Road trips when younger: What games did you play staring out the window?

[Lorax]

My main one was imagining I was controlling a wicked dirtbike that would ride along any terrain I selected out the window.

It could jump on demand off any surface, flat or otherwise (can't they all?), then soar a hundred metres and land flawlessly after often altering course in mid-air.

Could also hydroplane down rivers, across lakes. Fences: no trouble - front wheel would hit the fence, then the rest of the bike would simply flip and easy-as-pie you're on the other side (at 100kmph).

My second game was tougher though:

Imagine a bus-sized cylinder with tank tracks on every survace. Really fucken heavy. And a massive point on the front that could kinda change shape like the T1000 off Terminator 2. Nothin got in the way of that fucker. Nothin. Smash through buildings, go along the bottoms of lakes, burrow through small spurs. DOMINATION! Accidentally demolished the Clyde Dam though. My bad.

What about you?

[Kittyhawk]

Watching the shadow of the car dance along the side of the road...

Oh and when there was a dark patch on the road, like a tree shadow or it was wet the car would jump over it.

And the classics, eye spy and counting cars, also arguing with little brother who wouldnt be quiet, and who would have the last say when all the family was in on the arguement!! ]

Because you couldnt get your own way and have that ice cream.

[Disco Dan]

I remember sitting in the middle of the back seat with my sister and looking through the front windscreen - it was dark and snowing very hard, it looked like we were travelling through space really fast!!

[Kittyhawk]

Or lay down the back seat and look up out the window and watch the sky turn circles...its cool if its a sunny day, and white fluffy clouds are about.

Ahh,.....memories

[xwhatsit]

Not really a game, but when I was little I used to get quite freaked out in the car at night... `Mum! Dad! The moon is following me!'

[koba]

Blinking in the back seat every time the car went past a lamp post or one of the white lines on the beakdown lanes of citys....
Thats really wierd...

[vamr]

The "try and empty my stomach content out the window without decorating the car" game. Motion sickness luckily passed as I grew up. Ah... good times.

[Trudes]

I was Horse mad, so used to pretend I was galloping alongside the car on a beautiful black horse. Mum would normally start a game of "possum", count the dead possums on the road, first to yell possum gets to count it, same deal as "horse" or counting colored cars we see, my brother always won that as he always called white and I soon learned not to call purple!

[Steam]

Imagine a bus-sized cylinder with tank tracks on every survace. Really fucken heavy. And a massive point on the front that could kinda change shape like the T1000 off Terminator 2. Nothin got in the way of that fucker. Nothin. Smash through buildings, go along the bottoms of lakes, burrow through small spurs. DOMINATION!

Lorax! I am in Blenheim right now, and it's about 5degC, Brrrr!
Today I ride to St Arnaurd and maybe camp out there, and then on to Nelson to deliver the bike tomorrow. Then I stay Saturday night at Mapua, then on to Nelson Sunday night, and back on the plane Monday morning. Only $75 from Nelson to Welligton on the plane!

Your big smashing machine, I had that one too, maybe we talked about it in the car. But my machine wasn't that tough, it could only smash through a couple of meters of solid rock, but when driving along its treads would sink about a metre and a half into the earth, just from the weight of it. My machine certainly couldn't bust up the clyde dam!

The other game I played was "Imagining Explosions". We would drive past a barn or a farmhouse and I'd visualise it blowing up holywood styes, with heaps of flames and flying debris and shockwaves. For a bit of variation I'd do different kinds of explosions, small ones, ones that only blew out the windows, dusty explosions, etc.
And I'd imagine trees exploding too, splintering explosively like that one on Endor in Return of the Jedi.

[damo]

Same as the fella with the dirtbike, 'cept mine was a offroad skateboard.

the blowing things up is cool..


hey , i'm 30... and if i'm a passenger in a car, I still do it on long trips.

just cos ya old, doesn't mean you have to stop imagining

[yungatart]

Cor! You lot had cars when you were young!!
Sheesh, we walked everywhere!!

[MSTRS:Me]

Cor! You lot had cars when you were young!!
Sheesh, we walked everywhere!!

Yeah, but you're old. Our favourite game was drawing lots to see who got the honour of turning the crankhandle to start the car, while dad operated the advance/retard lever on the steering wheel.

[MotoGirl]

We used to guess the make and model of all the cars coming towards us.

This game is a hell of a lot harder nowadays with the Jap. imports on the road because there are multiple names for what seems like the same car.

We also used to point to objects and say "there's your car, there's your house" etc.

[Smorg]

I used to touch myself

[BigG]

Well with 5 kids we had to keep them entertained, Cricket was the best way, white cars passing you in the other direction was a wicket, trucks 6 runs, vans 4 runs any other coloured cars 1 run, its ok until an argument breaks out. It certainly passed the time away.