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By *og-Man OP Man
29 weeks ago

somewhere

Just reading an article about playing games as kids ...something the present generation might not know about as it doesn't involve a screen.

What games did you play as a child and what memories have you got of them

Did they depend on where you grew up

My main one that I remember was kick the can

The fights we had over that one would keep you out playing with the girls on the long summer nights ( was it aways dry or did we not go out in the rain )

Anyway ....what did you play

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By *ealitybitesMan
29 weeks ago

Belfast

Kerbsie, football and tennis were the only ones. Didn't have bikes growing up as we couldn't afford them so made do with what we had

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By *s LollyWoman
29 weeks ago

The pub then supermacs ...

Rounders,red rover red rover, kerbs, hide n go seek (outside in our estate),soccer......

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By *ogladyWoman
29 weeks ago

The bog

Sardines..stuck in the mud..British bulldog..and loads more..

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By *amsevenMan
29 weeks ago

cork

If we weren't playing organised ball sports like gaa and handball we were playing soccer. Were soccer mad. Mini leagues set up between ourselves and local kids. Of course there was the 2 weeks of tennis when Wimbledon was on over a net erected by a neighbour That's hour of astro theses days is still the happiest hour of the week. Can still see the remains of the tree house we built at a seriously unsafe height. Then you had cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, rounders, eh milking the cows and driving the tractor

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By (user no longer on site)
29 weeks ago

Lid golf, you got a lid of a bottle, you got a stick, and you would start down the road and try and punt the lid onto the furthers manhole with the least amount of shots. And yes I do play golf now.

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By *rRiosMan
29 weeks ago

dublin

"Kerbsie, football and tennis were the only ones. Didn't have bikes growing up as we couldn't afford them so made do with what we had"

Football? We could only dream of a football! We just to just kick a stone in our bare feet

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By *amsevenMan
29 weeks ago

cork

Just remembered we played pocket ball. It was 1 v 1. Basically stand across from each other, two goals set up, take shots but you can't take your hands out of your pockets.

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By (user no longer on site)
29 weeks ago

Tig ( or tag, you’re it, catch depending on your location) no props or equipment needed and completely scalable so didn’t matter how many where playing.

Hide & Seek - especially at night with or without flashlights.

War (so many eyes could have been shot out!) - throwing sucks and stones at each other like mad yokes!

-Family -great imaginative play and probably where I started my interest in role play

-Rainy day games: Drawing games like Exquisite corpse, board games, charades.

Lots of really important life skills were learned in those games/play…..sad to see kids these days being more passive consumers rather than active creators using their imaginations. It warms my heart when I see kids outside hanging out, climbing trees and getting up to devilment (like kids should!).

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By *og-Man OP Man
29 weeks ago

somewhere

"Kerbsie, football and tennis were the only ones. Didn't have bikes growing up as we couldn't afford them so made do with what we had

Football? We could only dream of a football! We just to just kick a stone in our bare feet

Fantastic photo...well done

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By *oodOmensfor2Couple
29 weeks ago

Ennis

Hide and seek, tag, dodge ball mostly. To be fair I'm afraid I was in the first screen generation already once I got a bit older

Gaming sessions at friends with c64, Amiga 500 and later carrying our heavy 386/486s around playing Doom death matches with null modem cables

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By *orYourThighsOnlyMan
29 weeks ago

Midlands

A roar to get up and get some work done, cut the grass, wash the cars, work with parents, some work with neighbours then you had play time then.

Dodgeball. Hide and seek. Soldiers. Pranks of neighbours. Monopoly, snakes and ladders and neighbour had Sony PlayStation which was addictive.

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By *ubadubdubWoman
29 weeks ago

Hereabouts

Most of the ones we played have already been mentioned, but scotch does anyone remember that. Ouchy game, I hated it

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By *indenMan
29 weeks ago

Naas which is South West of Dublin

Pitch and toss….

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By *electableicecreamMan
29 weeks ago

The West

Knocking on doors and running away...

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By *uiet LiesCouple
29 weeks ago

Kells or somewhere close by

"Knocking on doors and running away..."

We called that 'knock down ginger'

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By *electableicecreamMan
29 weeks ago

The West

"Knocking on doors and running away...

We called that 'knock down ginger'"

Knick knock where we grew up

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By *oodOmensfor2Couple
29 weeks ago

Ennis

"Knocking on doors and running away..."

Oh forgot about that, angry old ladies chasing us down the street

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By *ot so needyMan
29 weeks ago

Galway

We were so innocent back then.

I don't think most kids now would know what to do to have fun if they didn't have the ps4.

I can make a decent bow and arrow if anyone needs one.

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By *ot so needyMan
29 weeks ago

Galway

"Knocking on doors and running away...

Oh forgot about that, angry old ladies chasing us down the street

Mr"

We had one of those she was called super gran.

