Child hood games....?

Question

I'm a child of the 70's/80's - Where have those games gone that we played in the playground or after school, obviously i realise the innovation of PSP'S PS2 and the like. My memories are

1. Jingle Jangle - Large length of elastic and a dance (Girls game)
2. Tennis ball in the leg of one of your mums tights and a ryme while you swung against a wall (Girls game)
3. Bull dog/Red rover
4. Tin tan tommy
5. Board games - which ones do you remember?
6. Rounders

Over to you......

Oh and Marbles
and Jacks - strange metal things and a tiny ball
Cats cradle

Answer 1

Did anybody have a 'carom board?'
You could play about sixty games
on it. Of course, all we ever learned
was checkers!

I just bought my granddaughters
a game of 'jacks' and they are now
large, colored, plastic things,
that are too big to pick up and
catch the ball in the same hand!

Yes, those were the days, my friend!

It is like everything in this world,
if the parents do not teach it to
the children, the children do
not know it.

Answer 2

Jacks, Kick the Can, 4 Square, HopScotch, FreezeTag, Chinese JumpRope or Double Dutch

Favorite board games? Sorry, Chinese Checkers, Life, Scrabble, Yahtzee

Answer 3

Longest Mintie Wrapper

Answer 4

WHAT ABOUT TIPPIT, peggy, pitch and toss, knock a door,
hopscotch,in and out, skipping with a rope that went from one end of the street width, one end tied to a lamp post, the record was thirty eight kids all jumping in unison, boys and girls a few mothers and fathers on thier way home from work. LF
PS I nearly forgot the hoola hoop.

Answer 5

Kick the Can - a rough and tumble version of hide and seek played at dusk. The goal was a can you kicked.This might be a midwest (u.s.) only game.

My girlfriend and I played all sorts of card games, monopoly (I don't remember finishing many games -- mostly ended with the board pieces on the floor!) we also played Risk, Life and so many others.

We put on plays because it involved all age groups.

We also played Red Rover and jacks, and Chinese jump roap.

Answer 6

Marbles, spinning tops, how long can you make a Mintie wrapper, knuckle-jacks (with sheep knuckles), cowboys and Indians, darts, "keepin's off" (all against everyone, with a tennis ball, until the school bell rang), cats cradle, wrestling, no blinking, dictionary (guess the meaning), encyclopaedia (a bit elitist!), sing a song (stumble and lose), hop-scotch, racing sleds on grass slopes, racing billy-carts down hills, peg-leg (who stands longest on one), stilt races (on tin cans or on sticks), racing underwater furthest or fastest, quoits, arm-wrestling, shooting rubber band off finger tips or home-made "rubber-guns" using bands cut from bike tyres, bike-riding tricks, "bombing" with a periscope and dart, should I go on? Board games Monopoly, chequers, snakes and ladders. Child of 30's and war.

Answer 7

(Not all are games), but...
Sand tag
Freeze tag
Marco Polo
Making forts
Riding bikes
Sledding down hills in winter
Soccer
Football
Hockey
Marbles
Card games...
Skopa
Brisk
Snatch
Magic
War
Go fish
Board games...
Operation
Checkers
Chess
Chinese checkers
Yahtzee
Scrabble
I got into video games as well, but in terms of entertainment... I still have ways to have fun without electricity.
CyberNara

Answer 8

aww that grew to become into the excellent interest ever! I undergo in ideas i continually used to %. on the slow runners and whilst ever i grew to become into feeling mavericky i could %. on the quickly ones lol!! pink gentle green gentle wasn't all that interesting. conceal n pass seek for grew to become into cool too Heads up seven up (each so often i could cheat), Tag/Freeze formative years grew to become into magnificent!

Answer 9

Hey! Don't forget Rockem sockem robots and GI joes!!

Oh wait those are toys. Uh.....

Marco polo?

Answer 10

I loved chineese jump rope! and Jacks
I loved playing tag, and kickball
I loved putting my skates on with my friends and racing eachother
So many things . . . kids nowadays do not know what they are missing . . .