Game time

Indoors, it was Stratego; a strategy game in which you needed to capture your opponent's flag.

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Outdoors, it was tackle football with some guys from my school or neighborhood.

I've never been much for games (I like watching others play rather than playing), but I loved the old-time Hungry Hungry Hippos!

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It had the tactile element of furiously pushing on your hippo's "tail" while frantically trying to "gobble up" more marbles than your opponents.

I loved that it was so interactive but didn't require hand/eye coordination like a regular game controller.

When our family's next generation of little ones came along, someone got them a modern version of this game. Unfortunately, like everything else these days, the quality was shot and the poor little hippos came apart rather quickly from all the action.

Does anyone remember..."mouse trap"?

What was one of your favorite childhood games you enjoyed playing? Was it a board game, card game, something outside, or maybe something else.

For me I always looked forward to doge ball. We had our own way of playing. There was a big rock on one side of the yard and a well on the other. There was five of us kids, so four of us would be the runners, running back and forth. One of us had this beach ball, using our feet we had to try to hit someone. If you missed you had to kick it where it landed. It was so fun.

*Lynx check the thread title and first post...*Lynx checks who started it...*Lynx checks both of those again...seoulsearch? How did you hack his account?

For the record, that was a compliment Talljake. If you have started posting threads this much like hers, that is impressive.

this is what I imagine a doge ball coming at me would look like

I was watching some vintage gaming review channel and the host was raving about this game from his childhood:

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Apparently, you have to cross the bridge and collect different treasures without setting off any booby traps or falling of the bridge (complete with alligators waiting in the river!)

I'm sensing a theme to my own gaming preferences here... Apparently I like games with tactile pieces, lots of action, and moving parts!

I love the old-time "Indiana Jones" feel this game seems to have -- back in the good old days when Disney wasn't ruining every legacy IP they touched.

Hungry Hippos was a great one, I don't know if we had the modern version (it was old even when we got it) or if my brother and I just were little savages.. those "tails" were docked fairly quickly for few of the hippos..

Then, first of all, I cannot pick only one, sorry...


African Star was one of my faves, also along with Kimble, those were on the board game side.

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For outside games, I liked to throw tennisball and catch it with the glove (baseball glove?) with someone else, ah, I still would like to play this.. Is this game just called catch?
The worst shape the glove was the better, I remember trying to "damage" my glove by every method possible that came to my mind, to make it softer faster. At school the most wornout leather ones were the best.

Other was swingball, (I seriously don't know the English translation to these games....) or swing burnball, or swing burner (my very own literal translations ). Where one would be on a swing (or many if there were multiple swings available in rows), swinging and others one by one would try to "burn" the swinger by throwing a ball, usually a football (soccer), or atleast we didn't have anything else to use. You could kick the ball without burning if you were the one in a swing, any hit above the ankle would "burn" you.
What is this game called in English?

Lol!

Jake writes awesome threads of his own... And while I'm flattered that someone might think I hacked his account -- are you SURE you read the thread title?

I mean, Does Anyone Here Really Think I Could Write a Thread Title With Only Two Words?!

I'm not sure I could even try.

this is what I imagine a doge ball coming at me would look like

No no no not this lol


But this