When you were a kid....... ( Archived) (16)

whiffle ball

We had so many games ..... especially outdoor games.....

Team tag.... our own invention.... basically tag with teams over three city blocks....once tagged you were out till the chasing team became chased....

Relievo... same as team tag only there was a jail where you could free the people who were caught......

Ball tag with pinpoints.... basic ball tag, using a large ball, where, when being chased by the ballkeeper, the person being chased could cross a line and yell "pinpoints!" ..... the chaser had to stop chasing, those being chased got to line up against a wall with arms and legs spread.... and the ballkeeper got one free throw... if he hit anyone, that person became the ball keeper.....

Outs.... a baseball game played by hitting a tennis ball sized rubber ball off of concrete steps.... where distances were marked off for various types of hits.... single, double, triple, and home run....

Flag.....a game where a stick stuck out of a pail.....placed jusd inside a line of a large area rectangle.... one team was just over the line nearest to the stick.... they were the chasers... the other team tried to grab the stick and run back over the farthest point of the rectangle area....anyone on the chasers had to run out over the line and tag the teams trying to grab the stick.... whether they had grabbed the stick or not.... aiding the team trying to grab the stick was a guard who could tag out any of the chasers as soon as they crossed the line..... we played that alot

TV tag..... same a flag.... only instead of a stick and pail, we etched a tv in the dirt and placed the initials of a tv program.... there was not two teams, instead, the person who etched the initials was like the guard on flag...he would give the time and channel and if you guessed it you had to run out and down the yard over the line before you were tagged out by the guard....

We had alot of other games we played too.... just dont have time to mention them all.........

Matchbox cars

I loved my barbies

Games??...doctor-doctor..

I know I'm not supposed to say this (PC gone mad, of course) but my favourite toy was a Gollywog. Don't forget, this is going back to the 60s. I also had a Tressy doll, with adjustable hair..... if one turned a key in her back the hair would get shorter and to make it longer, pull it out of a hole in the top of her head. And I had cuddly toy : a dog with long floppy ears, called.... yep, "Floppy Ears"...!!

I enjoyed board games and games like Mousetrap, Kerplunk, Barrel of Monkeys...... some of my favourite past-times were marbles, jacks and "Clackers" (they were eventually banned).

Now, I enjoy Trivial Pursuit, Balderdash, Pictionary and Taboo.