When you were a child

[ManOnTheWave]

Did you play or play with any of the following

Hopscotch
Jump rope
Yo-yo
Hula hoop
Pogo Stick
...
Twister

Yes.

Lawn darts

I believe they had been taken off the market by my time due to the impalings.

Quoits
Elastics/Chinese jump rope

I had to look these up, so no.

I played with:

- GI Joe action figures a foot tall
- Micronauts
- Star Wars Droid Factory
- Those weird plastic things where you stick a pen in it and twirl around on a piece of paper and it makes these squiggly psychedelic designs
- Lite Brite
- Legos
- Waterpowered rocket launcher

Yup.

Did you make any of your own toys?

Somewhere along the line I developed a clear obsession with plasticine/modeling clay. I made many of my own action figures at around 1:18 or 1:16 scale. I'd have as many as 40 to 60 at a time. I still keep that last version of my main hero in one of those acrylic display cases for model cars and have for about twenty five years..

 

[1001001]

I really didn't play any of those.

Growing up in Los Angeles, we were always outside. We played whatever sport was in season. We had flags and cones for football, a nice cul-de-sac for baseball, etc.

We rode bikes and skateboards. We played team hide and go seek (called "Ditch 'Em").

When I was younger, we used to play Six Million Dollar Man. We would run around in slow motion, throwing things while making the "nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh" sound...

Good times.

 

[captcalhoun]

i didn't have a coke yo-yo, i had to make do with a wooden one. :P

i did on occassion play hopscotch as a small child or TRY skipping (what you call jump rope).

my favourite toys as a kid were Action Force, GI Joe, Transformers and my Corgi/Matchbox/Hot Wheels cars.

when i was first at primary school, the big thing to play in the playground was Star Wars. we used to have about six boys as Luke Skywalker*, one as Han, one as Vader and one as 'a TIE pilot' and then me, the odd kid out as 'rebel pilot'.

*srsly, 'red Luke', 'blue Luke', 'gold Luke', 'orange Luke', 'green Luke' and then just Luke Skywalker. All those people claiming 'every' boy wanted to be Han are full of shit.

 

[ares93]

I was never a child. I was assembled as an 18 year old out of spare parts in a factory just outside Stockholm.

EDIT: I dont know what yoyo's are, but I was quite fond of jojo's.

 

[RandyS]

Out of that list, I tired yo-yos, Hula hoops and Hopscotch.

I was not very good at any of them.

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Hopscotch, jump rope, yo-yo, hula hoop -- not very good at any of them.

Tried a pogo stick once.

Slinky, Patty Play Pal (36" tall doll, wore little girls' size three clothes), toy antique car, roller skates.

When the only other kid on the block was an older boy, we played cowboys and Indians a lot. I had a cowboy hat and toy guns in a real leather holster.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Quoits

Elastics/chinese jump rope

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7ZFRZtGqEg[/yt]

The teachers in this video say that they won't let their kids go above knee level (level three) but I could manage some level 5 (top of thighs) and some level 6 (waist).

I use to practice at home using two chairs to hold the elastics.

 

[scotpens]

Lift sticking(all jump up and down in the lift and it will fail between floors)

You must have had some really crappy elevators in your town.

Stank marbles.

What did they stink of?

 

[sevenstars]

I played everything you mentioned, Miss Chicken, except for lawn darts, and quoits, which I've never heard of. Also jacks, marbles, roller skates, and ball games in the street at dusk. Croquet. Barbies-- in those days we had ONE Barbie each, and she was a brunette. Skateboards, when we made them out of old skates; I had one made by my father, with my name painted on it.

 

[Kirkman1987]

Fireworks

I lived in the suburbs so it was a perfect place for kids to ride bicycles, which I did everyday.

I remember we had a very steep hillside going down our backyard, and I built a tarzan styled rope swing on one of the branches. one day it gave way and I was in a lot of pain.

Lots of action figures. My brother was into G.I. Joe and I had Star Wars. The battles would sometimes last hours or so it seemed.

I played baseball, although of course we never really had full teams or rules.

Mostly I remember playing a lot of videogames. The NES was the greatest thing ever to a kid in the late 80's. Still love those games, and even have fond memories of renting some real stinkers. Also rented a lot of violent action films that my parents had no trouble letting me see.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

You must have had some really crappy elevators in your town.

