Road Trip Game Poll

Punch buggy for me and my brother. Alas, nowadays kids probably don't play it. Those ugly new bugs aren't popular enough to make playing it worthwhile, and the classic bugs are as rare now as Model Ts.

Never heard it called punch buggy. Growing up it was slug bug for me.

We called it Punch Bug, and often called out, "Punch bug! No backfires!" which meant the other kid couldn't punch you back, but it rarely worked.

My little brother and sister would play, but the only ones that counted were the classic models. They're much younger than I, and grew up during the time both models were still on the road a lot.

"Punch buggy no punch backs."

With us, it was always, "Punch Buggy Blue, no punch backs!"

You had to say the colour.


And...man, I hated that game. Still do. My big brother used to make me black and blue on our 20 hour summer holiday journeys...now my son makes me black and blue while I'm driving. And if I happen to see it first, he always punches back anyway. What ever happened to the sanctity of, "...no punch backs"!?!?!?!

PS: I never ever heard of slug bug until today.

For me it was either what Shady or KTC said, depending on the rules at the moment.

Definitely "punchy buggy," except for me you'd say "red punch buggy, no punch backs!" The color came first.

It's funny how you think something is universal and then discover it isn't at all that way.

"Punch buggy blue! No pun-OW!"

you had to be real quick in my family

There was also pa-diddle - played at night, when you saw a car that had only one working headlight.

Hey REENCAM - if that's the opening of your book - I wanna read it!

"punch-buggy. no punch backs." wham.

interestingly, in our game (considered a rule of "punch buggy" and not its own game) when we saw a vw bus, we'd say, "slug bug," wham wham (two punches for a slug bug, and no punch backs were implied, thus making buses the star-power of the game).

Jersey Chick said:

There was also pa-diddle - played at night, when you saw a car that had only one working headlight.

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my girl friend in high school had dozens of cigarette burns in the ceiling of her car for this one.

Esopha said:

Definitely "punchy buggy," except for me you'd say "red punch buggy, no punch backs!" The color came first.

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Actually, yeah, I think I say the color first, not last. Or maybe I say both.

Hmmm. I've never heard of the game at all. Now I'm really starting to wonder just how weird my family was. LOL!

There's no "never heard of this game" response. As if I didn't know already, this is just more evidence that I grew up as a very deprived child in a very sick family...

Punch Buggy.

Slug (a) Bug is our local pest extermination company.

i played Slug Bug-- not very skillfully, but Slug Bug all the same.
xxxrae

benbradley said:

There's no "never heard of this game" response. As if I didn't know already, this is just more evidence that I grew up as a very deprived child in a very sick family...

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Hmm... we're all either pounding on or getting pounded on by family members, and yours is the sick family??

Er, I still play "(Insert color) punch buggy, no punch backs," and I'm 15. It was a childhood staple, man.

Slug Bug (color)-no slug backs. Played it this way in Wyoming, Colorado, and California.

Slug Bug (color) - double punch while saying no slugs back. The first time we took a family trip to Mexico I about lost my arm. There are A LOT of old model VW bugs down here! And my brother & sister were much faster than me. I think we were up to 50 by the time we got ot our destination!

And yes on padiddle too.

(can I vote again?)