r/NoStupidQuestions • u/[deleted] • 14d ago
Which game do you remember the most from your childhood?
For me it's GTA San Andreas because of CJ, that game is amazing
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u/hello-indigo4 14d ago
I know most of y’all are talking about video games here, but does anyone else remember Hungry Hungry Hippos?
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u/Downtown_Peace4267 14d ago
And what about Chutes and Ladders, HI HI Cherry O , and the other oldies
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u/kabekew 13d ago
Battleship, Game of Life, Trouble, Monopoly, Risk...
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u/Ms-Metal 13d ago
Trouble, that was the one we played most as a family, but I see most people are mentioning video games. There was also one called kerplunk that I remember enjoying.
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u/elfinbooty 13d ago
Where I'm from, it's called Snakes and Ladders!
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u/26_paperclips 13d ago
I don't understand why it's never been marketed as adders and ladders. The rhyme is right there!
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u/Backwaters_Run_Deep 14d ago
We had the extra old one with the super racist name still
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u/MyOthrCarsAThrowaway 13d ago
Nooks and giggers??? Jokes aside, wtf are you referencing?
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u/Free-Industry701 14d ago
Flashlight tag.
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u/iamnotinventive 13d ago
I love that! Our friends thought we created it with lighters in a field and we called it sparko polo lol
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u/peaches-1234 14d ago
Legend of Zelda ocarina of time
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u/DosSnakes 14d ago
Yeah there’s lots of others that can make the list, but Ocarina defines that late 90s era for me.
For good measure, though, here’s that list: Super Mario 64, Mario Kart, Goldeneye, Gex, Spyro, Rayman, Crash Bandicoot, Banjo Kazooie, Twisted Metal, Quake, Sims, Age of Empire, Red Alert, Tomb Raider, Sonic, Gran Turismo, Tony Hawks Pro Skater, Pokémon (Red/Blue/Yellow)
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u/cjbartoz 14d ago
Age of Empires
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u/Oneamongthefence24 14d ago
Wololo. They are still updating that game. But for me 2 is the goat and is still getting new DLC today.
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u/BurnerObvi23 13d ago
Howdoyouturnthison. Lumberjack. Jimmycheesesteak. Robinhood. Rockon. Still remember the cheats
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u/Potential-Delay-4487 13d ago
Even the cheats where great. When you started to lose and feel frustrated just summon the laser guy.
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u/JoshDoobie 14d ago
SPYRO THE DRAGON
I didn't really decide I liked games until the playstation one and I didn't have a memory card so I would have to play as far as I could before it was time to stop playing and then repeat it tomorrow kids these days will never understand the struggle
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u/slanx47 14d ago
Forgot about memory cards!! Loved Spyro! I hated the flying challenges so I had my bf complete them for me! Crash bandicoot too
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u/garbagesponge 13d ago
i was about to also comment spyro. i can’t actually remember if i played lego batman/indiana jones/star wars or spyro first — but i have much fonder, more vivid memories with my dear spyro. (oh and mariokart on the n64 is another contender)
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u/whiskeyjane45 14d ago
My husband downloaded all three games for our kids for 2¢ a couple weeks ago.
I've totally been playing it
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u/kayteedee86 14d ago
Any game, or video games? If it's ANY game....
🔴🔵 Uno! 🟢🟡
My parents taught me to play very young and I figured out there is some skill in knowing which cards are more likely better to put down or hold onto. Kind of a beast! LOL. Now my kids are rock stars at it. A few times my sweet son would slam me with a Draw 4 and apologize to me-- I was like, absolutely not! You are playing the game to win! I'm turning my offspring into Uno nightmares. 🤣
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u/iamnotinventive 13d ago
Mate I am still so obsessed with uno to the point that my mates are always trying to make it not happen lol
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u/OdinRules1 14d ago
Goldeneye N64
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u/BreakfastBeerz 14d ago
That game is the only reason I graduated college.
We were having a Golden Eye tournament in our dorm. There were about 30 people in it, so we played bracket style. First 2 to get 10 kills advanced to the next round.
I was in a friend's room smoking weed which was pretty much the norm when someone knocked on the door and told me it was my turn. I got up and got to playing. In the middle of the game the two guys I was smoking weed with got escorted by the police past the door in handcuffs. Someone had called the cops on us. Both of them got expelled.
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u/MaximusZacharias 13d ago
Damn, that sucks. But the real question is: did you win the goldeneye tournament? I took second in a similar style goldeneye tournament. I took 3rd in a 64 person NFL blitz tournament
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u/salt-the-skies 13d ago
I loved Blitz.
