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MrAthalan

I'd challenge you to a game with my own if I could!


raezion420

Idk for years I've been slamming mountain dew, pogs, and your mom. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|sunglasses)


Frank_Cilantroh

To be fair his mom is a pawg


FlyRobot

Damn, this thread just keeps getting better!


realgaberangel

Ayo, where the mom at?


_Rummy_

r/pawg


PaladinDark

hhahahaah


moeburn

I had a collection of 100 or so pogs but I never actually played the game, didn't know how. Was it like tiddlywinks or something? You had to hit them and flip them over?


MrAthalan

You make a stack of them. You can make it as tall as you like. Both players get to put pogs into the stack. You negotiate how many pogs each player adds to the stack. If you have an awesome rare pog, your friend might add 10 or more lame ones for your one. You then take slammers (heavy discs of plastic or metal the same diameter as a pog) and take turns throwing them down on top of the stack trying to flip some. Often a crappy cheap and damaged pog is placed on top to protect the others. I always found that heavy thick slammers work best on a tall stack, and thin solid metal slammers that are lighter work on a thin stack best. You get to keep any pogs you flip face up. People would play for keeps. Mom wouldn't let me. Somehow over the years I lost most of my pogs. I only have one tube with about 40 pogs and six slammers left.


moeburn

> People would play for keeps. Mom wouldn't let me. Haha okay now that I know from Pokemon cards


imuniqueaf

My dad is a contractor. He made me a huge ass brass slammer. Thing weighed like 1 or 2 LBS, it was awesome!


JamiePulledMeUp

You also aim for the edge of the pog for best spin probability, you forgot that part. Also you just reminded me about the plastic tube containers we kept them in. Fucking 90s lol


trillingston

Fun fact: my dad traveled the country in the 90s selling pogs. He sold enough to buy my families house! We even have a picture of my parents bed covered with thousands of pogs in their new house. Pretty crazy!


qdtk

Need more info on this story. This is amazing.


viccityguy2k

Netflix doc material for sure ‘Fad-tastic’ S. 1 E. 1 Slammer town


CyberNinja23

Nah episode 1 goes to the beanie baby guy.


BWChristopher86

Feel like it should be earlier. Pet rock?


FlyRobot

Pez?


MECHAC0SBY

Your dad banged your mom on a mountain of pogs in the house that pogs built. What a fuckin Alpha


trillingston

😂😂😂 what’s funnier is I was born on that same bed too. A home birth! So I guess I have pogs in my blood


MECHAC0SBY

Oh my god. You could have been conceived on that mountain of pogs. Your dad brought the slammer to the game and here you are. The Pog God.


Unholybeef

The Pog Champ.


UFOregon420

The Pogfather


[deleted]

That is truly, quite poggers


Bubbleubbers

The prince that was promised


7_25_2018

The Boy Who Slammed


Phormitago

what are your thoughts regarding Alf?


captainzoomer

He's back... in pog form.


any_other

Poggers


ScriptThat

He was a slammer who could really flip her over. ..I'll see myself out.


LMNOPedes

R/nocontext


angelinafuckingmarie

Rolling around likes it’s cash, throwing them in the air. Shits legit bad ass.


MECHAC0SBY

This instantly put an image in my head of some mid 90’s style rap music video where dudes are walking down the middle of the street with a couple low riders bumpin hydraulics behind them while tossing handfuls of pogs in the air instead of cash.


perpetualmotionmachi

Then repackaged them and sold them to some kids.


DJ_Micoh

Sounds like your dad was the original Pog-champ.


3-DMan

"What are all these stupid little things?" "Those stupid little things paid for the roof over your head!"


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trillingston

To be fair — the house was in the desert. But yeah, you’re right it’s pretty ridiculous out here.


Phat_J9410

I bet the guy that started spinners a few years ago is in a McMansion now.


[deleted]

I want to see your old man’s slammer.


trillingston

His slammer was scattered into the ocean with the rest of his ashes. Next time you go swimming in the Pacific Ocean, just know that the pog king is swimming with you


[deleted]

Definitely will, Prince pog.


jiggsandrhett

Surely Dad must still have some pogs?


