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[–] 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Damn I thought about that a couple months back and yeah, I remember playing it as a kid. I think it quickly got changed to cops and robbers, so maybe I was at the tail-end of that version; sure was a fucked-up thing to call a kids game.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    We played cops and robbers instead, but I don't necessarily think that's any better.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    No doubt the current MAGAT's are introducing it to their kids as "ICE and Immigrants"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Our variants were capture the flag (with a "jail" you could rescue people from) abcd freeze tag. Mostly we just played baseball.

    I grew up on a street a hundred yards long with 19 kids, and I was one of the oldest. We played a lot of baseball and soccer instead of tag. We had enough for full teams, so why not?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    We had tag too. But cops and robbers was distinctive in that you were role playing cops and robbers. Tag was just tag.

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  • yeah, the teams were balanced in capture the flag and we didn't really have a name for it other than the descriptor. i'm trying to think which role playing ones we did (i am confident that there were some, just memory gets fuzzy after a few decades y'know) but i do not remember.

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