Man these youngens dont know how good we had it back in the days we didnt waste our time on iphones or tv we created our own theater outside we played skelzies stick ball tag kick the can and we didnt stay home we was out doing something with friends in the neighborhood and family parties all kinds of things we had the best music in them days im talking the 70s was the best
i remember playing skelly outside with bottle tops back in the 80's with my cousin, thanks for posting this! brings back memories of growing up in NY before everybody was hooked to the internet and smart phones.
I was Skelly Champ of P@ 127 park in Queens in 1958. We used bottle caps with melted wax in them. The bottoms were made smooth by rubbing them on asphalt.
Old school Bro. passed down! played in El barrio in the 70's. this game been around for a long time thanks for showing it. stickball, Johnny and the Pony, and skelly's.
I was a legend in this game back in the day.....south west philly in the 80s.....we played this all damn day....we used the old milk tops with the melted wax or street tar.....top had to be heavy enough but also light enough so u can pluck it right....
I’m from the Bronx and that’s what we played in the mid-late 60s and 70s!!! It is a great game!!! We used baby food caps, checkers, or bottle soda caps back in my day!!! WoW!!! 🌈☝️✝️☝️🌈 Fun memories!!!
Growing up in the late 50's. early 60's we called it LOADEE'S or SKELLIES in Harlem on 135th Street between St. Nick & Eight Avenue.... What you did was play it backwards.
Use to play Skellys in the mid 80’s in Harlem. Shit was mad fun. Playing this now while drinking would be hella fun, & I don’t even drink. The best caps use to be the grey cap from the photo film for cameras & milk tops from the gallons.
Son. Wtf. You brought me back playing this game when I used to live in the bx on Fordham road in 1980. Holla is right. Thanx for sparking the memories back. Wow.
we use to take crayons and boil them till the was soft & shape them in the milk tops & it was good as the waxs and we use to put in pennies or quarters to make it heavy but some times heavy not good you'll need a light top.
yo crazy how I was telling my wife about playing this game growing up. So I said let me see if its on RUclips an Ill be damn, this was the first vid that popped up and it brought vack mad memories. Props bossman for uploading this vid!!!
automatic like, took it back when i was in Bushwick/Knickerbocker Ave riding in the back of ice cream trucks & putting M80's in the horn of a pay phone watching it explode & when food stamps was physical paper looking like Monopoly $. #GoodOl'Days #GoodTimesGoodStuff
You bugging I bust shit up in this game my G. This is my shit. Glad you took it back like that. I went to the VI and was showing the lil ones how to play this.
Born and raised in Queens and Brooklyn, 1960's and 70's. Went to public schools. Never saw a single person playing this game. All we played was stickball and basketball
We used to put a coin in our tops for added weight. We call them blockbusters. Try to pluck your joint down past the corner store! Damn, I could go for a quarter water right about now.
Growing up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City during the 1960's, we used to play this all the time... Instead of bottle caps, we used to take the steel caps off of school chairs and tables, fill them with melted candle wax, and kick some bottle-cap ass..!
I bet it depends where you grew up. It was "Skellies" where I was .. Corona, Queens NYC... Folks were from the DR and PR when I was growing up there 🙏🏾
I was the King at this game back in the 60s 70s and 80s people used to hate playing with me cause they always lost.. And guess what? At 60 years old i'll still take anyone on... That was our Xbox and it did"t cost $300 to play and we had a great time... Peace!!
I remember this game well. I'm from QB 12th street to be exact I use to play this game all the time. We use to get bottle caps and put melted crayons to different color in them. you go from on to 13 then 4 boxes outside of the 13 to become killer one you became the killer you go after everyone to get them out fun when you play with 3 or more.
Type "skully game" into wikipedia to get some history. Thanks for the post. So many different ways to play skelly! We did it different, but I liked learning new ways depending on what 'hood I was in. Peace.
Damn brings back memories of being like 6 or 7. We loved this game in Jersey but we called it Tops. I never knew New York niggas called it Skullies til I heard Big say it.
Fuck, I loved Skelly or Skelzy we called it. Played a lot of it in right on the Brooklyn/Queens border (Ridgewood/Bushwick area). Got me playing with matches though burning different colored crayons to create the fill inside the bottle cap for that perfect color combination and weight then rub-down the beer logo on top of the cap on cement to make it smooth. I teach high school now in the city and kids don't have a clue.
I don't get what happens after the end. How do you get the be a killer or how do you kill people if the game is over and you just won't by doing the 1-13 n trapezoid circuit..?!
We played this in Philly I remember Skelly I remember getting the soft tar out the street and putting it inside the applesauce or the mayonnaise jar tops this was the mid-seventies for me fun times and stickball. ijs
That's the same thing we did. We called it dead man. We'd draw a skull and crossbones in the center. (I guess we didn't know the official name and came up with our own.
what happened to the killer box ??? the box by itself that was like far from the main box? when u get there you come back and kill ni**as..... that was the joint back in the days.... Boogie Down Bronx baby!!!
