Because it's slow - Capture the Flag Clicky

Ciarrai

So on Tuesday the girls were playing capture the flag with some of the other (older) neighborhood kids and having a blast at it.  DH got home and mentioned that he has never played capture the flag in real life...just in a video game.  Seriously?  I thought everyone had played capture the flag at camp or school or in their neighborhood or whatever.  Am I the weird one or is DH?

 

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cristiana

I think we played in in PE class a couple of times. Never in the neighborhood though. And once at college I believe, but those days are a little (cough, cough) foggy.

jettagurl

I will go as far as to say I've never even heard of it....

joy143dh

What is capture the flag?  Is that like flag football?

Starr57

I would have to google the rules.

meglew

cristiana:

I think we played in in PE class a couple of times. Never in the neighborhood though. And once at college I believe, but those days are a little (cough, cough) foggy.

Ditto

joseysbride

We always called it 'steal the bacon.'  But I think it is the same thing.

Ciarrai

Probably the same thing joseys.

Wikipedia Definition

I wonder if it's a regional thing...  I grew up in New England and we played it in gym and camp for sure.  Other kids played it in their neighborhoods, but I didn't have a very kid-friendly neighborhood.  DH grew up in the middle of nowhere Tennessee.  But now we live in Texas and I would have thought Texas would be more like TN than MA.  We also live in a cute little suburban town in a very very very kid-friendly, family oriented neighborhood so that changes things too.

emiliemadison

Yes, we played it all the time, both at school and in the neighborhood. I didnt realize it was a video game???!!!!

Ciarrai

emiliemadison:

Yes, we played it all the time, both at school and in the neighborhood. I didnt realize it was a video game???!!!!

Neither did I, but DH is a big video gamer...

shopgirl78

yeah, but while playing paintball!

DaiLyght

There is a battle mode in Unreal Tournament for capture the flag. Yes, I know this because I'm a geek and played that game.

AnnapolisLari

Yes, both in my Ohio neighborhood and my cousins' in Maryland.

It was so much fun with my cousins because we used the entire end of two parallel cul de sacs and there were about 20-30 people playing at any given time.

rebs

Some of my best memories growing up were running around the neighborhood playing this.  We loved to play at dusk as it was getting dark.  The best part about the game is all ages could play.