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What 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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