BS: Revisiting childhood inventive games

Subject: BS: Revisiting childhood inventive games
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Mar 08 - 11:31 AM

NO computer games for us. It wasn't until 1968 that I saw my neighbor play a horserace game on his home computer - but that was because he worked for IBM.

When the skateboard first came out I attached a 6ft board on 2 skate boards. At first we got as many as 4 kids on one skate board but soon enough I had invented the street luge. I quit it after iwas looking up at a car wheel that had stpped just in time.

Then we got tow lines, two bikes and two skate boarders to weave in and out, over and under tow lines in what could be seen as a pas de deux of skateboarding. I have never seen it since.

Smash em up duels while on bikes qhiile holding a shopping cart in one hand was very much like the tournaments of knights on horseback.
We would get up speed in the parking lot and let the "torpedo" go at the other biker.

Bike jumps off the plowed snow piles. I actually got a full somersault once.


Then we had dogfights (our bikes were planes) by mounting a dartboard on the handle bars and making passes with dull darts at each other.

We would weight the nose of plastic airplane models and fly them on a string with centrifugal force.

Iodine crystals and ammonia was great fun, until it spilled on the basement steps.

Riding ice flows in the creek was even crazier.

Making rockets and planes was perhaps the most fun and taught me more about aerodynamics than I suspected at the time.

There were a flood of thrill games we tried, perhaps some too painful to remember.

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Today X games have made a few of my childhood invented games some sort of pro competition. sigh


What thrill games did you play...

Subject: RE: BS: Revisiting childhood inventive games
From: Mrrzy
Date: 14 Mar 08 - 02:55 PM

Remember capture the flag? Kick the can? Kick the can especially was fun in West Africa in the 70's, where it was SO dark at night that you could stand in what would be plain sight and still be hidden, all you had to do was not get walked into by the searcher. And Sardines! Pack 15 horny teenagers in a 2-person-sized closet and have all KINDS of fun!