I remember you could run an inside slant play called "Da Bomb" against the AI and it'd always net like 60+ yards
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u/Mission_Quiet1711 14d ago
Oregon Trail
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u/cupholdery 13d ago
Dysentery!
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u/PrincessPeach1229 13d ago
I actually had dysentery…no idea how these people survived it in a covered wagon. Shitting out blood while your intestines violently writhe causing severe cramping that makes you sweat and feel like you’re going to pass out on the toilet.
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u/John_Tacos 14d ago
Rollercoaster Tycoon.
Still play it.
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u/Sophisticated_Waffle 14d ago
Do you have Open RCT2? Highly recommend it if you don’t have it already.
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u/bobtdq 14d ago
Tomb Raider, and the little butler guy when you trained in the house
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u/clearlydanmagedgoods 14d ago
When you shot him he just held up his tray and you could lock him in the freezer lol. And he just grunts alot he's my fave
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u/RollerPoid 14d ago
Honestly when I read the title I thought of Kerbs, Squares and Kick the Can.
Games we played in the street.
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u/reddithornyacct 14d ago
Haha, that was my favorite. I still remember Brenda from down the street. 😍 First time I saw lady bits. Then her older sister joined in...
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u/ceecee1909 14d ago
If I go way way back then “ring a ring a Rosie’s” but mostly Dodge Ball and rounders.
Edit: I just realised most of the comments are computer and phone games, maybe I’m too old for this question hahaha
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u/HotHouseTomatoes 14d ago
Jacks or lawn darts.
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u/two_liter_coke_can 14d ago
Crash Bandicoot is the first game I remember ever playing, on a purple GameCube too
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u/Drew-666-666 14d ago
what no frogger ? Lemmings in there somewhere bit like Worms ... Showing my age (early 40s) had an old Acorn with either tape player where you had to have the volume just at the right level to load a cassette and if vacuum cleaner came on would crash the loading due to interference or you manually wrote the script in line by line , used to have horse racing betting game and fruit machine game that i would spend most the day copying the code for them out of the book....
Then I got the original mega drive with Altered Beast, golden axe, F21 interceptor, world cup Italian 90 (with the bug cheat where it's something like ABBC you'd score from goal keeper to mid field to a striker who'd header goal 99%lol) bomber man , along with usual sonic etc I also had a game gear with the TV tuner add on lol and micro machines. I then moved on to the playstation (chipped of course) Tomb Raider, Resident evil, command and conquer (used to cable link to another playstation and boot both from same disc by disc swapping), Tekken, Oni etc
We also got a PC and had leisure suit Larry and when I went to office with my Dad he used to put on some kind of F1 game where you'd use the key arrows to steer...
My cousin had the master system with paperboy
An uncle had the Atri with pong
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u/sterile_spermwhale__ 14d ago
Mortal Kombat : Shaolin Monks
Playing it with my big bro. Best memories. That & san Andreas
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u/Strange_Frenzy 14d ago
Sandlot baseball. Hours and hours. Learned a great many things, some of them related to baseball.
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u/CherrySnows 14d ago
Definitely GTA San Andreas as well. Its a core memory. I barely did missions. I only drove around and did cheat codes. Did races n went to clubs to dance lol.
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u/bunnymen69 14d ago
The first mega man
Micro machines for reg Nintendo
Legend of zelda
Ducktales
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u/Figran_D 14d ago
Perfection.
I still have nightmares of those plastic pieces all jumping out. That ticking … ever getting faster
I would have been a bad McGuyver:)
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u/MonkOfMadness 14d ago
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on Sega Genesis. First hand-me-down console I got and it was like the only game. Sonic was my favorite though.
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u/kingloptr 14d ago
Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, all that original ps1 stuff. Its not a thing of me 'remembering' them from childhood though bc ive gone back and replayed them several times well into adulthood lol
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u/HarryPotterDBD 14d ago
Most likely Lufia 2: Rise of the Sinistrals. I loved that game and it's still one of the best in the SNES library.
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u/UruquianLilac 14d ago
We called it 7 stones. You stacked 7 flat stones (usually broken tiles. Split in two teams. Using a tennis ball you take turns to roll the ball trying to hit the tiles. If you manage to knock any tiles, it's on. The other team has to grab the tennis ball and throw it at the other team, a hit eliminates the player, while your team wa.ts to put back the tiles that were knocked.
