Games to last a lifetime

Visitors trying their hand at traditional games in conjunction with the Keluarga Malaysia Family Aspirations Tour at Dataran Angsana, Johor Baru. — Bernama

YESTERYEAR games such as coconut bowling, throwing slippers, wheel marbles and chopstick ping-pong may sound outright laughable to today’s younger generation.

But these were innocent pastimes for children of the 1970s, 1980s and even 1990s, before the ubiquitous existence of advanced technology such as smartphones.