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What fun games did you play with your friends when you were a kid?

@Pixel--Dude and I grew up in the same town. We and a few other friends used to play the following games:

1. Manhunt

Participants were assigned to one of two opposing teams and one team given the role of "hunter" would have to find and capture the other team. We would either play this game in one of the rougher neighborhoods of our town or the old abandoned college. The hunted could hide anywhere within the designated area of play. That would include people's gardens and private property. Anywhere was fair game. This meant that the hunted would often have to flee not only from the game's hunters but also from residents pissed off that we were trespassing on their property. Once a hunter caught sight of a hunted, he and his buddies would chase him down and physically apprehend him. Then the apprehended party would join the side of the hunters until there was only one hunted left. That person would be the winner. :D Manhunt was so epic because we played it with such a large group of dudes from our school. I used to love it for the exhilaration that it provided. 8)

2. School Invasion

At night, after the school day had officially ended, Pixel--Dude, myself and one other friend (a Chinese kid) used to sneak into the school premises Metal Gear Solid-style and set ourselves certain objectives such as "reach X location". We'd have to climb over walls and gates and such because all of the main entrances were locked at that time and then do stealth in order to reach our destination, avoiding night security watchmen, the caretaker, and the occasional teaching staff member who for whatever reason had stayed behind a little later than usual. Oftentimes we'd get discovered and have to bail as fast as we could. Security and the caretaker would chase us. We were legitimately scared. People were crazier in the early and mid 2000s. We could have got our asses kicked. School invasion was still fun as hell though. We used to play it in autumn and winter because the early darkening of the sky made for better stealth tactics.

3. Building Bases

This isn't really a game as such, but a few of us used to build our own bases in the woodlands on the outskirts of our hometown. In order to build our bases, we used to misappropriate wood from the fences of the local bypass, either using a bow saw to cut off the planks or just hitting them with a sledgehammer to knock them off the posts, usually at night so there were no witnesses. Then we would carry the loose planks to our bases and build our own cabins using nails that we'd purchased from the tool store. We had all kinds of tools - hammers, sledgehammers, saws, bow saws - and learned how to use them pretty well. Our cabins were quite impressive for a group of 14 year-olds. Some of them had multiple storeys and even lookout towers. Base building was something that we did in summer.

4. Wrestling

Pixel--Dude, myself and a friend of ours used to play wrestling in our friend's living room while his mother was out partying. The goal was to dominate your opponent and make him submit by any means necessary. I hadn't begun training in Jiujitsu back then but used to study submission grappling tapes that I found on the internet and then try to use the armlocks, leglocks and chokeholds that I saw on the tapes on our friend who fancied himself as a bit of a tough guy and always wanted to challenge me. Needless to say, I was the best wrestler and often successfully tapped him out with the techniques that I was learning from the tapes. Boys were still pretty masculine back then and often did things like wrestling and play-fighting with their buddies. It was a whole lot of fun!

Being a teenager in the 2000s was hella awesome. There was just something more real and primal about life back then. 8)
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Pixel--Dude wrote:
September 5th, 2023, 9:21 am
Does anyone else have any unique or interesting games they used to play as kids? I'd be interested in hearing about them.

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For me there was

Battle Royale
This was back when I was in Korea in the mid 90's. Me and my relatives used to divide in two teams(3vs3) and shot each other with BB guns(BB guns looked like the real thing and fired plastic pallets. There were Glock 17, HK5 Sub machinegun, Rifle Model. We used to go around our flats and use cover to shoot each other. We played until the evening. However, I have to immigrate to America right before 1997, before the IMF crisis and BB guns were banned after some kid lost his eye sight after get hit by the plastic bullet.

Medieval Quest
Me and my brother played when in America. It was like a makeshift RPG where one of us played main character and imagine traveling to a village with plastic axe or sword. My brother pretend to be a monster and I slash him with my plastic sword or axe. After the monster dies, he drops on item and other weapons. One of us also engage in quests and kill the boss and all that like in Baldur's gate or MMORPG.

Command and Conquer
Like the name implies, we round up bunch of plastic army men, plastic tanks, robots, plastic cars, lego buildings and lay some makeshift "tiberium" or plastic pieces on the ground for the harvester to collect and convert it into resources. We write how much resource we have on a piece of paper and units producing. We move our units by hand and simulate projectiles by our finger hitting the figures or gunfire or artillery sounds. Sometimes we both build bases by hand and launch our armies against each other.

