Games from our Youth
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From: Mesa Arizona
My uncle taught me this one not a real game but still fun, you go buy some cheap modles put them together no need to worry about decals and all, then you get some fire crackers light them and run the cars into each other 
smash up derby 
smash up derby
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From: Maryland Heights, MO
I used to get into model rockets, I think they were estes. Lots of fun building something and then watching it blow up 1000+ feet up!!
Loved Aurora slot cars too! My #43 SuperBird was my fav!
Loved Aurora slot cars too! My #43 SuperBird was my fav!
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From: Hillsdale, Michigan
I think so! He was kinda tall. He had a lever you pulled and his tongue stuck out like fire?!?
He was like 18" - 24" right? 
I still have my ThunderCats and surprisingly after all these years Lion-O's eyes still light up when I put the magic ring in his back hole. 
Ouija Board!!!
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From: Soon to be Longview, Texas
My wife tells me often about her elementary school playground having one of those geodesic dome-style monkey bar setups ... the kids would gather on it and do their own version of Thunderdome (TWO MEN ENTER, ONE MAN LEAVES!). 
My elementary school memories involve twin pairs of sewer pipe set up side-by-side, which we'd use to play Pipe Tag. "It" was between the pipes, and the goal was to run back and forth between the pipes without getting tagged. (I was a slow kid ... DAMN I hated that game!!)
When I was attending a school for gifted kids, they'd turn simple games of tag into something bizarre ... a personal favorite was "TV Tag," where if you got tagged you would have to yell out the name of a TV show to avoid being It. (yeah, we were weird kids)
My elementary school memories involve twin pairs of sewer pipe set up side-by-side, which we'd use to play Pipe Tag. "It" was between the pipes, and the goal was to run back and forth between the pipes without getting tagged. (I was a slow kid ... DAMN I hated that game!!)
When I was attending a school for gifted kids, they'd turn simple games of tag into something bizarre ... a personal favorite was "TV Tag," where if you got tagged you would have to yell out the name of a TV show to avoid being It. (yeah, we were weird kids)
Last edited by Desert Coyote; Aug 21, 2007 at 10:26 AM.
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From: Ft Walton Bch FL
What I find amazing is all the games that disappeared and now are back. Who knew back in the '60s that they'd make a movie about dodgeball. Make next they'll make one with a Red Rover theme!