When you were a kid, did you use to go outside and play with other kids or did you play indoors with your own toys?

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What games did you use to play? What toys were your favourite?

DancingQueen16 · Accepted Answer

There have never really been anyone in my neighborhood that's been close to my age so when I did play outside I just played by myself

Taffy1234 · Accepted Answer

We had a pretty pony.  it doesn't get much better than that.

beebella · Answer

I was allowed to play outside until I was about 6 years old. I got in trouble for not being at home when I was supposed to be. I was playing with some of the kids in the apartment complex that we lived in at the time, I was gone for hours. I was in big trouble when I finally decided to go back to my family's apartment, my mom didn't let us play outside with the neighborhood kids after that. 😂

A few years later, we moved kinda far away, into a big house that was on an acre of land. So, that was when I started playing outside again. 😄

ohsheeT · Answer

Well there goes your survey cuz I pressed the wrong button

Summertime right after breakfast outside would not be back until I was forced to come back for lunch after lunch back outside would not come back until dinner time get yelled at for being so dirty so messy right after dinner back outside get yelled at more for getting more dirty
Back in the house take a bath watch hour so TV to bed and started all over the next morning

Even if it was raining it would be hard to keep us inside.

I was a true boy it didn't matter what we were doing but we were getting dirty doing it and having fun and I'm basically the same way to this day I hate being inside even when it's snowing hard I go outside

OfDeath · Answer

Yes. When I was but a young boy, there was a group of other kids around my age living close by. We all had pushbikes and we used to ride around and explore the neighborhood. Occasionally we would go to the local park and play soccer, cricket or rugby league. The ones I was closest with also used to throw the odd party on the weekend and their parents would get pizza or do a bbq and we would stay up until the sun came up playing videogames on Nintendo Entertainment System or Sega Mega Drive. We also used to spend the hottest days indoors watching the best movies and professional wrestling of the 1980s and early to mid 90s because that is the time period it was.

Those were the days and they shall never return.

Anemone978 · Answer

I played often with my friends outside, and sometimes inside alone or with my friends.
We would play hide and seek, red light green light, many other stupid games like that, go to the park, go to the store for candy and drinks. Ride bikes, play street hockey, basket ball, baseball, etc. Play karaoke, video games, pool, barbies, air hockey, play with easy bake oven. I had a very good childhood because my parents bought us most things we wanted just they drank too much and fought too much.

menina · Answer

I used to play outside back home. Then I moved to another country and kids started bullying me and showed me what racism is. So, I start playing indoors with my toys.

Used to pretend that I was a teacher, even had a list of students. 😂😂

tfan1 · Answer

There were 3 boys and I in the neighborhood. I was the youngest so basically I tagged along until they got to the oldest one’s house. The three kids were allowed inside but for some unknown reason I wasn’t allowed in. She blocked the door when I tried to go in to follow them but she blocked me and just made small talk until the others came out. To this day I don’t know why and I asked her when I saw her and she mumbled on and carried the conversation to something else. Most of the time however I stayed in and played with my knight rider voice car or my big metal general Lee or my transformers or my big metal Airwolf helicopter. Played Atari 2600 with my dad, my niece and my brother in law. Later it went to Nintendo and Super Nintendo.

Fuentes · Answer

I played with other kids lol all the time we rode bikes and raced around the block and killed bugs. I miss them days and we fought eachother a lot but we got. along days later but slotta fades where caught st 8 years old hahaa I rmbr when we first moved in we had to fight my niggas who are my homies now since children to play on the toys hahaha

I rmbr being a nice kid never wanting to fight but it was mandatory and my little bro ran his mouth a lot so we was fighting a lot hahaha but it was fun as kid even though I grew up to hate that shitty ass town.

Cynicaldreamer · Answer

Little bit of both, though there weren't many kids my age in my neighborhood growing up- mostly nieces or grandchildren of the neighbors that visited in the summertime.
And even then, my mom wouldn't let me play with them all the time because she thought they'd be a bad influence on me (my mom was very overprotective, though as I get older, I understand her logic more).

So I played inside mostly, or with my siblings.

Lliam · Answer

I played outdoors a lot with the kids on the street. We ran around the neighborhood playing army with toy guns, swam in the neighbor's pool, played sports in the street and vacant lots, rode our bikes, went to the local parks. Sometimes we would play in our back yards. Sometimes I watched TV or played board games with my sister. I also liked to play with my toy dinosaurs.

strateguy632 · Answer

only ONCE outdoor group. crazy story. on my first day in pre-first at recess my classmates argued who should be chaser "it" to chase and "tag" others. for a couple minutes they argued and were not playing so i volunteered to be it. i started chasing a kid on the paved lot. meanwhile all went the other way. he reached a fence and waited until i neared him , then dodged aside, running to... an empty part. all the other kids had left and hid to avoid tag. seeing he was alone he stood and said "tag me" i tagged his arm. and ran away toward the fence... but he was not chasing me. he also hid. so i went indoors and never tried to play in a group.

