Thanks Annie for this one. I actually had to think. I mainly remember childhood as either dance lessons, gymnasitics, and then finally for many many years, swim practice. So I came home from school and went straight to practice. So not too much time for games. I was a serious youngster!
But before swimming.... I do remember.... kickball... our neighborhood group of kids LOVED to play kickball. we were blessed to live on two back facing cul-de-sacs so there were always kick ball games going on. And woods near by with a log cabin play house where we pretended to be frontier folks.
Later when hand held games became the rage - I had a Frogger and Pac Man that I loved and took with me to swim meets. We blew through some batteries. And then there were the massive UNO games.... Rarely could be get through a game before someone had to leave to go swim their event. But there wasn't any cheating - we just stopped, went to cheer them on then came back.
Nowadays I look at my stepson with his smart phone and wonder how I survived. I had a separate piece of equipment for each game I had. We thought we were so cool. Adn when Nintendo came out - lord we were the bomb. Now I look at it and think... how SLOW. But it wasn't then.
I do remember some board games - Monopoly with my grandmother. We loved to play that game. and Sorry! with my Mom!!!
Funny - I never learned how to play cards until they were on the computer. My first solitare game was an electronic version. to this day I have no idea how to set up a real card deck to play. sad isn't it.
so thanks for this blast into my past Annie!!