Pinoy Traditional Games.. Have they Forgotten?..

Responding to this discussion brings back alot of wonderful memories I had when I was a kid. I can say that I enjoyed my younger days alot because of these traditional/trademark Filipino games that we have. I got a chance to live in Bae, Laguna way back in 1995 where I spent most of my childhood years. In that place where I grew up, there's alot of kids and alot of vacant lots where we can play and run. I can still remember the time we used to play "football" (1 team will hit the ball and run to the set 3 bases, while the other team will try to catch the ball or hit the one running). We also played patintero and when its near twilight, we played taguan, until night time or until our parents call us for dinner. Girls love to play piko and those guys who wanted to join us, we teased them by calling them "bakla"/gay. There was a time when I insisted to let my Mama buy me a Rambo slippers because its thick and won't easily get "pudpod" everytime I play tumbang preso. I had so many fun experiences because I played alot of outdoor games when I was younger. Have you played luksong tinik? I love this game!hehehe. So much of reminiscing the past.(",) Thanks for bringing up this subject. If in the future, I will be blessed with kids, I will surely teach them all the Filipino traditional games and enjoy playing outdoors.(",) Have fun and enjoy your day! God bless!

You should be the head of The Department of Culture Preservation and I the secretary. LOL! Yea, 20 years back I remember playing maro under the moonlight on a dusty street just in front of our houses. I long for those days, you know? Maybe elementary teachers or PE teachers can promote them so they won't be completely forgotten.

i play most of mentioned.. i love chinese garter, i jump high^_^ heheh.. i like patintero, i move and run fast.. i do love skipping rope etc, and even play tagu-taguan... bike until i reach far away from home and biker returning with friends, chat and hunt birds, do some bahay2x, im always ending up the role bunso so i can do the stuff for them, err.. tindahan2x, baseball, most of all i miss every summer is, kite^_^ my bro who's in Singapore now for 3 years, always do they kite for me, we buy stuffs together and we build it as he measures and estimates, we make the fight with other kites called dagit-an. the broken nylon of the contender looses and if anyone first picks up the kite the kite is theirs...we were so dark because of the sun exposure, but healthy and happiest then... well, good old days... my nephews, and other kids on the block, goes to one station, play dota, counter, flyff, guild wars, or ragnarok etc.. do some stuffs and ask for load and text their friends or their crushes.. stays at home, watches all their favorite show, and later plays the playstation two and xbox.. ^_^ its unhealthy lifestyle.. thats why we can never blame what age will be the life span, because of every generation differ from one another..^_^, im smiling, but it makes me cry... what a waste, if only they felt how much freedom we have than being condone to one electronic era,... they'll never ever exchange that for this age.. life, its so much of things we have to cope and understand, i hope these kids today will value most of how much they are able to access everything and appreciate the most important aspect of life that is taken for granted..

I think youths of today live in a cybergame era. Its sad to see many youngsters waste their money and play computer games nowadays. I have seen kids as young as 7 years old play computer games in a cafe. If they only knew how exciting and how beneficial the games is to their health. Plus we get to bond with other strangers and finally be friends with them. I don't know if this is a traditional filipino game but just want to add langit, lupa, impyerno? We usually do it in stairs when we play it back then. I like playing all those fun traditional games you have mentioned and specially the memories along with it.

I have played the games you mentioned and a lot more. I got 4 younger siblings but the 2 younger ones were not so familiar with the traditional games we played before. My younger brother plays computer games. I miss those times. It was so much fun playing hide and seek, chinese garter, jackstone, patintero, chato (i could shout til my throat gets malat!)and slipper game. Kids those days were much more active so they were more likely immune to common ailments. Aside from that, playing those games build character. It teaches teamwork and sportsmanship. I wish schools would really introduce traditional pinoy games back to your youngsters today. Its part of our culture that we should make an effort to preserve.

After reading your discussion, it made me miss my childhood years. I miss the games that I played with my (neighbor)friends like patintero, bulan2x (where one forms a big circle using water and the one who will catch is outside the circle), in-on/ins, dodge ball (we use a ball made out of paper and masking tape), langit-lupa, hide and seek, dakpanay (habulan) and the very famous bahay-bahayan (kids act as a family). Haaayyyyyy!!!!! I miss these games and it's kind of sad cause kids today are not really familiar with these games. Being an 80's kid is really good. ;););)

yeah, i miss those days! im always on the run to play those games i even hide to my mum to avoid her yelling. but my most favorite is making patibong in the mountains of sands. today, i can still see some kids playing those traditional games but very rare. computers now are not just for business but also for fun and added to that is the easy access that most kids now can get. lots of computer shops now are opening to residential area and even near schools. childhood life is much easier back then but then technology is now starting to sink in. i have a seven year old nephew who are into playing games online but we only allow him to play just for a couple of hours after that he can still play games that requires physical strenght like biking, turumpo and patentero. in that way those traditional games will stay fresh in his mind. i think if children now will discover the great fun we have before roads will be filled of children again.

As a kid I never got the chance to play all the traditional pinoy games, just the patintero, taguan & piko. I grew up with my grandparents and they don't like it very much if I stay out of the house for more than 2 hours. In this digital age, it's very rare to see kids playing these kinds of games because more often than not they don't have a place to play these games & there are many kidnappers preying on kids playing outside their homes, so they resort to video games that they can play indoors.

We used to play patintero and taguan and ice-water a lot back then... and the one where you hit the one in the middle with a ball and when he catches it it's your turn inside, yeah it was fun being a kid then, it was like every afternoon it was a must to be outside the house to play. I am not so sure about the kids nowadays, I think you can never take that away from them, but the early introduction to PC games and the like is undeniably a huge factor why some would rather stay inside and not play these games like we did before.. We cannot force the children to go out and play of they don't want to but it is still a good thing to share with them these games where they might just find them interesting, you never know..

I miss playing tumbang preso, piko, patintero and foot ball ( i mean the street football where you kick the ball and go to bases). I miss those days. Most kids now adays don't play those anymore. Instead they play computers games. How sad?

My 3 year old son really loves to play taguan and habulan with me and his yaya lol! some sort of healthy excercise for the three of us. I think my son would love to play some pinoy games the moment he grew up because he is energetic kid and I will see to it that we will teach him some of those games his dad and me used to enjoy during our childhood years specially patentiro and agawan base and oh! the sipa as well. Some children nowadays are more on computer wizard in terms of online games loves to play PS2 and RaGNarok or counter and forget the beneficial values of some active pinoy games and the bonding moment they will miss with real friends.

My kids still play those games, and we actually encouraged them to. Their school also encourage kids to play the traditional games, during the "Buwan ng Wika" celebration they had a mini olympics of piko, tumbang preso, agawan panyo, patintero, tsakad and sipa. It was fun!

this discussion made me feel homesick again lol... how i wish i can bring back the time of my childhood when playing there is so simple and so much fun. you dont need even a single cent or even expensive toys to enjoy your everyday games, you just need used tin for tumbang preso, a couple of used woods for tyato (do i spell it right lol) or a borrowed chalk from your teacher lol or even used charcoal for patintero or piko.. hope kids/youths today will play this traditional games , i can say it'll make kids healthier.

i love these! i love shato, especially.