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Favourite game as a kid

  • 28-03-2013 06:06PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭


    Connect Four, I still play this now. Whoever loses pays for the take away.

    As a kid


    Hitting a tennis ball against a wall, when everyone went in for their tea.

    BMX ramps, that were made to paralyze .

    Transformers. Robots in the skys. Or robots in disguise. I was never sure.

    My Little Pony. My next door neighbour had the full set, including the Pony nursery. Ponies wearing bibs and having bottles is a memory I will never forget


    Games. Thoughts ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,773 ✭✭✭Synyster Shadow


    Playin rounders with all the cousins and racing each other across the tops of 60 or so bails that farmers stupidly put in two lines at just the right distance apart for jumping


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    Doctors and nurses


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    curbs


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    Starcom, hungry hungry hippos and hiding so my uncle wouldn't touch me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,610 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I suppose somebody will have to say doctors and nurses.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Red Rover and Tip the Can


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,610 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Doctors and nurses

    See


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    Tip the Can.

    Hiding in random spaces, sending some randomer out as bait, disguising ourselves as each other so the person who was "on" would call out the wrong name thus giving you the chance to free all.

    Hours of fun until the teachers banned it because we were, quote: "Hanging around doors too much." :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31 Talk To Frank


    headers & volleys, hours of fun.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭ScumLord


    Masturbation.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭jojobeans


    Mammies and daddies:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭Gweedling


    Streets: Kick the can, rounders, kiss chasing (forever alone face), tying a rope to a lamp post and using it as a swing, out robbing golf balls on the nearby course then selling them back in the car park . . .

    indoors: blockbusters board game, monopoly, pogs, top trumps, anything on the mega drive or NES.

    aaah, childhood.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭Weevil


    Robbin' orchards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    curbs

    Jaysus! It was years before I saw American History X. Was this in 'town'?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Runner-man, Colour-man. Used to play it every single Wednesday during the summer holidays. Great game in fairness. Cannot remember what the rules or the purpose of the game was but am guessing there was running and colours involved.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    We used to play IRA a lot
    Have one person having to find the rest of yas who all have a letter and when they catch you basically kick sh1t into ya to get your letter to get the word
    Many a time came home bruised and bloodied

    FYI I'm pretty sure it's KICK the can
    Not tip the can


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,009 ✭✭✭✭wnolan1992


    FYI I'm pretty sure it's KICK the can
    Not tip the can

    Was always "tip" in our school.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭Jogathon


    Tip the can on long summer evenings when it was dusky dark. You could do some serious sneaking on your belly up to free everyone especially when it was played in a biggish garden. Fantastic fun. You'd go in covered in grass, muck and nettlestings.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,119 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    What do you call that game, where a line of kids held hands opposite another line and a person would charge the line and try to break through?

    Kids these days are missing put on so much


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,676 ✭✭✭✭herisson


    Tag on top of the bales of hay behind my house with my neighbours.

    And sometimes we used to stand on the bales while a few pushed from the bottom and we would walk against the way it was rolling. Loosing your balance was terrifying :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,597 ✭✭✭dan1895


    snubbleste wrote: »
    What do you call that game, where a line of kids held hands opposite another line and a person would charge the line and try to break through?

    Kids these days are missing put on so much

    British Bulldogs?

    There was also Buffalo Charge which was awesome


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭Blingy


    snubbleste wrote: »
    What do you call that game, where a line of kids held hands opposite another line and a person would charge the line and try to break through?

    Kids these days are missing put on so much

    Red rover.
    'Red rover red rover I call x over'


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 118 ✭✭jojobeans


    snubbleste wrote: »
    What do you call that game, where a line of kids held hands opposite another line and a person would charge the line and try to break through?

    Kids these days are missing put on so much

    I thinks that was called bulldogs but not too sure:)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 241 ✭✭Ava_e


    snubbleste wrote: »
    What do you call that game, where a line of kids held hands opposite another line and a person would charge the line and try to break through?

    Kids these days are missing put on so much

    Red Rover or British Bulldog.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 698 ✭✭✭belcampprisoner


    avoid the priest,or Christian brother


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    Finding a sheet of wood was the best thing ever. Lean it up against a few bricks or planks and you had an amazing bike ramp.

    It would attract 20+ kids in my neighborhood, and we all be ramping it, and doing mad stuff. We also used to build loads of dirt ramps in the local woods and we'd all be bombing it around there all day.

    We were like a pack of wild animals I tells ya! We werent all friends either, its just everybody had bikes and played outdoors so whever the activity was we went.

    Now a days you wouldnt see a kid on a bike at all, let alone would they dare go down a curb in fear of falling off because they're too delicate and sheltered. We all had some nasty falls and crashes, how some of us weren't killed I dont know.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,367 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Probably World Cup or else 1 touch off the wall (names vary)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,029 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    ... small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front, one's gone home for his tea. Beans on toast? Possibly, don't quote me on that. Marvellous.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Football, playing hide and seek on the neighbours farm, sometimes dangerously around the slurry pit (those ads still give me nightmares!) wrestling was fairly big at school as well. Got awful rough sometimes especially when you had to fight the lad from sixth class. :p


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Setting fire to the hay field or on special occasions the hedges and bush's around it too, twas a seasonal game.
    The gardai took part too and the fire brigade.


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