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What games did you use to play when you were a kid?

Me and my neighborhood friends would play war games and use sticks for our rifles. Sometimes we would play dress up and pretend to be superheroes, or knights on a quest, depending on where our imagination took us next. Sometimes, I would play Barbie & Ken with some of our girl neighbors, or with my cousins. The theme would always be Barbie and Ken cheating on each other, then getting back together again. Or either one of them dying. We also used to play "courtroom." I would always be the prossecution. The jury would be our stuffed animals. Sometimes, we paired up with our girl neighbors and pretended to be grown-up couples! It was so funny! We had several playhouses and imagine that we were neighbors. The kids would be dolls!

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Statues, freeze tag, football, foot races, curb ball, four square, red rover, what time is it mr. fox, water fights....oh thanks for bringing back memories!
Super Mari Bro. the Orginal NES system...
well i used to play with my little bro we had an excessive amount of stuffed animals so we would give them names and biuld a town made from blankets or anything in the room and we would have adventures through the dolls
every night after dinner, all the kids in our neighborhood would gather at someones house and play kick the can until dark. when we were a bit older, we met at the elementary school and 'played football'. altho innocent, it was a time when we discovered the opposite sex and had out first kisses. when i was very small, my mother would organize afternoon teaparties. we would all dress up in our mother's or grandmother's clothes, make hollyhock dolls and pretend we were grownups. as the other response said,,,thanks for bringing these memories back!
well.. i played with my family.. we have 6 kids.. but we always played kick ball and umm mother may i lol.. i dotn know if you guys know what that is but its like one person stands in teh front.. and the others stand in a line and say mother may i have one baby step? and the mother can say yes or no lol.. you could also ask for a scissor step or a run or a large jump.. lol. the mother can say yes or no to anything.. sometimes can eveh say no but suggest something different. now that i think of it its cheap cause the mother can choose favorites to win!! we also played alot of soft ball.. tag.. freeze wed play where we would dance then have to freeze when the music went off.. umm musical chairs.. umm thats it i think lol
In our neighborhood, Chicago during the '60's, we spent every evening during the summers playing "kick the can". We all came out after dinner and played until the streetlights came on and our mothers would start calling for us to come in. That was the height of the Vietnam war and during the day we would play "war", the boys would be soldiers and we girls had to be nurses. We would always get mad when the boys wouldn't let us fight so we would leave. I never was a big Barbie fan.
Cowboys & indians, tag, cops & robbers. Barbie & Ken, House. We had a cemetary on our street, so sometimes we snuck in, or we pretended to be pioneers behind it. We also pretended to be horses. We'd "jump" over broom sticks and buckets. My best friend and I played detectives. We were "Control" and the bad guys were "Chaos", ala Get Smart. We had agent numbers, as did our two stuffed dogs named Ruff Ruff and Sparky. The dogs could talk and accompanied us everywhere! We fashioned little houses, clothes, even makeshift food and products for them. As we got older, we liked basketball and street hockey at the elementary school that was in walking distance. I was usually the goalie. Thx for the memories!
Kidnapers(sit at the edge of the lawn and wait for cars to drive by.when one got close we'd pretend it was a kidnaper and we would have to say "Kidnapers" and run as fast as we could to the front porch and duck be hind the hedge. It was funny because every one stared at us when they drove by.) Tiger in the Jungle(every one hides but one person. that one peson has to come find every one, but if that one person gets tagged than he/she has to start over. But if that one person sees some one and calls out there name, then they are tagged and have to wait on the porch. the piont is to see every one and call out there names before they tag you.) both games we made up.
freeze tag, it, hide and go seek.....at night, super mario. Oh yeah good times.
football, soccer hokey.
wow i would play like cops and robbers, kickball, and hide and go seek at night. and house. and it was so much fun i wish i could re live it