AviatorTom · Answer

I lived on a dead-end street and all the kids on the street often got together and played all kinds of games in the street... tag, dodgeball, red rover, simon says, kickball and others. Remember that I am an old fart.

madhatters4 · Answer

a big mix. i played outside by myself and outside with friends. i played indoors by myself and with friends. i played video games by myself and with friends. didn't play with phones, aside from the occasional prank phone call, since phones back there only did one thing

exitseven · Answer

I grew up in the 70s and 80s. I usually played outside with the other kids from the neighborhood. We did stuff that I would never want my own kids to do but we had a lot of fun. Thankfully we never got arrested.

SnowedIn · Answer

I played with friends. Rode bikes a LOT. Also stayed inside and built Lego or built models.

Alwayreckles93 · Answer

In my grandmothers house it was all fun. I would play outside most of the time with other kids in the neighborhood. All up until I was 9 my parents decided to move to TX and I never went outside to play ever.

DeeDeeDeVour · Answer

We were always encouraged to go outside to play with other kids.  I took my toys outside with me as well so I can share 'em with my friends.

NotInterestedSorry · Answer

Grew up In the 90's when kids were mostly always outside playing and riding bikes. Sometimes I played by myself. Other times I played by myself if I didn't have any friends.

DiegoO · Answer

At first I use to play a lot with other kids, in the neighborhood. Then I began to isolate myself.

Simslover92 · Answer

I did both growing up. Sometimes I would play with my Barbie dolls by myself and other times I would be outside playing with other kids.

LaFemmeFatale_1 · Answer

Played outside with other kids mostly, sometimes played indoors and sometimes was locked on my phone, as I got it pretty early.

molonski2 · Answer

always pretty much outside with other kids , mainly sports AFL , Cricket , beach , Golf once I was 10 years , virtually always outdoors.

comekitty · Answer

Yes, I played outside with other kids. There were a lot of kids in my neighborhood. Days that I played indoors, I played with my barbies. 💕

LavLavLuv · Answer

I played with other kids outside but sometimes I invite them to my house lol

Wonderingguyy · Answer

I liked to play with only myself usually, if my one mate wasn’t available. I would always try to play outside because I didn’t have a very peaceful household. I always tried to catch butterflies haha

Fireguy17 · Answer

I spent a lot of time either in the lake or at my grandfather's farm. There were always chores that had to be done. That was decades before cell phones.

RoastedToast · Answer

Both. Some days was outside with other kids in the neighborhood, other days I stayed in played toys with my sister and other days from that it was videogames either by myself or family

Naydyonov · Answer

Both.
In my first house: played alone with toys, sometimes I would try to do something on our computer.

Second house: spent lots of time outside with neighbour kids, but still quite a lot of time indoors doing my own games.

Minahh · Answer

I used to be a loner so I didn't play with other kids much. I mostly played with my best friend tho both inside and outside. We were making leaf potions, building secret houses, role playing and playing with Barbies and MH dolls.

CrimsonAngel09 · Answer

Played outside but with just my sister. Late 90s/early 2000s there were no smartphones yet.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

I was a kid around the time of the Spanish-American War. We didn't have video games.

zagor · Answer

Both. I played a lot outside, I played a lot inside. After I was 7 we lived where there was a lot of open space to play in, as long as you watched for rattlesnakes.

dolemite58 · Answer

i played outside for the most part always riding my bike everywhere, when it was really bad weather or really hot out id stay inside and play video games or something tho. i loved playing N64 back in the day 😍

justabuddy · Answer

Both... I read a lot and spent a lot of time on a bmx bike :)

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Answer

My late mom didn't allow us out of the house, so we watched TV in the house.

Kkoalalita · Answer

I pretty much did everything and anything to keep myself entertained lol.. even went around playing with bugs

Sparkie460 · Answer

When it was nice outside, all us kids were outside. We either played in the street or we rotated between houses and were in the pool.

Alex-Snow · Answer

I lived outside for play... did not like being inside

WhiteBoyChill · Answer

I did both actually. I had neighbors I enjoyed playing outside with. But I also had toys I enjoyed playing inside with

Jerre · Answer

I played outside with other neighborhood kids

Reorx · Answer

All the time, almost all kids did in the 80's, the few who didn't were social outcasts.

OddBeMe · Answer

Both. Most people are 70/30 intro-extrovert. We just recharge better alone or with other people.

DaBiggestBird · Answer

I’m pretty sure I mostly kept to myself when at home.

katiesmuff · Answer

Played outside with friends

whirled_up_girl · Answer

Kind of a mix of both.

Flower7 · Answer

Other: I mostly played outside by myself.

TooHot2Care · Answer

I don't remember.

BLP11520 · Answer

Both, rain was the determining factor

Jennz6 · Answer

I was always outside

gothbxtch · Answer

played by myself, both inside and outside.

Rangers · Answer

I stayed inside

Christoff92 · Answer

Yes all the time.

TallAnon · Answer

All of the above

BigDog1989 · Answer

yeah

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