The missions vary. Sometimes, we have to lead limited number of troops into the destination, sometimes two armies fight each other, and sometimes we build up bases and launch armies against each other. It's like game command and conquer except by hand and real toys.
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Ghosts 'n Goblins (Arcade) Playthrough Longplay Retro game

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C64 Longplay - Barbarian

Space Invaders 1978 - Arcade Gameplay
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I was old already when I started playing that one. I still play it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu1mErAxKf4
Star Wars: Starfighter | Gameplay Walkthrough - FULL GAME

Some others are: Pacman, Rambo, Mortal Kombat, Karate game, a stupid olympic sports game
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Pixel--Dude wrote:
September 5th, 2023, 9:21 am
Does anyone else have any unique or interesting games they used to play as kids? I'd be interested in hearing about them.

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When I was a kid, I was an absolute sucker for Lego bricks. Whenever someone gifted me with a new Lego box, I wouldn't even try to build the "thing" on the box. I would simply drop all the bricks in the big carton and let them contribute to even more permutations of fun.

Second up, we used to play with action heroes. If somebody is old enough to remember, the Master of the Universe and the Transformers were extremely popular. The latter were splendid models, all die cast iron and plastic, precisely crafted. They were qute expensive but a joy to behold and play with.

Growing up, we would switch to two main games: street football and videogames. The videogame machines of my times were home computers: a Commodore 64 and, later on during high school, a Commodore Amiga. @Pixel--Dude this should ring a bell with you, as England was an absolute game development powerhouse, at the time, on both platforms.

Street football was more of a bow to the notion that, if you can't play footie on a street with the other kids, you get no respect in the neighbourhood. The funniest thing is that 90% of Southern Italian kids did not have the privilege of accessing a park or a, heaven forbid, an actual football pitch or designated empty space. Our pitch was literally a piece of the street, better if straight. Metal garage doors were the goals and, since we had cars parked either side of the street, we had the rule that if the ball went under a car, the game had to be stopped and the play would resume once the ball had been taken out. Dribbling someone by going around the car, on the pavement, was OK.
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Pixel--Dude wrote:
September 5th, 2023, 9:12 am
Civilianville

This game was a game where Lucas88's back garden was a village protected by trees and a fence with a gate. Lucas88 has a little brother who would play the part of the assassin whose job it was to infiltrate the village and assassinate the civilians (me and Lucas88) he could do this by sneaking around the side of the house behind the conifer tress and burst through them when he had an opportunity to kill us. Or he could knock on the gate and pretend to be a civilian to try and trick us into opening the gate. If we managed to get away from him though and run out the cul-de-sac the civilians escaped civilianville and the assassin would lose.

Prison Life

This wasn't so much as a game as me and Lucas abusing his younger brother and his friend :lol: we would lock them both in the garden shed and after an hour or so take them out a slice of bread each that we ran under the tap and screwed up lol. We had to stop playing this game because Lucas88's brother's friend was traumatised and was screaming to be let out hysterically. We let him out. Coincidentally now he's a prison guard, so I wonder if he feeds the prisoners soaking wet bread and sadistically enjoys their hysterical squealing like me and Lucas did when we were younger haha

We were evil as kids :mrgreen:
Yes, I remember Civilianville and Prison Life!

@Pixel--Dude, I can't help but notice that the games that we played as kids were far crazier and more delinquent than the games that our fellow HA members have shared here in this thread. @Natural_Born_Cynic's childhood games seem quite on our wavelength with "Battle Royal" (shooting each other with BB guns) and his other wargames, but @publicduende's childhood games seem a lot more normal. As for @galii, it seems that all he did was play videogames. :lol:

In retrospect, I laugh about how crazy and delinquent our childhood games were. Trespassing on private property during our huge neighborhood-wide games of Manhunt, sneaking into our school campus at night and getting chased by the caretaker and security with School Invasion, outright stripping entire public fences of their wood in order to build our bases, wrestling in our buddy's living room and putting each other in strangulation holds, armbars and leglocks until the other submits, incarcerating my brother and his friend and making them eat soggy bread! Fcukin' hell, in retrospect all of this is hilarious! Yes, we were some pretty wild kids! :lol: :lol: :lol: But I wouldn't trade my childhood for anything. I used to love life back then together with all of our awesome games and activities.

I'm just pleased that we grew up in a time when the world was still a bit wild and boys could still be boys, not like today's pussified Gen-Z'ers! 8)
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Lucas88 wrote:
September 5th, 2023, 1:15 pm
Pixel--Dude wrote:
September 5th, 2023, 9:12 am
Civilianville

This game was a game where Lucas88's back garden was a village protected by trees and a fence with a gate. Lucas88 has a little brother who would play the part of the assassin whose job it was to infiltrate the village and assassinate the civilians (me and Lucas88) he could do this by sneaking around the side of the house behind the conifer tress and burst through them when he had an opportunity to kill us. Or he could knock on the gate and pretend to be a civilian to try and trick us into opening the gate. If we managed to get away from him though and run out the cul-de-sac the civilians escaped civilianville and the assassin would lose.

