As the headline states, did you ever play any kind of games with your Joes as a kid? A childhood buddy of mine who was quite a bit older and I would build these elaborate fortresses out of cardboard inserts from Joe vehicles and other stuff. We'd piece them together and create a war that could last for hours. We set up Joes on one side of the room and Cobras on the other in their make-shift bases. We'd use cheap dart guns to take out our opponents. We didn't battle each other, but let gravity take its course. Our general rule is that if a figure was knocked down by a dart, he or she couldn't be used in the current round. If he or she fell from the dresser or bed, then they were toast. We'd both shoot as Joes and then as Cobras. A great time was had by all. We had a great deal of fun until the fateful day when my bud's older brother brought fireworks home. My bud had just gotten a Water mocassin and decided to strap fireworks to it to see if it would race across the pond. In one bask of fiery glory the new mocassin sank to the bottom of the pond. We stopped playing the game after that. He was pissed. That and trying to shoot his Clutch (which was his favorite figure) down from a tree while wearing a Fisher Price parachute just killed his love for Joes. His aim was true, that is if he planned on shooting Clutch square in the chest and splattering his pieces. The strange thing is after 20+ years, remnants of the FP chute can still be seen in that fateful tree.

So fast forward 20 or so years, and my son get the rip-stick SE at Target on clearance. We set up Happy Meal figures as our prey and went about giving them the once-over. We played for hours knocking down the evil Avatar fiends.

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Yes.

We made up a wrestling game and drew random cards. Those cards determined what the move was your character would do. We had a champ and all matches took place in the steel cage. It was like TNA, but less gimmicky.

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Cool, thanks for sharing. I knew I wasn't the lone man out. My bud also referred to Snowjob as BlowJob. I didn't realize the reference until a few years later.

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JCW

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Nope. This was when I was a kid. We used these cards I got from a Von Erich wrestling board game.

No lie.

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WHAAAAAAA?
I have got to find this.....

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My brother and I used to pick a room in the house and each take turns hiding our armies all around the room. He'd usually take the Cobras and he'd have five minutes to hide his figures first. Then he'd come out and I'd go in and hide my Joes. Then he'd come back into the room and, because I would have invariably found where he his a few of his guys, he got to go first. Basically, he'd get one minute to find one of my guys and would have to reveal one of his to kill mine. Then I'd decide which of mine to bring out of hiding to take out that guy and so on until someone's force was totally wiped out.

We had some funky rules attached to the game, too. Like a blueshirts couldn't take out snake eyes or duke and only Snake Eyes or Spirit could take out Stormshadow and big guys like Gung Ho, Roadblock, Copperhead and Destro had to get shot twice to die. So there was some strategy involved.

Also, when my brother got tired of losing more than he won (going first and having fewer "special" characters as Cobra was a disadvantage), I started letting him keep Zartan in his pocket, to be brought out at pretty much any time in the game (as though he'd been hidden there all along) and used to kill any one of my figures that he had found.

It was a fun game.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/ ... s-champion

Boom. Yummy.

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WOW... I'd Iron Claw JoeMichaels to find that game.

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BOOM YUMMY IS TEH BEST QUOTE EVAH!


anyway, most of my joe battles where Joe and Cobra teaming up to take out all the other guys, He man, turtles, mask, they where all a group of invaders from some other dimension. after DnD had been introduced to us we wrote "stats" for all the characters and any arguments over who would win would be left up to stats and dice.

There where seldom many arguments though, Thunder and the slugger tore through those filthy mutated basterds like they where nothing.

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Back in the 60's, we used to try and recreate our favorite shows, like Fireball XL5, and Captain Action.

With my son, it was cardboard bases, and arctic rescues. Occasionally, one would be totally encased in a cup or water in the freezer. Poor devil.

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Me and my friend had three teams. A demon team, a demon hunting team and a demon/human team haha. We dug holes in our back yards that were underground bases

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I used to do that all the time with my Cobra Commander.
After fighting the hero of the day's scenario he would fall into oblivion and would resurface (a day later) stuck in ice. His troops would then unfeeze him. His stay in the ice would make him super strong.

On their next encounter it would be the hero who would get beaten almost to death and he would have to retire in the mountains to train and recover his lost ninja powers...

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At about age 15 my brother(gunghojoe) and i made friends with a neighborhood trouble maker...and he introduced us to the joys of destruction. looking back i regret how many good xmen were lost in this fasion but it happened. we would set up a dozen guys at the end of the drive way and play "bowling with bricks" or my personal favorite was when we'd have short battles that were just elaborite reasons to set some poor figure on fire with my dads blowtorch.

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One spring when I was about 11 or so, my folks had a half dump truck of topsoil dumped in a pile in our back yard. The intent was gradually spread it out over the yard to raise the ground level, without killing the grass all at once, so that there wouldn't be a shallow yard sized puddle back there in the summers.. In the end, that never happened, it all eventually washed out from rain into a hump that made the drainage even worse, but the relevant point to this is that it made a massive play area for joe and starwars figures that brought kids from miles away. Me and my buddy John were out there every day, digging tunnels, figuring out ways to reenforce them so they wouldn't collapse, making hangars. Right around this time, the creation of Cobra Island happened in the comic, and it jibed pretty well so that the BPOD was Cobra Island, and the flower bed against the house became The Florida Keys. with the grass in between the ocean. The thing that makes this "weird" is that eventually me and John created a whole seperate ongoing story line using figures that became like a soap opera. My default character was the Stinger driver, of all figures, and he was married to Cover Girl, who was kidnapped probably 50 times that summer, and heroic trojan wars would ensue.

20 some odd years later, I'm sure that hump is probably still full of buried Joe Figures, and I'm pretty sure there's a Wolverine in there somewhere.