@brooklyn718941 youse are doin it all wrong ya start with one and go up to 13 , thats the point. you hit poison boxes and u start all over , and you got the numbers all f up wrong, also
Man these youngens dont know how good we had it back in the days we didnt waste our time on iphones or tv we created our own theater outside we played skelzies stick ball tag kick the can and we didnt stay home we was out doing something with friends in the neighborhood and family parties all kinds of things we had the best music in them days im talking the 70s was the best
i remember playing skelly outside with bottle tops back in the 80's with my cousin, thanks for posting this! brings back memories of growing up in NY before everybody was hooked to the internet and smart phones.
Remember playing skelly during my summers in Brooklyn. Grown men, kids, old heads was all playing. Good times
I was Skelly Champ of P@ 127 park in Queens in 1958. We used bottle caps with melted wax in them. The bottoms were made smooth by rubbing them on asphalt.
I was in that school 18 years later , and yes skelly was still being played.
Old school Bro. passed down! played in El barrio in the 70's. this game been around for a long time thanks for showing it. stickball, Johnny and the Pony, and skelly's.
I was a legend in this game back in the day.....south west philly in the 80s.....we played this all damn day....we used the old milk tops with the melted wax or street tar.....top had to be heavy enough but also light enough so u can pluck it right....
we played shelly in lake ronkonkoma in the early to late 1960’s. great game. it was a favorite in america, mostly in the tri-state area.
I’m from the Bronx and that’s what we played in the mid-late 60s and 70s!!! It is a great game!!! We used baby food caps, checkers, or bottle soda caps back in my day!!! WoW!!! 🌈☝️✝️☝️🌈 Fun memories!!!
Wow I used to love this game in Brooklyn East New York an Ralph ave..sometimes I wish I never left 👏👏🇩🇴🇩🇴
kids today don't know nothing about this game I remember playing this game from sun up to sun down skelly old school bring back the 80s
Back in the 60’s
Growing up in the late 50's. early 60's we called it LOADEE'S or SKELLIES in Harlem on 135th Street between St. Nick & Eight Avenue.... What you did was play it backwards.
Use to play Skellys in the mid 80’s in Harlem. Shit was mad fun. Playing this now while drinking would be hella fun, & I don’t even drink. The best caps use to be the grey cap from the photo film for cameras & milk tops from the gallons.
ENY ALL DAY.. Milford Blues!!! I know it to be called skelly never heard skully. Great game great video. God Bless
I used to play this in the Bronx in the early 60s, then later in Brooklyn. This guy is a man's man. Thanks for passing skelly down to the kids!
Born & raised in the South Bronx....i miss these days! In the absence of posessons, creativity takes center stage!
Truth
Son. Wtf. You brought me back playing this game when I used to live in the bx on Fordham road in 1980. Holla is right. Thanx for sparking the memories back. Wow.
Word. This shit is awesome. I spent hours dripping wax into bottle caps to put weight onto my Scully caps.
sure right
true indeed so many lost games i remember playing in the middle of the street in brooklyn n playing manhunt
+Josh Done Nah man no wax lol clay and a penny...
we use to take crayons and boil them till the was soft & shape them in the milk tops & it was good as the waxs and we use to put in pennies or quarters to make it heavy but some times heavy not good you'll need a light top.
Throw back of the century...New Kids have no idea...We use r play this for hours..Burned my hands plenty of times with candel wax..
yo crazy how I was telling my wife about playing this game growing up. So I said let me see if its on RUclips an Ill be damn, this was the first vid that popped up and it brought vack mad memories. Props bossman for uploading this vid!!!
New York Baby!
Growing up in Flatbush this brought me back. Skelly, spit, and ceelo were my games as a kid.
automatic like, took it back when i was in Bushwick/Knickerbocker Ave riding in the back of ice cream trucks & putting M80's in the horn of a pay phone watching it explode & when food stamps was physical paper looking like Monopoly $. #GoodOl'Days #GoodTimesGoodStuff
Times is CHANGING!!!!!!!
I think this game goes back to the 1890s in New York City.
WAITAMINUTE *1890s* ?????
Like 1980s sure. But .......
You bugging I bust shit up in this game my G. This is my shit. Glad you took it back like that. I went to the VI and was showing the lil ones how to play this.
The best game in a child life. We did a lot of bending. The enjoyment was kicking ur game. .. haha
Born and raised in Queens and Brooklyn, 1960's and 70's. Went to public schools. Never saw a single person playing this game. All we played was stickball and basketball
We used to put a coin in our tops for added weight. We call them blockbusters. Try to pluck your joint down past the corner store! Damn, I could go for a quarter water right about now.
yes sir Brooklyn madison st bed stuy babe we used to have big skelly games blocks against blocks like march madness
Faacts Deactur St
Quincy st 👌🏾
Monroe n Gates
Prospect and Ralph
Madison and myrtle
Hell yea!!! My boyfriend told me all about this game he used to play in his city. Awesome video!!!
