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!!