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By *reyingbeardMan
29 weeks ago

city

Red rover as younger, kerbs or tag out in the streets could be looking for some for hours

then kiss chase came along

Then depending on what was popular at the time, tennis on the street or "horse jumping building fences with whatever was available & any nearby walls or hedges

Also used to be a weekly football game between two parts of our village, the village team & countryside team

Much simpler times & a lot more interaction

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By *ot so needyMan
29 weeks ago

Galway

"Red rover as younger, kerbs or tag out in the streets could be looking for some for hours

then kiss chase came along

Then depending on what was popular at the time, tennis on the street or "horse jumping building fences with whatever was available & any nearby walls or hedges

Also used to be a weekly football game between two parts of our village, the village team & countryside team

Much simpler times & a lot more interaction"

Jesus I just remembered the show jumping. The barrels and planks all over the place and even the trot you would do coming up to the fence.

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By *eralt80Man
29 weeks ago

cork

I grew up in the country with two brothers and there were no kids our own age nearby so we had to do our own thing. Usually something like 3-goals-in.

We set up a tennis court in the back yard one time but that ended after I set a tennis ball through the kitchen window.

We then tried a mini pitch and putt coarse, even had 18 holes but sadly that ended after I hit a perfect wedge shot through the kitchen window. Poor mother was not as impressed with my wedge shot.

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By *0tever100Man
29 weeks ago

Donaghadee

We called that Thunder and Lightening. Knock door as hard as you could and run as fast as you could not to get caught.

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By *og-Man OP Man
29 weeks ago

somewhere

"Knocking on doors and running away...

Oh forgot about that, angry old ladies chasing us down the street

We had one of those she was called super gran.

And then one day you're sitting in your home after a hard day,children asleep and those friendly neighbourhood kids that say hello to you every day....do a knick knack and run away and wake the sleeping children

Then you turn into the grumpy oul fella that curses at the kids

Maybe just me

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By *og-Man OP Man
29 weeks ago

somewhere

Did anyone come from a country village that had it's own handball alley just at the side of the road in a field ...a big concrete structure....always thought they were cool

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By *yesgreenMan
29 weeks ago

north and south

"Knocking on doors and running away...

Oh forgot about that, angry old ladies chasing us down the street

We had one of those she was called super gran.

Then you turn into the grumpy oul fella that curses at the kids

Maybe just me

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cowboy and Indians Annie get your gun

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By *ot so needyMan
29 weeks ago

Galway

"Knocking on doors and running away...

Oh forgot about that, angry old ladies chasing us down the street

We had one of those she was called super gran.

Then you turn into the grumpy oul fella that curses at the kids

Maybe just me

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ya I have a friend who is always giving out about what his 3 boys get up to. Until I remind him of what we used to do.His kids are angels compared to us..

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By *ot so needyMan
29 weeks ago

Galway

"Did anyone come from a country village that had it's own handball alley just at the side of the road in a field ...a big concrete structure....always thought they were cool "

Ya but that was not for handball

If you had a girlfriend you nearly had to book a time slot..

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By *ilthyNightsCouple
29 weeks ago

East / North, Cork

Doom

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By *og-Man OP Man
29 weeks ago

somewhere

"Did anyone come from a country village that had it's own handball alley just at the side of the road in a field ...a big concrete structure....always thought they were cool

Ya but that was not for handball

If you had a girlfriend you nearly had to book a time slot.."

I did kiss a girl in one in a village called Annamoe in county wicklow as a young teenager

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By *reyingbeardMan
29 weeks ago

city

"Red rover as younger, kerbs or tag out in the streets could be looking for some for hours

then kiss chase came along

Then depending on what was popular at the time, tennis on the street or "horse jumping building fences with whatever was available & any nearby walls or hedges

Also used to be a weekly football game between two parts of our village, the village team & countryside team

Much simpler times & a lot more interaction

Jesus I just remembered the show jumping. The barrels and planks all over the place and even the trot you would do coming up to the fence."

Ya done well to have barrels & planks

we'd be using bags of sticks or turf & brushes

But yeah the trot was a big part of it

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By *ubadubdubWoman
29 weeks ago

Hereabouts

Good laugh this thread

Putting a smile on my face, thanks OP

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By *ladDImpalerMan
29 weeks ago

Dublin

Football, basketball, volleyball of all shapes and sizes and variants, tennis, badminton, table tennis...

Hide and seek, gazillion versions of tag, various WWII reenactments of goodies vs baddies.

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By *0tever100Man
29 weeks ago

Donaghadee

We called that Thunder and Lightening. Knock door as hard as you could and run as fast as you could not to get caught.

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By *amsevenMan
29 weeks ago

cork

Building forts

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By *og-Man OP Man
29 weeks ago

somewhere

Come on someone must know the songs that were sung when skipping or standing near a wall and throwing and catching two tennis balls letting them bounce just once

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By *oxic1998Woman
29 weeks ago

Belfast

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By *ot so needyMan
29 weeks ago

Galway

What was kerbsie and Scotch?