Yoooo this shit is a hood classic I grew up with this good looks for this fam
Growing up on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City during the 1960's, we used to play this all the time...
Instead of bottle caps, we used to take the steel caps off of school chairs and tables, fill them with melted candle wax, and kick some bottle-cap ass..!
Classic! We used to play at P.S.140 school yard in Jamaica Queens, NY
All these years I thought it was "Skelly". Didn't kno it was Skully.
Excellnt vid mah G.O.D.
I bet it depends where you grew up.
It was "Skellies" where I was .. Corona, Queens NYC...
Folks were from the DR and PR when I was growing up there 🙏🏾
Mad names for it. My crew called it skelzies. 😂😂😂
East New York, Brooklyn all day baby. what yall know about them mistic tops, heavy wit the wax in them.
I was the King at this game back in the 60s 70s and 80s people used to hate playing with me cause they always lost..
And guess what? At 60 years old i'll still take anyone on... That was our Xbox and it did"t cost $300 to play and we had a great time... Peace!!
🔥🔥Bushwick Skelly Kingz🔥🔥
" & when I shot skellies I had boxes in line" - Q-Tip (Beats Rhymes and Life, 1996)
Bronx...Decatur Ave between Gun Hill and 209th...like 30 years ago
I'm from A.Q. And this was the game right here and stick ball
I remember this game well. I'm from QB 12th street to be exact I use to play this game all the time. We use to get bottle caps and put melted crayons to different color in them. you go from on to 13 then 4 boxes outside of the 13 to become killer one you became the killer you go after everyone to get them out fun when you play with 3 or more.
Thanks for making this known I was talking to my kids about this and they don't know about it
Great game before you needed electricity to have fun great post brooklyn circa early 80s
Type "skully game" into wikipedia to get some history. Thanks for the post. So many different ways to play skelly! We did it different, but I liked learning new ways depending on what 'hood I was in. Peace.
Damn brings back memories of being like 6 or 7. We loved this game in Jersey but we called it Tops. I never knew New York niggas called it Skullies til I heard Big say it.
i was the illest in my hood back in the days we added wax and molding clay. Definitely a throw back.
2020...i use to play with the adobo inner top. My mom use to flip when she was cooking and had no inner top. Lol
I'm 14 and me and my friends played this in school
Skellzies Da Bronx way BACK!!
Looks like hood hopscotch for gurlz..
Fuck, I loved Skelly or Skelzy we called it. Played a lot of it in right on the Brooklyn/Queens border (Ridgewood/Bushwick area). Got me playing with matches though burning different colored crayons to create the fill inside the bottle cap for that perfect color combination and weight then rub-down the beer logo on top of the cap on cement to make it smooth. I teach high school now in the city and kids don't have a clue.
...old school in The Heights (Washington Heights) 70's Get Some! But hey, we numbered our board diffrent from yours in FL.
Who remember how to make a double decker besides me...??
Fr I ain’t seen kids play this in over a decade and I’m in my early 20s, they never gonna experience this
I don't get what happens after the end. How do you get the be a killer or how do you kill people if the game is over and you just won't by doing the 1-13 n trapezoid circuit..?!
Lol,how old r u,i was playing this before u were borne but great job on the board but the squares need to be smaller👍👍👍👍👍
To Start You Go To One - At The End You Go To Skully And Become A Monster An Then Try To Get The Other People...
Aaah shit old school.. I would love to play ya fam we use to call the 13 box parameter I - (8) am - (9) a - (10) killer - (11) diller -(12) 🤣
Wow✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾👍🏾
We played this in Philly I remember Skelly I remember getting the soft tar out the street and putting it inside the applesauce or the mayonnaise jar tops this was the mid-seventies for me fun times and stickball. ijs
That's the same thing we did. We called it dead man. We'd draw a skull and crossbones in the center. (I guess we didn't know the official name and came up with our own.
what happened to the killer box ??? the box by itself that was like far from the main box? when u get there you come back and kill ni**as..... that was the joint back in the days.... Boogie Down Bronx baby!!!
How can you give a thumbs down. Straight haters and they must of been the ones all losing playing the game to there friends..lol
I remember playing this in Ohio.
tham I remember playing this in the Bronx.
For those that know brother
Looks like a cool game, but can you reteach it without the ugly language please?
Oh naw his top rusty at the bottom lol. In BKNY the Best tops are the Flintstone ice tops aka trucky tops
That board so little but bring that a** to bmore cause I'm claiming I'm still king on the board✌️
I WOULD BATTLE YOU MOST DEF!!!!!!!!!!! ANY TIME
@brooklyn718941 youse are doin it all wrong ya start with one and go up to 13 , thats the point. you hit poison boxes and u start all over , and you got the numbers all f up wrong, also
Projects brother
Damnnn
How about the ion checkers with the wax hell to the air that's a young kids have to be doing today get off the phone
My NiGGa!!!
Now all you have to do is learn how to speak civil English!
Shut up. That's our slang, aint shit wrong with how he spoke