What games did you like to play as a child...and then now, too?

I had a creepy crawler set as a child and loved pouring the gobbilty goop into molds of creatures and then baking them to a rubbery thing you could hold. The best part for me was mixing the colors into designs and then seeing the finished product.

I loved Green Ghost, as you played that in the dark, and things glowed.....oooooohhhhhh......

I loved Hi Ho The Cherry-O, as I seem to remember that just being fun.

Operation...interesting.....

There was monopoly, but I never really was in to it, but played with family members to be a good sport.

I don't really play any table games now.

 

Had the Creepy Crawler thingy also along with the Incredible Edibles. Favorite board games were Parchessi, Monopoly, Mouse Trap, Crazy Clock, checkers, and a bunch that has escaped my memory. After the kids came I spent way to much time playing Candyland with my daughters.

 

Oh, yeah...I loved checkers, too...forgot that one....

and I loved silly putty and slinkies....and had a pogo stick....:2thumbsup:

 

This thing amused me for hours.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUe8CS-Ov7w"]CLASSIC TV COMMERCIAL - 1980s - SLINKY #13 - YouTube

 

RH, is that a gyro something?
I had a telescope, microscope, and a rubics cube....My dad loved the rubic's cube....I had no patience for it.....lol

 

Haven't even clicked on it and the song is running through my head.
It's Slinky
It's Slinky
A wonderful wonderful toy
Its Slinky Its Slinky
Fun for a girl and a boy.

 

Yup A toy Gyroscope.

 

I never had a gyroscope. What do they do exactly?

 

I once had an attic bedroom and was just there w my brother doing that creepy crawler thing for a while. Got so excited about a bug I made and wanting to go downstairs and show our mom.... the steps down from the attic were super steep and have a turn in them. So I went to run down the steps and ended up flying the whole way down. Landed in the er w a bad swollen ankle and was on crutches a while. That's what I think of when I think of the creepy crawler thing. It was fun though.

I liked and still like monopoly. I liked Clue. We have that game now and can't wait to play w my kids when they're older. I had all kinds of games...hmm, not remembering them all now...

 

They just kinda spun around but they never fell. I'm easily amused.
My Rubicks cube fell victim to a hammer, wanted to see what its innards looked like.

 

and what was inside? air?....my guess....or more plastic?

Oh, I had a doll house...with working electricity...Loved that thing....I still have other doll houses...but not that one, unfortuneately. My mom sold it or something....but I found some doll houses at rummage sales...wooden ones that need new paint and things, but they are nice....and a couple of years ago I was buying miniatures like crazy, so have boxes of miniatures doing nothing here now....lol

 

Damn, Meagain...had those 3 , too...Those are all 3 great games!
These memories are making me happy right now....

 

Haha I play Candy Land a little too much lately. (With someone who always has to win)

 

I still have the one that I got when I was 7 or 8!

 

for some reason i always thought that creepy crawlers were a new thing when i was a kid.

i don't know how to answer this, i don't think i've played a game i didn't like. other that poker; i just don't get the appeal of that shit. almost everything mentioned already was in my childhood repertoire. also, i'm young enough to have enjoyed the early days of home video games, so that opens up a whole can of worms that hasn't been touched on yet here.

 

open up those cans of worms then, iminmyunderwear....

 

I remember my brother had packman on some small device he would play for hours on long car trips

 

alright. i actually started one generation of games after pacman, with the NES. i've played a LOT of video games in my time, so i'll just go with the NES games that still stand out in my memory. super mario 1-3 of course. duck hunt. joust. legend of zelda. rampage. double dragon, i think 2 specifically. battletoads, even though it was physically impossible to get more than about halfway through that game. i remember playing a lot of a game that probably no one has ever heard of called snake rattle and roll. i have vague memories of several other games from that time period, but those are the ones that stand out, at least off the top of my head.