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By *og-Man OP Man 29 weeks ago
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Just reading an article about playing games as kids ...something the present generation might not know about as it doesn't involve a screen.
What games did you play as a child and what memories have you got of them
Did they depend on where you grew up
My main one that I remember was kick the can
The fights we had over that one would keep you out playing with the girls on the long summer nights ( was it aways dry or did we not go out in the rain )
Anyway ....what did you play |
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If we weren't playing organised ball sports like gaa and handball we were playing soccer. Were soccer mad. Mini leagues set up between ourselves and local kids. Of course there was the 2 weeks of tennis when Wimbledon was on over a net erected by a neighbour That's hour of astro theses days is still the happiest hour of the week. Can still see the remains of the tree house we built at a seriously unsafe height. Then you had cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, rounders, eh milking the cows and driving the tractor  |
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By (user no longer on site) 29 weeks ago
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Lid golf, you got a lid of a bottle, you got a stick, and you would start down the road and try and punt the lid onto the furthers manhole with the least amount of shots. And yes I do play golf now. |
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By *rRiosMan 29 weeks ago
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"Kerbsie, football and tennis were the only ones. Didn't have bikes growing up as we couldn't afford them so made do with what we had"
Football? We could only dream of a football! We just to just kick a stone in our bare feet  |
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By (user no longer on site) 29 weeks ago
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Tig ( or tag, you’re it, catch depending on your location) no props or equipment needed and completely scalable so didn’t matter how many where playing.
Hide & Seek - especially at night with or without flashlights.
War (so many eyes could have been shot out!) - throwing sucks and stones at each other like mad yokes!
-Family -great imaginative play and probably where I started my interest in role play
-Rainy day games: Drawing games like Exquisite corpse, board games, charades.
Lots of really important life skills were learned in those games/play…..sad to see kids these days being more passive consumers rather than active creators using their imaginations. It warms my heart when I see kids outside hanging out, climbing trees and getting up to devilment (like kids should!). |
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By *og-Man OP Man 29 weeks ago
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"Kerbsie, football and tennis were the only ones. Didn't have bikes growing up as we couldn't afford them so made do with what we had
Football? We could only dream of a football! We just to just kick a stone in our bare feet "
Fantastic photo...well done |
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Hide and seek, tag, dodge ball mostly. To be fair I'm afraid I was in the first screen generation already once I got a bit older  Gaming sessions at friends with c64, Amiga 500 and later carrying our heavy 386/486s around playing Doom death matches with null modem cables 
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A roar to get up and get some work done, cut the grass, wash the cars, work with parents, some work with neighbours then you had play time then.
Dodgeball. Hide and seek. Soldiers. Pranks of neighbours. Monopoly, snakes and ladders and neighbour had Sony PlayStation which was addictive. |
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Red rover as younger, kerbs or tag out in the streets could be looking for some for hours then kiss chase came along
Then depending on what was popular at the time, tennis on the street or "horse jumping building fences with whatever was available & any nearby walls or hedges
Also used to be a weekly football game between two parts of our village, the village team & countryside team
Much simpler times & a lot more interaction |
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"Red rover as younger, kerbs or tag out in the streets could be looking for some for hours then kiss chase came along
Then depending on what was popular at the time, tennis on the street or "horse jumping building fences with whatever was available & any nearby walls or hedges
Also used to be a weekly football game between two parts of our village, the village team & countryside team
Much simpler times & a lot more interaction"
Jesus I just remembered the show jumping. The barrels and planks all over the place and even the trot you would do coming up to the fence. |
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I grew up in the country with two brothers and there were no kids our own age nearby so we had to do our own thing. Usually something like 3-goals-in.
We set up a tennis court in the back yard one time but that ended after I set a tennis ball through the kitchen window.
We then tried a mini pitch and putt coarse, even had 18 holes but sadly that ended after I hit a perfect wedge shot through the kitchen window. Poor mother was not as impressed with my wedge shot. |
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By *og-Man OP Man 29 weeks ago
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"Knocking on doors and running away...
Oh forgot about that, angry old ladies chasing us down the street 
Mr
We had one of those she was called super gran.
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And then one day you're sitting in your home after a hard day,children asleep and those friendly neighbourhood kids that say hello to you every day....do a knick knack and run away and wake the sleeping children
Then you turn into the grumpy oul fella that curses at the kids
Maybe just me |
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"Knocking on doors and running away...
Oh forgot about that, angry old ladies chasing us down the street
Mr
We had one of those she was called super gran.
