what was your favourite game when you were a child?

@katsalot1 (1618)
March 5, 2009 9:33am CST
My very best favourite game when I was a child was Hide and Seek. We had a big garden with lots of trees and shrubs, so it was a really good place to play Hide and Seek. 'Home' was a big tree in the middle of the garden. We used to play for hours, and it was always best when we had a few adults joining in. I played when I was a teenager as well, and in the summer we would sometimes play into the early hours of the morning if there was moonlight. I'm sure everyone has a favourite game, what is yours?
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• Philippines
5 Mar 09
I don't want to be a copycat but honestly Hide and Seek was my favorite game in my childhood years. It may be influenced by the fact that it was the game we played often during afternoon breaks. The most fun part of it was that the game consumes the entire afternoon. So, we need not to perspire more in running. We just needed to find a good place to hide. We usually ended up hiding in very unusual places like outside CRs of our neighbors or climbing up on trees. There was also a time when we hide on the rooftop. And I can't forget when we hid under the houses near the shore. Maybe this game is also favored by most of the children here in the Philippines.
• Philippines
5 Mar 09
Comfort rooms
@katsalot1 (1618)
5 Mar 09
Are comfort rooms like sitting rooms or lounges - sorry I haven't heard of them before, please describe them.
@katsalot1 (1618)
5 Mar 09
I'm glad you enjoyed playing it, but what are CRs?
• India
7 Mar 09
when i was a child i loved to play stapu and rope skipping.
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@katsalot1 (1618)
7 Mar 09
What is stapu?
@katsalot1 (1618)
7 Mar 09
Ah, that sounds like what we call hopscotch.
• India
7 Mar 09
stapu is game played with a piece of flat stone ,with some boxes drawn on the floor,its hard to explain like this
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@arcidy (5005)
• United States
5 Mar 09
My favorite game when I was a child was sonic the headchog 2 for sega gennisis. Man I use to play that game a lot. Since I think that was the first game I ever played and first game I ever owned since it came with the sega game. After that game I got hooked on videogames lol.
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@katsalot1 (1618)
5 Mar 09
Me too, I love playing RPGs on the computer.
@falconx (221)
• Finland
6 Mar 09
When I was kid I played NES. My favorite was the super mario series.
@HansonFan (1653)
• United States
6 Mar 09
I used to love hide and seek too! Especially when I got a little older we would go outside in the dark and play with flashlights! Those were good times. I think my ultimate favorite was Freeze Tag. We used to play that for hours! However, in the summer I was all about the Marco Polo in the pool!
@katsalot1 (1618)
6 Mar 09
What is Marco Polo in the pool?
@bubbletush (1332)
• Philippines
6 Mar 09
When I was I child, I love playing chinese garter, chinese jackstone and pick up sticks at school after class dismissal. During weekends, me, my sisters and cousins love playing with our pots, and pans and all those cute kitchen stuff. It's during vacation when we go to the province that I get to play hide and seek and "patintero"
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@katsalot1 (1618)
6 Mar 09
What is patintero?
• India
6 Mar 09
hi..when i am was a child we too used to play hide and seek...when i was small we where in joint family..which was wonderful time in my life..me,my brother and my cousins used to play together..there will be no place to play..so we go out to streets,there will be no frequency of vehicles it will be a free space without any disturbance..now i remembered my childhood days thank u for starting this discussion..
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@katsalot1 (1618)
6 Mar 09
It is a shame that children can't play in the streets anymore, but it is just too dangerous now. It was a good way of different children mixing, and playing somewhere safe.
@mssnow (9484)
• United States
5 Mar 09
I had a few favorite games i liked to play. hide and seek was one of them. I also liked to play mother may I. I loved being the mother lol. I wasn't crazy about tag unless it was like freeze tag. That was fun. But people always liked to cheat lol. My very favorite game was jacks. I got so good i as in a tournament. I was very proud of myself for that one. it made me believe with practice i could do anything. I practiced constantly :)
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@katsalot1 (1618)
6 Mar 09
Mother may sounds familiar, but I can't remember what the game involves, and freeze tag I should think is probably similar to one we used to play called statues.
@yogeshdhusa (2236)
• India
5 Mar 09
Me too. my favourite game is also Hide and seek, we used to play in our socity hiding below stair case and then runing from here and their- changing t shirts to make fool. o my those were beautiful days.. thanks :) you made my day... enjoy
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@katsalot1 (1618)
5 Mar 09
It would be good to play again, but I wouldn't last long now - it's very energetic isn't it?
