We played a lot of baseball, coz the neighbor boy played on a team so he refined my sister and I on the rules of the game so I guess that was one of my favorite games. We went on to play it with new neighbors after the one boy left so it must have been a hit.
My sister and I played a lot of made-up type stuff, not real games with rules. We made mud pies, and "cooked" with those cool pollen balls that fall off the trees, and built little forts and played with miniature plastic horses and some 101 Dalmation dog toys. We made up plays and wrote stories and stuff like that. I remember that kind of stuff the most, but none of the neigborhood kids could ever seem to learn how to play! They lacked immagination I guess. We played hide and seek a lot with them though. And this "game" called "jail" which was goofy as all get-out where one kid would be the jailer and keep the rest of us in the garage, and the jailbirds would occupy themselves by playing "beer can hockey" except, it was a coke can, coz nobody in either family drank beer. The idea was that us "inmates" were sneaking the beer into the jail...that's where the "beer can" came from. Toldja we had vivid immaginations and lots of creativity!!
Inside we played Barbies and stuff, but super-creative with them too. We played model and took pictures of each other with disposable cameras and an old disc-film camera. Then we learned about sending the film out to develop and patience, waiting for it to come back!
We played a few traditional games too. We had Old Maid a long time ago. I barely remember it, but I do remember that my mom, dad and sister all played together. Mom didn't play many games with us so I remember it.
I begged my dad to teach me chess when I was about 8, so my sister and I played chess and checkers a lot. I remember my dad took us to
Wal-Mart special trip, to get a chess set to learn on. It was a double-duty one that has checkers and chess together. We still have the game set, although the board is duct-taped together at the fold and we use a red checker to represent a white pawn. Good times, good times! We got a deck of Skip-Bo, oh when I was 10?? Don't even know if I was that old. My mom bought the cards but she never played much, so dad taught us that too. When dad wasn't around to play, my sister and I would have a stuffed animal "play" with us. I guess you could say that we got skilled at team playing and "cheating" because we always knew what two of the hands in the game where! My sister and I also read a lot of books - which was something else that none of our friends did much.
I guess we were so different because we had an ancient TV with actual knobs to turn (no remote) and only a handful of channels, no video game systems or other forms of entertainment. All of our neighbors had video games that they played a lot.
My favorite outside game was probably baseball, I was good at it (but never played on a team)
My favorite inside game was probably Skip-Bo, I still like to play it
