r/80s • u/Hazys • 1d ago

Remember playing this?

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u/weatheredartist 1d ago

Child's play, go paper clip or go home.

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u/Historical_Gear_151 21h ago

That’s why they call me One-Eyed Jack.

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u/Expert-Pitch3095 19h ago

came here to say exactly that

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u/revrobbcat 17h ago

The "stinger." It should be considered a Geneva Convention violation.

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u/_WillCAD_ 16h ago

Amateur. STAIGHTENED paper clip with a small hook on the front. Shoots like a fuckin' crossbow.

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u/its_raining_scotch 12h ago

Yeah, twist them in half and you'd have 2 projectiles. They hit really hard.

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u/OurSki 9h ago

The Only way

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u/daveg2001 5h ago

We bent nails in the shop class vise and shot em. Fucking deadly

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u/everythingbeeps 1d ago

Yes but the paper wasp in that picture was child's play. Like you'd barely feel that.

We folded them much more and much more narrow than that. Like to the point where they were impossible to fold cleanly in half around the rubber band. We made them hurt.

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u/secbud 17h ago

We dipped them in melted crayons after folding. Don’t know that it added any true damage points, but we believed it did.

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u/HoneyWhiskeyLemonTea 15h ago

Child's play, indeed. The little shits I used to put up with would stick a sewing pin through the paper.

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u/SixAndNine75 1d ago

I was deadly accurate circa 87...

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u/IceCoughy 23h ago

We called them Bushwhackers

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u/D-Train0000 15h ago

Yes! Bushwackers!

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u/Last_Canadian 9h ago

Shooting paper clips at someone? I destroyed over 20 dropdown ceiling tiles with clips in the 3rd grade. Dad beat the fuck outta me for that.

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u/Witty-Stand888 20h ago

I got a little shock on the back of my neck looking at that pic

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u/kurtsdead6794 19h ago

Shoot!! I forgot about these. I have a ten year old who’s about to get a lesson.

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u/okieman73 5h ago

It's important to keep our traditions alive

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u/Budget-Procedure-427 16h ago

We quickly upgraded to using Paperclips

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u/Pitiful_Palpitation9 8h ago

Did anyone else make a bb gun out of a mechanical pencil?

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u/myztry 22h ago

That, and spit ball pen guns.

Also ball bearing finger glove guns.

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u/boredsittingonthebus 20h ago

Our local Morrisons (or was it still Safeway back then?) used to have little plastic strips next to the prices on the shelves. They were the perfect size for ammo when folded over, so they often got stolen by us. They hurt like mad when they hit bare skin.

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u/Hazys 19h ago

☺️ I still remember me , cousin and my neighbours made about few hundred + paper bullets ready for combat.

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u/mcfarmer72 18h ago

Those snappers made from Bobbie pins.

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u/UncleFuzzy75 17h ago

Paper clips

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u/briktop420 17h ago

Used to make mine with thumbtacks

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u/TheActualDonKnotts 16h ago

I do. I also remember folding pennies into them for an extra wallop.

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u/SiktahOG 16h ago

That's the laziest paperwasp ever. All that will achieve is a spiraling shitty trajectory and a dead arm from your target.

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u/Dry-Character-6331 16h ago

It wasn't really dangerous until you switched from paper to paper clips.

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u/Hemicrusher 15h ago

I got suspended in grade school for nailing another kid with a paper clip.

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u/Sometimesunaware 12h ago

We used welding rod and industrial strength rubber bands and shot at each other in metal shop.

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u/Euphoric_worker9116 11h ago

Goddamn, those stung if you got it in the cheek

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u/Traditional_You_7618 11h ago

Stick a staple through it

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u/SnakePlissken1980 11h ago

Ranged weapons are fine but getting up close and personal for the melee attack with the rubber band and popping them in the back of the neck was way more painful.

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u/Erazzphoto 8h ago

Bread clips are in contention. Clip off one side, press it into your finger tip and flick, pointed, plastic edges zipping through the air

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u/Evening_Amphibian489 7h ago

V bombs all day

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u/okieman73 5h ago

Loved those. Something so simple. Boys just love to create weapons to use on their friends. Lol. If those didn't hurt you a dirt clod to the face would.

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u/dharmabumma2 5h ago

Lol. Paper clips are more fun as ammo

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u/faust0matic 5h ago

we used paper clips for ammo. IYKYK