80's-90's MEMORIES
80's-90's MEMORIES
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- We played this game called "power"GuyFawkes
- what's power?_niko
- we used to play pottsies, where you dig a cup sized hole and tried to shoot the marbles in, who ever shot the last one in got all the marbles._niko
- ^ played this game growing up in Sofia, Bulgaria.Krassy
- Yup that one tooGuyFawkes
- Isn't this more like 30s-40s memories. No I'm not going to put in stupid apostrophes for plurals.CyBrainX
- Early 80s the playground was marbles, garbage pail kids, muscle toys, every once in awhile some kid would sneak in a Transformer or a GI Joe vehicleGuyFawkes
- "Power" had the hole too, you make it in, your marble now has the power and you keep the other marbles you hitGuyFawkes
- In Uruguay these were called “bolitas”. The game had some rules. We dug holes in the ground and shit.maquito
- I once noticed my neighbors had some bolitas made of plaster, and my brother went into a fist fight for it. Bolitas could only be glass.maquito
- I wonder where did the Uruguayan bolitas come from.. did Spanish or Italian kids play with those rules?maquito
- You had to kick other bolitas off, and also put some bolitas into the holes in the ground. Ffs! Triggered.maquito
- Glad to read that _niko and Krassy had some similar rules.maquito
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- Gallery open!monospaced
- Have marbles had a recent trend in schools? Seems to be cyclical... or has the internet ruined that?inteliboy
- Every kind of marble had a name and different value to it. We played it like this. Everyone puts their marble and take turns to hit the head of the line to winBeeswax
- We played klikeri in Serbia too, the hole was called roša. To win, you had to put your marble in the hole, hit the opponent's marble and then in the hole again.Milan
- I had bags of marbles and remember trading and whatnot, but never actually playing a game.i_monk
- Yes maquito, is calling Guá, and we played with "canicas"!Miesfan
- ooo yesssmilfhunter
- Same here, i_monk. From memory, they were mostly used for throwing at each other, particularly from high up on housing blocks... :\Nairn
- Here in Portugal also played with marbles. Sometimes were replaced with bearing balls (more durable)dmay
- We set up "galleries" with intricate arrangements that we flanked with our legs. Kids would line up to play and win/lose marbles. School allowed it for 2 weeksmonospaced
- Beauts, alleys, cats eyes, boulders (big ones) blue moons, ball bearings, crystals, galaxies, this is what Names I remember of the various marbles_niko
- I remember "knockers" when kids would take those fake grape decorations from their grandparents living roomsGuyFawkes
- Dinosaur eggs (speckled), monsters (the big ones), oilies (had a gas-like sheen), and there were milky white ones with a colour streak, can't remember the name.i_monk