Games we used to play......

spokesman

I thought I'd start a thread on games that were played back in the day, for me, back in the early eighties, before play stations and laptops and all the other housebound stuff kids have now.

Starting off with marbles.....can you imagine kids playing with marbles these days.

Miniature soldiers....the figurines, complete with the cannons that fired matchsticks, i knew a guy who had hundreds of them and would spend hours playing war games with them.

With the football..we played three goals and one man in (one man in meaning goalkeeper), first to score three goals won,

Knockout....where we kicked a football off a wall at different angles to cancel out our opponents.

Sometimes then we'd make gallybanders and bow and arrows and try to maim one another.

Those were the days:D

Esel

Hopscotch, skipping, rounders, conkers, ice pop stick smashing, relievio, chasing (tip), Simon says, scutting, push penny, nearest the wall (with a penny), I spy, chicken, hand slapping.......

strokeslover

Paths or kerbs(depending where your from!) Heads and volleys, world cup

stoneill

queeny io who has the ball, is he big or is he small?

Sick, dying, dead, buried, rotten and forgotten.

and to choose who went first:
You would all put one foot in and one person would touch your feet in turn and say " Icky Ocky did his gocky, Icky Ocky out".

strokeslover

Good aul Kiss chasing!

spokesman

stoneill wrote: »

queeny io who has the ball, is he big or is he small?

Sick, dying, dead, buried, rotten and forgotten.

and to choose who went first:
You would all put one foot in and one person would touch your feet in turn and say " Icky Ocky did his gocky, Icky Ocky out".

I remember the queeny one ok:D

Their was another i remember.....ten men from caledonia or something....

fussyonion

Rounders. Used to love playing that.

Oh and this might not be classed as games, but does anyone remember those microphones nearly every kid had?
They weren't powered by batteries or anything, they were plastic and when you spoke into them, they were echoey.
What were they called? (Think they came in different colours too)

And who remembers those joysticks you plugged into your telly that had about 100 built in games?! They were the days before your fancy PlayStations!

BlaasForRafa

strokeslover wrote: »

Paths or kerbs(depending where your from!) Heads and volleys, world cup

you mean kerb ball right? Always a good chance of random damage to someone or something with that

tbh

stoneill wrote: »

" Icky Ocky did his gocky, Icky Ocky out".

Where i came from it was Icky Ocky Horses Gocky icky ocky out.

Sids Not

Red rover red rover let (INSERT NAME) come over.......

And those Clackers......basically two snooker balls on a string...lethal..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLHftISLNHE

Lawrence1895

I grew up in an area with a large forest right behind the house. Used to build wooden shacks with my mates.

SEPT 23 1989

How many points did you get for throwing the ball backwards over you head when playing curbs?

Lombardo86

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

How many points did you get for throwing the ball backwards over you head when playing curbs?

Not enough

Max Headroom

Lars1916 wrote: »

I grew up in an area with a large forest right behind the house. Used to build wooden shacks with my mates.

You'd need planning permission and site notices for that nowadays.......:rolleyes:

Lawrence1895

Max Headroom wrote: »

You'd need planning permission and site notices for that nowadays.......:rolleyes:

You don't need that in Germany, the only things getting you in trouble were entering a deer hunter's private allocation (they do that in Germany), or accidentally putting down someone else's shack...which, of course, I never did

BlaasForRafa

Lars1916 wrote: »

I grew up in an area with a large forest right behind the house. Used to build wooden shacks with my mates.

When I was a kid the chipboard factory in town closed down and for the first couple of years they didn't have any security there, they didn't even fence it off properly. We used to go in and hop up on the conveyor belts, run around the gantries, mess about with the giant circular saws (unfortunately not powered) and generally feck about, its a wonder none of us got seriously injured

Ghost Train

Anybody know a different name for "tip the can", when we were younger "1980's" had a different name for it?

EchoO

No, that's what we call it. 1-2-3 tipped the can before you!!! The can being a telegraph pole.

strokeslover

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

you mean kerb ball right? Always a good chance of random damage to someone or something with that

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

How many points did you get for throwing the ball backwards over you head when playing curbs?

We used to do 5 for normal, 10 for backwards, and 20 if you managed to throw it over a car and hit the kerb!

DEVEREUX

Ghost Train wrote: »

Anybody know a different name for "tip the can", when we were younger "1980's" had a different name for it?

