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| A child's imagination; Games you used to play. | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 16 2010, 03:11 PM (1,066 Views) | |
| Sundancer | Aug 16 2010, 03:11 PM Post #1 |
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I have no idea what you people thought while looking at the topic title, but that's no particularly important. What I'm curious about is... well, did any of you play "Let's pretend" games while you were kids? Or hell, what did you all do for entertainment with friends, when you were younger? I'm talking kindergarten - grade 6ish. Play board games? Video games? Sports? Because I'm cleaning house right now, and I found a notebook with a lot of old stuff... Some might actually see it as embarrassing, I'm just amazed at what my friends and I came up with back then. I'll start with a bit of my own stuff; we did a lot of games that were essentially invented out of our minds, during recess for example, in grade 4ish. It was almost something you'd find in... A fantasy story, or an RPG. Magical powers, weapons and pets and evil villains, quests. All that. There are actually SO many games along this vein I've done with various groups of friends, I could spend forever listing them. Of course, at some point we supposedly "grew out" of them... But I definitely wouldn't be averse to it. It's fun, I think my favourite phrase for a long time with friends was a rushed "Let's pretend" followed by whatever we "pretended" at the time. Okay, before you read further, don't laugh at me. These memories are actually really dear to me and it's a bit embarrassing to mention some, but they're things I feel shouldn't get lost and I want to hear your opinions/experiences in your situations. For a short list of what we did, umm, my cousin and I used to pretend to be both pokemon, pokemon trainers, and pokemon coordinators. Also, we pretended to have various elemental powers and so on. I know at some point in grade 1 my friends and I decided it was the "in" thing to prance around the school field pretending to be unicorns (lolus - or more suitably, lolius)... If you know the show Totally Spies, we were always pretending to be them, too. I was always Clover. Shows how shallow I was, neh? =P A particular friend and I had something we called the "Wendy and Mandy" game, wherein she was a gypsy and I was a... An exotic dancer? I forget? With magical powers and we'd be in all these different battles and challenges, against these two other girls called Wendy and Mandy. And obviously we kicked their asses everytime XDDD In grade 3 we had a tiger thing. Yay, I'm constantly a catgirl, or something. It was really strange. Grade 4, we had something called "Time Tunnel", and I found lists of old "unison attacks" and names, elements and other weapon designs in my notebook... I don't even know when I did those. In class? Time Tunnel got really big at some point, at that age we weren't really divided too much into cliques or whatever, lots of people played it. We went on with these inventive games, based around magic powers and quests and characters, all these fantasy elements for a while. With certain variants, of course, but I'd say even until grade 6, we had things like that. We also had what we called simply, the "Fight" game, which was basically a hell of a lot of small grade 4 children careening around trees, some pretending to ride horses and others sneaking as if invisible, "downing" each other and passing on powers, making allies, etc. etc. It was like chaos, and what we might call "really freaking hax" if it was an RP here XD In fact, it was like a simplified little kids version of D&R with no character development or politics and a lot of fighting! I was a weird kid. Hush. So, er. Point of this topic was mostly wondering what you all did... I always liked using my imagination and surroundings to carry that out, rather than do something already, y'know, invented and -normal-. Board games bored me and I didn't have multiplayer videogames for a while, and I've always been an individual sports person. Can't stand team sports. |
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| UltaFlame | Aug 16 2010, 03:18 PM Post #2 |
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Thanks Poui.
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Sally really loved playing Mewtwo and Bulbasaur. She had an impressive Bulbasaur voice, too. |
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| Ceremonial Dentist Fridge | Aug 16 2010, 03:23 PM Post #3 |
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I didn't do this kind of thing at school a lot largely due to my lack of friends back then. There are a few things I remember, though. I collected little plastic animals. I had a collection of cats and dogs which I only used with one friend; she had a collection, too. We'd give them names and relationships and friends and enemies and make them get married and share their milk and divorce and cheat on each other and die of cancer and a whole host of wonderful things. It was pretty fun; I wonder if I still have them? This was grade 2 - 3. At one, point, I was uber-popular for a month or so because I brought my little plastic horses to school. People I knew and people I didn't would all use them at recess; we'd go to the baseball diamond and make little sandcastles for them to live in. I don't remember the style of play so much with those, because it was less me playing with my friends than me lending out my toys to random people. And then... not until I met my then-best friend in grade six did I really get into hardcore roleplaying type stuff. A little late, but hey. She was always very child-like, and I think I went along with it in the beginning because I was just happy to have a friend. She liked to pretend she was a wolf and run around on all fours. We played that a lot at her house; she'd have a name like Midnight or something, but I thought that was dumb so I renamed her Stardancer, which is infinitely more badass. Anyways, yeah; we'd run around on all fours talking to each other and making dens with sheets and all sorts of awesome stuff. Unlike the cats and dogs, the plot lines with that roleplaying would change every time. Cats and dogs would retain their family ties and everything throughout our entire friendship, but we did different wolf-ish stuff every time. Sometimes we were horses, sometimes we were mice. Sometimes only she was an animal and I would be her trainer or companion or the person who was wounded in the woods and had to get taken care of by a furry helper or something. I remember the first one we did was both of us wolves; she was all 'let's be friends with the smaller furry animals' and I was all 'no, evolution. EAT THEM.' Um... That's all I can really think of for now as far as imagination games. Like I said, lack of friends meant I was playing things like Stella-Ella-Olla instead of dreaming up fantastical realms wherein bonding occurred. |
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| Dracobolt | Aug 16 2010, 03:23 PM Post #4 |
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My cousins and I played pretend all the freaking time. We were slightly odd children. Pokemon pretend was big, and me, my sister, and my two male cousins would sometimes play a fantasy RPG adventure game with magical artifacts and quests, which I carefully logged in a notebook that I still possess. Sometimes we were spies, too. And just as often we'd play pretend with Legos and Bionicles and K'nex, where we'd make our own Pokemon ripoffs. And we'd make home movies, too, whether with us acting or using Barbies and toys as the cast. The Barbie movies were where our oddness showed the most. They were filled with illicit affairs and content that was frankly racy for grade-school children.
