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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

 

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.  ​

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.