Games we played in school...

[burn_this_city]

Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN

I was the master of that.....no one understood how I kept on gettin it right.

I always cleaned up using those techiques..

[MissTeeks]

My friends and I used to skip during recess and lunch. We would spend the entire lunch hour skipping. I'd be lucky if I could skip for a minute now without passing out! So many cheesy songs!

Had a little sports car, 1938
Took it round the coooooooooooooorner (while running around the people turning the rope)
Slamed on the breaks
Policeman caught me
Put me in jail
All I had was Ginger Ale
So Pitch, Patch, Pepper!
and then jump as fast as you could without getting caught in the rope. Good times!

[sclitheroe]

Conkers was big in my neighborhood. Fun times, trying to smash the other person's chestnut, as well as all the voodoo involved in trying to make your conker harder than everyone else's. Everyone has a secret recipe, whether it was slow roasting, soaking in vinegar, soaking in salt water, the list was endless.

I guess, it turns out, true conkers is played with untreated chestnuts, but we never did it that way.

[Barnes]

I remember the most valuable marble being the king kong Mexican. An oily with flecks of colours in it.

We used to play rebound (wall ball/butts up) and each grade had a wall to play on. I remember being soooo excited to start grade six because we finally got to inherit the big wall.

We also used to play sandman on the jungle gym. It was Marco Polo for the park. Nothing says safety like climbing on a jungle gym with your eyes closed trying to tag people out.

Also, soccer baseball.

[GreenHardHat]

Originally Posted by Barnes

We also used to play sandman on the jungle gym. It was Marco Polo for the park. Nothing says safety like climbing on a jungle gym with your eyes closed trying to tag people out.

I almost forgot about that game. We called it grounders. The person that was it had to walk around the playground with their eyes closed and try to tag people. The players weren't allowed to touch the ground and if the person that was it called "grounders" and caught somebody they became the new it. Its amazing that nobody I knew was seriously injured playing that game!

[arloiginla]

Originally Posted by missdpuck

I cant remember the name of this gadget but did you ever have one of those things where you put a hoop with a ball and a string attached to it around your ankle and then twirl the ball around and jump over it with your other foot? I;m on meds from surgery I dont know how the heck to describe it.

No because that was a girl thing but my sister had one. I think its a skip-it

edit: already got beat to it


And Red Rover sucked balls. I wasn't hte weakest wimpiest kid not even close, but it was so dumb cause you might have to hold the slimy kids' hands and the game never went anywhere - the kids who switched sides were the weak ones so nobody could ever win the game - they just went back and forth while everyones arms got sore.

[OILFAN #81]

Originally Posted by Jayems

yep, POGS, and, of course, CROSS COUNTRY CANADA:




And, if you wore a shirt with the hand-print on it (can't remember the name of the company) you got slapped really hard on the back.

Haha I remember playing Cross Country Canada from the 1st grade to like the 4th grade. That was an awesome game. Oregon Trail and Number Munchers are the other two school computer games that I remember off the top of my head.

[driveway]

Other brilliant games of my youth:

[ResAlien]

Went to Chinook Park elementary in the mid 80's, and remember one game we'd always play at recess. No name I can think of, basically just field hockey. One tennis ball, a bunch of kids with the mini flames sticks, and two t-shirts at each end of the field as "goals". Whoever had the mini goalie stick got to play goal. Good times.

[Crispy's Critter]

I'm probably really dating myself here, but the big games when I was in grade 1-3 were jacks and pick-up sticks. Marbles were big between grade 4-6. Then I discovered the Apple IIE, and spent the rest of junior high plotting and entering coordinates to make a "high-res" 640x480 picture of a '69 Camaro. (never did finish that BTW)

[spydermal]

Originally Posted by Jayems

And, if you wore a shirt with the hand-print on it (can't remember the name of the company) you got slapped really hard on the back.

Body Glove? I had a body glove shirt, wore it once... never again.

[Jayems]

Originally Posted by spydermal

Body Glove? I had a body glove shirt, wore it once... never again.

that's the one

[Mightyfire89]

What a great thread. Brings back so many memories. In addition to the marbles, wall-ball, foot hockey etc. a couple of others I remember are these yo-yos:



and playing absolutely murderous games of no equipment, no rules football where the only objective beyond getting the occasional touchdown was tackling your friends in the most painful way possible. I don't remember anyone ever getting seriously injured either, which in retrospect is quite surprising.

Originally Posted by fotze

I went to school with probably 30% of the class being from the sarcee indian reservation (Tsuu Tina now). They were by FAR the best athletes, they were absolute beasts at that game. When those fellers were chucking, those red balls would hit so many faces and testicles it was not even funny. Damn they were good guys.

Where did you go to junior high school? I swear we went to the same one. Do the names Starlight, Dodginghorse, Big Plume and Crowchild ring any bells?

[zukes]

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.

Man, the exact same thing happened at my school. Did you happen to go to Beddington Heights and are around 31 years old?

[zukes]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

Wow lots of the same terms we used..and we also had the gambling contraptions you describe...are you sure you didn't go to Beddington Heights.

Yeah King Kong-Jumbo-Bolder-Regular was the order. Some kids also had marbles smaller than regulars - can't remember what they were called.

One kid had a marble he called a "fireball" that he wouldn't play with because he swore it would crack any other marble. Liar.

alright, you went to Beddington, you 31 or around that age?

[zukes]

Originally Posted by driveway

I understand exactly and often miss beinga kid myself, but then I remember everything that totally, totally sucked about being a kid.

Remember not having control over anything? From bedtime right down to your own thoughts and emotions. Getting picked on and not understanding why - or worse - being the kid that picked on others, even though you knew it was wrong and it made you feel bad, but you couldn't help yourself. Then there was the total confusion over the differences between boys and girls and the endless agonies that caused. Not to forget the shame and horror of getting in trouble from parents, teachers, etc. Older or younger siblings ruining your day, your favourite toys breaking, the savage pain of there being no more freezies in the freezer. Being forced to take a bath; the rage and impotent anger you felt over being forced to take a bath, your best friend turning on you for some stupid reason that seemed so, so important at the time. Other kids being just as insane, irational, and exitable as you.

And the big one: having someone tell you "You'll understand when you're older."

Kids don't get enough credit for the crap they go through every single day just being a kid.

Yep, I remember all of this vividly and it will shape how I raise my son and any future kids. Being a kid is fun and exciting, but it sucks a lot of the time too!

[zukes]

Jiri probably remembers Mercy fights and foot hockey with tennis balls. The goalies would use field hockey sticks and a hat for a snag.

[BlackEleven]

I'm remember jumping around on a pogo-ball... man were you cool if you had one of those. After months of begging my parents I finally got one.

[BlAcKNoVa]

Marbles, slammers, pogs and of course, hockey were all pretty popular in my elementary school (Penbrooke, late 80's to early 90's)

Another game we used to play a lot consisted of a wall, and hockey cards. Two people would stand about 10-15 feet away from the wall. Each person had roughly 5-10 cards. On the first turn, each person would throw their card as close to the wall as possible w/o hitting it. Person who lost this round would have to throw all his remaining cards toward the wall, didn't matter if it hit the wall or not. After he threw all his cards the guy that won the "card toss" would throw his, and any that landed on top of the other guys cards he would own. We'd keep going until one person was out of cards or recess was over.

[GreenHardHat]

I remember way back in elementary there was a fad/toy that came out called Devils Sticks. You held one stick in each hand and juggled a third stick between them. Man, I wanted a set of those so bad.

I had completely forgotten about them until the other day when I saw a girl on the corner of Elbow and Heritage playing with them.