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games did you play as a child?Lots of outdoor games - flashlight tag, kick the can,
pretend adventures, red light - green light, and tons of others The first atari video
games - pong, space invaders, pac man, asteroids Board games - life, monopoly (lots of
monopoly), candyland, mystery date Made up games with trucks and sand and Barbies and
numerous ods and ends.
Felicia, 35
Lowell, MA
USA
Games in the Neighborhood? Kick the Can,
Ring Around the Icebox (a variation of Hide and Seek) Statues, Dummy School, Hopscotch,
Jump Rope, and a number of varieties of Tag. At children's parties? Musical Chairs, Pin
the Tail on the Donkey, Clothespins-in-the-bottle, and many more that I refuse to
remember.
Girl Scout Camp? All manner of singing and
play party games, nature scavenger hunts and an assortment of Victorian Parlor Games (on
rainy days.)
Jill, 60
Saylorsburg, PA USA
AS A CHILD I PLAYED HOPSCOTCH, MONOPOLY, OLD
MAID, RUMMY, OPERATION. I ALSO PLAYED HOUSE OR PLAYED SCHOOL WITH SISTERS OR CHILDREN IN
THE HOME..
Marci, 56
Diamond, OH
USA
all the normal games that a child plays...
one of my favorites was "ghosts in the graveyard" though.
Maggie, 22
Sandwich, IL
USA
Mainly kickball and Nerf football, which is
tag football (American, not soccer) with a sponge. Earlier games included tag, hide-n-seek
and foot races.
Alias Irrelevante
monopoly, hide and seek, and many others
Patty
Othello, soccer, hopscotch, Monopoly,
Mastermind, solitaire, Pac-Man, air hockey--what kind of games are we talking about here?
Karen, 22
Marshalltown/Ames, IA USA
All kinds...from tag at night time
with flashlights to Marco-Polo in the pool, from every card game known to man to every
board game out there. Can you tell we were a
game-oriented family?!?!
Tracy, 24
Ocean City, NJ USA
We were always partial to playing normal
sports (baseball, football, etc.). Video games were really popular, especially once the
Nintendo Entertainment System was released. Other than that, we played the normal games
such as tag, hide & seek, etc.
Aaron, 22
VA USA
We played a lot of games when I was a young
girl. Typical things like tag, jacks, hide and seek, stick-ball outdoors; games like
Candyland, Parchisi, and even the more adult card game like Canasta were all enjoyed
around the table on weekday evenings by the whole family. We had this wonderful game where
you strategically place your planes on a clear cover sheet over a movable (scrolling) map
of the world...during the course of the game, you had to pick a card each turn and move
the map so many clicks...never knowing whether you were headed right into a strong tail
wind or even a horrendous storm. You had to try to navigate your way around them...and the
first player to get all his planes landed safely at an airport was the winner. We played
this for hours, and I wish I could remember the name of it.
Fisch, 46
Preston, CT
USA
Tag, Hide and Seek, SPUD, Mother May
I, Red Light/Green Light, Barbies, Canasta, Spit,
Monopoly.
Laura, 36
Lowell, MA
USA
Twister!
Melodi, 19
Gahanna, OH
USA
I liked to bite the feet off my Barbies! No,
really...I chewed on them. Doesn't seem to have developed into a foot fetish or anything.
I also liked Life (didn't get to play very often) and my Fisher-Price a-frame house and
Trivial Pursuit (I had a junior edition). Oh, and for a while I was into what was then a
hot new game called Girl Talk.
etoile, 20
Washington, DC USA
The only games I can thing I played as a kid
was D&D (I was always the ogre...wonder why), Trivial Pursuit, and tackle
football...I'll tell you what, there is nothing better than playing football in the snow.
I can still remember getting tackled on ground so hard...it felt like every bone in my
body broke...cool.
Frodo
age unknown, parts unknown
Hey- I'm still a kid. The games I like to
play now range everywhere from trivia to action to just surgfing the net. I do like
baseball.
Derya
Candyland, Duck Duck Goose, hide and
go seek..oh there were tons!!!
Angela, 18
Bella Vista, AR USA
I played all sports but prior to that I
played superhero games with my brother. We also pretended to be our dad and his friend. We
still talk about those days now.
Jim, 30
MA USA
Nothing really. I was an only child.
Jaden, 21
Brampton, Ontario CANADA
Monopoly, Scrabble, Chinese checkers. I'm
told I was quite a good poker player at the age of five, having been taught by a
grandfather, but unfortunately the skill vanished by the time I was ten. Tag with my
cousins. Team sports only as required by schools.
Jane, 62
West Linn, OR
USA
My
sisters and I played an imaginary game of Lost Children. We would explore the foothills
near our home for ours pretending to be on our own.
Celeste, 30
Colorado Springs, CO USA
We used
to play, SPOT, tag, red light - green light. Board games were Stratego, Monopoly,
Scrabble, cards poker and canasta. And most of all mind games.
Janet, 44
E. Brunswick, NJ USA
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