The Friday Five

[Quantum Windbag]

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy? Lionel 2-6-2 O gauge train set with real smoke.
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children? Myself
3. What was your favorite children's game? Dodgeball
4. What kind of play were you most interested in? Reading
5. How well did you share? Not very

 

[TemplarKormac]

Metroid, Gradius

LOVE metroid. But not the newest ones. Too hard!

Gradius...up up left left down down start. I think that was the code for that game to be invincible. Been too long, but I played the hell out of that one too.

Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start; if I remember correctly.

I've played all the Metroids, save Return of Samus and the console versions.

 

[gallantwarrior]

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
Depends on how old I was. My earliest "favorite" was a stuffed horse my mom made. Hell, I still have that thing packed away in a box somewhere.

2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
I was one of eight children, I always had other kids to play with, whether I wanted to, or not.

3. What was your favorite children's game?
We always had board games and family time to play them.

4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
I think my favorite games were role-playing, like "Bonanza" (I was 'Pa') or "Star Trek" (I was Mr. Spock). We also spent a tremendous amount of time outdoors, playing in the woods, exploring.

5. How well did you share?
Sharing was mandatory. If you didn't share, you got beat up by the others.

 

[TemplarKormac]

And if you didn't mean "play" as in a stage play, but child's play, then see my answer to number 1.

 

[jon_berzerk]

The Friday Five is something I have enjoyed on many forums. How about we all have some fun with it here.




1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
3. What was your favorite children's game?
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
5. How well did you share?

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?

i had many toys no favorite toy

as a kid and still today just about everything is a toy

and worthy of dis-assembly and re assembly

to see how it ticks


2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?

one other child

she and i born one month apart

both the last born in a rural area on a lake

every day was an adventure

3. What was your favorite children's game?

exploration of the lake

back waters and forested areas and islands


4. What kind of play were you most interested in?

whatever the day held in store for me

every day was an unwritten book

5. How well did you share?

whatever my childhood friend wanted

she was welcome to have

including my life if needed

that holds true to this day

 

[ScienceRocks]

Pray for a cure for cancer and other sad diseases Don't want to suffer from them.

 

[jon_berzerk]

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
Depends on how old I was. My earliest "favorite" was a stuffed horse my mom made. Hell, I still have that thing packed away in a box somewhere.

2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
I was one of eight children, I always had other kids to play with, whether I wanted to, or not.

3. What was your favorite children's game?
We always had board games and family time to play them.

4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
I think my favorite games were role-playing, like "Bonanza" (I was 'Pa') or "Star Trek" (I was Mr. Spock). We also spent a tremendous amount of time outdoors, playing in the woods, exploring.

5. How well did you share?
Sharing was mandatory. If you didn't share, you got beat up by the others.

5. How well did you share?
Sharing was mandatory. If you didn't share, you got beat up by the others.

one could add some commentary about the current state of affairs

we now face but i shall refrain

--LOL

 

[bayoubill]

The Friday Five is something I have enjoyed on many forums. How about we all have some fun with it here.




1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
3. What was your favorite children's game?
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
5. How well did you share?

1. my bicycle during the day... my matchbox cars in the evenings...
2. sorta depended on whatever was going on in my life at any particular time... but I was prone to spending a lotta time by myself... either exploring the woods in back of my neighborhood or some other spaced-out kinda thing...
3. tag... hide & seek... dodgeball...
4. guerrilla war games in the woods...
5. usually fairly well... but it sorta depended on what I was being asked to share...

 

[Montrovant]

I can't answer these questions. I don't remember enough about any period of childhood to say.

 

[Sarah G]

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
Barbies.

2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
With 7 sisters, other children. One sis and I were and are besties.

3. What was your favorite children's game?
Sorry

4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
Tether Ball at the park.

5. How well did you share?
Very well.

 

[JakeStarkey]

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
model airplanes and trucks

2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
I could and did both, and both were enjoyable

3. What was your favorite children's game?
sand lot baseball

4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
goofing off with guys, going to the beach, swimming in the lagoon

5. How well did you share?
I have always shared well

 

[jillian]

The Friday Five is something I have enjoyed on many forums. How about we all have some fun with it here.




