Come Play!
I occasionally leave this sandbox to go play in someone else's sandbox. Today I will be over at Heather Lane's.
http://editedtowithinaninchofmylife.blogspot.com/
I hear she has pails and shovels, and good snacks and juice boxes. Come on by.
Question: What was YOUR favorite game when YOU were a kid?
Happy Friday!
P.S. MINE . . . hard to say. But overall, I went through a ridiculous Barbie phase that lasted a LONG time, but MY Barbie games had amazing jetset lives, and let me tell you . . . the complicated love lives of Barbie, her friends, and the Ken dolls (I never had enough Kens to go around, so there was DRAMA!) . . . .
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Cowboys, monsters, Army guys...you know, anything with lots of good old-fashioned violence.
Clue and Monopoly and Chess, when it came to board games.
I grew up in a small town with a million kids around my age, so we were always playing dodge ball and statue tag.
There was always GI Joe, tee hee! So rugged with that scar, and so strong.
I played make believe. Our neighbors had a giant willow tree that could be a spaceship (Lost in Space--I was Penny), the Death Star, a stable, a prison, a house or a castle... you get the idea. Playing make believe with my friends was THE BEST.
I always had Barbies, but my favorites were games we played with the neighborhood kids -- especially this crazy version of frozen tag where you tagged people by throwing a tiny stuffed monkey at them. It made the game more interesting because you didn't have to physically touch the person, just hit them with the monkey, but then someone ELSE had to touch them to unfreeze them. Getting frozen on the roof always sucked.
As the youngest of nine, we couldn't afford much. Never had a Barbie. I got to play with an original set of Lincoln log, Monopoly and card games.
My friends played with Barbies. I played with the packaging and made things like a restaurant with a waterfall and dance floor. I really should've been an architect. (There's still time...)
I played with my stuffed animals a lot and made them be the characters in my stories.
Life was my favorite board game.
Poker was my favorite card game.
Jude:
I used to play cops and robbers with my cousins when they would visit. I always wanted to be the bad guy.
Mark:
I didn't get into Chess until Oldest Son did. I like Monopoly (love the NEW game where you slide the cards and no paper money!). And I didn't like Clue. I did like Life . . . and cards--lots and lots of card games with my grandparents.
Starbucks:
I did a lot of make believe too. And books . . . books more than playing, I think.
Melanie:
Played freeze tag. But no monkey was involved.
That sounds like jon Van Zile game!
magolla:
No boys in my family--no Lincolh Logs. It was just a Pepto-Bismol explosion of pink in our house.
Sarah:
I love that--architect, indeed.
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Oh, and I forgot--c'mon, Jude, I bet you played this: kill the guy with the ball. The best way I can describe it like football and rugby. Basically, somebody stupid enough to catch the ball has to avoid getting tackled by everyone for as long as possible.
We did play that, Mark. Batball was the best, though. Same rules as baseball except you hit a rubber ball with your fist and then ran the bases. The opposing team had to hit you with the ball to get you out, and they didn't want to just get you out--they wanted it to STING. Then there was payback when it was their turn to bat...
I'm rather jealous. My nephew, who is now an elementary teacher, used to play--and still does with kids--wiffle ball only they put a slip-and-slide between the bases and you have to slide into base.
I loved playing with My Little Ponies and of course Barbies. And I still have them in storage at my parents' house in case I have a daughter one day.
Ooh, and I loved Hungry Hungry Hippos too.
Thanks for kicking up the sand, everyone! Erica, thanks again for the great interview.
My favorite games growing up--whiffle ball, Rubix Race, Risk, D&D, Stratego and Kick the Can.
Evil Kineval was my hero. I would jump my bike off ramps and curbs, trying to soar through the air like him.
Cowboys and indians. We rode imaginary horses, hung out in saloons and caught the bad guys. Sometimes we were the bad guys.
I was about five when I saw the Twilight Zone's Talking Tina - dolls terrified me after that.
Nadine:
Demon Baby cheats at Hungry, Hungry Hippos.
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Sherrie:
I never got too much into Evel, but I had a cousin who idolized him!
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Aimless:
OMG, I forgot about Talking Tina!!!
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P.S. My Baby Girl hated dolls for the same reason. "They stare at me!"
Eeeeeeeeeek! I love this post! I know I'm late commenting but I just couldn't resist... :P
I played with Barbies for a time, a friend introduced me to Barbie Sex with Ken dolls & I would always get made fun of for leaving Ken's socks on all of the goddamn time.
My absolute FAVOURITE??? Was 'storytelling' about this hermit supposedly lived in this empty field behind our house. My 3 brothers & I would go to every end to make this dude/thing as creepy as possible, even made shit up about being able to peek through the cracks of his abode & see him with a pitchfork killing rabbits & collecting children's skulls on his bunkbed. It was ... my favouritest thing. We would set out to make a journey over to this hermit's realm hell bent on getting him to integrate with society. It of course never happened, but we had our fun packing for the travels & sharing even more details of what we had projected in our own imagery of this 'legend'. Such adventures. I miss them so much I sometimes cry!
Love you!!!!
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