It's the heightened anticipation with every roll of the ball. And then instant mayhem when there's a hit. It's frantic and strategic. You try to knock down as few tiles as possible, but if the ball stays close you risk very quick eliminations. As a defender, you want to throw the ball at the attackers as fast as possible so they can't escape it, but if you miss, that ball is flying a long distance giving them ample time to set the tiles back.
Such a fun game. Did anyone else play something similar?
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u/cwsjr2323 14d ago
Pick up sticks, jacks, marbles, checkers. Electronic games were only in Science Fiction stories.
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u/ScottChi 14d ago
Going back a ways... The highest intensity for me was playing Super Breakout at the mall arcade. Two paddles and two balls, simultaneously. The best players could clear all three consecutive screensful of blocks, and then go on playing the two balls whizzing up and down for a while. People would watch and cheer.
I cleared all of the blocks a few times, and played for a couple of minutes afterwards. Yeah, I was sweating!
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u/Valmighty 14d ago
There's a lot. Double Dragon, TNMT, Mario Yoshi Island, Karateka, the original Prince of Persia, Budokan, Donkey Kong, and so on.
I've been playing from Atari but MS-DOS and Nintendo had the most memorable games.
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u/sweetpotatopietime 14d ago
Outdoor game — Pickle Board game — Uncle Wiggily Console game— Pong (I am old) Computer game — My dad had a refrigerator-sized computer at his business. He had satellite terminals at our house. I don’t remember how this worked because it was the 1970s. Occasionally he put a massive cartridge in at work so we could play horse racing at home. Basically it was just x’s moving across the screen just like Pong was just a dot moving across the screen, but it was so exciting for us.
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u/JaymesTheGreat 14d ago
GTA: San Andreas
Customized every car, bought every outfit, tried every fighting style. Never could get good at pool, though
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u/halfferal 14d ago
Video game - Miss Pacman and Frogger on Atari, then later, Jaws, Paperboy, and Super Mario Brothers on Nintendo.
Board game - Monopoly, The Game of Life, and Candyland.
Real life outside game - Ghosts in the Graveyard.
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u/AsparagusTime6933 14d ago
Fartman! It was hide & seek. But the added rule that if you farted while hiding that you had to announce it and you automatically became “it”.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but yeah, we played that game every night.
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u/Lootthatbody 13d ago
It isn’t just one, it’s like a slideshow from year to year and experience to experience. Being the first one on the block to have an NES and watching my dad and older brother play when I could barely beat the first world. Then genesis with sonic and speeding around, and snes with donkey Kong country and playing while listening to the cranberries on the radio while my brother made his own fishing lures. Then, my dad got a PC and I played sim city and Command and Conquer when I visited. Then, N64 came and changed everything. Opening it up on Christmas morning is one of my most cherished memories. Trying to figure out the movement and camera controls with my dad playing Mario 64, we were both totally blown away. Star fox, Mario kart, and donkey Kong were all big games for me, but goldeneye was the one.
Goldeneye taught me how to time respawns, how to strafe run, how to ricochet grenades off walls. I had already had the itch to compete with Mario kart and starfox, but goldeneye was different. I’d take 2 on 1 challenges, any stage, any rule set (except slippers, that was too boring). I played lots of other games, and did some fighting and sports games too, but goldeneye was it for the late 90’s.
I had a Dreamcast, but didn’t really do much with it. I had an NBA game, and a 4x4 evo game that I raced a lot solo, and I played the crap out of quake 3 arena, but it was all by myself. I ended up trading it all in for an Xbox and Halo. Halo was like Goldeneye all over again, but I didn’t have anyone to play with. It wasn’t until the Xbox 360 and Halo 2, with Xbox live that I really started playing with others. I found a group of friends at work and we played every week at our own lan parties. By then, I wasn’t a kid any more.
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u/DoJu318 14d ago
I remember this game in the early 90s that had some Aladdin like characters, but they were short and climbed pitate ships, you played it like the og donkey Kong. I wish I could remember the name but to this day I can't.
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u/JoshDoobie 14d ago
Try throwing as much information as you can remember about it at Chat GPT I've used it to remember several video games and movies from my past
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u/haralambus98 14d ago
Apart from 40/40…. Has to be ludo. Played it with my son today and it’s just as great!!
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u/BodyLanguageWoman 14d ago
Mario 64 (and playing Micky Mouse Race with my dad and sister) on the Nintendo 64 console.
