I just absolutely loved **Behind the 8 Ball. ** which your goal was to get your color ball to drop from the funnel before the eight ball did. If you were *behind the 8 ball * that was bad.
**Twister ** is still a timeless fun game.
**Scrabble ** we made up our own rules that surprisingly, I’ve discovered a few other people who did the exact same thing.
**Trivial Pursuit ** pretty much validated my very existance when it came out. Every worthless peice of useless trivia that I knew fergodknowswhatreason was utilized with the creation of that game.
**Monopoly ** Once I learned to cheat the bank it became even more hilarious.
**Card games ** and **Chess ** the staple of society.
Dave Barry once said that in watching his son play cards with his other friends the only clear rule that he could see enforced was punching each other on the arm and belching.
TV Tag & Freeze Tag - similar games, but it was fun when we started running out of television shows to call out. Pity the kid who yelled out Sewing With Karleen.
Red Light, Green Light & Mr. Fox - Also similar. I didn’t mind the first one so much, but for some reason playing Mr. Fox half-frightened me. Maybe that’s why I liked it?
Mother May I? - exaggerating the giant, scissor-steps always ended up in a heap of giggling kids.
Croquet & Jarts- I don’t think I ever won a single game, but I was adept at getting my mallet entangled in the wickets. My grandmother always played these with us kids, so I have very good memories associated with both of these games.
I loved football and I was a champ at dodge ball. Nobody could hit me. Nobody.
Now, I walk around town with my ball and I try to get people to play in front of the ladies so I can show off, but no one wants to play anymore these days. :mad:
Ah, the blissful days of Red Rover, Red Rover, which I understand is now banned from many a school playground.
As for board games, the favorite one in our house was Clue. I have noticed that since I was a child, they now make a version of Clue for kids (if I understand it correctly, it involves some larceny in a pet shop, instead of murder) – uh, who was the original one for? Talk about the dumbing down of America!
Favorite card game was Spoons, mostly because you could jab the other players with your spoon in the mad rush to grab them.
Stratego: Battlefield strategy game involving two flags, several bombs, and two sisters fiercely squinting at each other.
Trump: As in the board game inspired by Donald Trump. I’ve never met another person who’s played this game.
Gin Rummy: This game was (and still is) played with my mother on holidays, and each round must include cursing, grandstanding, and accusations of cheating.
Hungry, Hungry, Hippos: Favorite early Saturday morning wake-mom-up-game.
(sorry if this is a doublepost, I’m having troubles today)
Hungry, Hungry, Hippos! Gobble gobble gobble, it was so much fun.
Also poker - my grandpa taught me a bunch of card games when I was 4, poker was my favorite. We’d always play with 9’s, 3’s, and 5’s wild, along with the two jokers, it was ridiculous.
“What do you have? I have a full house, Jacks over Queens.”
“Well I win cause I have five Kings.”
We played a game on my block called Smallball. You’d play it in one of those big, round dead-ends (I hate the term “cul de sac”). One person would be the batter. He/she would stand in the mouth of the dead end and hit a tennis ball with a bat or tennis racket, whatever we had that day. Hit it hard, then put the bat/racket down on the ground.
Everyone else would scramble to get the ball. Whoever got it first would then throw it, from where they got it, back to the batter. No one could interfere with the ball as it went. If the ball flew/rolled back and hit the bat lying on the ground, then the person who threw it was now the batter.
Come to think of it, that was a really boring game…
Beckon, beckon, who has the beckon. Twenty or thirty kids running around the twilight of a rural Ohio town during the blissful years of the first Eisenhower Administration. A single game could last for two or three weeks. It was like the worlds biggest, longest floating game of hide and seek. I wonder what happened to all those kids.
Outside, we’d play Superfriends or Cops and Robbers. Also Statue and many of the other outside running-around game mentioned.
I loved Payday and Careers, and could never get anyone in my family to play them as often as I liked. At slumber parties my girlfriends and I would play all-night games of Life. When we got the end, we simply turned around and went through the board backwards. We named our husbands (usually classmates) and also named every child. When you go through the board multiple times, you could end up with a dozen kids. We never minded.
Well I was quite partial do Dungeons and Dragons as a kid. I started playing when I was 6 or 7 and didn’t understand the rules. I just knew that it was a “let’s pretend game.” Now that was a fun time.
Later when I had friends (:)) we played a game called “For All My Family” which is a game as close to Calvin Ball that I have seen. The only difference is that there isn’t a ball.
I remember playing Chappaquiddick Barbie. Ken would drive the Dream Car into the bathtub and swim away, leaving Barbie trapped (if you squeezed her head, she blew bubbles).
My friend David says he used to play Kennedy Assassination with his Flintstones Bubble-Bath figures, using Kleenex boxes as cars (Betty Rubble portrayed Jackie, beause of her hair).