Best Games Growing Up

[zorax]

What are the best games you played as a kid growing up

Can be anything - board games, video games, an elaborate version of tag, or backyard cricket so complex that you and your friends developed a set of rules against throwing things at the batsman. What game was it that gave you the most enjoyment in your young life

I probably derived wayyyy too much pleasure from three things:
1) Cricket management games (ICC, Battrick, Stumped, FromThePavilion, etc)
2) Pokemon Yellow
3) Shitposting on PlanetCricket

And ofcourse actually playing cricket and football was incredibly fun too.

 

[Kraken]

Tony Hawks Pro-Skater 2. Killer soundtrack as well

 

[sledger]

Hide the strudel

 

[trundler]

Dick chicken

 

[Gnske]

what organ is in the box

 

[Flem274*]

spin the bottle
truth, dare, promise

 

[trundler]

Hide the strudel

 

[zorax]

Hide the strudel

Dick chicken

explain these games please. They sound really fun.

 

[duffer]

Hide the strudel

Pie

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Bullrush

 

[honestbharani]

Contra

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

-Backyard cricket
-Ball field cricket
-Cricket in the street


-Cricket on the bridge:
When it rains, the water level in the canals get very high. On some days, it the level would get over the bridge just a little bit...so it creates an excellent surface for the ball to skid off. The bridge became the pitch. When the ball gets in the water, a dozen fielders would take a plunge, with the random pet doggie joining along. The ball is made uo of solid rubber.The speed of the delivery is around mid 80s to 90mph. Behind the wicket there is a keeper with approximately 13 in the slip cordon.

-hide and seek
-enter hole
-dog and the bone
-table tennis
-volleyball

 

[zorax]

bridge cricket sounds amazing. how wide was this bridge? did fielders ever start in the water? how long would games last?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

bridge cricket sounds amazing. how wide was this bridge? did fielders ever start in the water? how long would games last?

About 1.75 times wider than a regulation cricket pitch.

 

[vcs]

I was lucky enough to grow up in a house with a reasonably sized garden. I dug five holes around it, and played "golf" with a tennis ball and cricket bat. Each hole had a par score. This may sound a bit strange, but I had actually never watched or heard of golf at that stage.

Used to spend a huge amount of time hitting a tennis ball against a wall at home as well. First day I landed up at the court, the other kids were surprised at how decent I already was haha

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Owzthat

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

I was lucky enough to grow up in a house with a reasonably sized garden. I dug five holes around it, and played "golf" with a tennis ball and cricket bat. Each hole had a par score. This may sound a bit strange, but I had actually never watched or heard of golf at that stage.

Used to spend a huge amount of time hitting a tennis ball against a wall at home as well. First day I landed up at the court, the other kids were surprised at how decent I already was haha

How many strokes to par?

 

[vcs]

Varied between three and four

You had to take your approach around a coconut tree in one of the holes so that you got a makeable putt at the end. Sometimes the trench around it would have some water to serve as a hazard as well.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Varied between three and four

You had to take your approach around a coconut tree in one of the holes so that you got a makeable putt at the end. Sometimes the trench around it would have some water to serve as a hazard as well.

I'm getting a nice picture of that hole. How smooth was the green?

 

[vcs]

There was no green of any sort lol

Every shot was a completely random event where the ball could hit any twig or stone or crevice and go one way or the other. Great fun though.