Old fart games - kick the can, marbles, smear the queer etc.

We'd do this thing where we'd swing really high on swings and jump off, trying to stick the landing. I ate gravel more than a few times.
 
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Stuff like dodgeball, freeze tag, and capture the flag were my jam back in elementary school.
 
Back in my country hometown we used to play a game that had no real name to it other than "rock game." We would play around this bridge in the park that was near us, and do rock-paper-scissors for who got to be on top of the bridge. We'd just throw rocks at each other until we got tired of it.

Needless to say, this game rocked!

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When I was a kid I played Boat Adventure with my younger step-brother. We'd pretend the couch was a boat and we were sailing somewhere on an adventure or that we were shipwrecked and trying to find an island. It was our favorite non-video game. Childhood is crazy, I really don't remember how we found Boat Adventure to be so entertaining.
 
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When I was in middle school we invented a game we played in the gym at lunch called jousting. You'd take a stack of blue gym mats and put them on top of the square gym scooters and that was your team's vehicle. Some unlucky sap had to sit on top of it to weigh it down. The goal was to knock down either the other teams' vehicles or into people on foot by ramming into them. Our truck of peace game went on for months before they finally shut us down for creating a blatant safety hazard.
 
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Snowball; Basically dodgeball except with little furry balls. Lots of them. We would often play it during gym back in elementary school. I remember being the last person on the team one game and I spent the last few minutes of gym time dodging shit like I was in the Matrix.

Tag and Hide n Seek will always be my two biggest faves as a child.
 
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Snowball; Basically dodgeball except with little furry balls. Lots of them. We would often play it during gym back in elementary school. I remember being the last person on the team one game and I spent the last few minutes of gym time dodging shit like I was in the Matrix.

Tag and Hide n Seek will always be my two biggest faves as a child.
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The schools I went to usually just went with the usual dodgeball with the red rubber balls.
 
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If you ask me the best games were the ones with the highest possibility of bodily harm.
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These days kids would probably get brought up on some zero tolerance bullshit just for playing something called "smear the queer," even if it didn't involve just beating the shit out of some guy for the pure hell of it.

It was pretty much just throwing a football at a guy, who became the queer, and then everyone jumped on him and beat the shit out of him. If you pussied out by deliberately fumbling it, you got beat up even harder, and if you didn't fight to keep it as long as you could, again, you'd get beat up even harder.

For some reason, this was fun.

We also had a bunch of tag games with ridiculously elaborate rules that were basically Calvinball.
 
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Placing food next to the ants and seeing how long it took for them to eat it. Needless to say they seemed to enjoy pure sugar the most and returned frequently.
 
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