall we played on. Hitting that sign meant the ball couldn't bounce at all.

Good times.

My ass hurts, remembering that.