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I still have no clue how this game works
Ummmmm. It was a counting game. Whomever “picked” all their cherries from their tree first won. I used to have this game when i was a kid (mid-late 60’s), and that’s how I learned to count.
Needless to say, I need a calculator to count above 10 nowadays!
Kids are very loud things….
VERY loud….
Agreed. I used to babysit a little girl named Aisha, who literally would play this game twenty times in a fricking row and then SCREAM if I didn’t play it again.
I’m embarrassed to admit this – but as far as I was concerned as a kid, the only “point” to this game was to stuff as many of the cherries into my mouth as possible to gross out my siblings. Bonus if you didn’t choke on them…
Our method of playing used the cherries as projectile weapons.
Yeah, we did that too.
When I was a kid I never knew how to play this game. I only liked the little cherries. I’m pretty sure that was the coolest part of the game. Kinda like monopoly, the shoe and the dog were (and still are) the best parts of the game. Oh, and also when you get a bunch of money and throw it in the air and roll in it and pretent you’re rich.
The old game had plastic trees that fitted into slots on the board. Then you hung the cherries on the trees. The best part of the game was the little buckets that you put your cherries in. I always took the buckets and used them to “feed” my Breyer models horses.
Is it just me or is the way the boy is looking at the little girl a bit more than creepy?
Yeah, that was the version I had. It was kind of a challenge to keep the cherries on those plastic trees. Come to think of it, I think I might still have this tucked in a closet somewhere. The picture at top is from the revival version, circa late 90’s.
And most kids thought those cherries were real. Silly kids!
I remember this old game. I never played it enough to know how it worked. I had the revival version. I think my version of the game was pretending the cherries were “cherry bombs” and we’d throw handfuls at each other, and pretended the hurled cherries were bomb shrapnel. Every once in awhile though, we’d actually sit and play the game, though I never got the concept.
Yeah, this was fun…for a week…when I was two. Out of better ideas, are we?
Is that my science teacher?
We used to take 2-3 cherries and play Hide the Cherry-O with babysitters. Each cherry stem is a little hook, so you can hang them on anything small enough for the hook to reach around it: the edge of the door hinge, the shade pull tag, the handle of one of mom’s prized china teacups. You would then race to see which of the kids found the majority of the cherries. This was the ultimate fun when a sitter was over.
Me and my grandma would play this game on rainy days. She used to watch me during the summer, and if I wasn’t reading a book, we were playing hi ho cherrio. I kept thinking of Cheerios though…
Oh man, I remember getting to preschool early one morning and playing this with my sister and this weird kid named Kenneth. I kept getting the crow and kept trying to cheat, and at the end I dumped all of the cherries out of my bucket when Kenneth won. Good times!
I recall having a game that had a tape with it, I still remember the jingle from the beginning by heart “Hi-ho-cherry-o VCR GAME!” I don’t know what was involved but I thought it was an amazing feat of technology. (I was 5).
I also remember nomming on the cherries, they’d always have teeth marks in them lol
Awwww, the video reminds me so much of my friend Dak and his niece Gracie. Both in looks and their interactions. I’m so taking a field trip to go see them now.
I had this game! I have a vivid memory of playing this with my dad. I don’t know why I had it since I could count at a very young age, but I thought the cherries were neat.