The things you remember doing when you were young?

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  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,503 Member
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    kaizaku wrote: »
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    kaizaku wrote: »
    Going to the arcades was my favourite thing to do. Sadly we no longer have any arcades here.

    We have an old skool arcade here in town.

    Really? WoAh, lucky you. Do you know the game that is on it?

    1943
    Altered Beast
    Asteroids Deluxe
    Battletoads
    Centipede
    Dig Dug
    Donkey Kong
    Frogger
    Galaga
    Gauntlet

    Gyruss
    Ivan “Ironman” Stewart’s Super Off Road
    Joust
    Killer Instinct
    Mario Bros.
    Marvel vs. Capcom
    Mortal Kombat II
    Ms. Pac-Man
    NBA Jam

    Ninja Gaiden
    Punch Out
    Q-Bert
    Rampage
    The Simpsons
    Simpsons Bowling
    Smash T.V.
    SNK Collection
    Spy Hunter
    Street Fighter II: Champion Edition

    Street Fighter III: Third Strike
    Sunset Riders
    Super Mario Bros.
    T2 Judgement Day
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
    Tekken Tag Tournament
    Track ‘n’ Field
    X-Men

  • djwar9858
    djwar9858 Posts: 43 Member
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    Playing outside, drinking from the hose, mom yelling to come for dinner, and be home when the streetlights come on.
  • kaizaku
    kaizaku Posts: 1,039 Member
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    Motorsheen wrote: »
    kaizaku wrote: »
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    kaizaku wrote: »
    Going to the arcades was my favourite thing to do. Sadly we no longer have any arcades here.

    We have an old skool arcade here in town.

    Really? WoAh, lucky you. Do you know the game that is on it?

    1943
    Altered Beast
    Asteroids Deluxe
    Battletoads
    Centipede
    Dig Dug
    Donkey Kong
    Frogger
    Galaga
    Gauntlet

    Gyruss
    Ivan “Ironman” Stewart’s Super Off Road
    Joust
    Killer Instinct
    Mario Bros.
    Marvel vs. Capcom
    Mortal Kombat II
    Ms. Pac-Man
    NBA Jam

    Ninja Gaiden
    Punch Out
    Q-Bert
    Rampage
    The Simpsons
    Simpsons Bowling
    Smash T.V.
    SNK Collection
    Spy Hunter
    Street Fighter II: Champion Edition

    Street Fighter III: Third Strike
    Sunset Riders
    Super Mario Bros.
    T2 Judgement Day
    Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
    Tekken Tag Tournament
    Track ‘n’ Field
    X-Men

    Wow, I feel like going to the arcades. Do they have metal slug too?
  • kaizaku
    kaizaku Posts: 1,039 Member
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    happilymegan wrote: »
    -Building mud pies in the garden when I was really little.
    -Running along the trains trying to jump into the train cart.
    -Picking fruit or veggies from the garden and dissecting them (I was a weird kid)
    -Going into the forest behind my house and studying the trees. I know now essentially every tree that grows in Canada and what can grow beside them and what can't.
    -Racing home when the street lights came on so I didn't get grounded
    -Spending summers at the fire station where there was an awesome wave pool (no longer there)

    You seem like a normal hyper active child :o)
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,868 Member
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    Living in a smallish town and riding my bike all over the place

    swimming in the lake

    water skiing on Sundays after church with family friends that had a boat

    going to the drive in movies with my dad to watch kung fu movies

    sneaking out of bed late at night to watch MASH with my dad and falling asleep in his lap

    my own paper route at the age of 10 and I could just do it by foot or on my bike

    getting up to turn a dial on the t.v. to change the channel...also adjusting the bunny ears as necessary

    destroying my dad at Pac Man on our Atari 2600 and instead of cursing he'd always say, "Goodnight Nurse" for some reason...

    Riding in the back of my uncle's pick-up truck

    watching Happy Days with the family while we ate t.v. dinners that were heated in the oven because microwaves were a novelty that only wealthy people could own...

    Going to the video store with dad on Fridays after work to rent movies...and to rent a VCR that was about the size of a grand piano....

    Helping my dad mow the lawn (we had a huge yard that took hours) and him giving me just a tiny bit of his Coors Light afterwards while we sat on the patio grilling burgers for dinner on beautiful summer evenings.

    Wearing short cut off shorts...

    wearing parachute pants all day, every day


  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
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    Playing floppy disk games on an apple 2
  • Nitroalley2
    Nitroalley2 Posts: 3,419 Member
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    Making a skateboard out of roller skates and a board. Going to a roller rink to skate. Bowling in th junior leagues.
  • Aetheldreda
    Aetheldreda Posts: 241 Member
    edited February 2017
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    Building 'dens' in our local woods, having a tree house in a huge oak tree (in the same woods), summer evenings swimming in the river, roaming the fields surrounding our village.
    Riding ponies every day
    Chips (the bike cop show)
    Airwolf
    Blue Thundersley

  • finny11122
    finny11122 Posts: 8,436 Member
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    Playing football in the park . Jumpers for goal posts .
  • jnichel
    jnichel Posts: 4,553 Member
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    Notching the other edge of a 5-1/4" floppy disk so that you could store data on the other side.
  • badgerface1k
    badgerface1k Posts: 125 Member
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    I had a mega drive too when I was a kid. It was the last gift I got from my dad before he left us and my mom ended up selling it for drugs
  • Momtafo
    Momtafo Posts: 48 Member
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    I remember we had a Nintendo! I was the baby sister so I was ALWAYS luigi.... :/
  • DeficitDuchess
    DeficitDuchess Posts: 3,099 Member
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    I got, a married man in; trouble because I used, my cable box's remote to; change his channels from outside but he caught me doing it because my friends couldn't control their laughter, I bet I could've won a rely race; that day lol!
  • Gimsteinn
    Gimsteinn Posts: 7,678 Member
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    - Going for a swim everyday with my best friend, diving down as far as we could go in the dipping area, throwing those rings down and fetching them back.
    - Using kool-aid to die our hair
    - Running over to my bff's house when she called to tell my our favourite songs were on MTV (we lived next to each other and I didn't have MTV)
    - Sneaking out my bedroom window at night time and falling down in the rose bushes
    - Trying to do a 360 degree swing on the swing set in the yard but failing
    - Stealing berries and rhubarb from the neighbours gardens at night
    - Using a laundry clip to attach a card to our bikes to make it sound like a motorcycle
    - Hanging upside down in one of these:
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  • spiveaa
    spiveaa Posts: 1,387 Member
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    Growing up in the country,
    * was doing Rodeo's on the weekend
    * taking care of the animals for 4-H
    * lot of fishing and hunting in the woods.
    * collecting cans for money.
  • blackcomaro
    blackcomaro Posts: 796 Member
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    I used to cut a cardboard flap and peg it to my the back of my bike frame between the spokes...because we thought it sounded like a motorbike..... lol
  • blackcomaro
    blackcomaro Posts: 796 Member
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    Doing kickass skids on my bmx!
  • blackcomaro
    blackcomaro Posts: 796 Member
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    Burning ants with my dads magnifying glass
  • kwph
    kwph Posts: 7,375 Member
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    The old phone with the 50 ft cord that u would lift over everything in the kitchen like a jump rope while u were talking & it got all tangled up

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