Prison Life

This wasn't so much as a game as me and Lucas abusing his younger brother and his friend :lol: we would lock them both in the garden shed and after an hour or so take them out a slice of bread each that we ran under the tap and screwed up lol. We had to stop playing this game because Lucas88's brother's friend was traumatised and was screaming to be let out hysterically. We let him out. Coincidentally now he's a prison guard, so I wonder if he feeds the prisoners soaking wet bread and sadistically enjoys their hysterical squealing like me and Lucas did when we were younger haha

We were evil as kids :mrgreen:
Yes, I remember Civilianville and Prison Life!

@Pixel--Dude, I can't help but notice that the games that we played as kids were far crazier and more delinquent than the games that our fellow HA members have shared here in this thread. @Natural_Born_Cynic's childhood games seem quite on our wavelength with "Battle Royal" (shooting each other with BB guns) and his other wargames, but @publicduende's childhood games seem a lot more normal. As for @galii, it seems that all he did was play videogames. :lol:

In retrospect, I laugh about how crazy and delinquent our childhood games were. Trespassing on private property during our huge neighborhood-wide games of Manhunt, sneaking into our school campus at night and getting chased by the caretaker and security with School Invasion, outright stripping entire public fences of their wood in order to build our bases, wrestling in our buddy's living room and putting each other in strangulation holds, armbars and leglocks until the other submits, incarcerating my brother and his friend and making them eat soggy bread! Fcukin' hell, in retrospect all of this is hilarious! Yes, we were some pretty wild kids! :lol: :lol: :lol: But I wouldn't trade my childhood for anything. I used to love life back then together with all of our awesome games and activities.

I'm just pleased that we grew up in a time when the world was still a bit wild and boys could still be boys, not like today's pussified Gen-Z'ers! 8)
Yeah tell me about it. Today's kids are screen zombies. The 90's and early 2000's were quite "magical" until the advent of Social media.
I feel sorry for the younger kids nowadays. They don't know what they are missing out today.
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My biggest desire as a kid,was playing WWE on playstation 1,playing vice city and also yugioh and pokemon cards.

among us american kids,yugioh cards were like money and whoever had them was 'cool'.
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willymonfrete wrote:
September 5th, 2023, 3:21 pm
My biggest desire as a kid,was playing WWE on playstation 1,playing vice city and also yugioh and pokemon cards.

among us american kids,yugioh cards were like money and whoever had them was 'cool'.
Yep, Yugioh cards were a thing in the early 2000's. Me and my friends used to trade them with other kids at school.
And we had a Yugioh card tournament with our town vs other towns. I miss the 90's and early 2000's. Nowadays there is nothing to look forward to except staring at a computer screen at work then stare at computer screen at home.
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Natural_Born_Cynic wrote:
September 5th, 2023, 3:36 pm
willymonfrete wrote:
September 5th, 2023, 3:21 pm
My biggest desire as a kid,was playing WWE on playstation 1,playing vice city and also yugioh and pokemon cards.

among us american kids,yugioh cards were like money and whoever had them was 'cool'.
Yep, Yugioh cards were a thing in the early 2000's. Me and my friends used to trade them with other kids at school.
And we had a Yugioh card tournament with our town vs other towns. I miss the 90's and early 2000's. Nowadays there is nothing to look forward to except staring at a computer screen at work then stare at computer screen at home.
mutually loving Sex with a hot woman is most 'fun'of all,but we can't fulfill that so nothing seems fun.I think being a child was easier because we didn't have a sex drive.One you cannot fulfill atleast.If we could get sex on demand,then life would be much more interesting,aswell as Safer Drugs.

Funny,because as kids we really want to be adults lol We were just naive to how much of a hell that is.
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willymonfrete wrote:
September 5th, 2023, 4:19 pm
Natural_Born_Cynic wrote:
September 5th, 2023, 3:36 pm
willymonfrete wrote:
September 5th, 2023, 3:21 pm
My biggest desire as a kid,was playing WWE on playstation 1,playing vice city and also yugioh and pokemon cards.

among us american kids,yugioh cards were like money and whoever had them was 'cool'.
Yep, Yugioh cards were a thing in the early 2000's. Me and my friends used to trade them with other kids at school.
And we had a Yugioh card tournament with our town vs other towns. I miss the 90's and early 2000's. Nowadays there is nothing to look forward to except staring at a computer screen at work then stare at computer screen at home.
mutually loving Sex with a hot woman is most 'fun'of all,but we can't fulfill that so nothing seems fun.I think being a child was easier because we didn't have a sex drive.One you cannot fulfill atleast.If we could get sex on demand,then life would be much more interesting,aswell as Safer Drugs.

