Back-N-Da Day!

[RedefinedDiva]

Originally posted by Sugar_N_Spice
*Tetherball*

THAT WAS MY GAME!!! I swear I will put one in my backyard when I buy a house! If only I can round up some friends to play with me....

[feu_declipse]

Originally posted by littlelady
Jem, the barbie with pink hair was my favorite. I had Jem pajamas and everything. I know I'm not the only one that would get cereal just for the prize. How about Cricket, the talking doll, she was like My Buddy and Kid Sister. And Kenya, she was a doll with magic lotion.

OMG Jem!!! Heck yeah - Jem and the Misfits - I even remember the cartoon and the song. "Truly, truly, truly outrageous..." Okay I'll stop.

Hopscotch
Barbie (I had her salon and all )
Teacher - I always had to be the teacher or in some directing role.
JUmp Rope
Mother May I
Simon Says
Red Light Green Light
Red Rover
WHOT (card game)
Monopoly
Numerous Hand Games
Tumbling (I'm not sure how to describe - Involved spinning or something, on these metal bars)
Dancing contests

Being a kid was too much fun...

[Rain Man]

Originally posted by KnowledgeEternal
I'm surprised no one mentioned some of these ones:

(Maybe they are too new school )

Get the man with the ball(A lot more violent than it sounds)

In my day/where I came from we called it "Smear the Queer"--football with the emphasis on violent tackling.

60 seconds in Heaven

What the ________ could you possibly do in 60 seconds? At least the folk I know bumped it up to 7 Minutes. Played that at many a birthday party.

OMG, I'm surprised no one mentioned Four Square. Person in A-Square called the rules of play which included:

Decent game
Decent servebacks
Pitty-pats
Around the World
Tea Parties between Square A and Square (B,C, or D)

Oh, but sometimes the game got rough and dirty with such rules as....

Babies
Cornercuts
Shoeshines
and the ever-dreaded SKYSCRAPERS!

The folk in my neighborhood revolutionized Four Square and made it a sho-'nuff SPORT. Ah, those were the days.

[aephi alum]

This thread is bringing back memories

When I was little, we played...

Hopscotch
Command games (Simon Says, Mother May I, Red Light Green Light)
Suicide (we were not allowed to play ball games at school, but we did anyway )
Rattlesnake
Tag and freeze-tag
Follow the Leader (the leader was invariably the head of the big clique in my class )
Word games like One Potato, Two Potato (sometimes used to figure out who would be "it" for tag, sometimes played for its own sake)

Now I feel old...

[nikki1920]

ok, I am such a jem fan that i : 1) got the tape of the movie from half.com and 2) found a website that has all the songs from the show on it, and downloaded them onto my computer.. lol

I played everything but double dutch..
*yes, I am too black..lol*

[CountryGurl]

Man kids should play games like these still instead of video games all the dang on time.