And then one day you're sitting in your home after a hard day,children asleep and those friendly neighbourhood kids that say hello to you every day....do a knick knack and run away and wake the sleeping children
Then you turn into the grumpy oul fella that curses at the kids
Maybe just me "
cowboy and Indians Annie get your gun |
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"Knocking on doors and running away...
Oh forgot about that, angry old ladies chasing us down the street
Mr
We had one of those she was called super gran.
And then one day you're sitting in your home after a hard day,children asleep and those friendly neighbourhood kids that say hello to you every day....do a knick knack and run away and wake the sleeping children
Then you turn into the grumpy oul fella that curses at the kids
Maybe just me "
ya I have a friend who is always giving out about what his 3 boys get up to. Until I remind him of what we used to do.His kids are angels compared to us.. |
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"Did anyone come from a country village that had it's own handball alley just at the side of the road in a field ...a big concrete structure....always thought they were cool "
Ya but that was not for handball
If you had a girlfriend you nearly had to book a time slot.. |
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By *og-Man OP Man 29 weeks ago
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"Did anyone come from a country village that had it's own handball alley just at the side of the road in a field ...a big concrete structure....always thought they were cool
Ya but that was not for handball
If you had a girlfriend you nearly had to book a time slot.."
I did kiss a girl in one in a village called Annamoe in county wicklow as a young teenager |
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"Red rover as younger, kerbs or tag out in the streets could be looking for some for hours then kiss chase came along
Then depending on what was popular at the time, tennis on the street or "horse jumping building fences with whatever was available & any nearby walls or hedges
Also used to be a weekly football game between two parts of our village, the village team & countryside team
Much simpler times & a lot more interaction
Jesus I just remembered the show jumping. The barrels and planks all over the place and even the trot you would do coming up to the fence."
Ya done well to have barrels & planks we'd be using bags of sticks or turf & brushes 
But yeah the trot was a big part of it |
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Football, basketball, volleyball of all shapes and sizes and variants, tennis, badminton, table tennis...
Hide and seek, gazillion versions of tag, various WWII reenactments of goodies vs baddies. |
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"Come on someone must know the songs that were sung when skipping or standing near a wall and throwing and catching two tennis balls letting them bounce just once "
One two three and PLAINSY
Four five six and PLAINSY
Seven eight nine and PLAINSY
Ten and PLAINSY, catch the ball.
(Followed by the same, substituting
UPSY, OVER, DROPSY, and WHAMSY
Only one I remember and normally your friend took over for the next verse without stopping |
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"What was kerbsie and Scotch?
I am presuming Scotch is hop scotch
And kerbies is throwing a ball across the road trying to hit each other's kirb so it bounces back"
Country boy here we had pot holes not kerbs
At night we used to put straw soaked in petrol on the road and light it when cars were coming.
Imagine if you did that now. |
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"Scotch was a game involving a tennis ball, one person was on and you ran around to avoid being hit with the ball, if you were hit by it you were out. I got a right thwack on the head once  "
Ya we did that too. A hurl and sliotar or tennis ball. And ya it feckin hurt.
I got knocked out cold in a game in school kinda like this. One of the lads kicked a basketball and got me in the back of the head.
I was puking for days after. |
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"We called that Thunder and Lightening. Knock door as hard as you could and run as fast as you could not to get caught. "
Or getting in the 20 storey building, pressing all the buttons and getting out, letting the elevator stop on every floor...
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By *og-Man OP Man 29 weeks ago
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"We called that Thunder and Lightening. Knock door as hard as you could and run as fast as you could not to get caught.
Or getting in the 20 storey building, pressing all the buttons and getting out, letting the elevator stop on every floor...
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Did ye have a horse in the lift too |
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Hay jumping was always good fun. Especially getting chased off by the farmer.
Skinning apples out the orchard in the mansion house out the road was good two. They had big dogs.
Summers jumping off the bridge into the river suir. |
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"We called that Thunder and Lightening. Knock door as hard as you could and run as fast as you could not to get caught.
Or getting in the 20 storey building, pressing all the buttons and getting out, letting the elevator stop on every floor...
Did ye have a horse in the lift too "
Nope, that particular kink was only discovered when I landed on the shores of Eire... |
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By (user no longer on site) 28 weeks ago
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Even though I grew up on screens I spent a lot of time outside.
The games I remember mainly playing are tip the can, british bulldog, football, kerbs. I remember once or twice playing ira as well |
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