OT: Name Your Best Neighborhood Game
December 6th, 2014 at 10:42 AM ^
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December 6th, 2014 at 11:23 AM ^
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December 6th, 2014 at 11:39 AM ^
Wiffleball: the game of kings. It was my favorite when I was a kid, and still into my late 20s because that's the kind of family I'm from.
December 6th, 2014 at 10:43 AM ^
December 6th, 2014 at 10:44 AM ^
We played in the big park across the street from my house at like 1 in the morning. Hide in the bushes and scare the shit out of the guy trying to tag you.
December 6th, 2014 at 10:44 AM ^
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December 6th, 2014 at 11:00 AM ^
Go it now and you get your dad sued.
December 6th, 2014 at 10:45 AM ^
street hockey where everybody had their old sticks and the blades got worn down by the pavement and started to look more like knives. kind of like 'wayne's world', when a car came down the street and we all yelled 'car!'
500 was the other game we played. one guy would hit the ball out to us and if you caught it on the fly it was something like 100 pts, grounder was 50, etc. kind of like full-contact outfield play. the first guy to 500 then got to be the batter. it was helped along by all of us doing our best imitation of the tv announcers back then, 'george kell and larry osterman. it's bright, sun-shinny day here at tiger stadium'. only slightly less wonderful than ernie harwell.
December 6th, 2014 at 10:46 AM ^
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Road hockey? Oh, Canadians.
December 6th, 2014 at 10:46 AM ^
"Doctor" with the girl next door.
December 6th, 2014 at 10:46 AM ^
December 6th, 2014 at 10:47 AM ^
I grew up in a small community in the UP. There were about 8 kids who were all roughly my age who lived in my neighborhood. Our parents pretty much gave us the run of the neighborhood and we played every kind of game you can imagine. We used to play what we simply called "Guns." "Guns" usually happened at night and was basically hide and go seek in teh dark while you pretended to shoot people with toy guns. I spent an entire summer or two convinced I was going to grow up and be John Rambo. Hell we'd use the daylight hours to plan our strategies and scout terrain. Fun times.
December 6th, 2014 at 10:50 AM ^
December 6th, 2014 at 10:51 AM ^
Lower the hoop and have a dunk contest.
December 6th, 2014 at 10:51 AM ^
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We had lazer tag capture the flag. SO LEGIT.
December 6th, 2014 at 11:21 AM ^
look at Richie Rich over here
December 6th, 2014 at 11:28 AM ^
I can smell your jealousy. By the way...Go Browns, Bengals, and Ravens.
December 6th, 2014 at 11:00 AM ^
3 games:
Man hunt - Basically tag in NYC streets, climbing scaffolds, jumping roof to roof, running in the middle of the street. In retrospect, not sure how i didn't die, but i did have to get stitches on my head once...explains a lot.
Skelsies - a new york past time for kids. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skully_%28game%29 Not sure if y'all played this in the midwest, but milk caps, boxes and you could be a legend with the flick of a finger.
Personal favorite:
Stick ball - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/nyregion/theyre-still-swinging-for-th…
December 6th, 2014 at 11:05 AM ^
The Game (not what your thinking) hide and seek at night using a whole neighborhood block.
Whiffle Ball, one of us had the perfect back yard set up for it. The fences were perfect distances.
Goal line stance, we'd play this right after Christmas. Go out and collect people's Christmas trees from the side of the road. We would pile them up in a line. One kid had the ball on one side of the trees and the defense was on the other side. Ball carrier would run and jump over the trees and try to make it over while the defense would try to keep him in trees. Trees simulated the collision of OL and DL. Lots of fun, but you needed layers of clothes otherwise the trees roughed you up a bit!
December 6th, 2014 at 11:05 AM ^
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December 6th, 2014 at 11:07 AM ^
My best friend and I got into this game, no idea how we came up with it, but basically one of us would shoot a basketball from the sidewalk (about the distance of an NBA 3) and if it was made you got a point and then the other guy would 'start' until a miss. At that point wherever the ball stopped, that's where the next guy shot from until 7 points were made. We had some epic makes and long grueling games. Always a challenge at either his place or mine with both having different obstacles.
Was good times.
December 6th, 2014 at 11:09 AM ^
Golf. Every morning in the summer at the country club with my best friends and usually spent the afternoons in the pool.
December 6th, 2014 at 11:17 AM ^
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December 6th, 2014 at 11:14 AM ^
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throwing a tennis ball off the curb--scoring based on baseball hits depending on where the ball landed--if caught, too short or too wide=out. Lots of bored pickle. Competitive wiffle ball where the highlight was hitting a runner flush on the calf--a painful out.
December 6th, 2014 at 12:51 PM ^
December 6th, 2014 at 11:13 AM ^
It's not a neighborhood game per se, but I loved 2 on 2 lounge soccer my Freshman year in Bursley. What a great way to blow off steam.
December 6th, 2014 at 11:12 AM ^
Bb gun wars at a river not far from my neighborhood. we would stick bottle rockets in the end of our bb guns and light them to fire off as "missles." Good times.
December 6th, 2014 at 11:13 AM ^
December 6th, 2014 at 11:14 AM ^
Football, hockey in the winter on a backyard ice rink, red rover.
December 6th, 2014 at 11:14 AM ^
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December 6th, 2014 at 12:41 PM ^
Lots of make-believe military-ish stuff, some German Spotlight and other variants of "tag/hide-and-seek" games, pick-up sports of any kind. I preferred roller hockey because I sucked at everything else.
December 6th, 2014 at 11:15 AM ^
Specifically, racing these: