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I'm roughly the same age as you Dave, and we used to call the game with the mug goalie 'Two man Wembo' or ' One man Wembo' if it was just a single person instead of teams of 2. The Wembo obviously standing for Wembley. We all used current footballers names as well, when scoring or whatever and doing the comms. I remember around the 94 WC time I was always Gheorghe Hagi, or Hristo Stoichkov. Used to fucking love it, and just played football endlessly, if not that Cricket, Knock a door run, or at the time, wrong as I now know it is,going round the estate and tormenting someone with Mental Health problems to get a Chase off of them.Abit yes and no.
but I'd say Mobile Phones have caused more damage, that and facebook.
Computer games killed off kids going outside to play, that aspect changed, when I was a wee lad it was going down to the school fields with friends to whack a couple of jumpers down and play football, usually that game I don't know name of where one mug is the goalie and the others pair into teams of 2 trying to score to get into next round stuff. or Go-karting, biking, knock-and-nash etc, etc
then when about 12-13 computer consoles came into play and all that stopped completely.
Horrid text chat, twitter, selfies, facebook.........them things killed off the socializing, well maybe not killed it, but changed it.
This was the era of the Megadrive and Commodore Amita,Atari St, and we used to have tournaments on the football games of the time as well such as Sensible Soccer,Kick Off, or Fifa on consoles, or games such as NHL, NBA Jam, Streetfighter II, Mortal Kombat etc.We were still out 90% of the time though, including football training twice a week in the evenings and playing on a Sunday morning.
I'm inclined to agree with you regarding mobile phones being at the initial root of the problem. Playing games never stopped us playing out, yet when I got to 19/20, when still playing Sunday League football, I noticed a shift with the introduction of texting. Even the older teens were texting non stop and this eventually filtered down, and it became noticeable the lack of kids playing out on the park, school fields and on the streets.
Quite sad really, as I know personally my 16 year old step lad has missed out on what I had when I was growing up, but the problem was already apparent when I got together with his mum when he was 10. It was already ingrained in him.
I won't make the same mistake with my own 2 young boys. Playing out is actively encouraged, TV is limited and they don't play games of any sort yet(Consoles).
I take my oldest to the football on a Saturday which he loves, whereas when asked how old the 16 year old was when bought his first console, I got the reply 4.
So wrong.
I love gaming even now, and will allow my kids to partake at some point, just not yet. I'd much rather see them running around the garden/living room with a ball, or scrapping with each other as we used to do.