We were the typical 1950's kids.....Monopoly, Life, Chutes & Ladders, other board games of the time. I have previously mentioned a board game we played called Park & Shop.....a downtown grid with stores and parking lots. That game probably helped jump-start my fake city ideas.
My younger brother spent a lot of time indoors, a bit of a geek (ham radio type stuff). I was outside all of the time.....baseball, girls, basketball, girls, football, girls, playing on the river, girls, building forts in the woods, girls. Oh yeah, girls, too.
I always loved the dice games that involved developing leagues, statistics, etc. We would be outside, at a portable card table in the driveway, playing dice baseball games forever. We also had the little tabletop basketball game that used the spring-loaded "twangers" that shot a ping-pong ball into a basketball net. We had leagues based on that game, too.
About the closest we came to technology was Etch-A-Sketch (manufactured by a company just down the road a piece) or the viewer device you looked into to see color pictures from a round disc that registered into a new location as you pulled the lever.
Good story about those viewer thingys.....when I was in my 20's I was in Canada on a fishing trip with a pal. We stopped at a little old gas station for some liters of petrol and the attendent said, "You boys want to see something?" He had a viewer, with porno pics on the disc. We looked and laughed and left. Then noticed the joke on us.....there was black gook on the viewer's eyepiece that left big black marks around our eyes. We talked about going back and kicking his butt.....but we were laughing too hard. :-$
My son (in the 1970's) played with some trucks and bikes, but even then he was in to that first generation of popular electric toys. I tried to encourage his interest in model railroading, since at that time I had a big model railroad layout in my basement, but he wasn't interested.
Both of my grand-daughters loved their dolls, but both are of a generation that is in tune with electronics.....computers, Game Boys, etc.
BTW.....for baseball you use 2 dice.....1 & 1, 2 & 2, 3 & 3, 6 & 1, 4 & 3 - all singles. 4 & 4 is a double. 5 & 5 is a triple. 6 & 6 is a home run.
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In later years, when Katie and I pack up the tent and head for the Upper Peninsula, we take along Yahtze, for campfire fun. She always kicks my butt. :-c
Bear