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General Category => General Talk => Topic started by: Dave on March 31, 2008, 08:24:19 pm
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What games did you used to play during your childhood? I don't mean computer games contrary to expectation others like marbles, pogs or even games you invented with your friends? I think it will be interesting to see the different games people to use play in different parts of the world.
Pogs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogs)
My favourite game during childhood. Two players, each with their own collection of pogs (discs made up of different cartoons, movies etc). Before the game, players decide whether to play 'for keeps', or not. 'For keeps' implies that the players keep the POGs that they win, together with forfeit those that have been won by other players. The players each contribute an equal number of POGs to build a stack with the pieces facing down, which will be used during the game. The players take turns throwing their slammer (in addition called a 'kini') down onto the top of the stack, causing it to spring up together with the POGs to scatter.
Personally I amassed my biggest collection in pogs than any other game. Its a big shame it pretty much died out during the late nineties. I asked my younger cousin the other day together with he has never even heard of them. :(
Marbles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marbles)
This was my second favourite game. The only version I ever really played was knocking opponents marbles out of a circle.
Penny up the wall
I don't know if these following games are played in other parts of the world because I can't find much information about them on wikipedia or google.
This game can be played with as many people as desired at any one time. Each player throws a penny (a cent) against a wall from equal distance together with the winner would be the person whose penny landed closest to the wall. If two or more players landed at roughly equal distance then those players would throw again.
Mini
This game can be played by two or more people, spontaneously, when walking down a street. It starts whenever somebody spots a mini (small car) together with shouts "MINI!". Other people must react together with in addition shout mini too. The person to react last would be the loser. In some versions of the game the loser may in addition be faced with a dare by the others or be given a dead arm.
There are more contrary to expectation I will edit my post later.
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I never figured out how to play pogs, but I had a good collection of them.
We also had these spinner things, I forget what they are called.
You had these metal disk like things, wound them up, and dropped them into an arena, and they would spin around hitting each other until one was hit out of the arena. We had a lot of those, particularly Power Ranger faced ones (they had pictures on the disks).
Anyone have any idea what I am talking about?
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CrAzZY BoNnES
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I never knew how to play pogs either, I just knew I had a lot and you'd slam 'em and flip 'em over or something.
Me and my friends used to play Budokai; inspired by Dragon Ball Z, we beat the shit out of each other on one of those big ass trampolines. We'd always make up stories for our parents by saying stuff like "uh, fell down the stairs" and come home with busted noses and bruised bodies. It was awesome.
There was also this one game we played in the dead of winter called The Hunted. One of us was the prey and we'd have a 30 minute head start to run into the woods (it was a 200 acre wood plot, pretty sizeable) followed by the hunters and the hunter leader choosen at random (we drew cards). The object of the game was to tag the prey with a paintball while the prey's goal was to tag the leader with a paintball. One of the hunters was an renegade who's goal was to tag everyone but tag the leader last. You couldn't share your position, so this trust/distrust thing kept everyone split apart because no one wanted to be tagged.
yeah... my childhood was pretty badass.
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I was a fucking pog master when I was a kid. I started with just a slammer (which a friend gave me), and I always played for keeps. It took a few years, but I amassed hundreds of pogs by the time they went out of style. The Star Wars Episode I pogs were pretty much the last "cool" pogs to get.
I lost my entire collection in fifth grade when teachers caught me playing with some kids. It was during recess, so it's not like I was doing anything bad. She took them all away from me, and told me I had to have my dad come get them. My dad didn't even know what pogs were, and he was too busy to ever get them (grr). I never saw them again.
I'm kind of surprised that these haven't made a comeback. It was one of the coolest fads ever, but nobody knows what they are anymore.
