The Games you played/enjoyed as a child

I know gaming for today's child is on an iPad or a console, but before all that when Atari was a novelty and RiverRaid and Frogger were the games to play, or pong for that matter, there were a lot of games that were enjoyed, that involved some pieces of plastic, a huge board, dice or some other form of numerical counter.

I remember playing board games like Scrabble, Guess the pattern, Battleship, Monopoly ( still play it on my cell and with my niece, though now she has credit cards for money transfer instead of actualy paper money ). And Snakes and Ladders,

Never really good at Ludo, though my wife loves it, and plays it at a blazing speed.

There used to be a game with marbles and a plastic disc where the marbles would be placed in such a manner that you would jump one marble over the other, and eliminate the marble skipped over ( forgetting the name, brainvita or something ). Though the Plastic disc did make for a great Frisbee to be honest.

There was an Atari gaming console ( the one with the joystick and the one single red button ). And it was the coolest thing ever!!!! Remember playing for endless hours on it.

And then around 1993-94 came the coolest thing, Sega and the other Indian console gaming (Media! ).

I remember playing endless hours of Felix the cat, TMNT, Alladin, Sonic the Hedgehog, Simba( Lion King ).

Duck hunt and Clay shoot were personal favourites. And how can I forget Contra!!!

Lets go back and re-visit that childhood of ours! What were the games you played while growing up.

Cheers!!!

 

Guess who, chess, Ludo, snakes and ladders, chess, checkers, 9 men Morris, carrom, monopoly.

Contra, PAC man, Pokemon yellow, duck hunt, Mario, crash bandicoot.

This is also so nostalgic.

 

First .. absolute first PC game I remember playing is Prince of Persia .. real OG stuff man ..




then after that Alley Cat ..



and then good ol' Dangerous Dave.


Dave really deserves a modern day remake ..


All this was at a Computer Training Instt. in our neighborhood .. Sanvee Comp. Instt.
My bro went for training there an I would tag along to play games.

:')

 

Mario
contra
Circus
lode runner
bomber
mortal kombat 3
felix cat: god i was so addicted to it.
Tomb raider

 

How can I forget Bomberman! And Doom! ( 97-99 )

I remember when the first playstation came out, Tekken was like the coolest thing to happen!

MOZ - Carrom was fun!

 

^^ yeah right, when you were 8?

 

Does playing Doctor count?

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frogger
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_kong
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_mario
price of persia
Batman 8 bit
cage fighter 8 bit
duke nukem
Leisure Suit Larry

Monkey Island

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Warrior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly_Tide

 

I remember playing LSL and Monkey Island... Interesting games!

 

Yep sure they are.

 

That is so sad, but sooo true, isn't it? I learned how to talk & meet people.. how to make friends.. heck.. how to flirt.. how to pick up women.. all thru the games we played back then.
These guys learned how to spoil their eyes, wear glasses at age six, and be afraid of actually having to meet and speak to people as opposed to texting, PMing and tweeting them At this rate, they're soon gonna resort to dating virtual GirlFriends and marrying cyber wives LOL

 

LOL.. the perfect signature for a lot of ppl on here would be:
"Am dating a Virtual GF, and having cybersex. In search of a CyberWife to have a VirtualBaby with.

 

Monopoly (YUP, the ACTUAL old school board game):




Dodgeball:





Tag (i.e. playing tag)





Hide n Seek:




Hopscotch:




Hangman:




Charades:






And tons of others. Very old school I know LOL. but whatcha gonna do when no PC for you? LOL

 

^^ Great post there solarplexus ( btw whenever you planning to come over, we can have a board session of monopoly, the missus and I love it!! )

 

I used play the family game with neighbour's daughter and i swear i totally innocent.

 

Anyone ever played Skittles?