A game I used to play...

[Lameman]

When I was younger I had a friend, and we used to play this game. We tied up rows of two liter bottles. Started with 2 rows of 3, then when that got too easy, 3 rows of 3. The game went as follows. One of us would stand near the bottles and the other would call out a flavour followed by either a 1 or a 2. A 1 represented a target, a 2 represented a threat. You had to hit the targets in sequence, and if a 2 was called you emmediatly had to dodge, pary or block all while continuing to hit the targets. If you missed, hit the wrong target (or right target out of sequence), or failed to respond emmediatly to a threat. You lost. And it was the other person's turn.

 

[JR 137]

My friends and frequently played a game...

One person would ride their bike back and forth until someone was able to successfully throw a stick into the spokes of their front tire. Then it was their turn to ride until someone else was successful. We actually got pretty good at throwing sticks into tire spokes and making each other flip over the handlebars.

That was a game that truly had no winners.

 

[Ironbear24]

Back in my day when we played stick ball. Sorry I couldn't help it. But in reality that does sound like an interesting concept of target striking.

 

[pgsmith]

When I was younger, one of the games all the boys played was free-for-all basketball. Whoever had the ball was the target and everyone else would kick or hit them until they shot the ball.

 

[JR 137]

When I was younger, one of the games all the boys played was free-for-all basketball. Whoever had the ball was the target and everyone else would kick or hit them until they shot the ball.

That reminds me of the video game Arch Rivals. Hadn't thought about that one in years. We used to play Kill The Carrier aka Smear The Queer. Throw a football in the air, and everyone tries to tackle him. Once everyone's off of him, he throws the ball up, and it's on again. Another one of those games with no winner.

I miss the absurd games we played. That and building ramps and jumping our BMX bikes off of them. Sometimes the ramp collapsed, which added the element of surprise.

 

[Tames D]

I remember when I was about 5 or 6 playing Doctor with the neighborhood girls.

 

[Bill Mattocks]

We used to walk through pastures and shove sticks in cow dung and fling it at each other.

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

When I was younger, one of the games all the boys played was free-for-all basketball. Whoever had the ball was the target and everyone else would kick or hit them until they shot the ball.

My friends and I used to do this all the time! I completely forgot about it!
We also would tackle/grab and attempt to tackle the person with the ball, but for some reason our parents weren't to happy with that one on the concrete...

 

[Lameman]

When I was young, playgrounds had concrete slabs. Not ground up tires. Builds strong bones.

 

[Ironbear24]

When I was a kid I stepped on a needle in the playground and got hep C.

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

When I was young, playgrounds had concrete slabs. Not ground up tires. Builds strong bones.

You try playing basketball on ground up tires.