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There was also this one game we played in the dead of winter called The Hunted. One of us was the prey and we'd have a 30 minute head start to run into the woods (it was a 200 acre wood plot, pretty sizeable) followed by the hunters and the hunter leader choosen at random (we drew cards). The object of the game was to tag the prey with a paintball while the prey's goal was to tag the leader with a paintball. One of the hunters was an renegade who's goal was to tag everyone but tag the leader last. You couldn't share your position, so this trust/distrust thing kept everyone split apart because no one wanted to be tagged.
i want to play this game right now.
we played hide and seek a lot, anyway, but we also played a violent version of hide and seek called codes. one team was given a word, and each member took a letter of the word and the other team had to beat the letters out of each member of the team until they had the word. sometimes the word would become obvious and a few lucky ones got off the hook but it was a great game cos everyone got a chance to beat each other up. you would think that might get rid of some aggression but we still fought a lot outside of the game.
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Wow, some of these games sound pretty damn fun.
Yeah, POGS were all the rage back in the day. Sometimes we'd play for keeps, which got pretty intense sometimes. Pretty ridiculous game now that I think about it. "I TOTALLY FLIPPED THE WHOLE STACK YEAHHHH!!" I remember pogs with 8-Balls or Skulls were highly coveted.
In middle school, I played a shitload of Pokemon TCG. There was a weekend gathering at the local Books-A-Million, which was like the highlight of every week for me.
On the bus, we'd occasionally play B-SPICE. If you said a word starting with B, and someone says SPICE before you do, they could beat on you until you did or said something (don't remember what).
edit: Also, DOORKNOB, which isn't so much a game, just something we did if someone farted or burped. If you burp/fart and someone says DOORKNOB before you, everyone can clobber you until you touch a doorknob.
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I still wish I had my collection of pogs too. I never thought the fad would die out so quickly when I was a kid. I was having a discussion with someone the other day and we agreed that todays generation is based more around television and computer games than games like pogs or others mentioned above. Heck, some people are too afraid to let their kids out on the street to play a game of good old fashioned hide and seek nowadays. Some kids are really missing out. :sad:
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why play real pogs when you can play 'final pog quest vii' the online mmog that lets you spend real money on virtual pogs. finally, players from all across the world can slam with the best and collect classic pogs like chester the cheetah, avoid the noid, and little caesars.
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:gwa:
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Marbles
Pogs
Hockey with ministicks
Pokemon cards
Also played a tag like game called grounder. One person walked around with their eyes closed, and called grounder, and everybody had to shout "no one" , unless somebody was on the ground, then they were the new guy. I guess it's probably like marco polo? But I don't know much about that game.
Also my neighbourhood always used to play manhunt at night. One person was "it", and like 10-30 other people run away, as you tag somebody, you both are it. And it was always a lot of fun, as there weren't many limits. You could climb trees and hide, or lie about being caught or not.
Man I miss my childhood now. :(
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jumpin jacks
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that penny up the wall game is how we used to play pogs primarily, as the pogs came free in several things whereas the slammers didn't. that's how most card games were played too
we played marbles on sewer grates that had concentric circles. i don't really remember how to play anymore!
also we used to have oddbodz, tradeable cards that were really really big because you could get them free in chips, so all the rich kids had tonnes of them.
also also, 4 square
edit: heheh, warlin tried to make this exact topic not too long ago
http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?&topic=68734.msg1245965
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Pogs were fucking amazing back in the day, jeff boldgroom, there was another game little plastic like block shaped things but with faces that you used to flick and knock the others over, i dont recall the name though.
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I remember pogs with 8-Balls or Skulls were highly coveted.
Oh man this just brought back a flood of memories. I loved pog when I was around seven years old, and I was crazy for eight balls and skull designs! My favourite slammer was this ridiculously heavy one that featured a detached skull spitting a stream of flame from its mouth, and there was a single eight ball floating inside the flame. Fucking rad.
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The only thing that sticks out in my mind is manhunt...where we had like more than a dozen people playing and one person was designated as "it." Kind of like hide and seek, but the range we played was much larger (like across an entire apartment complex, but obviously boundaries and rules were set) and everytime the "it" person found someone, that someone had to help him/her find other people eventually building up a team of hunters until the last person was caught.