1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
3. What was your favorite children's game?
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
5. How well did you share?

1. Probably Barbie.
2. I liked both. But there were always kids to play with.
3. Candy Land
4. I was never a craftsy kind of person. If we weren't playing indoors, we were outside jumping rope or on the swings/slides, etc.
5. I shared pretty well.

 

[mudwhistle]

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy? The first bike that I got for Christmas when I was 5

2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children? I played with others

3. What was your favorite children's game? Army

4. What kind of play were you most interested in? Didn't matter, but it usually had something to do with adventure like hiking or cub scouts. Too bad I we didn't have video games back then because I would have said Gotham City Imposters. BTW, when does childhood end?

5. How well did you share? Everyone thinks very well, even Democrats

 

[iamwhatiseem]

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
Planet of the Apes action figures, particularly the Cornelius one.
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
Other children
3. What was your favorite children's game?
Mushball , Play in the woods, Basketball
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
Outdoor
5. How well did you share?
Very well

 

[BobPlumb]

The Friday Five is something I have enjoyed on many forums. How about we all have some fun with it here.




1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
3. What was your favorite children's game?
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
5. How well did you share?

1. Depends on age.... One of my favorites was a die cast truck that I would pull behind myself with a string. The string was my "remote control". When I was older I would hunt grasshoppers in my backyard with my BB gun. I would feed the grasshoppers to my cat.
2. Equal. I enjoyed playing with friends but also content playing by myself.
3. I loved to rough house with my friends.... Tackle football, king of the hill, backyard wrestling. I also liked board games like monopoly and life.
4. See number 3.
5. I had an older brother so I always wanted to play with his cool stuff rather than my "baby" stuff. It pissed him off when I broke his things. But my brother and I learned to share very well.

 

[mudwhistle]

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy? Lionel 2-6-2 O gauge train set with real smoke.
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children? Myself
3. What was your favorite children's game? Dodgeball
4. What kind of play were you most interested in? Reading
5. How well did you share? Not very

Oh, I forgot about Dodgeball. When it came to Dodgeball, I was the best.

 

[Mad_Cabbie]

The Friday Five is something I have enjoyed on many forums. How about we all have some fun with it here.




1. As a child, what was your favorite toy?
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children?
3. What was your favorite children's game?
4. What kind of play were you most interested in?
5. How well did you share?

1 Big roll of paper my mom got me to draw on. I made up an entire world with maps a history and several made-up religions.

2 I invented games for the other kids to play.

3 In my hood, war was the favorite thing to play. Nowadays we would get arrested.

4 The funnest thing to do every saturday was to go exploring the large drain pipes under the highways.

5 There were 8 kids in my family and one bathroom, we had to share.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy? Lionel 2-6-2 O gauge train set with real smoke.
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children? Myself
3. What was your favorite children's game? Dodgeball
4. What kind of play were you most interested in? Reading
5. How well did you share? Not very

Oh, I forgot about Dodgeball. When it came to Dodgeball, I was the best.

Oh man I loved dodgeball!!
I was a skinny but wirey kid stronger than I looked...which was perfect for the game.

 

[mudwhistle]

1. As a child, what was your favorite toy? Lionel 2-6-2 O gauge train set with real smoke.
2. Were you more likely to play by yourself or with other children? Myself
3. What was your favorite children's game? Dodgeball
4. What kind of play were you most interested in? Reading
5. How well did you share? Not very

Oh, I forgot about Dodgeball. When it came to Dodgeball, I was the best.

Oh man I loved dodgeball!!
I was a skinny but wirey kid stronger than I looked...which was perfect for the game.

Dodge, dip, dive, duck, and dodge.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

1 Big roll of paper my mom got me to draw on. I made up an entire world with maps a history and several made-up religions.

No way!
I did this also, not made up religions...but I loved to draw whole detailed maps with different nations and warlike creatures that controlled "bad lands" etc.
I forgot all about that.