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.

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...

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!)

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.

This topic is now about who is your favorite recess character

i like spinelli becase she is a bada*s mofo

who do you think you are ass just coming into my topic changing it about

ps i like vince

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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I liked the Ashley's. Specifically, Ashley Q.


SCANDELOUS

Shit, yeah.  They are Totally Hot.

Shit, yeah.  They are Totally Hot.

That one episode where it turns out spinelli was an ashley..............................

what a shocker!!!!!!!

i was tj in elementary school. that is who i actually was.

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

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.

Knuckles, yoyo, pokemon cards, tamagochi, 4 square. Mmmmhmm!

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?!

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.

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.