>>336637Were you a fat kid who couldn't go outside because he was a germaphobe and his parents coddled him too much? Probably.
>>336717i can't imagine that any of us who grew up in the suburbs would have been allowed to go digging trenches in our backyard.Sucks for you. You missed out!
I, too, grew up in the suburbs. We had a large backyard to work with that was divided up with concrete and retaining walls. since we live in a canyon there was a small retaining wall that jutted up a small hill that was nothing but dirt and plants. There was also the "back" backyard that was a downslope hill that had a nice playable giant "steps" built into it.
A perfect jungle and desert terrain for my GI Joes.
We got yelled out by my mom, who was a clean freak, and we did ruin a few of my dad's plants, but we were PLAYING. So they just yelled and threatened crap if we dirtied up the inside of the house... but outside? FREE PLAY!
Anyway, we did manage to lose a few GI Joes and i never found some of them afterward, but the batttles were EPIC! Using firecrackers to simulate exposions (that did damage a few vehicles) and burying dumb GI Joes in their foxholes and undoing the irrigation system to create flash floods and creating sandcastle bunkers that caved in from airstrikes. We created buildings for small villages or parts of cities from cardboard, wood, plastic, bricks, marble, tiles, and dirt.
There's no way to replace the fun had, whereas the GI Joes could have been (they werent! HAHAH).