Games you used to play when you was younger

[BensGrandad]

Hopscotch on the pavements and marbles or alleys as we called them in the gutters walking to school.

 

[Mackenzie]

Kiss chase, 40/40 save all.

 

[Tux the albion Penguin]

Hopscotch on the pavements and marbles or alleys as we called them in the gutters walking to school.

Love marbles. Used to have tonnes of the things. Don't think you can get them anymore though :/

 

[Tux the albion Penguin]

Kiss chase, 40/40 save all.

I knew someone had to mention this lol

 

[catfish]

We played wall ball and also headers & volleys.

 

[Badger]

Stuck in the mud

 

[mlg57]

Wembley was brilliant, used to love that game and at lunch times (in junior school)the whole school used to play a tag sort of game where you had to run from one side of the pitch to the other (about 100 yards). If you got caught you stayed in the middle and tried to catch other people. Great game but I forget what we called it.

 

[SK1NT]

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?

Games you used to play when you WERE younger

Kiss chase ahh the memories... and British bulldog...

 

[SK1NT]

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[robinsonsgrin]

french elastic.... ( yes, im a lass...) best use ever for old tights.. possibly apart from armed robbery!

 

[Gritt23]

I think every school came up with their own names.

Not for "British Bulldog" they didn't. I think it was widely known as that.

 

[brunswick]

wembley, or "cuppies" sometimes with 30 odd kids - always a few goalhangers..........sometimes cuppy doubles.

 

[Badger]

Not for "British Bulldog" they didn't. I think it was widely known as that.

I mean when it got banned by the teachers and you had to give it a new name so you were playing a "different game".

 

[Munkfish]

Wembley doubles was always a favourite and headers and vollies anymore than 10 of you always got out of hand though.

Bundles, not really a game for everyone involved but i remember spending my breaks looking for people to bundle a couple would start it and within seconds at least 20-30 boys would be involved. it was pretty much beating eachover up.

 

[Gritt23]

I mean when it got banned by the teachers and you had to give it a new name so you were playing a "different game".

Oh ok, maybe. I'm from an age before such namby-pambyness of the state nursemaiding us. When I was at school we even played conkers without protective eyewear, that's just how dangerous and double-'ard we all were.

 

[Danny-Boy]

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.

At my school it was one boy to start with who had to just "touch" people running from one end to the other. Then after you had aboout 4 or 5 in the middle, you had to hold onn shouting "Bow-wow-wow i-2-3" to add to the number whilst they tried to escape.

 

[Mellotron]

Man Hunt (also known by benders as Pom Pom 123).
Wall ball is brilliant.

 

[Braders]

Wall Ball , Wembley , Pogs etc..

 

[Tomo1794]

Join the Crew - could be played bulldog style or around the whole school

Still play variations of cuppies & premiership (single cuppies where everyone has picked a Prem team and told the keeper beforehand, upon scoring you then guess a team and if it belongs to anyone they're out)

 

[mune ni kamome]

At Moulscoomb juniors in the 60's we would play Best Faller. You would line up till it was your turn, chose a weapon to be killed with and the charge at the person discharging the said weapon. You would then be judged on the quality of your collapse and death and the winner would have a turn at the weapon. Come to think of it I think this game has been revived in recent years by Ashley Young and Luiz Saurez