We rarely played more than one or two of those games at a time on any given day as sometimes they would run hours long.
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My favorite game as a kid was dodgeball. I would play that nearly every day and I was really good at it because I was pretty quick. There were two types I played, regular dodge ball and army dodge. If you got hit in the leg or the arm, you can't use that limb anymore. So if you lose both your legs, I guess you can crawl and if you lose both your arms you're just running around dodging balls. If you're hit in the torso you're out, and I can't remember what happened if you got hit in the head. Probably nothing! If you catch a ball someone on the other team throws at you, that person is out, you get all your body parts back, and everyone on your team gets to come back to life.
I remember my moment of glory. I had lost both my arms and my legs and I was lying on the ground waiting to get killed. Ben, one of the school bullies, ran up to me with a ball and chucked it at me as hard as he could. I guess it was just a reaction, because I didn't mean to do it, but I sort of jumped up and caught the ball with my kneecaps. It was awesome man, my team was losing and everyone thought I was going to die and I completely turned the game around with the most ridiculous catch ever. What an awesome game.
When I was in first grade, the second graders had sort of a first grader slave ring where they'd capture us and make us dig in this hole in the ground by the dugout. The hole never got very deep and I don't know what we were digging for, but I remember sneaking around the playground trying to avoid the second graders almost every day because we didn't want to be their slaves. It's not that we even minded the digging, we liked it a lot and in second grade we did the same thing. We just didn't want to be slaves. I remember, though, that one time we found an Indian arrowhead, and my friend Steven found some fireworks. We also thought that mica was as valuable as gold, so we brought lots of that home too.
We dug a lot though and built a lot of forts. In fifth grade we built the coolest fort imaginable. There was this huge, spiny bush with a mostly hollow center by the soccer field where my friends and I would play. We hollowed out the bush even further and hauled in these giant logs from the forest to the bush to sit on. We also hollowed out part of the top as a sun roof and an escape hatch if we ever had to get out really fast (which happened a lot). My friend also brought some tools from home and we tried to build some wood stuff, but it turned out really horribly.
We also played a game called Smoo Bear Island a lot. Smooch was my friend Julian's dog and we would pretend he was a type of small bear and that we had to protect him from the evil G.R.O.S. (Get Rid of Smoos). We would build these awesome pillow fort bases and hide the dog in there, or chase him around the house and backyard but say we were protecting him.
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Unless I was playing with toys, I was mainly playing PRETEND, in which several friends and I reenact episodes of Power Rangers. Also, I was into Pokemon cards, but I never won.
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When I was in first grade, the second graders had sort of a first grader slave ring where they'd capture us and make us dig in this hole in the ground by the dugout. The whole never got very deep and I don't know what we were digging for, but I remember sneaking around the playground trying to avoid the second graders almost every day because we didn't want to be their slaves. It's not that we even minded the digging, we liked it a lot and in second grade we did the same thing. We just didn't want to be slaves.
Wow, this really speaks to me. Its like humanity encapsulated in a schoolyard game. Thats deep.
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Thats sounds awesome man. I have never played dodgeball in my life. Its not something we have or used to do here in England when I was young. I suppose the closest thing we had was a game called duel ball. Two players would stand so far apart, each with a ball at their feet. The aim was to kick your ball and hit the other person. There were two versions, one where you would get points depending on where the ball hit the other player, or the other where the first person to be hit would simply be out and another person comes in.
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I played YuGiOh and Boxball and Dodgeball and all that, but my friends and I were also pretty creative in that we made up a lot of games to play. One was Cannibal Island, which we played a good amount. Basically the first 'level' was we'd all ride around our friend's circular driveway (he had this long snakey driveway with a little garden island in the middle, it was awesome) on scooters and bikes, and there would be a cannibal who basically tagged the non-cannibals. It was kind of like tag on scooters and bikes, but the cannibals stayed cannibals. We added all sorts of things like weapons and stuff, it was a blast.
We also played the 'lego game', which was more or less the Sims with legos and it was fun as hell. We'd spend an hour building this huge city and it was so cool, because in the end I'd always end up a secret agent or a restaurant owner or something cool like that, and it was fun.
Lastly, we played something called Wee Snaw. I know, it sounds retarded, but we heard it in a Spongebob episode one day (Spongebob is seriously the most inappropriate show for little kids, just watch it sometime when you're bored and you'll be AMAZED). It was more or less my own version of DnD, but with all this crazy stuff. Like, one time I decided to be a penguin whose class was a baker, while my friend was like this dragon thing. We spent years playing this, and it was just a great way to pass the time in car rides and other stuff.
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Somewhere in my home there is a pringles can full of pogs....
Also, I was introduced to the super nintendo when I was like 3, so I didn't have a real childhood full of cool gay stuff like that
Although we would always find cool stuff to do with lego.
I still have the most lego out of everyone i know...
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I remember playing a lot of RED-ASS when I was younger (grade 4 & 5) (Actually I think we all called it RED-A for censorship reasons). I don't know how common this game is (I think I've heard it referred to as Wall Ball here in Nova Scotia...), but you play in it front of a school wall that is windowless and basically all brick/concrete. Basically, there's one tennis ball and one person throws the ball against the wall. If the ball hits the ground before it touches the wall or the ball is caught by somebody after it hits the wall but before it touches the ground, the person who threw the ball must run to the wall and touch it. (This also happens if you fumble the ball or the ball hits you during general play). Whoever picks up the tennis ball at this time must try to throw the tennis ball and hit the person who is running to the wall. If the person makes it to the wall before they are hit (or the person throwing the ball at them misses) then play continues.
We played that if you were hit you would be out and would have to stay in an area behind the playing court of the game. (Luckily for us the school had painted lines there already so we designated that as the "out" area.) Anyway, much like in dodge ball fashion, if anyone who was out managed to get the ball, they tried to hit anyone of the players still alive in the game before they could touch the wall. (Basically, if the ball went out of the playing court everyone still in the court would madly make a dash toward the wall because of the threat of the out people). If you were out and managed to hit someone, you would take their place in the game and they would now be out.
The game plays on until only one person is left in the game. (This was a variant we came up with because this allowed everyone to keep playing all the time. In the original game once hit you would be eliminated. We called this variant Kings Court)
Man, I have so many good memories of the game. I used to be so good at it. (Of course being skinny and fast helped!)
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When I was in first grade, the second graders had sort of a first grader slave ring where they'd capture us and make us dig in this hole in the ground by the dugout. The hole never got very deep and I don't know what we were digging for, but I remember sneaking around the playground trying to avoid the second graders almost every day because we didn't want to be their slaves. It's not that we even minded the digging, we liked it a lot and in second grade we did the same thing. We just didn't want to be slaves. I remember, though, that one time we found an Indian arrowhead, and my friend Steven found some fireworks. We also thought that mica was as valuable as gold, so we brought lots of that home too.
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This topic is now about who is your favorite recess character
i like spinelli becase she is a bada*s mofo
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who do you think you are ass just coming into my topic changing it about
ps i like vince
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i thought all the characters were pretty dumb, but it was the structure of the school that i watched it for
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Finsterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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I liked the Ashley's. Specifically, Ashley Q.
SCANDELOUS
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Shit, yeah. They are Totally Hot.
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Shit, yeah. They are Totally Hot.
That one episode where it turns out spinelli was an ashley..............................
what a shocker!!!!!!!
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i was tj in elementary school. that is who i actually was.
