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| Perhaps telling the origin of the game will clear this up. The name of the game is not directly related to the explorer. | |||
| In the early 1960's my family lived in northern Indiana.I had a younger brother named Steve. When he was little his eyes looked oriental and his skin tone looked Asian. One of the neighbors that lived behind us affectionately called him Chinese Boy. Later another brother, Mark, received the nickname Marco Polo from this same neighbor. Probably in keeping with the Asian theme. | |||
| The game of Marco Polo did not initially start out as Marco Polo. It started out as a game of blind man tag in our backyard pool. The calling of "Marco" and "Polo" evolved out of the times Mark (Marco) was it. | |||
| The game was initially played as it is played today. However, as we got older the game evolved slightly with "new" rules. Such as not having to be in the pool as long as an arm or leg was still in, or even later when you could be totally out of the water as long as you were within reach of the pool. Nobody ever cheated or peeked. From what I have read, these variations also pickup new game names even though the game is basically the same game. | |||
| I have had people question this claim to the origin of the game of Marco Polo. I do not know how I can prove this other than I was there. I would be very surprised if you can find any mention of the game in any media prior to the early 1960's. | |||
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Revision as of 13:30, 7 September 2007
Bogus(?) Historical note
I deleted this paragraph, it looked like vandalism:
- The historical significance of this game relates back to a time when Marco Polo (age 17) was travelling to China with his father and uncle on their way to see the Great Kublai Khan. Marco was very tired and he fell asleep on his horse. His horse must have sensed this and slowed down dropping back from the caravan. When Marco Polo awoke he did not see his family. He began to hear voices in the desert thinking it was the caravan calling for him. He was later found it was not his family calling: he was hallucinating.
Jorge Stolfi 21:39, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
That's partially true, though most of it is not.
Marco Polo was an explorer from china and the game gets its name was him...
- That doesn't look like vandalism to me. What do you think vandalism is? It may or may not be correct, but it looks like a good faith edit to me. I came here looking for just such a historical note. How does the game relate to the person???? 24.254.87.52 05:10, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Relation to Sharks and Minnows
I just created an article for Sharks and Minnows, but as far as I have always known the rules of play of that game, I don't see any similarity to Marco Polo. Can someone please enlighten to this? --Freedomlives 21:38, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
Australia?
For what its worth I had never heard of this game in Australia until I saw it in a Simpsons episode. Are we sure it's popular in Australia? Avalon 13:15, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
- I have never heard of it until I saw it in a Sopranos episode and nobody I know or have spoken too has heard of it. I'm certain there are other pool games here in Australia but nothing like this. SM247 22:43, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm Australian and can remember playing Marco Polo with my friends in pools when we were kids. We playing it whenever we had the chance. (Through I've never heard of the "mermaid-on-the-rocks" or being able to look uderwater rules.)
The explorer
WHAT DOES MARCO POLO HAVE TO DO WITH THE GAME MARCO POLO? The above was placed on the article page, unsigned, on 30 Sep 2006 (GMT). Avalon 20:30, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
Perhaps telling the origin of the game will clear this up. The name of the game is not directly related to the explorer.
In the early 1960's my family lived in northern Indiana.I had a younger brother named Steve. When he was little his eyes looked oriental and his skin tone looked Asian. One of the neighbors that lived behind us affectionately called him Chinese Boy. Later another brother, Mark, received the nickname Marco Polo from this same neighbor. Probably in keeping with the Asian theme.
The game of Marco Polo did not initially start out as Marco Polo. It started out as a game of blind man tag in our backyard pool. The calling of "Marco" and "Polo" evolved out of the times Mark (Marco) was it.
The game was initially played as it is played today. However, as we got older the game evolved slightly with "new" rules. Such as not having to be in the pool as long as an arm or leg was still in, or even later when you could be totally out of the water as long as you were within reach of the pool. Nobody ever cheated or peeked. From what I have read, these variations also pickup new game names even though the game is basically the same game.
I have had people question this claim to the origin of the game of Marco Polo. I do not know how I can prove this other than I was there. I would be very surprised if you can find any mention of the game in any media prior to the early 1960's.
Grichard56 13:30, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Bats/moths
I have deleted the following paragraph as I live in the U.K and have never come across the game of Bats/moths. I saw marco/polo being shouted in the swimming pools of the characters in seperate episodes of The Simpsons and Family Guy and had no idea what they were doing.
similar game to be found in some regions of the UK is "Bat/Moth". This can be played in swimming pools or on land, as a large group, with three or four contestants making the bats and moths, with the remainder forming a circle barrier to prevent leaving the game. The game is not widely played. In fact, this may not be played anywhere at all.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/Marco_Polo_%28game%29" Furthermore, the last sentence of this paragraph in my opinion suffers from sloppy editing, and makes the entire thing useless
Although "Bat/Moth" may exist (Though I've never heard of it and I'm from England) it is not the same as Marco Polo, which is pretty comon in Egland MJN SEIFER
please delete the UK information from the page
im also born and bred in london and still live in the uk, and now i have read this page, i remember seeing many programs with this being shown. ive never known marco popo being played in any pool. and when ive seen it on the tv ive never understood what they were doing until now. ive asked people younger and older about this and they dont know anything about this game. im removing the uk information because its wrong.
I have Played this as a child, and I have lived in England all my life. ( 161.51.11.2 )
Maybe It depends what part of England your from? Because where I'm from it was a very comon game to play, and I have asked people and they played it.
Perhaps chaning "UK" to "Parts of England" or something similar would work MJN SEIFER 18:32, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
Speedo Torpedo
Near to none of the rules are referenced and yet you delete this one? Just because it seems like vandalism does not necessarily make it so. Unless you grew up in the mid-west, please do not judge my helpful edits. I put it back up, I will try to find a source.
- I played this game with my cousins many a summer growing up in Fort Wayne. I can assure you it's real, and yet, in retrospect, somewhat embarrassing (hence the anonymity of this post). 88.224.70.169 10:46, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Age Range?
I've never played this game before, but I don't seem to get why someone put an age limit on it. I understand that it can't be played by kids under 4, but not by people over the age of 18? Us adults do play kiddy games sometimes ;)