honorentheos wrote:While in 2nd grade, a friend and I invented a short-lived game which was a form of paper airplane dog fighting. It involved each of us making a small air force of 3-5 paper airplanes that we set up in our own air base outside in his yard on opposite sides of his house where we couldn't see each other. We would pick an airplane, loudly count out 3...2....1.....Go! And both throw our airplanes out into the front yard at the same time. Then we had to go stand where our airplane landed, pick it up, and get ready to throw at the same time again. The object was to hit the other person with your airplane. Or, you could try to get to the other base and hit the other planes lying on the ground before getting hit yourself.
So what does that have to do with this thread? We had the bright idea of using caps to replicate damage to the plane whenever we scored a "hit" on the other person. So if you were hit, the other person got to take you plane and place a stack of the rolled caps under the part of the plane that was represented by the part of the body hit. Then they hit it with a hammer to blow a smoking hole in that part of the plane. We would keep trying to use the plane until it was complete unflyable at which point it was considered shot down. It was a blast...until we happened to catch one on fire (which happened more often than not) AND the wind took it at the same time. It's a bad look to have your dad come home seeing you and a friend running down the street chasing a flaming paper airplane.
We got grounded for that one. But man it was a good time.
That....is....AWESOME!!!!
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honorentheos wrote: So if you were hit, the other person got to take you plane and place a stack of the rolled caps under the part of the plane that was represented by the part of the body hit. Then they hit it with a hammer to blow a smoking hole in that part of the plane.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
It absolutely ruled. In retrospect, I may have gotten to live my best childhood of whatever incarnations may be mine. We invented so many games, did so many crazy but fun things, and were fortunate to live in that golden age when parents didn't think a kid going to the park alone or spending most of our day unsupervised outside somewhere was bad, but video games were a thing. This same friend and I would ride our bikes to a local pizzeria, drop a five into playing the arcade games they had while sharing a pepperoni pizza, and basically not get asked where we had been. That's unthinkable in today's world.
Speaking of, that friend had two toys that I coveted like nothing else.
They may have been the first toys I remember playing with that shot little spring loaded rockets. And we both loved the show though it was in reruns at that time.
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Res Ipsa wrote: Yeah, the hammer is definitely the classic. I haven’t massacred any caps for decades, but I can call up that smell with no problem at all.
Welp. The current alternatives are (1) yoga or (2) go outside and shoot the crap out of something. I'm liking the idea of the hammer and caps. In fact, I think that bumping this thread was nothing short of divine intervention.
Play is good for your head. Write that down.
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
Lol. The girls haven't worked themselves up to a command role yet; they're still on KP duty. : D
You're not kidding! I was lucky. I did have dolls and played house/school, however, I spent most of my time outdoors playing in dirt, sand, water, and with what was thought of back then as "boy toys"--guns, skin diving equipment, archery, knives---yes, I was allowed to have knives, carve junk, and throw them at trees and a hay target thing we had in the yard for archery.
Hmmm...maybe I need to take over the shooting range we have...a little archery wouldn't hurt me none!
(Oh shoot, I think I know what I want for C'mas now. )
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
honorentheos wrote:OMG, I had one of those as well! I played that for hours but completely forgot about it until I saw your post. Thanks for the memories, Xeno!
Glad I wasn't the only one to play with this torture device. Also glad I could trigger some found memories.
One of the funniest things about this thread is that I'm fairly certain we span quite an age range but basically all of us have fond memories of trying to get those cap rolls to go off with something other than a cap gun. Some toys just never fade away it seems.
"If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation." -Xenophon of Athens
Another one from my shenanigan filled youth: We used to be able to buy these from the Ice Cream truck for pretty cheap. These were dangerous in the hands of middleschoolers (why they were ever allowed to be sold to kids I'll never understand). The best placement of them was in between the toilet seat and rim, couple with a few mustard packets and whoever sat down next was going to have a bad time.
Looking back, it is a miracle my father didn't strangle me.
"If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation." -Xenophon of Athens
My siblings and I had a Colecovision (thanks mom and dad!). I don't know if it's because we're in a simulation, but I swear to god we played Zelda on that thing, but the Internet says it was only offered on the NES platform.
But I remember...
- Doc
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Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:My siblings and I had a Colecovision (thanks mom and dad!). I don't know if it's because we're in a simulation, but I swear to go we played Zelda on that thing, but the Intnernet says it was only offered on the NES platform.
But I remember...
- Doc
Maybe a Zelda look alike? I have played both Dragonfire and Venture on a cabinet before and both of those look pretty close to NES Zeldas (at least to my young brain) and the google tells me those games were available on Colecovision.
"If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation." -Xenophon of Athens