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By *oxic1998Woman
29 weeks ago

Belfast

"Come on someone must know the songs that were sung when skipping or standing near a wall and throwing and catching two tennis balls letting them bounce just once "

One two three and PLAINSY

Four five six and PLAINSY

Seven eight nine and PLAINSY

Ten and PLAINSY, catch the ball.

(Followed by the same, substituting

UPSY, OVER, DROPSY, and WHAMSY

Only one I remember and normally your friend took over for the next verse without stopping

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By *ot so needyMan
29 weeks ago

Galway

What was kerbsie and Scotch?

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By *oxic1998Woman
29 weeks ago

Belfast

"What was kerbsie and Scotch?"

I am presuming Scotch is hop scotch

And kerbies is throwing a ball across the road trying to hit each other's kirb so it bounces back

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By *ot so needyMan
29 weeks ago

Galway

"What was kerbsie and Scotch?

I am presuming Scotch is hop scotch

And kerbies is throwing a ball across the road trying to hit each other's kirb so it bounces back"

Country boy here we had pot holes not kerbs

At night we used to put straw soaked in petrol on the road and light it when cars were coming.

Imagine if you did that now.

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By *ipstick KissesWoman
29 weeks ago

South Down

Kerbsy, British Bulldog, kiss chase, hopscotch, french skipping, jacks, stuck in the mud, rain thunder lightning star, plainy Mama Brown...simpler times

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By *ubadubdubWoman
29 weeks ago

Hereabouts

Scotch was a game involving a tennis ball, one person was on and you ran around to avoid being hit with the ball, if you were hit by it you were out. I got a right thwack on the head once

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By *arry and AnnCouple
29 weeks ago

Louth

Bullrush, where we would all line up holding hands facing each other and charge.. not all the way sure what the point was

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By *ot so needyMan
29 weeks ago

Galway

"Scotch was a game involving a tennis ball, one person was on and you ran around to avoid being hit with the ball, if you were hit by it you were out. I got a right thwack on the head once

Ya we did that too. A hurl and sliotar or tennis ball. And ya it feckin hurt.

I got knocked out cold in a game in school kinda like this. One of the lads kicked a basketball and got me in the back of the head.

I was puking for days after.

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By *ladDImpalerMan
29 weeks ago

Dublin

"We called that Thunder and Lightening. Knock door as hard as you could and run as fast as you could not to get caught. "

Or getting in the 20 storey building, pressing all the buttons and getting out, letting the elevator stop on every floor...

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By *og-Man OP Man
29 weeks ago

somewhere

"We called that Thunder and Lightening. Knock door as hard as you could and run as fast as you could not to get caught.

Or getting in the 20 storey building, pressing all the buttons and getting out, letting the elevator stop on every floor...

Did ye have a horse in the lift too

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By *onderingpurposeMan
29 weeks ago

Belfast

"Kerbsie, football and tennis were the only ones. Didn't have bikes growing up as we couldn't afford them so made do with what we had"

Surely you mean cribbie

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By *electableicecreamMan
29 weeks ago

The West

Hay jumping was always good fun. Especially getting chased off by the farmer.

Skinning apples out the orchard in the mansion house out the road was good two. They had big dogs.

Summers jumping off the bridge into the river suir.

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By *ealitybitesMan
29 weeks ago

Belfast

"Kerbsie, football and tennis were the only ones. Didn't have bikes growing up as we couldn't afford them so made do with what we had

Surely you mean cribbie"

Nope. It was always called kerbsie.

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By *og-Man OP Man
29 weeks ago

somewhere

Did anyone else fill a shoe polish tin with stones and play hopscotch

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By *ot so needyMan
29 weeks ago

Galway

"Did anyone else fill a shoe polish tin with stones and play hopscotch "
No we just had stones. Old shoe polish boxes were for buttons and needles in the mother's sewing box.

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By *arajeanCouple
29 weeks ago

mayo

Ring board

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By *ot so needyMan
29 weeks ago

Galway

"Ring board"

Jesus I love rings.

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By *ladDImpalerMan
29 weeks ago

Dublin

"We called that Thunder and Lightening. Knock door as hard as you could and run as fast as you could not to get caught.

Or getting in the 20 storey building, pressing all the buttons and getting out, letting the elevator stop on every floor...

Did ye have a horse in the lift too

Nope, that particular kink was only discovered when I landed on the shores of Eire...

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By *ezoMan
28 weeks ago

The Kingdom

Rounders, hide n' seek, red rover, pirate treasure, hurling, to name a few.

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By (user no longer on site)
28 weeks ago

Even though I grew up on screens I spent a lot of time outside.

The games I remember mainly playing are tip the can, british bulldog, football, kerbs. I remember once or twice playing ira as well

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