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MARBLES - ** Marbles date back to the time of the Romans. Marbles are made out of baked or glazed clay, stone and glass. **** The only thing you nee **** ded was marbles. A big marble called the shooter or taw is launched by your thumb and aimed at smaller **** marbles in a circle on the ground. The shooter wins the marbles that he or she drove out **** of the circle. **
 * ROLLING the HOOP **
 * One popular outdoor game was called rolling the hoop. To play you needed a wooden hoop and stick. The object of the game was to get your hoop to the finish line before the other player did. Note: The hoop was hard to roll. **


 * HOPSCOTCH Some children played hopscotch. You need a rock and you throw the rock onto a line of squares that were painted on the floor. You start with the first square. Then you hop through the squares on one foot . You **** cannot **** hop in the square with a stone in it. Either foot may be used to start with. You straddle the side-by-side squares. When the player gets to the end of the diagram he or she turns around and hops back in the reverse order and picks up the rock. After the player successfully does this he or she continues their turn by throwing the rock on square two. You then jump with the other foot. **


 * TAG **
 * In the game tag, one player who is “it” tries to tag the other players. If the player who is “it” tags another player that player becomes “it”. Sometimes there is a “base” where you can stay for a short time and not get tagged. This game may have developed from fleeing from an evil spirit. **

** The History of Games **
 * 1909 The "Jigsaw Puzzle" was invented. **
 * 1913 The "Crossword Puzzle" was invented. **
 * 1916 “Lincoln Logs” were invented. **
 * 1918 “Raggedy Ann Doll" was created **
 * 1922 “Doctor Bag” was invented. **
 * 1926 “Miniature Golf” was invented. **
 * 1929 The Yo-Yo was introduced as an American fad. **
 * 1933 “Monopoly” created **
 * 1943 The “Slinky” was invented. **
 * 1943 “Silly Putty” was invented. **
 * 1943 “Scrabble” was created **
 * 1943 The game “Chutes And Ladders” was created **
 * 1946 “Tonka Trucks" were invented. **
 * 1948 The “Wurlitzer Jukebox" was invented. **
 * 1948 The “Frisbee" was invented. **
 * 1948 The game “Cooties” was invented. **
 * 1949 “Candy Land" and "Clue" were invented. **
 * 1950 The game “Othello” was invented. **
 * 1952 Creation of the first computer game to appear on a TV- ** A version of Tic-Tac-Toe
 * 1952 “Mr. Potato Head” was created **
 * 1956 “Original Ant Farm” was created **
 * 1958 The first video game ever- “Tennis For Two”. **
 * 1958 The “Hula Hoop” was invented. **
 * 1958 The game “Yahtzee” was created **
 * 1959 “Barbie Doll” was created **
 * 1960 “Toy Trolls” and “Etch-A-Sketch” were invented. **
 * 1962 “Spacewar” was the first game intended for computer use. **
 * 1963 The “Easy Bake Oven” was invented. **
 * 1964 The action figure “G. I. Joe” was created **
 * 1965 The “Operation Game” was invented. **
 * 1966 The game “Twister” was created **
 * 1967 The “Hot Wheels” were invented. **
 * 1972 The first arcade game was created- “Pong” **
 * 1972 The “Hacky Sack” was invented. **
 * 1973 “Lego” was created **
 * 1975 Atari released “Pong” as a home video game. **
 * 1975 “Skateboarding” was invented. **
 * 1978 “Hungry Hungry Hippos” was invented. **
 * 1979 “Roller Blades” were invented. **
 * 1983 “Cabbage Patch Kids” and “Trivial Pursuit” were invented. **
 * 1986 “American Girl Dolls” were invented. **
 * 1987 The first “3-D Video Game” was invented. **
 * 1987 The “Kooshball” was invented. **
 * 1989 “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and “Super Soaker” were invented. **
 * 1990 “Rollerblading” was invented. **
 * 1994 “Beanie Babies” were invented. **
 * 1996 “Tickle Me Elmo” was invented. **
 * 1998 “Rescue Heroes” were invented. **
 * 1999 “Tekno Bubbles” were invented. **
 * 2002 The “Yu-Gi-Oh Starter Deck” was created. **