"Kick the can" ?

bdr529

a couple of the games we used to play...

relieve-e-o,
this was a game where 1 person was '0n' and if they caught you, you had to stand with your hand on the wall. you could be relieved if someone ran under your arm and shouted 'Relieve-ee-oo'. this game took hours and was exhausting because you had to guard the wall as well as chase those not already caught, the worst thing if was the last person out managed to relieve everyone that was caught and you had to start all over again...

another game we used to play during the school lunch break was 'Bulldog'
this was where there were two safe areas 'box', that you had to run between without being caught. initialy one person was 'on' and they had to catch as many as possible before they made it to the other end. each person that was caught had to help catch the others, the winner being the last person that makes it into the box without being caught.

Hopscotch....

Get Real

fussyonion wrote: »

does anyone remember those microphones nearly every kid had?
They weren't powered by batteries or anything, they were plastic and when you spoke into them, they were echoey.
What were they called? (Think they came in different colours too)

yeah you could get them in the pound shop in mad fluorescent green and pink and all sorts, and when you spoke this springy kinda echo came back. Loved them!!!:D

ratmouse

Anybody remember the game, "What's The Time Mr. Wolf"? 1 person would be "on" as Mr. Wolf and stand far ahead of everyone else. Everyone else would ask Mr. Wolf what time it was. If Mr. Wolf said ten o'clock, then you would take ten steps towards Mr. Wolf,if he said two o'clock, then you'd take two steps, etc until you got closer and coser to Mr. Wolf until you asked him what time it was and he would say "Dinner time" and he would chase you and whoever got caught would then be Mr. Wolf! Such harmless times, eh?!

Red Hand

bdr529 wrote: »

another game we used to play during the school lunch break was 'Bulldog'
this was where there were two safe areas 'box', that you had to run between without being caught. initialy one person was 'on' and they had to catch as many as possible before they made it to the other end. each person that was caught had to help catch the others, the winner being the last person that makes it into the box without being caught.

Ah, we called that "Boxes".:)

Ghost Train

DEVEREUX wrote: »

"Kick the can" ?

no different name completely

Toto Wolfcastle

We used to play a game called Polio in school but I can't remember the rules.

Snatch the bacon was another one.

Skid

Kerbs was a great game, it took real skill.

A similar(ish) game we played was Wall Ball. You took turns kicking the ball off a Garden wall, trying to force the ball way down the road to give your opponent an impossible angle. Preferably with cars and lampposts blocking their path. Great days

Miss Lockhart

ratmouse wrote: »

Anybody remember the game, "What's The Time Mr. Wolf"? 1 person would be "on" as Mr. Wolf and stand far ahead of everyone else. Everyone else would ask Mr. Wolf what time it was. If Mr. Wolf said ten o'clock, then you would take ten steps towards Mr. Wolf,if he said two o'clock, then you'd take two steps, etc until you got closer and coser to Mr. Wolf until you asked him what time it was and he would say "Dinner time" and he would chase you and whoever got caught would then be Mr. Wolf! Such harmless times, eh?!

This and Snatch the Bacon were our main games in the yard at lunch.

Also, something called "Sticky Jam" but I have no recollection of what it involved.

We had the "Icky Ocky Horses Gocky" thing for choosing who was "on". Also one that went "Train train number nine, going on a crooked line, if the train goes off the track, do you want your money back, yes or no?".

Also "my mother and your mother were hanging out the clothes, my mother gave your mother a punch in the nose, what colour was the blood" The person whose foot was tapped last would then answer, for example "blue". Then it would go "B-L-U-E" Followed by "And out of this game you must go whether you like it or not".

Savage924

stoneill wrote: »

and to choose who went first:
You would all put one foot in and one person would touch your feet in turn and say " Icky Ocky did his gocky, Icky Ocky out".

Jaysis I forgot all about that lol :pac:

Caveman1

I was only talking about this with the gf the other day, she remined me of Pogs, what a game, if you came up against someone with a steely you were a goner :pac:

RainMaker

Miss Lockhart wrote: »

Also "my mother and your mother were hanging out the clothes, my mother gave your mother a punch in the nose, what colour was the blood" The person whose foot was tapped last would then answer, for example "blue". Then it would go "B-L-U-E" Followed by "And out of this game you must go whether you like it or not".

Eeny, meeny, miny, moe,
Catch a tigger by the toe.
If he hollers, let him go,
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.


Except in my day it wasn't tigger - it sounded like tigger but started with an "n"! Hey it was the 80s, we didn't know any better - Political correctness hadn't been invented yet and we could buy "Golly bars" in the shop!

We used to play an obstacle course "game" on a local building site
We used to climb trees in the local golf course