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| Sundancer | Aug 16 2010, 03:26 PM Post #5 |
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We did a lot of the animal things too, although lack of friends is D: Oh my gosh you just reminded me. We used to pretend we were either giants or birds (and other things, but these were the main things) when we ate, my cousin and I. If we were giants, broccoli would become trees, if we were birds, noodles might be worms, etc. ... Now I'm not sure how we had an appetite at all, while imagining our food was worms and bugs. wat. Edit: that sounds so awesome, Draco. I've got my notebooks too. X3 We never got to making videos... Don't think we had the resources. Do you still have any of those? XD |
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| Ceremonial Dentist Fridge | Aug 16 2010, 03:29 PM Post #6 |
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Oh man, we did a video once. Called it Petrified. I was murdered. Still have it; watched it not too long ago. :3 |
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| Gilgamesh | Aug 16 2010, 03:30 PM Post #7 |
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...I didn't do anything with my friends outside of school I just mostly fought with my brother. And by that I mean actual fighting. This is what happens when you grow up watching DBZ. Uh, with my friends in school, there was four square, and some game where we kept hitting a ball against a giant wall that divided the 1st and 2nd grade playground from the 3rd graders. It was like, first person hits the ball towards the wall, then somebody else has to hit it back, but the ball must bounce at least once first. If somebody misses or they don't let it bounce (or if the person that hit it made it go out of bounds) they lost. Nobody let me play that game though, even if I was somewhat good at it ): |
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| Sundancer | Aug 16 2010, 03:32 PM Post #8 |
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Isn't that like... Wall ball or something? O_o And actually, with the exception of the ones with my cousin and maybe one or two of those games, most were played in school at recess. It was just kinda part of the day. |
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| Ceremonial Dentist Fridge | Aug 16 2010, 03:33 PM Post #9 |
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I loved those games, Boyd. Foursquare was big in grade seven and eight for me. As for the ball-bouncing game... damnit, what the frick was that called? I wanna say Redwall. ... Maybe that's just because the wall we bounced it off of was red. OH, my best-friend-from-diapers and I were close in grade four for a little while, and while we never roleplayed or anything, we did pick two trees in the schoolyard and name them: Mother Willow (which was not actually a willow) and Spirit of the Pines. We never really DID anything, played games or anything--just sat in their shade and were like 'this is Mother Willow. She is a beautiful part of the earth and we are all connected to her. Man, I'm hungry. Let's go eat some tacos.' |
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| Dracobolt | Aug 16 2010, 03:34 PM Post #10 |
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We totally do still have the videos. One of these days I'm going to put one of our later movies up on Youtube. We filmed it probably when I was in early high school, all on one New Year's Eve. It's called "The Tippy Movie" because it stars a stuffed animal of mine named Tippy, and she is a sweet little monkey only some people think she looks terrifying. And so we made a horror movie where I am a grandmother who makes a doll for her grandchild but it's possessed by an evil spirit, and so Tippy kills everyone. It's campy and hilarious, as a good home movie should be. Also, we played with Beanie Babies a ton, 'cause my cousins had scores of them, and they had adventures. I was never much for pretending to be animals. I liked knights and ninjas better.