@Yori88 (1465)
• Philippines
6 Mar 09
My best favorite game when I was a child is a native game here in Philippines. It is called "Patintero." It is a very popular game here in my country and most kids in this generation still plays the game. But it is more commonly done in provinces. The equipment needed are piece of chalk or paint, a scoreboard, whistles, stop watch and powder. A team is composed of five players a coach. The officials of the game are the scorer, timekeeper and linesmen. The objective of the team is to accumulate as many points by passing the lines without being tagged. A defensive team is called the line guard while an offensive team is called the passer. The game has three innings and each inning is divided into halves. I was usually admired by my classmates when I was in elementary because I rarely get tagged. Some even argue on which team should I belong because both teams wanted me to be one of their members. Anyway that was before. After I graduated in elementary my "Patintero" game graduated as well.
@katsalot1 (1618)
6 Mar 09
Thanks for describing that, it sounds like a very organized game!
@jazemind (52)
• Canada
5 Mar 09
I LOVED hide-and-seek, forgot all about for years... thanks for reminder but I think I loved kick-the-can just a bit more. I have 3 brothers and 3 sisters , and we are close in age, and lived in country so we would play for hours . Except of course , being Canadian, in the winter we played fox and hounds more. AHHH childhood memories.
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@katsalot1 (1618)
5 Mar 09
It must have been wonderful to have so many people to play with. What is Fox and Hounds? I'm guessing it involves a lot of running around.
• China
10 Mar 09
It let me remind the beautiful memory in my mind. In my childhood years .I like play cargames`hide and seek`blind man's bluff .
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• China
6 Mar 09
I like Hide and Seek too, especially when i was a child. Making someone can't find you is huge fun in this game, but it is frustrating to find the game has been finished and all of the participants has gone home when you go out of the place where you hide in sometimes just because you hide too deep so noone can find you and even have not heared somesone to call you to leave, it is an interesting experience, thanks for recalling me the childhood memories i missed so much.
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@Jyc921 (35)
• Taiwan
6 Mar 09
I love playing cards, because it makes and forces you to think. Since I'm pretty smart (no, really), I often win and that makes to happy. I also loved the "chinese chess", even I don't know how you call it in English. I love every game that makes you think.
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@venchaul (541)
• China
5 Mar 09
Wow, thank you so much! You have given us so good topic! And I like the game of "hide and seek" when I was a child, even I teach the game to my little nephew! You have let me recall the beautiful memory from my deep heart! I appreciate you so much! Good luck to you!
@katsalot1 (1618)
5 Mar 09
I'm glad you have someone to play it with! I'm 49 now, so I think if I suggested playing it with my friends, they'd think I'd gone mad!
• China
6 Mar 09
Yes, I have so much good game in the childhood! I like to play with other people that time! So much happy that time! Hehe ,however, we could not come back!
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@hotsummer (13835)
• Philippines
6 Mar 09
we live in a city and so there are no trees that we can hide ourselves to. we just play inside the house and so the chance to find the other playmates was rather easy having a small house and a limited space to hide from. it was one fun game as far as i remember. played it many times before.
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6 Mar 09
i was a great lover of cricket game when i was a kid. but when my favourite hero mohammad azharuddhin, was permanently suspended from cricket, i started to hate the cricket game. then i lost much interest and very rarely watched cricket. currently i watch wrestling often. also chess online.
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• Philippines
6 Mar 09
I have lots of favorite game when i was a teenager or should we say, a kid. We do hide and seek in the pale moonlight together with cousins and their neighbors. We also do "tumbang preso", jumping rope, taya-tayaan (your it!), and then the famous bahay bahayan and the ones you draw chalk on street and get a stone of your choice. A lot more that i forgot to remember the names. I like to play Shiatong too, marbles, tex cards, and the high jump where we used our fingers and palm and feet for measurement of high jump when someone is going to jump. Since before, we don't have computers and play stations, these are the famous street games that children play and i can still remember we were all happy playing it.
@gxyywhyzy (450)
• China
6 Mar 09
oh,my wonderful memories.when i was a child,i often palyed chasing games with my partners.
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• India
6 Mar 09
well when i was a child i used to play playstation 2 games t it was my favourite timepass , games i played where wwe , dragonball z , tennis & lots more .
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