what happen to the old days

[Nazul 10]

I prefered Catch and Kiss the best, chasing the girls around. Trying to get some stinky pinky.

One kid, a big ugly Maori, used to chase the girls around and trap them in the toilet with a booga (nose picking) on his finger. They were screaming, so funny.

[Opticalsnare 12]

Cops and Robbers & British Bulldog were our fave playground games. Although we had British Bulldog banned because it got a bit rough and we sometimes went back to class in cuts and bruises and mums and dads thought we were getting bullied. But kids being kids we still played it just outta sight of teachers.

I hate being grown up now, its horrible getting older. I remember the days in school summers when the grass was freshy cut and you all ran out in the grass throwing it down peoples tops to make them itch for the rest of the day. Nowadays its just work work work and feel tired everyday from working and paying bills and being a slave to the system. Theres nothing you can do to go back to those days and relive them thats the most hardest part.

Edited December 4, 2009 by Opticalsnare

[Baff1 0]

i was talking to our lass about old games we use to play on our street here a few, can you tell me if you played these games or what was they call in your area

the good old days when we had no pc/xbox/ps3/

British bulldogs

British bulldogs is mainly played in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and other Commonwealth countries, and banned from many schools. One or two players start as the "bulldogs" who stand in the middle of the play area, while the other players stand at one end of the area. The aim is to run from one end of the area to the other without being caught by the bulldogs. When a player is caught they become a bulldog themselves. The winner is the last player or players 'free'

Octopus tag

Octopus tag is a mix between Red Rover and tag.[19] 'It', or 'Octopus', attempts to tag the other players. The playing field is known as the ocean. The players, or 'fish', line up along one side of the ocean and trying to run to the other side without getting tagged. In a variation once the 'fish' run to the other side without getting tagged the game pauses until the 'octopus' starts it again. Upon getting tagged the 'fish' become 'seaweed' and must freeze or sit where they were tagged, but can wave their arms around and assist the 'Octopus' in tagging other 'fish' within their reach. The last 'fish' to be tagged becomes the next 'Octopus'.

Kiss chase "best game in the world next to doctor & nurse"

Kiss chase is a tag variant in which tagging is performed by kissing. All members of one gender are 'it' at once and chase the opposite sex until everyone is caught, when the roles are reversed. "The game is not about who can run faster or slower, as in the standard versions of Tag, so much as the strength of each individual's desire to kiss the girl or boy they are pursuing". A variant is that one member of a gender can be 'it' and with assistance from those of the same gender they chase all members of the opposite sex and kiss one of them, who is then 'it' on behalf of the other gender

Stuck in the mud

Also known as 'freeze tag', or 'Ice And Water' in Asian countries, players who are tagged are 'stuck in the mud' or 'frozen' and must stand in place with their arms stretched out until they are 'unfrozen'. An unstuck/unfrozen player performs an action to unfreeze them, such as tagging them, crawling between their legs,

Cops and Robbers

Cops and Robbers, sometimes called 'team tag', 'Chase', 'Police and Thief', or Prisoner's Base, has players split into two teams: cops (the 'it' team who are in pursuit) and robbers (the team being chased). The cops 'arrest' the robbers by tagging, and put them in 'jail'. Robbers can stage a jailbreak by tagging one of the prisoners without getting tagged themselves. The game ends if all the robbers are in jail. (At some times, robbers get to on two bases. Cops cannot enter these bases. once a robber leaves on base, he cannot return to the base he has just left. he must go to the other base and make sure he does not get caught.)

What's the time, Mr Wolf?

One player is chosen to be Mr Wolf and stands facing away from the other players at the opposite end of the playing field. All players except Mr Wolf chant in unison "What's the time, Mr Wolf?", and Mr Wolf will answer in one of two ways: Mr Wolf may call a time - usually an hour ending in "o'clock". The other players take that many steps towards Mr Wolf. They then ask the question again. Alternatively Mr Wolf may call "Dinner time!", and turn and chase the other players back to their starting point. If Mr Wolf tags a player, that player becomes Mr Wolf for the next round.

Played all these a lot as a child except Octopus Tag.

Also Cowboys and Indians and Army games. I wouldn't go as far as to define these as games with rules or a set format.

Bang bang you shoot someone he falls over and dies and vice versa or you surrender and get captured and have to escape...

Manhunt. One guy runs off the rest of the school track him down. (And try and kill him!).

Edited December 4, 2009 by Baff1

[wheres my rabbit ? 10]

We used to play a game called "hot rice". A ball, most often a tennis ball, is used by one guy and thrown at any of the other players. If hit, that player joins the throwing team to throw the ball to each other and at other opposing players. Last guy hit by the ball wins.

that sounds like a game we used to play called "kingy" which would start with everyone in a big circle, feet apart with toes to the next person, using your feet as pinball flippers.. if the ball went through your legs your IT and everyone would leg it in all directions... IT was allowed to run with the ball until he'd tagged someone then they would have to stay put if they had the ball and pass it to each other to get around and tag other people .. people could also defend themselves against balls thrown at them with knuckles(punching the ball away) get hit anywhere else and you where caught and had to join the throwing team... great game

other games where "killer or killer ball" and "beat the letter"

killer used to get played in a big square alcove with a football which would get randomly kicked about as hard as possible and if it hit you anywhere above the knees and below the neck you had to get to the base (the drainpipe in the corner) before everyone kicked and punched the crap out of you.. great fun... but hurt lol

beat the letter was kinda team tag with the runners each having a letter of a word or words and the catching team had to chase, catch and beat or torture the letter from each player to guess the word .. you learned to run fast hehe

[Col. Faulkner 0]

...Army games...

Bang bang you shoot someone he falls over and dies and vice versa or you surrender and get captured and have to escape...

We used to call that "Japs and British".