Funny,because as kids we really want to be adults lol We were just naive to how much of a hell that is.
Being a kid was a simpler times back then. Also TV shows, Cartoons, Movies, music kicked total ass compared to bunch of insipid crap in Sh*tflixs and sh*Tik-tok.
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Pixel--Dude wrote:
September 5th, 2023, 9:21 am
Does anyone else have any unique or interesting games they used to play as kids? I'd be interested in hearing about them.

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We used to play Hide'n'Seek, kick the can, 'Ant No Bears out tonight', Bum Bum Bum, and my brother, cousins, and I came up with a game. We would hop on one foot. One would start on one side of the house and the other would start on the other side of the house. We'd hop on one foot and try to clear the other side of the house. You could bump into your opponent. If your other foot touched the ground before you got to the other side, or you didn't get there first, you lost. So we'd crash into each other and try to get the other one to plant his foot. That was kind of fun. I can't remember any of us really getting hurt bad doing it either.

'Aint no Bears out Tonight' involved reciting a chant that had those words in it while skipping around in the dark until you come across some 'bears', the other group of kids hiding who chase your group back to base and try to tag you.

'Bum Bum Bum' involves saying, "Bum, bum, bum, here we come from Washington' The other kids say, "What's your occupation?' You say 'Most anything' then they say, well wash your dirty hands and get to work. The bum team plays charades. When the other team guesses right, you take off running to base. Anyone who gets tagged first changes teams.

We also played freeze tag. Occasionally we played football, but the older cousins were too big for that to be fun, and they could be rough, and there weren't really enough boys to do it.

I liked swinging on vines when I visited one cousins house. When I was real little another cousin's family had a pool.
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Actually I didn't play too much video games. They were shit at my time anyways.

We did so many stuff I can't even remember all of it. We did soccer, basketball, table tennis, marbles, wrestling. My brother build a 'risk' game so we played that. We played chess.


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Pixel--Dude wrote:
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Thanks for sharing. This thread made me start feeling really nostalgic. When I look back on my childhood i feel a sense of wistful melancholy. Life was much better as a child. Before all the restrictive responsibilities started creeping in.

Childhood is just a care free, magical time where you can just enjoy being alive and appreciate the beauty of life without constantly worrying about money and other things. I sometimes look at my daughter when she's playing on a park or running through the woods and wonder what it must've been like to have been her age and to have been so care free.

I feel like as we grow older that magical feeling of what it means to just be alive and enjoy living is slowly robbed from us as we're subjected to the indoctrination of schools and ideologies, the pressure of obtaining grades all in preparation for what corporate master you will serve when you're of age.

I feel incredibly saddened that this is the kind of life we have made for ourselves. Some people might argue that its worth it because of the luxuries we have living in such a system, but to be honest I don't see this translated in reality. To me, people seem incredibly sad, tired and run down with worry and both physical and mental exhaustion. Children don't care about such luxuries. I think they just want to play and enjoy life and we should aspire to live lives similar to children. Care free and enjoying the beauty of nature.

I confess that I believe being an adult f***ing sucks. The magic of life gets sucked out of you as the heavy burden of adult life begins to weigh you down. Its little wonder people become so hateful, misanthropic or just apathetic towards everything. This system drains your soul and takes away the fundamental magic of what it means to be alive.
That is one reason why I like self improvement and minimalism. It gives you more freedom so you can be a bit more child like. I have no real responsibilities. I would argue that I am much more happier than when I was a child.

As an adult you can have so many hobbies and the freedom do persue it. As a child one always had limitations.
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@Pixel--Dude

'First world problems.' My wife had to get up early to set up a kiosk and go back to sell stuff after school. She talks a little about playing as a child. She had fond memories if picking flowers/berry things when family went back home to her dad Mountain Village for family reunions when she was a child. she was probably free from work obligations for a few days and got to play with other children so that was one of her favorite memories.

As someone raised to be allowed to be a kid, I remember just how exciting it used to be to open presents on Christmas day or to go swimming at the pool or to get a chance to play with certain other kids and have seen in a long time and as an adult I rarely have any emotions that are similar.

Having sex with the first time second time et cetera where of course very emotionally intense, and of course so was having children, by they weren't exactly that same intense feeling that you have a child about doing something as simple as swimming in a pool for the first time in the summer or going to the beach...which was extremely exciting.

Our first world economic development may be what allows us to have a culture that emphasizes letting kids be kids and also giving them the freedom and opportunity to spend a lot of time playing and have that so-called magical childhood.

Probably having a better balance of having children learn to work along with their play is probably better for the kids in the long run.

Our child labor laws are probably too stringent. We could ease kids into real life better.
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In general when one gets greedy things go to shit. Peace of mind is so important but FOMO keeps us in the hamsterwheel most of the time.

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