My friend had a game that we loved to play. It was a plastic gray mountain as the game board and marbles were your pieces to climb the mountain. I recall holes along the path that would cause you to lose the marble. Can’t recall the name of it though. We would play that on sleepover nights. Great childhood memories.
I liked Slap Sticks, as well as Tiddlywinks, Stratego, Concentration, Aggravation, Dominos, Parcheesi, Spare Time Bowling, Boggle, Uno, Yatzhee, Battleship, Mandala, Ace/Duce, Backgammon (rainy day things to do while stuck in the house at the lake.) I can go on… eight kids in our family and we had to be entertained… oh yeah we had no TV either. We had it just could not get a picture so it almost never was on. The radio played all the time.
My favorite game as a child, was stay alive. Plastic base with sliding levers that had random holes on them. You place your marbles on top and each person would slide a lever one click. If a hole appeared a marble would fall below. Winner was the one with just his marbles left on top. My favorite board game was payday. The board was a one month grid and you decided how many months you'd play each game. I even had it as a software game for my first computer (80's). Good memories!
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I remember all those games. Anything from the 60s were at gramma's house, I had Stratego. My other gramma had slide hockey with about 10 different teams. Bending the metal players' sticks would allow for some great shots. Game on!
I thought you were going to say your favorite toy was BATTLESHIP! I also loved to play skee-ball (shuttle ball, whiz ball, greased lightening). It had a football like ball with cords running through it and attached to two sets of handles on each end. Two people would play; each holding the set of handles across from each other; with their wrists together. You would pull and push (by opening your arms) the shuttle back and forth. It was amazing! One could WHACK the opponent with a really fast ball, lol. The hardest part of all was unraveling the cords/ropes in order to play. Ah....good times!
I played a little chess with one of my buddies, Leon. We had a lot of fun. I seldom won, but Leon was a gracious winner. I remember Stratego. The smart kids played that while I tried to master Pic Up Sticks and Mumbley Peg. Back then, all of my friends in grade school carried a knife to school so that we could play Mumbley Peg before school, at lunch, at recess and after school. It was a kinder, more gentle time. BTW: My principal always had a rifle in the back window of his pick up truck.
All this was before my time, but I was highly entertained nonetheless. I really liked the iron, 😆 🤣. Safety first kids. Edit: OMG no lie.... I was like his favorite game is probably chess! GREAT video! 👍
And we had Booby Trap and it WAS made of all wood! I think later sets had plastic pieces! My sister got the similar game to pick up sticks that was Jack Straws!
We had the oven…with the hot lightbulb that burned us all the time but we didnt care because we could bake our own pizzas! Bread and ketchup and we thought they were really good! Hahaha!
My toy soldiers were plastic never saw the led ones parcheesi was popular also had dodge ems little Bumper cars kids today I wish would play games it kept families busy not in there room on there electronics
parcheesi is a western version of the ancient indian game pachisi, part of a the cross and circle family of games. its a lot of fun! if youve ever played sorry, aggravation, trouble, or ludo, those are also pachisi derivatives 🤹♀️
