Games you used to play when you was younger

[Tux the albion Penguin]

Well thanks to bennibenj's Thread It got me thinking about games we used to play In our youth. One of the games we did used to play was 2 team torture. What abut you guys?.

Would be Interested really. Oh another note games we used to play probably don't exist now due to cotton wool nanny state.

So what games did you used to play?

 

[Badger]

British Bulldog (or whatever we renamed it to after it got banned in the playground)

 

[Tux the albion Penguin]

British Bulldog (or whatever we renamed it to after it got banned in the playground)

Think I remember that. Wasn't It renamed Red Rover or something?

 

[Tubby Mondays]

British Bulldog (or whatever we renamed it to after it got banned in the playground)

Fantastic game!

We used to take up the whole playground playing that every morning at the fine seat of education that is Jarvis Brook County Primary School.

 

[User removed 4]

knock down Ginger

 

[Badger]

Think I remember that. Wasn't It renamed Red Rover or something?

I think every school came up with their own names.

knock down Ginger

Is that what it sounds like? Or is there a more innocent explanation of the name. (I hope it's the former)

 

[Razi]

Think I remember that. Wasn't It renamed Red Rover or something?

Red Rover was very different! British Bulldog was lining up on one side of the playground, with a couple of people in the middle who had to tag people. Those who got tagged became taggers until only one was left. Red Rover involved holding hands in a line, and one team had to chant "Red Rover, Red Rover, We want [insert name here] over". They then had to run from their own team, and if they broke through the other team, they remained in their own team. If the receiving team held firm, then the runner joined this team. The force at which the runner ran depended on whether or not they wanted to switch teams or not.

 

[User removed 4]

I think every school came up with their own names.



Is that what it sounds like? Or is there a more innocent explanation of the name. (I hope it's the former)

its just knocking on doors and running away.

 

[Razi]

Is that what it sounds like? Or is there a more innocent explanation of the name. (I hope it's the former)

Known Down Ginger was just banging on peoples' doors and running away.

 

[The Rivet]

We used to play 'Dubblers' in West Hove Junior school. Dubblers were a game devised using cards designed to collect. Back then, 45yrs ago, they were cigarette cards from your parents or from Tea companies etc. Whole sets were up to collect and we turned the swapping of these cards into gambling!! We covered a select amount of cards with thin plain card and wrapped them into electrical adhesive tape to make a block. We'd agree how many cards were in the block and you would make a gamble with someone they couldn't win it. You would put the plastic wrapped 'dubbler' against the wall 'leaning' it and your opponent would have to use an equal size dubbler from an agreed distance, to knock yours down. Shooter would throw theirs skidding across the floor to hit the stand up 'dubbler'. If they knocked it down in the agreed amount of attempts they took the 'dubbler'. If not you won theirs. And variations along those lines.....ahhh the days

 

[Badger]

its just knocking on doors and running away.

I'm disappointed now.

 

[Tux the albion Penguin]

Known Down Ginger was just banging on peoples' doors and running away.

Well played that too. Got caught than my fair share of times lol

 

[pipkin112]

When i was a kid, we used to play Wall Ball and Curb Ball in the street, not a good idea for kids nowadays with the amount of traffic on the roads.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

captain wallar 1 2 3 coming ready or not,or whatever the f*** it was called

 

[Tux the albion Penguin]

When i was a kid, we used to play Wall Ball and Curb Ball in the street, not a good idea for kids nowadays with the amount of traffic on the roads.

Remember both of those. Good times lol

 

[Badger]

Wall ball, which involved taking it in turns to kick a tennis ball (we weren't allowed footballs in the playground) against a wall, if you missed you lost a life.

Wembley

 

[Tux the albion Penguin]

Wall ball, which involved taking it in turns to kick a tennis ball (we weren't allowed footballs in the playground) against a wall, if you missed you lost a life.

Wembley

Memories of Wembley. Alwasy the goal hoggers used to go through

 

[Badger]

Memories of Wembley. Alwasy the goal hoggers used to go through

Yep, the lazy fat kid that the ball would inevitably hit before crossing the goal line.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Kabaddi. Am I imagining it, or was it shown on Channel 4?

 

[Tux the albion Penguin]

Kabaddi. Am I imagining it, or was it shown on Channel 4?

You might be onto something Bobkin Kabaddi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia