Quote: DaButt @ December 21 2009, 11:55 PM GMTAs far as I know, none of the games mentioned so far ever made it across the ocean.
One game from the Americas which is alien to the UK is your 'Marco Polo'. I found it perplexing to hear it referred to so often in TV imports, and had to Google it to work out what was going on.
I've just remembered an incident that happened one summer's evening, when me and my mates were playing that Salleo game in our local park. These older lads, who were about 5 years older than us joined in, and one of them ended up losing one of his fingers, by climbing up the metal fence of the tennis courts and jumping off the top, not realising that his ring had got caught. I'd run home to change out of some dirty clothes when it happened, but I walked past the ambulance that someone had called for him, on my way back, and I just remember seeing a paramedic wrapping a bandage around what was left of his bare finger bone, and him saying, "I don't care about the finger, just find the ring". I then went into the park, and found a group of kids stood in a circle, looking down at his finger. Actually, I gave it a little kick, as I wanted to know what it felt like.
In just letting my mind drift the following thoughts came into my head:
Me and my two cousins running through the spinkler in the garden when we were around 7 or 8, thinking how amazing it was to have a colour TV, finding a five leaf clover on the school field, pooing on my neighbours lawn, getting an Evil Kineval stunt bike, the excitement of getting up at 5:30am to go to Wells-next-the-sea in Norfolk with the caravan, holidays at Wells itself, discovering 12" singles, punching Edward Herbert on the jaw, going Skiing in Italy with the school, the Malham geography field trip, the fire in the chemistry lab plus the incident with the bunsen burner and the water tap, schoolboy fantasies and 'that goal' I scored from 35 yards.
Ah, the memories...
I remember finding another world at the back of the wardrobe filled with elfs and sprites and a big f**k-off talking lion that might have been a metaphor for Christ, although I was too young to care at the time. Which was nice.
I remember uncle Fred giving me some funny smelling cola then it all went a bit fuzzy until I woke up in the middle of the night with the feeling of a tremendous weight bearing down on my smooth, nubile body. Uncle Fred told me the next morning that his house was haunted by a friendly ghost called Jasper and that Jasper must have visited while I was sleeping and played pile-on with me, which is weird because there was only one of him and he was very hairy for a ghost.
Quote: David Bussell @ December 22 2009, 10:38 AM GMTI remember uncle Fred giving me some funny smelling cola then it all went a bit fuzzy until I woke up in the middle of the night with the feeling of a tremendous weight bearing down on my smooth, nubile body. Uncle Fred told me the next morning that his house was haunted by a friendly ghost called Jasper and that Jasper must have visited while I was sleeping and played pile-on with me, which is weird because there was only one of him and he was very hairy for a ghost.
I remember when cousin David visited my uncle Fred. He drank some past it's sell by date Happy Shopper Cola wrestled his pet dog and ran around the next day shouting about ghosts.
Shame and a pity as we were both planning on raping him.
Quote: catskillz @ December 22 2009, 12:41 AM GMTAnother game that had a title of unknown origin/etymology, was something called "Saleo"/"Salleo", (pronounced "Sal-ee-oh"). It was actually a big favourite of mine, and me and my mates would play it in the park across the road from my house way into the night in the summer. The game would start with one person being "On", and he would have the unenviable task of chasing after everyone else, after he'd counted to a hundred, sitting on the "Base", which was usually a park bench. When he'd catch a person, by holding onto them long enough to shout "Salleo 1-2-3", he'd walk them back to the base, where they'd have to sit like a prisoner. Now, nobody wanted to be the first person caught, because it meant that they would be "On" at the start of the next game - unless they were rescued by another kid, who had to find a way of getting to the bench, and placing his hand on it long enough to shout "Salleo 1-2-3 you're out" (or something). If someone managed to do this, the kids that had been caught were allowed to scatter and run free, causing the poor kid who'd been "On" to start all over again, trying to catch everyone.
There was actually a variation on "Salleo", which we called "Manhunt". This also started with one kid being "On", but it differed because every time he caught another kid, thay would have to join up with him in chasing all the other kids, until there would only be one left, being chased by all of the others.
We called that 'tiggy'. But you didn't have to hold on to them, you just had to 'tig' them (basically tap them with your hand, and say 'you're on it!')
Quote: Moonstone @ December 22 2009, 11:11 AM GMTWe called that 'tiggy'. But you didn't have to hold on to them, you just had to 'tig' them (basically tap them with your hand, and say 'you're on it!')
When I was a child "tiggy" was another word for penis.
Chipolata thanks for the open goal.
Surely they meant and still do "tidgy"
Quote: chipolata @ December 22 2009, 11:12 AM GMTWhen I was a child "tiggy" was another word for penis.
That's funny, we had a game called 'penis' too! 
Quote: Moonstone @ December 22 2009, 11:14 AM GMTThat's funny, we had a game called 'penis' too!
No Moonstone that's what they called you when you wanted to play.
Hence every game you ever played you thought was called penis except for bundle, nut punching and fisting
Quote: sootyj @ December 22 2009, 11:16 AM GMTNo Moonstone that's what they called you when you wanted to play.
Hence every game you ever played you thought was called penis except for bundle, nut punching and fisting
Oi! 
Speaking of weird, obscure games and rules, probably the most random rule of all came from a game called "Hide-o". It was really just a variation on Hide and seek, that was more suited to older kids. In this game, the kid who was "On" had to run back to the base and say your name after he'd spotted you, but the kid that he'd spotted was allowed to try and beat him to the base, to save themselves, and the other kids that had already been caught. Anyway, this uber-random rule came about if the kid who was "On" spotted someone hiding, say behind a bush, but mistakenly identified who it was, saying the wrong name when he got back to the base. If this happened, the person he had mis-identified had to stand up and shout, "Beef, Steak and Onion!" This meant the kids who had been caught were free, and the kid who was "On" had to count to a hundred and start a new game. I've absolutely no idea where "Beef, Steak and Onion" came from, or who made it up.