Ron Emch
United States
Maumee
Ohio
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Bowl-A-Matic. More a toy than a game. But it was awesome!
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Erik Racer
United States
Urbandale
Iowa
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Outdoors - kick the can and ghost in the graveyard.
Indoors - Pong, Atari and watching Our Starblazers on cable (ok, not a game, but was so awesome when you're 12).
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George J. Wendt
United States
Crystal Lake
Illinois
This is my dog, Pothier, but everyone calls him Potes.
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Chutes and Ladders VCR
Hands Down
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roger cox
United States
Spartanburg
South Carolina
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Board Games: Vegas and Landslide
Outside: Foxes & Hounds and Football
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Anna Banana
Canada
Toronto
Ontario
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There were several...
Over all: Time Machine (my best friend & I would pretend to visit famous people from history) or "Famous Scientists"
Outdoors: Capture the Flag at summer camp, Frozen Tag, Red Rover
Boardgame: Careers
Not a game but fun nevertheless: Winters were fun when I was a kid, we'd make ice slides on our school playground (it was hilly) or make snow forts
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Dan Owsen
United States
Redmond
Washington
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Ten Commandments Bible Game. We played the hell out of this one. My brother just found a copy at the thrift store so we're going to play it again soon. He's still freaked out a little by the serpent square.
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Sandy H
United States
Manhattan
Kansas
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Outdoor: Hide and Go seek with all the 'in-town' kids
Indoor: a game we called Pounce... each person had their own deck of cards and played a form of solitaire with a stack of 13 cards plus 4 more across, then putting the 4 suits starting with the ace in the middle. Anyone could play on the cards in the middle. First one to get rid of their pile of 13 called 'Pounce' and won. We had some really wild games with 6-8 people... led to more than one bent card & gouged hand! I am guessing the name came from what everyone was doing trying to build on the cards in the middle.
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Paul Brillantes
United States
Fort Drum
New York
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ThatFedoraGuy wrote: I loved playing Sardines. It's like backwards hide and seek. One person hides and everyone seeks. Once you find the hider, you join them in their hiding spot... You can see how quickly the game earns it's name. 
Outdoors, Sardines was the best, followed closely by dodgeball.
Indoors, Risk narrowly beat building things with LEGO and then shooting other LEGO blocks at whatever I built (with a small crossbow).
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james collins
United States
rockport
Texas
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I was about 4 or 5 when my dad broke this out. I didn't know anything about football but I could move the sticks. All that mattered was my dad spent time with me. ABC Monday Night Football
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Michael Wintz
United States
Mesa
Arizona
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Best game ever played as a child?
Doctor with the girl next door.
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Hunga Dunga
United States
Portland
Oregon
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mwintz wrote: Best game ever played as a child?
Doctor with the girl next door.
So YOU'RE the guy my mom told me about!
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Shemp Fill-in: Chan?
United States
Fountain Valley
California
Which way did I go?
Pick a card.
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Stealing Bundles, I doubt it, Chess.
And there were several variations of a pencil-and-paper war game, where we would draw our units (we didn't even know that word at the time) on a sheet of paper and flick a pencil to determine where it moved or where it shot. Sometimes they were tanks, and sometimes they were ships, and sometimes they were space ships. Sometimes there were obstacles on the map, sometimes those obstacles could be destroyed. And we came up with all sorts of whacky variants.
One of the favorites that I remember, we called the "barf gun". You flicked the pencil twice and connected the ends of the two lines. Everything within the triangle was destroyed.
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Jeremy Fridy
United States
Kent
Ohio
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Well, I played a lot of games using bucket of soldiers minis... Imagine Little Wars by a 10 year old who watched a lot of GI Joe and knew D&D. The best part was Erector Set walls, when you shot them I rolled a die and unscrewed them slightly.
Actual board game from my early childhood (before A&A and AH,) Survive! Loved that game ever since...
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Jesse Escobedo
United States
Pasadena
California
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Pachisi
Played it with my family all the time.
Jesse
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Kelly Bass
United States
Venice
California
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Outdoor, in the pool: Marco Polo
Indoor: Radar Search
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Andy Beaton
Canada
Toronto
Ontario
I have a cunning plan
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Risk. Played it about a million times. It's where I learned east Asian geography.
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Watch out for the
Sweden
Help, I'm being held prisoner in an overtext typing facility! I don't have much time, they could find out at any m
I'm that weirdo whose number of badges sold prior to yesterday Bail Organa is keeping track of
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Squad Leader.
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Ron Emch
United States
Maumee
Ohio
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Without out a doubt, Bowl-a-Matic. I know it's a toy, but bowling is a game. Had a pin lifter/clearer and ball return. Just awesome. Alas, it was made out of plastic parts which broke on the pin spotter. But it was awesome while it lasted.
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Richard Keiser
United States
Waunakee
Wisconsin
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Dark Tower
Anytime a deal goes bad, I still hear the Bazaar shutdown music.
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United States
Norwood
Massachusetts
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Lawn Darts.
I was the Dart Board.
My older sister was a real bi%^$...
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Eric Jome
United States
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
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I remember three games I played as a child that I quite liked;
Survive: Escape from Atlantis!
Stratego
And a game we played around the neighborhood called "Hunter" - one player would be "it" with a ball. Other children would run and hide or wander around staying alert. The player who was "it" would try to find players who were not caught yet and tag them with a hand or by throwing the ball. Players who were caught then changed sides and would try to help catch those not yet caught, often by tackling them and holding them down while yelling "Hunter!" to summon the hunter. When all players were caught, the last player to be caught would be the new Hunter. This game was played at night with a defined boundary, like the city block we lived on.
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Steve Herron
United States
Johnson City
Tennessee
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Outdoor: sandlot football
Indoor Dogfight
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Atomic wedgie
United States
Vancouver
Washington
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Stratego
King Oil
Dogfight
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Atomic wedgie
United States
Vancouver
Washington
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Phil Fleischmann wrote: And there were several variations of a pencil-and-paper war game, where we would draw our units (we didn't even know that word at the time) on a sheet of paper and flick a pencil to determine where it moved or where it shot. Sometimes they were tanks, and sometimes they were ships, and sometimes they were space ships. Sometimes there were obstacles on the map, sometimes those obstacles could be destroyed. And we came up with all sorts of whacky variants.
One of the favorites that I remember, we called the "barf gun". You flicked the pencil twice and connected the ends of the two lines. Everything within the triangle was destroyed.
believe it or not, this game is called Teta Fuhu. I think that most guys played that at least once in grade school.
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Chris B
Canada
Victoria
British Columbia
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Outside - road hockey (whaddya expect, I'm Canadian!)
Inside - International Movie Maker
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