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Pro-Yo yo-yo and finger skateboards were all the rage! Then again, so was weed and underage sex. Hell how the hell did I get to uni :O
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I liked to play with finger skateboards. When I was in elementary school, I used to play tag a lot with my schoolmates. I also played freezetag, and red-light green-light. I also used to race my mom's poodle down the hallway(does that count?)I loved to collect pokemon cards, and battle them. Collecting them was a blast, though, since it felt great to get a rare holographics in a pack of cards and boast to all your friends. Let's see, I think that is it besides video and computer games, which I played a lot.
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about 2 blocks behind my house theres this big field (its intended to be a flood plain but people are starting to build there now) and just behind that was a wooded area that goes up the side of this big hill. me and my friends would always ride our bikes up there and just explore, and there were all these different rock formations. we had names for all of them, one was abe because it looked like abe lincoln, and another was the tugboat, you get the idea.
and then with kids on my block we'd play capture the flag, which was awesome, one day we had like 8 people on each side, and it got really crazy. this one kid (who was like 19 and we were all 13/14) was fence hopping in people's backyards.
at school all we ever did was play soccer, first grade through six grade, soccer soccer soccer. how we never got bored of that i will never understand.
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Knuckles, yoyo, pokemon cards, tamagochi, 4 square. Mmmmhmm!
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Mini
This game can be played by two or more people, spontaneously, when walking down a street. It starts whenever somebody spots a mini (small car) together with shouts "MINI!". Other people must react together with in addition shout mini too. The person to react last would be the loser. In some versions of the game the loser may in addition be faced with a dare by the others or be given a dead arm.
We play this in America, though since there are so few minis around here, we use Volkswagen Beetles. Some call them bugs, and when you see one you shout "SLUG BUG!" and hit your friend's arm. If your friend wants revenge, he has to wait until he sees a Volkswagen Beetle before you and call it.
The Mini Cooper is more popular than other Mini models here though. Could we be seeing a Mini surge in the states?!
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We were nuts for marbles. Everyone played with marbles and it was pretty much our all-around currency. During recess we'd think up business ideas or try to hustle people in marble games. I remember this one dude started MARBLE STOCKS in first grade and you basically just gave him a marble and got another one in return at a later point. The teachers also tried to ban our games, but they couldn't stop us. Telling the teacher when you lost was frowned upon so no one did it except for the faggots.
We had a marble economy...
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My friends and I actually started playing old childhood games again because they are still really fun! (and we are 5)
We play Alligator, which is a pretty complex variation of tag. We go to a pretty big play structure, and whoever is it has to close their eyes the entire time but can touch the ground. Everyone else has to avoid being tagged while also not touching the ground. Our games can get really intense and sometimes we pull off really awesome looking moves or get some pretty serious injuries. Generally we have around 8-12 people but one time we had about 30 at a gigantic play structure and it was really intense.
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Yeah actually we had something like that, where only the tagged person could touch the woodchips around the huge playpen thing. However there were these black mats at the end of slides, so if you wanted you could climb back up the slide on the outside, and everything. It was pretty neat.
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Oh yeah and on topic response, I used to play pogs in like grade 1. And then pretty much from grade 2 to 8 my friends and I played REDASS.
Redass is such a terrible fucking game. We were always trying to make it more fun by trying new things, like Indian Rubber balls which hurt like hell when you get hit. Or rolling the ball in mud to deter people from catching it (no one wants to get dirty passed 4th grade). The wet ball (dip it in a puddle before hitting the Redass with it). Man we were faggots.
One time while playing redass my hand got caught on my friends braces as we both dived for the ball. They tore the outside of my palm open and he got a piece of skin stuck in them. It was pretty gross for both of us.
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A game i played when i was young was called old witches cauldron.
one person was a witch and had to tag other players and was called the witch.
Players would then stand in a jumping jack pose(but not actualy jumping).
The witch then had to move the person over to a specific area (the cauldron) if the witch does so the player is out of the game.
