What games did you play growing up?

I'm curious...what types of games did you grow up playing as a kid? Board games, sports, etc...

 

I know where I'm from (US), we played basketball, handball, dodgeball, manhunt, Hide & go seek, freeze tag, red light red light 123, simon says...girls liked hopscotch and double dutch (jump rope)...it was a lot of fun when we had a block party! (they close the whole street for you to play in, and the fire hydrant too, although I think the fire hydrant thing is illegal now haha). Actual games we played included...Monopoly, Uno, Trouble, Dominoes, Chutes & Ladders, Twister, Trouble, Sorry, etc...Sega Genesis was big, and so was the Super NES...oh yeah, and I can't forget about the arcades! Or all the parks that let you play in sprinklers or climb on monkey bars...

 

These are things I've taken for granted but...what did you do to pass the time as a kid?

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