Four Square
Photo By jodigreen Apparently, there is normal Four Square, and then the crazy version that I grew up with. The older I got, the more I realized that I had been playing Four Square wrong all those years as child. But since I haven’t played Four Square since elementary school, it has never mattered...
Bop It
Photo By 4rank Bop it! Twist it! Pull it! These three words were heard over and over again in a random order and you were required to preform the actions the game instructed you to do. The longer you could keep it up, the faster the instructions came. This electronic toy from Hasbro was an instant sensation....
Nintendo
The name Nintendo translates into English as, “leave luck to heaven,” which suits the company well. I think we could all agree that our childhoods wouldn’t have been the same without Nintendo. Many of us had Nintendo game consoles in our house before we even owned a computer. The games...
Heads Up, 7 Up
Heads down, thumbs up! This was everyone’s favorite elementary school activity. It worked well for when there was some downtime in the classroom because it gave everyone something to do and there were plenty of people to participate. Although this game dates back to at least the 1950s, it’s...
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