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| Gilgamesh | Aug 16 2010, 03:35 PM Post #11 |
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I miss the days where kids were innocent. Also, I don't think we called it anything...although the big wall WAS red... |
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| Ceremonial Dentist Fridge | Aug 16 2010, 03:37 PM Post #12 |
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Nono, it had to have a name... because every time you missed, you'd get a letter, and if you got enough that it spelled out N-A-M-E you lost. Just don't know what the name was. >: May've had something to do with 'butt?' Wallbutt? Buttwall? Redbutt? REDBUTT, I THINK THAT WAS IT YES REDBUTT EDIT: We played it this way at both of the schools I went to, so I assume it was the universal approach. |
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| Super Slash | Aug 16 2010, 04:01 PM Post #13 |
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Exactly this. We were so into DBZ, we actually convinced ourselves we could become a Super Saiyan and beyond. We actually thought our "power" would increase if we yell a lot. >_> |
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| Deleted User | Aug 16 2010, 04:09 PM Post #14 |
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We all pretended to be star basketball players in our five on five schoolyard basketball games. I was always Reggie Miller. <_< |
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| Yun | Aug 16 2010, 04:09 PM Post #15 |
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TV cartoons are a endless source for these things. When I was of single digit age, it was Transformers. I was usually one of the Decepticon jets, which usually entailed holding my arms out horizontally, sticking my thumbs forward to simulate guns, and running around making whooshing/pew pew pew sounds as necessary. |
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| Gilgamesh | Aug 16 2010, 04:21 PM Post #16 |
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You're Canadian though whereas I'm Californian ): I don't think any of the kids in my school had the patience to spell out "NAME." If you miss, you lose, end of story :U |
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| Bison | Aug 16 2010, 04:37 PM Post #17 |
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YAR HAR FIDDLE DE DEE BEING A PIRATE IS ALRIGHT TO BE DO WHAT YOU WANT CUSE A PIRATE IS FREE! YOU ARE A PIRATE!
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I never really did much with friends at school, had a very active imagination in my head when I was alone though. However at school now, I'm doing a sort of D&D type thing with 5 friends, including Aeneas if you remember him. So I've got more childish in my imagination as I've got older? |
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| Crash | Aug 16 2010, 04:38 PM Post #18 |
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Wheey! I've became a human being!! I am very handsam!
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RE: Four-square: Four-square made a major resurgence in my junior and senior years, lots of us guys would go outside during lunch and play every day, even if there was snow on the parking lot we would play. As for the actual topic of stuff I did as a child, my brother and I would use blocks to make fortresses and then use army men to fight the battle. People didn't really pretend like they were anything from cartoons around here; while DBZ was big, guys mostly just drew pictures of DBZ stuff or talked about it. When I moved (one street over from my old house), kids from two different families across the street got us to do swordfights with sticks, and we'd occasionally use cardboard as shields. My dad used to take my brother and to lots of parks and stuff like that and we probably did some pretending then, but nothing comes to mind. One thing I can think of that kinda relates is that I used to like to draw maps, I think I got that from my dad because he really likes maps. I wouldn't get super-detailed, like giving names to different regions or anything like that, I would just draw out the terrain. |
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| Artemis | Aug 16 2010, 05:05 PM Post #19 |
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My philosophy teacher asked our class this one day, to describe our childhood games and so forth. He didn't want to teach that day It was a good class.I don't really want to remember anything, though, so I won't at the moment. |
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| Delfeir | Aug 16 2010, 09:29 PM Post #20 |
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Adachi is not amused.
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I was a Lego child. I have so much goddamn Lego, you cannot even begin to comprehend it. My dad played with the stuff when he was young so he basically had a crate of blocks that I used and added to for the first decade or so of my life. As I got older, I got into the Technic stuff, making the really big and complex models. Since I was a geek, I had a Star Wars TIE Interceptor that was like... two feet across, one of the awesome collector's edition things. It was beautiful. And that was just the premade sets... some of the stuff I made was pretty epic. My brothers carried on the tradition, and to this day I still go and grab the crate and build something just for shits and giggles. At the same time, my brothers and I would often use Lego as props for stuff like toy guns or space ships or what and played with those things. There was also the obligatory DBZ phase where we'd pretend we were Super Saiyans or something and just make up our own stories and plots from that. Good times for all concerned. Once I moved into the latter years of primary school, most of the kids there would play Handball. Not quite as epic as European Handball, but it worked. There were painted squares on the ground, usually two to four of them connected to each other, and so you'd stand in one of those squares as your territory. Then you'd take a tennis ball and serve it by bouncing it in your square, then theirs. If it bounced twice in your square, you were out, but it had to bounce in your square at least once or you were out. There were so other little rules and things, but it was a pretty awesome game. Come high school, Handball was still played, but we usually moved on to Wallball which is sorta like what Boyd said. It was a little different, though, in that you couldn't touch the ball twice in a row unless you were the only one left. So you'd hit the ball against the wall, making sure it bounced on the ground at least once, then it would bounce off the wall and somebody else would hit it. You'd keep going until somebody screwed up, and then they went on the wall. You could have heaps of people on the wall at any given time, not a problem. Once you were on the wall, you had to stay in contact with the wall and the other players had to hit you with the ball. The catch is that if you caught it, you'd swap places. If they got you without you catching it, you were out of the game. This would continue until only one person was left. This was the major source of entertainment we had for most of high school. Kinda sad that nobody does anything like that anymore once we get to our 20s. Kids could get away with so much and have so much fun without the need for expensive equipment like computers and video games. *shrug* |
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