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What's your favorite game in your childhood?

Posted by thereyoucome • 2 years ago • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS]
Topics: childhood, game

just now I post a blog about this, thereyoucome.blogspot.com/2007/08/whats-your-favorite-game-in-your.html

If you'd like to share yours, I'd love to blog another as a collection of worldwide children games:)

welcome join this discussion.

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8/25/07

Jaya

I don't really remember
liking any particular
games as a child, but
what I loved doing was
playing outside, walking
in the fields and woods,
and being out in nature.

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8/27/07

thereyoucome

close to nature is very healthy, both to body and heart

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8/27/07

neoauteur

I did not have a single favorite game, but I did invent a game called Strata. It's a more complex variant of tic-tac-toe.

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10/17/07

wordans

Hungry, Hungry Hippos.

It used to drive my parents crazy because it made so much noise. That or Monopoly. We used to play after dinner and the first one out would have to go to bed. It was an ongoing challenge.

Strata sounds pretty awesome.

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1. 10/17/07
  
  crpitt
  
  loved that game but it became very violent
10/17/07

Vishnuap

I am not sure if I remember right but I think it was 'Dirty the Diaper'. Either that or 'Nose, Nose, Runny Nose'.

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10/17/07

MadameX

I remember my family playing LIFE a lot when I was a kid, and also a game called "Aggravation" that was a lot like Sorry but with marbles. I was dismayed a few years ago when I mentioned tiddly winks to my kids and none of them had ever heard of it. We immediately went out to buy it and discovered that most of the store clerks had never heard of it, either! At one point, the woman at the service desk of our local WalMart called another store to find out whether they had it and ended up putting me on the phone to describe it to the person in the toy department at the other store...who said, "Oh! I think I've seen something like that. No, we don't have it, but I think I know what you're talking about."

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10/17/07

crpitt

Hmmm my favourite game was 'lock sister in cupboard' or 'Hide behind things and then jump out to induce screams'

I was a horrible child

Favourite board game was Cluedo, i think you call it Clue in the US.

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1. 10/17/07
  
  ender
  
  i never tried lock sister in cupboard ... i played "show sister how to beat the babylock on her door" ...
  
  but i also played "jump out from behind (or under) things and scare the bloody bananas out of sister" ... i occasionally played the same game, but with mom. (gotta hear an eddie izzard voice saysing bananas)
  
  oh oh ... and "put the fake plastic spider on my window screen so mom will scream" ... that was an *excellent* game.
  
  we also played: boarding school, hardy boys and star wars a lot.
10/17/07

CandyApple

Oh I loved to play jacks with my nana when I was young. I can remember when nana and I use to go on the back porch can play for hours and my mother use to say nana your not a kid now She tell my mom go back inside amy were having fun.

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10/17/07

mtchick

Red light/green light, jacks, hide and go seek, goose & fox in the snow.

The one my siblings played the most was simply called "hit her (me) on the head," not my favorite. LOL

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10/17/07

lisamcglaun

When I was little my best friend and I loved to play with our Fisher Price Little People. We had houses. I had an airport. She had a school and a bus. We were set. We'd play for hours.

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1. 10/17/07
  
  ender
  
  WOOHOO
  
  another fisher price person!!!
10/17/07

robinj

the only one I can think of of is marbles ironically the game of marbles always seemed to make a comeback as a fad in schools

guidetolifeblog.com

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10/17/07

mtchick

Oh yes, marbles! I forgot about that. I just thought they were pretty, but my brothers were really into it.

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10/24/07

thereyoucome

oh, many names werenot heard before, seems I need do research on the games , can't tell whether I played from the name

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10/24/07

Rozie818

skully

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10/24/07

ThriftShopRomantic

I was a fan of Life and Clue, but I also spent a good amount of time obsessed by Atari Breakout. The virtual ball would hit the paddle and...blllleeeeeepp!... rip through a multicolored wall and fly back at you...

It had a very specific sound I recall fondly today.

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10/24/07

aksn1p3r

i love capcom, since early arcade Street fighters up to current days DMC and RE etc, I had a 16bit with Super Street fighter 2:the new challengers. Fei-Long FTW "WOOOOOO-HOOOO!"

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10/24/07

gosmelltheflowers

Ker plunk was always as good one!

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10/24/07

thereyoucome

I start a new posting of Chinese games, introducing games with pictures, so it's easier to understand what it is like and how to play.
thereyoucome.blogspot.com/2007/10/games-played-in-chinese-childhood.html

is there a picture of your game ?

yes, nowdays people play more electric games:)

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10/24/07

robinsonjoel

Mortal combat(Sega 16-bit version)! Scrabble caught my fantasy while I was 10-11 years old

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11/07/07

thereyoucome

I got a pingpong widget from widget box on my blog. and thinking whether all of the old games can be turned into electric games...

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12/18/07

thereyoucome

take a look at huge kites thereyoucome.blogspot.com/2007/12/games-played-in-chinese-childhood-fly.htm...

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