Games you played as kids

[zadok]

Prior to you even being a twinkle in your old mans eye, I used to like 'Asteroids'. No such thing as a PC then tho. Had to play it in a Pub with a machine. When I finally got a 'puter I liked 'Road Rash'. Can anyone recommend a good bike game like it?

[texmo]

The game I rember playing as a Kid was nintendo 64 james bond......

[stify]

apple 2e castle wolfenstein....go the green screen,was quite an exciting thing
using a floppy disc instead of a cassette player to load the games.

[Motu]

And don't forget card games (for those of us who were in their twenties at least before the PC and the video game were invented). Black Bitch, 500, Euchre...

And the always spectacular team strip version of mahjong...

Last Card - Taranaki Rules with 2 decks....and a bottle of Johnny Walker Red,one of the most physical and brutal card games ever....

[TonyB]

Just another name for bullrush I think.I really enjoyed play outside with the neighbourhood kids,roaming the whole area on our pushbikes,we were gone all day in summer.My girls played out on the road with the local kids,but didn't go far without us....now my boys play computer games and every activity is done under adult supervision...bloody hell,they are BOYS for christs sake,where are the skinned knees,blood noses,the tales of scaling the cliffs like Tarzan down at the quarry,home made boats that sink.Society is doomed,boys play action games on a computer sigh.....

True, very very true. Bloody sad really. Has anyone noticed that there are some on this thread for whom 'childhood games' were something played outside in the sun (or the rain and mud ) and there is another group for whom games were played on the computer thingy?

[anhrefn]

I remember the old fountain vidoe game player I had when I was a kid....... the cowboy game was fun, so was TANK WARS!!! Muahahahahaha must shoot and destroy. Hmmm maybe that explains a lot of things in my life?

I remember playing catch and kiss when I was 5? These two girls at school used to insist on playing it at school with me. How come they only used to let me catch them?!? Lol Bullrush yeeeeeeeeeeaaaaah that was fun, my kids dont even know what that is, there not allowed it at school these days.

[SpankMe]

Many a 20c piece slotted into Xevious

[Mooch]

Just another name for bullrush I think.I really enjoyed play outside with the neighbourhood kids,roaming the whole area on our pushbikes,we were gone all day in summer.My girls played out on the road with the local kids,but didn't go far without us....now my boys play computer games and every activity is done under adult supervision...bloody hell,they are BOYS for christs sake,where are the skinned knees,blood noses,the tales of scaling the cliffs like Tarzan down at the quarry,home made boats that sink.Society is doomed,boys play action games on a computer sigh.....

Make you wonder if the computer games will end up like in the movie "Strange Days", where people’s experiences end up on the black market as a virtual reality movie in your head. . Considering that Sony was quoted as looking at bio-technology for the entertainment business it could be a reality in our lifetime.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/ ( R18 film)

[idb]

Make you wonder if the computer games will end up like in the movie "Strange Days", where people’s experiences end up on the black market as a virtual reality movie in your head. . Considering that Sony was quoted as looking at bio-technology for the entertainment business it could be a reality in our lifetime.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114558/ ( R18 film)

Bullrush for PS2?

[Mooch]

Bullrush for PS2?

I was thinking of worse , have you seen the movie ?

[idb]

I was thinking of worse , have you seen the movie ?

No I haven't

[Motu]

I'm biased of course,we all are in our own heads - but I reckon kids in the 50s,60s and maybe the early 70s had the best carefree time of all.My parents never knew fun - my mother and her sisters had a childhood from hell,and ran the farm during the war,my father came from a broken home and as the oldest worked from 13 to help his mother and brother and sisters exist - watching us run around free without a care in the world must off been so heartwarming for them,a childhood dream lived through their kids.

But society has become so protective....and so have we - so many nutters out there,our kids are never out of our eye...in my day my friends homes were my homes,we just walked in and out with just a ''hi Mrs ***'' - now we don't trust our neighbours.

So,my boys play computer games....I must ask them what they are.

[idb]

But society has become so protective....and so have we - so many nutters out there.....

But are there any more than before?
Maybe kids are at greater threat, if they wander off, from being run over by one of the many vehicles ferrying other kids around to keep them safe......

[idb]

Bullrush. One of mankind's crowning achievements. Caters for all ages and abilities from the soft "touch" version to the full-contact, crash-tackle model. I can't believe that the politically correct soft-cocks amongst us want to ban this sport of kings....

I can still remember impressing the girls in class after the 1 o'clock bell rang with the mud and blood from lunchtime bullrush or scrag......

[Waylander]

The game I rember playing as a Kid was nintendo 64 james bond......

Hmm unless you're talking about being like 15 or so at the time you must not be much older than still being a kid...


And if we are gonna count outside games...

Kick the can
Night tag
tag
Red Rover
Football (full contact no pads, maybe that's why I like Rugby so much now..)
Baseball
Soccer
Street hockey
Hide and Seek
Used to pretend to be great explorers and go roaming around our neighborhood wich at the time was surounded by thick woods. (South Texas place called Uvalde west of San Antonio) Found a stream once that wasn't on any town map and claimed that as our club house. Went back down there a few years ago and the fort we built out of scrap wood was still standing and still didn't leak in the rain.

And me and my mates down the street used to get a great kick out of acting out that weeks eppisode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Always remembered every line and scene even though we had only just seen it the once.

Fuck I miss those days now..