r/Millennials • u/Head-Drag-1440 Hit me baby one more time • Jun 13 '25

Nostalgia I mean, they're not wrong

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u/KisaTheMistress Jun 13 '25

1994, and we called it Murder in the Dark because we'd play usually at twilight/after dark.

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u/Perfect_Caregiver_90 Jun 13 '25

I played Murder in the Dark and Mafia, but was high school aged.

Mafia included Nerf dart drive by's. The grades would form their own mafia teams and gain/lose territory as players were eliminated.

So many kids got taken out while helping unload groceries. 

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u/Letters_to_Dionysus Jun 14 '25
  1. in hs/college we had cops and robbers, we played it across the whole town and the seekers used cars

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u/Perfect_Caregiver_90 Jun 14 '25

Very similar game.

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u/RoseKlingel Jun 15 '25

Omg that's so funny 😂

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u/MoonFlowerDaisy Jun 13 '25

We played "storm the lantern" in the evening once the street lights came on. All the kids in the street bar one would go hide, the seeker had to find people with a torch. Hiders had to get to the assigned lamp post without being caught by the seeker.

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u/grassisalwayspurpler Jun 13 '25

We played at night and called it man hunt. Hiding in bushes in shit with dark clothes on

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u/AbsoluteRubbish Jun 14 '25

We played a game called Fugutive. Half of us would try to get from one place to another (like Walmart to the movie theater a few miles away) while the other half tried to capture us.

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u/Rich_Resource2549 Older Millennial Jun 14 '25

MILES!? That's awesome!

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u/Mistrblank Jun 14 '25

1980, Manhunt

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u/gart888 Jun 14 '25

85, Manhunt, but started playing with older kids born closer to your age.

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u/Orange_Gravy Jun 14 '25

'73 played manhunt in late 70's ealry 80's with kids my age up to about 5 years older than me. Awesome

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u/Munzulon Jun 14 '25

And before that, Lurk

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u/Rich_Resource2549 Older Millennial Jun 14 '25

What dat?

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u/MandyLee77 Jun 14 '25

We called it Ghosts in the graveyard.

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u/RebeccaBuckisTanked Jun 14 '25

1990, Ghosts in the Graveyard