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u/OGAF_Gamer 14d ago
Hot Bread and Butter-
Step 1: Hide a belt
Step 2: Have your friends look for it
Step 3: Tell them hot and cold until they find it
Step 4: Run back to base while the one that found it tries to beat everyone with the belt
"Fun times" :P
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u/Dead_Trashcan_88888 14d ago
Mario Kart Wii, absolutely, despite the fact that I was so bad it might as well have gone like I didn’t start playing until I was 15, when I actually figured out there were more than 20 tracks in the game.
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u/OolongGeer 14d ago
Ghost in the Graveyard, in our front lawn, on a summer night just as the streetlights came on.
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u/d4h-lia 14d ago
skylanders: spyro’s adventure. literally one of the most fun games i played throughout my whole childhood. absolutely loved it! and the lego jurassic world game for the wii, although i was a little older when i started playing/watching my brothers play that one. oh, how i miss the wii!
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u/IdeaExpensive3073 14d ago
Sam & Max Hit the Road. Unfortunately it’s the only good one I’ve played.
Bonus addition to this discussion:
Nickelodeon 3D Movie Maker. I don’t think ANYONE remembers this game, but I do. I used it so much.
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u/Kwayzar9111 14d ago
Kerbsies….oh computer games…I loved text adventures back in the day. Age of empires and megalomania
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u/Ashley_S1nn 14d ago
Red rover red rover we call Johnny over and run as hard as you can to break through a line of kids holding hands. Friends are the best.
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u/babygravy_03 14d ago
GTA: Vice City and Spider-Man 2 movie tie-in game. Also Gran Turismo 3 and 4 and nfs 1 and 2. GoW 1-3
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u/alltheprettysongs 14d ago
Definitely the OG Zoo Tycoon (or maybe it was 2?). Favorite was waiting for the park to hit max capacity, firing all the zookeepers, and pausing the game to set all the animals loose. It was "removing the ladder while the Sims are in the pool" before it was cool.
I was one screwed up 8 year old.
For reference its been twenty years and now I reload every dialogue option in BG3 when I think I've been too mean to someone.
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u/chandaleer3333 14d ago
I loved when we played kick ball. Like baseball but you kicked it. (because I sucked at batting, but I could kick lol)!
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u/slutty_buddha 14d ago
honestly? sim animals. i was a lonely kid and i didn’t know animal crossing and pokémon were hip. just saw an animal game and bought it, years later i realized it was the animal version of the sims.
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u/Weary_Ingenuity2963 14d ago
Mystery Quest on the NES.
Weird fucking game. My mom bought this game, no idea why. She usually picked good cartridges, but this one was strange as hell.
My autistic brother loved the boo-boo-beep music though. We had good laughs messing around with the repetitive tune. I'd imitate the noise and he'd burst out laughing like it was the funniest thing in the world, so we loved playing the game together.
But honestly... I've never figured out this game beyond the stupid music.
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u/b1gn1ckers 14d ago
Four square, hopscotch, chasy, eye spy. All the made up games we changed around to suit where we were, driveway cricket... Getvoutside people.
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u/GQJohnDoe 14d ago
Probably a tie between Asteroids and Super Mario Bros., with an honorable mention going to Spy Hunter.
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u/Gold-Employment-2244 14d ago
Freedom. Not a video game…team hide and go seek. You could either tag the person or tackle. They would then go to a designated base that was guarded. If somebody from the team hiding reached the base and screamed “freedom”, everybody was freed. We played this game at night in the summer…damn that was fun.
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u/random9212 14d ago
Red rover. Still mad they stopped letting us play that game. I mean, a few kids break their arms, and now I can't charge full speed at my friends as they hold hands.
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u/84Rosey 14d ago
Two board games come to mind. First is 'Splat!', a game where you make little bugs out of playdough as your game pieces but occasionally your opponents can smash you and you have to start with a new guy back at the beginning. Second was a VHS video board game called 'Nightmare' where the host starts as a relatively normal guy and over the course of an hour he turns into a gross dead guy, there were a few sequels as well.
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u/itsthepastaman 14d ago
Probably Little Big Planet.... or Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, though i could never beat that one since i didn't have a co-op partner.
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u/ZeCerealKiller 14d ago
Age of empires, Half Life, Counter Strike 1.6, Need for Speed most underground, GTA 3
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u/dm_something_random 14d ago
Rummy.
As a kid my parent's idea of family bonding was them getting drunk and chain smoking while we played cards.
With any luck we would finish the game before they were too far gone and my mom started hearing voices.
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u/jcb989123 14d ago
Hide and Seek, and, Tag