I cant comment on their quailty but it did not take to much to trip them.........the best one was overloading the lift at floor 18th and watching it trying to slow down at say the 13th and missing it, that was kind of cool and scary at the same time.

What did they stink of?

Stank marbles were played on slotted drain cover lids, or as we called the "stanks".......although i never remember them really smelling.

 

[scotpens]

Stank marbles were played on slotted drain cover lids, or as we called the "stanks".......although i never remember them really smelling.

That looks like a good way to lose your marbles.

 

[Velocity]

Did you play or play with any of the following

Hopscotch
Jump rope
Yo-yo
Hula hoop
Pogo Stick
Lawn darts
Quoits
Twister
Elastics/Chinese jump rope

Feel free to add to the list.

I was hopeless with a hula hoop, yo-yo and pogo stick.

We didn't play lawn darts.

We used to play a game in which we threw a knife or fork into the lawn and the other child had to put their foot or hand into where it landed. Very much like Twister.

We also used to put a ball into one of Mum's old stocking and then tie it to one leg and spin it around and we had to jump the other leg over it.

We also played a ballgame called Sevens which we played with a tennis ball thrown at a wall.

And we made stilts out of old tin cans and strong string.

And we made paper fortune tellers.

oh yeah, I played with all those except for Quoits. But then, I was a child in the 50's. Circle ball was popular too.

 

[Balrog]

Many of those the OP mentioned. I grew up after the hula hoop craze, and right before the skateboard craze. We had Star Wars toys, Legos (Space Legos), Hot Wheels. Riding bikes, skating and wagon/go-cart races.

We played war using hockey sticks as rifles.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I was a kid in the 70's. I had a pogo stick. We played with frisbees a lot. I sucked at the hula hoop.

As a younger lad, I had an array of Tonka trucks.

I built my own bikes (if that counts as a toy) from parts of other bikes.

As far as video games, we had one of these:

 

[T'Bonz]

Hopscotch - Yes
Jump rope - Yes. Could even jump Double Dutch
Yo-yo - Yes.
Hula hoop - I could never do this.
Pogo Stick - Once or twice.
Lawn darts - No. Grown up game.
Quoits -Don't know what these are.
Twister -At parties.
Elastics/Chinese jump rope. Yes.

Plus: 4 square, jacks, tether-ball, cigarette or colors tag, statues, baseball. Also rode my bike a lot, and in the summer as a teen, swam.

I really wanted my brother's Matchbox cars, but "cars were for boys." I found dolls to be incredibly boring and mine were rarely, if ever, played with when I was young.

Anyone remember those glass clackers from the 1970s? Man, those things were DANGEROUS....and fun.

I can still construct a fortune teller thingy out of paper. I used to be able to make a cup out of wax paper (origami) and a few other things like that, but have long since forgotten my origami.

 

[Sephiroth]

I remember we had those motorized water guns that looked real, super soakers (back when there was only the 50 and 100), transformers & ghostbusters toys, the only real sport we had in middle school was 4-square and if 4-square was an Olympic event we would have brought home the gold, yes I had a yo-yo, a red n blue light up one, Nintendo, SUPER Nintendo, sega. My mom knew autoCAD so I was the only one in the neighborhood with a computer, Carmen Sandeigo got me laid once & I still have all the little math muncher cards

 

[MANT!]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R99hAG0tgkg[/yt]

 

[Gov Kodos]

The Major was cool, I would have liked a female astronaut as well, though. Someone like Kumi Mizuno from the old Japanese Godzilla films. Or Gabrielle Drake from UFO

 

[Mary Ann]

My elementary school playground had painted hopscotch outlines and I was quite good at hopscotch. I sucked at yo-yos and hula hoops, though. I played elastics and jump rope but wasn't very good at either.

I spent a lot of time riding my bike. Our house was on the level but further down our road was a steep hill which was great fun for bikers. This was the good old days with crappy, hand-me-down bikes with no handbrakes and not a helmet in sight. Amazing, really, that no kid on the street was every seriously injured going down that hill.

My elementary school was in Montreal, so once snow covered the playground and we were chucked out in the cold before classes and during recess we played games such as Red Rover, The Wolf and the Pie and any other games which would keep us active and stop us from freezing our hineys off.

At home I played mostly with boys' toys as I have 3 older brothers and the house was filled with Lego and Matchbox cars. I sometimes played with Meccano. I never played with dolls except Barbies. Very often I could be found with my nose in a book, which kept me out of mischief.