What games did you play growing up?

Back in the day we played kirby, 40/40 in and mercy red letter to name a few.

Kirby (our rules) played in the road you must hit the opponents curb and catch the ball. If you managed to do this you got to walk halfway into the road and earn bonus points from half the distance. Extra points can be earned by performing your special move or your opponents special move. These moves include reverse, backward leng daddy or spin around thunder smash.

40/40 in was basically hide and seek in our cul de sac and surrounding area. Whoevers 'it' has to count to 40 at the street light, if those hiding can reach the street light and shout 40 40 in then they are safe but if you are caught the finder will shout ''40/40 in, I see jamie'' or whatever

Mercy red letter. Two teams, one team has a word, a letter for each person. This team must hide and be hunted down by the other team. Each person who is caught is then brutally beaten until they give up their own letter and pleed for mercy. When everyone is found then the secret word can be figured out.

What kind of games did you play and what were the rules?

 

Didn't have a name I don't think...

Everyone had a sheet of paper, wrote a guys name on it (person we knew, celebrity etc.) and folded it down so couldn't be seen... Pass papers to person to your left, write a girls name (as above), folded, passed... A location....what he said....what she said.... The outcome...

Then you'd unfold them and read it out like a story and * ourselves at the sheer ridiculousness. Usually ended up with "yer mate and yer mate's maw met outside the Spar and then some sexual shenanigans"


Headers and volleys, and World Cup Doubles at the park.

Our Kerby rules were 10 points from the kerb, double if you caught it before the bounce. 5 points from the middle of the road. And you stole your opponent's points if you hit them with the ball before they could get back to their kerb.

 

Completely forgot about this rule. Pure gamechanger. I just had a flashback of my friends dopey laugh trying to run back without getting smacked with the ball. Haha

 

Code.

Couple of teams and depending on the numbers you both chose a word and everybody had one letter of the word and then everyone would run or hide within a set area.

The winner was the team that managed to beat the * out of everyone and get the word.

Good times, one of the lads got a broken arm one game. Fun

 

I just seen you played the same game

Note to Daleer. Read the whole thread

 

Same game as mercy but different name. Can you remember the thrill of hiding in a bush knowing you are getting a good beating off everyone? Its just you and the elements, A case of survival. Fun should involve pure fear and anxiety and this game teaches you that its basically you vs the elements.

We have experienced that survival game and what I mean is that those memories served me well. One time a girl a knew stole a camera from these albanian dudes. She ran through the field and gave it to me while i was playing footy. Me being a * I ran like * back to my area and hid in one of those electricity generators closed off by a wall. I sat there silent as * then I heard someone climb the wall. I whispered ''Devron is that you?'' (the kid i was playing football with)
I saw the shoes land from under the generator, these looked Italian. I knew I was *...

 

Worldy cup ... run the gommy ... kabaddi ... british bulldogs ... pretend fights ... tanning windows ... also kerby/curby

 

It did mate. It toughened you up for the teenage years

 

Kirby, chappie, bulldogs, 'hidey' (hide and seek), and the super Nintendo.

 

Used to be down park or in the garden with a football


Used to love it when it was snowing or raining made the 5 aside ten times better

 

Hitty affy
Grand National
Stealing the milk
Setting fires
Chappy
Long shooty

 

I remember we changed the name of hidey to man hunt as we were getting too old to play hidey

Used to open the garage door half way and knock a ball across it in a u shape kinda like tennis with the handle as the "net" if that makes any sense at all. Had to be there.

 

Kick the can...Rounders,,,,

 

I really need to know if stealing the milk was a metaphor for a game or if you actually just stole milk.

People huv tae know!

I delivered milk when I was 14. Up at 4am and then school when I finished.

If you little * were stealing our milk then it's so on.

 

That orange juice was class ....especially when it was free.

I don't even like milk as well

Brucey bonus if you found a decent fitba in any of the gardens.

 

fitba, home from school change into jeans and gutties then out the door playing fitba with friends/neighbours until shouted in for scran then straight back out until it was too dark to see the ball and then home, bed, get to school and play fitba at breaks and lunchtime then home from school and repeat, glorious

 

I found and old friend from school on facebook. He was from the nicer areas. It was funny because first thing he said to me was ''i remember going to yours once, yes infact we set a dustbin on fire in a park and then urinated in it haha''

I remember that too, this guy inspired me to wear long sleeved T shirts, with Taz on the front.

 

Elastic bands in school phase. Fold up a bit of paper and ping it at the supply teacher causing external bleeding to the dome

 

Mainly fitba.
Tig.
Kerby.
Bulldog.
Bouncy.
Pillow boxing.
Pogz.
Rounders.
Singles and doubles.
Chappy.
Street hockey.
Wrestling (copying the wwf).
Hay jump.
Code.

 

The one where it was like a big massive game of football with ridiculously oversized or unmatched teams but if a player was megged or the ball hit their hand or arm everyone on the pitch would chase them and proper batter the life out of them unless or until they managed to get to a designated spot and touch it.It got banned several times because of broken arms and fractures etc.