Before Smartphones - Games we played growing up in Ghana

Jump Next game we need seven stones, right? So help me find seven equal size Sometimes I watch my kids on their tablets and it's honestly saddens my house It makes me think about how much fun they are missing not growing up in my era in this video I'm taking my kids back in time to experience some of the games we played growing up in Ghana Long before smartphones and tablets took over. I hope it brings back some beautiful memories for you faster Well, I thought girls can do what men do so, all right, my name is Mickey keep watching Look at them. What are you doing? You're watching tablets, you know one thing put your tablet down. All right, let's go outside I'm going to show you some of the things, you know in my time when I was growing up. We didn't have the tablets, right? No, we didn't we couldn't afford even video games, right So I'm going to show you some of the activities that we did. Let's go. So the first one is We used to call it aeroplane, right We used to call it aeroplane But grandma just said that it was it's called obey the wind No, it's not What you do is you bend it like this, right? You bend it like So we used to call it aeroplane, okay Let's try Three two one go So so in the olden days We would do this and you will run around you run around the whole house You don't get tired because of the fun, isn't it? And we will be burning calories, right? But we don't feel it because we are running around All right, okay for the last one, let's do another race three two one go All right. Good. So yeah, you don't if you get tired you can just walk Like the way she's walking We call it aeroplane because it looked like an aeroplane propeller And obey the wind yeah. All right. So the next one is the wheel And then we used to run around Accident and no you try Yeah, three two one go go to the side go to the water tank Yeah faster faster Three well, I thought girls can do what men do so all right And better. Okay. Yeah. All right sassy. All right, let's go three two one go And let me show you one thing we used to do. All right, three two one push jump All right, yeah the next one we're going to build a paper plane hold the camera All right, come to one go you have to go up okay, no try three two one Let me try Nice. All right. So there's another one that you hop but we'll have to draw on the ground You throw your thing In there, right? So it falls in there and then you hope you don't step in that one Okay You lift it up No, no, let's end the finish and then you come okay Uh-huh, boom boom boom ten boom boom Boom pick you have to pick it up Pick it up from there Yeah, you go How are you feeling? It's tiring, isn't it? All right, you're a good good good good good good turn around yeah Yeah, boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. You lift it up and then you go Well done, and then you go to two so Yeah, you put it on in two Yes Good good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Good Good good. Good. Good. Good. Good. Well done To all right Jerry's going We'll keep it in there for you. All right Jerry. It's your turn No, so it's hop hop Well done boom boom boom boom boom boom No, no, you come back Yeah, boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. You lift it up You put only one hand and then boom. Boom. Well done. Okay How are you feeling? It's good. Okay, you see so it still works you it works you so hard But you you having fun games like these that's what it did for us All right. Let's go to the next game Well Next game we need seven stones right So help me find seven equal size stones Yeah, so one two six seven. Yeah, we'll take it. So good so this one This one I'll have to get my hands dirty. So we sit here on the floor and you lay So this is one and then you pick one up. Yeah, let me go one two Wow, this is difficult For I got it wrong Six and then you go to pick weight one two So yeah Now you go for trays, right? Then you pick that Four Wow, and then you go for two Yeah, I've made it too difficult for myself So you have to pick two So you have to pick one? Yeah, and then we have five five one. So you pick one And then you pick And then now you go for all of it. I Got it wrong Yeah, you get me. No, I mean and then you do this one Pick it this one This one, okay You pick it and now you do this and whatever is left behind you've got 20 That won't be difficult But we practice The practice you do you do it But it's getting dark, right? It's getting dark so that one we are going to do it indoors so the final game that we are going to play Yeah All right. We've got power outage in Ghana. So We flatten the top, right? So you go to the middle of it You go to the middle of it You've got two holes in it like a button and then you get a thread Like that. So look at me like this. I don't know if people can see It's a shame, but we will do it in during the day tomorrow so that people can see so you do this You do this And it used to be so fun That's it Come back you let me do it Okay. So this these are some of the games that we used to play without Nintendo So, yeah, as you can see they are going to be fighting over some of the games this evening So yeah, who would have thought that this will engage a kid for so long? Look, they are fighting over it. This is not a tablet. This is not Xbox Wait keep going on so it tightens the finger Like this video, please. Give it a thumbs up. Please subscribe to come on my journey of experience Thank you very much for watching the lights are off. See you in the next one. Bye