Other players can free players who have been tagged by crawling under the tagged players legs. Witch wins by catching every one. players win by rescuing so many tagged players.
With more players, more witches.
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We play this in America, though since there are so few minis around here, we use Volkswagen Beetles. Some call them bugs, and when you see one you shout "SLUG BUG!" and hit your friend's arm. If your friend wants revenge, he has to wait until he sees a Volkswagen Beetle before you and call it.
The Mini Cooper is more popular than other Mini models here though. Could we be seeing a Mini surge in the states?!
Interesting. In Ontario we played the same game, but only with YELLOW Volkswagen Beetles. We'd shout "YELLOW PUNCH BUGGY!" and punch our friends in the shoulder. You could keep punching them until they yelled "SAFETY!". To counter people from punching you back if you spotted the car first, most people yelled "YELLOW PUNCH BUGGY, NO PUNCH BUGGY BACK!".
I wonder how many different names this game has.
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Interesting. In Ontario we played the same game, but only with YELLOW Volkswagen Beetles. We'd shout "YELLOW PUNCH BUGGY!" and punch our friends in the shoulder. You could keep punching them until they yelled "SAFETY!". To counter people from punching you back if you spotted the car first, most people yelled "YELLOW PUNCH BUGGY, NO PUNCH BUGGY BACK!".
I wonder how many different names this game has.
I thought you were from NFL?
Also the game was supposed to just be punch buggy back when volkswagon beetles were a rare site. Then it got ruined when they rereleased them.
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Pogs were the shit, I had this super nice 8 ball slammer that kicked the shit out of anyones stack, but some asshole threw it down an old school elevator shaft when he lost.
Also did the finger skateboard thing, but I was more interested in taking them apart and putting them back together again with that tiny ass wrench to actually learn any tricks.
Hrrrm. Also ball wall.
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I thought you were from NFL?
Also the game was supposed to just be punch buggy back when volkswagon beetles were a rare site. Then it got ruined when they rereleased them.
No, here's my quick life history:
Age 0-2: Poland (Naleczow)
Age 2-4: Switzerland (Bern)
Age 4-6: Poland (Naleczow)
Age 6-14: Canada (Ontario)
Age 14-Now: Canada (Nova Scotia)
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I play punch buggy and just punch my friend in the face. It's great.
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Interesting. In Ontario we played the same game, but only with YELLOW Volkswagen Beetles. We'd shout "YELLOW PUNCH BUGGY!" and punch our friends in the shoulder. You could keep punching them until they yelled "SAFETY!". To counter people from punching you back if you spotted the car first, most people yelled "YELLOW PUNCH BUGGY, NO PUNCH BUGGY BACK!".
I wonder how many different names this game has.
We just do it with all yellow cars. They're a pretty rare site over here.
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me and my friends used to play a game called presidents and assassins.
You split into teams. One team are the assassins and the other team are the president and presidents guards. One member has to elect himself president and the others on that team are his guards and they have to protect him.
usually we would have about 6 a side and we used to play at night around my neighbourhood. Basically the rules of the game is that the assassins have to kill the president and the presidents guards must protect him and also play offencively. If the the assassins managed to kill the president, its game over, but if all the president and presidents guards manage to kill all the assassins, then they win.
When I say kill, I mean don't really mean KILL. your lifeline is a plastic bag wrapped around your arm. If it's removed, your dead. Some people were clever and tried tieing it on really tight and things got real physical. A few actual fights broke out, which is +10 awesome when you're 13.
We also played a few variatons on it called Fox and Hounds. Once again you split into teams, Foxes and Hounds. The Hounds are the offensive and the Foxes and defensive and are trying to get home. There is a designated base, which the foxes must reach. If hound comes up to you and grabs you, he must say "Fox and Hounds 123 'your name'" then you're dead. The game's up when either all of you are dead, or some got back to the base. When no one is left playing, the teams switch. The winners are the team with the most foxes that returned home.