What's your favorite old school playground game?

[Jack & Coke]

http://www.dodgeballusa.com/

https://www.dodge-ball.com

OMG! I had no idea dodgeball was this big!?

[Miscue]

Game kids called "Squash," it has different names. Basically, used a baseball backstop. Kick ball, must hit front of fence or pole.

Sidewinder = ball is inside of backstop already... you kill ball out into playground, grazing fence on its way out.

BlackJack = Hitting top pole, and it bounces over.

Double Kicks = allowed after a sidewinder.

etc... etc... I forgot all the rules.

[ZAust]

wow.. this brings back some goooood memories. i ised to, and still do, playing wall ball(especially!!), 4 square, and capture the flag. those were the days.

[Jack & Coke]

Wow... 4 square has more votes than handball?

i thought 4 square was a "girls" game like tetherball...

I figured most of you are guys and that handball ("cross counties", "water falls", "slicies", etc) would have more votes...

oh well, I guess it really depends on region.

[Albinonewt]

At karate camp we used to play a game that we dubbed "Dunk the Drunk"

We'd all get completely drunk and go to the peir by the lake. Then we'd fasten a cinderblock to your legs with a chain and throw you in the lake. You were supposed to get out on your own. Some guys were able to get out of the chains and come guys just held their breath and walked the distance under water holding the block.

And then there's me, the cheater. I hid a SCUBA tank under water there the morning before, alond with a bolt cutter. When they threw me in I grabbed the tank, colt the chain, and took off. About an hour later I rolled up on them from behind and scared the hell out of them. They never forgave me.

You haven't lived until you've seen a bunch of drunk guys debating about whether or not an enclosed lake has enough to current to blow me out to sea (mind you, a sea the lake isn't connected to).

[CoFFeY[NiTrO]]

Kickball owns, there should be a kickball league...its much easier than baseball.

[Jack & Coke]

I loved kickball too!

I'm not sure if you guys played the same way, but, when we played, you were allowed to get the runner out if you could nail him with the ball. Of course this was in addition to the normal applicable baseball rules as far as getting "outs" are concerned. (i.e. catch fly balls, force outs, tag the runner).

Now that I think about it, I suppose "tag the runner" eventually evolved into "throwing the ball at the runner".

Kinda like 70% baseball, 20% dodgeball, and 10% soccer.

[beam]

I didn't see anyone mention Scatterball. Has anyone even heard of this? I wonder if it's like dodgeball. I'm not sure about the rules for dodgeball, but in scatter ball, there is one ball and whoever has it can use 3 "toss ups" to move around the playing field and then throw it at someone. If that someone catches it, the thrower is out. If not, they are out. You get back in the game when the person who got you out gets out. The field is just one big open space, no divisions.

Has anyone ever played something like that? It's not dodgeball is it?

[LittlePaintballBoy]

we played this one, air raid i think we called it.

wed have like about 5-9 people stand against a backstop and you could move but the ones who werent wussies just stood there. than we got about 4-2 people out side the home plate and just kick about 4 soccer balls at the other people as hard as they could. great fun, but we had multiple injuries. hurt wrists, cuts everywhere, nose bleeds, one of the kids (ilikepaintball on the boards) got hit in the face and couldnt open one eye for the rest of the day. we also hd some hurt balls. ow.

[beam]

ooooo...just remembered another one. Kick the Can! Yeah...i never really understood that game, but I was awesome at it. hahaha

My best friend and I used to have dirt clod fights. That is until he pegged me in the head with a rock. Knocked me on my butt. I could see him take off to home through the blood that was immediately running down my face. By the time I got home, I was completely covered in blood. Freaked my sister out like no other. My mom sees me and just says, "Well, come on, let's get you cleaned up. You're gonna need stitches." aahhh the good ole days.

hahaha that reminds me of another thing. Did anyone ever play Guns. That's all it was called....guns. Like: "Hey, you wanna play guns?" Reply: "sure" Then every kid in the neighborhood would go home and get all their toy guns and other army type stuff and you would make up different battle scenarios and stuff. THOSE were the good ole days. I remember owning a replica cap gun. No bright orange tip on the end, they started adding those a little later. It was sweet. And you could go to a toy store or even a wal-mart and there would be a whole SECTION of toy guns! Now, there may be one or two cheap plastic phazer-looking orange tipped wussy girly toy guns. man....I understand why, but it's kinda sad.

What the heck did I just type all of this for? I usually don't make rambling posts on AO like this? wierd.

[Konigballer]

man, that Dodge-Ball association website place uses these polyester covered balls for low sting and low impact. What the crap is the fun of that. Dodge Balls kind of like paintball in that the minor pain factor that can sometimes be involved makes it more fun, gets your adrenalin going cause you really dont wanna' be lit up in either game. They take the danger out of everything, we always used those red rubber playground balls that you could squeeze your grip into and friggin' fire away at someones head! Their was always that sharp,distinctive sound when you got a good solid hit on someone center mass, and a duller thunk sound when they caught in the head or face. ah, the memories of my first love of playground combat....

[Zumina]

Kickball man, kickball. We used to sprint to the baseball diamond after they let us out of the cafeteria.

[FreakBaller12]

i use to play guns all the time..lol

[skife]

we used to have some awsome games
we still play lunchroom bowling somtimes
and doornob that game is awsome


okay lunchroom bowling is when you take fountin pop cups and place them on the luncroom floor you use an apple or some other rounded fruit and try to knock them over its fun for awhile

doornob: quit possiably the awsomest game in the world you
when somone farts they have to call "safety" if you don't call safety someone can call "doornob" on you and hit you until you touch a doornob this is a painful game if your school has the doors that have door handles and not nobs