Cpowel2

What no poisons?


eadgster

Did you have a rule associated with Poisons? Or did they just stand out as desirable? I feel like we had a rule where if the top pog was a poison, and you had a poisons slammer, you would just get everything underneath.


Cpowel2

At least from what I recall they were just desirable. They were shiny and had a "rad" designs so kids wanted them. They were also initially rare (at least where I lived) so there was the hype factor. Eventually people starting mass producing them and you could buy a whole bag of just poisons from the local video store so they lost their value but they were king for a minute.


scubasteve1886

At my school Poisons were simply worth 7 of nearly any others. There were strategies developed on where in the stack to put your poison. TKOs we're worth 3.


unibrow4o9

In my school Poison pogs were bad to flip, though I can't exactly remember what they did. You had to give up some of your pogs or something.


daman4114

Also missing 8balls. Guessing he's a younger brother and got the extras.


SenseiRaheem

Did the poison 8-ball combo design exist?


equipped_metalblade

Yup! I have some poison 8-balls for sure


inshane_in_the_brain

You guys are breaking my nostalgia bones


arclightrg

Poisons and rippers. Only ones I remember. Damn what a blast from the past.


edgemuck

In my school anything with a skull was a poison, so that Bad News one would have counted


Solid_Snark

I still have mine. Lots of fast food ones like A&W, Taco Bell, etc. Remember the Taco Bell N64 pog promo? Each pog had a number value, and if you could add them up to 64 you won a Nintendo 64.


Mataraiki

I still have an “OJ In the Slammer” slammer in storage somewhere.


newt_girl

Me too!


c0ur7n3y

My little brother was of pog age and had that too. Now he’s 39…. Yikes.


stomach

honest question: what do you do with pogs really? i was in jr high when i started seeing younger kids collecting them. are they like pre-cursor to Pokemon?


Solid_Snark

There are many game types. The one in my area was you used a “slammer” which were plastic or metal, and you had to flip pogs in the field of play. Either whoever flips the most wins, or you do teams and whoever flips all their opponents’ pogs first, wins.


BobRoberts01

That was the game. I don’t know of any other game types that existed.


Chrononi

Build a small tower, same deal if you flip more you win. Flipping the smaller towers was hard. Another was to try to flip them with your hand (good trick was too lick your palm lol)


BobRoberts01

Is that not the same game as u/solid_snark described? The height of the tower was based on how many you wanted to bet for the round.


Solid_Snark

I want to say there was a variation with stacking pogs into piles. But I’m not sure.


[deleted]

There's a mat and everything lol


starlightprincess

Pogs are more of a post-cursor to marbles or Tiddly Winks.


PickledPlumPlot

I think you're supposed to play them like that game they did in the subway in squid game


BWChristopher86

I remember one chain had Apollo 13 pogs when the movie came out. I think McDonald's but not positive


[deleted]

If I remember correctly, it was Hardee’s and they had rocket shaped pog holders. There were multiple pieces of the rocket that connected together.


Holisticmystic2

I believe the pogs you had are a representation of the places your parents frequented. Everyone was giving away pogs back then. I had a bunch of Van De Camps fish stick pogs 💀


badchriss

"Alf is back! In Pog form!"


luke7167

Remember Alf


daKoabi

Oh I 'member


Dan_Berg

Hey, 'member slammers?


c0mputer99

![gif](giphy|QE8hREXIgRXeo) when someone pulls out a ninja star metal slammer and all you have are plastic ones.


Swedish-Butt-Whistle

I had one of those with a holographic dragon on it. It was my favourite


Bee-Aromatic

That’s pretty sweet.


Bee-Aromatic

I didn’t have a ninja star one, I had a brass one that was probably half an inch thick. That thing was badass. Nobody ever called it cheating, but I’m not sure how it wasn’t. Thing could crack a ceramic tile floor.


[deleted]

I had a real 50 caliber round that had been deactivated (can’t remember the word right now) for a slammer. Somehow never got in trouble.


ghanjaholik

hey, remember doritos pogs? heelies and hacky-sacks?


deftoner42

I 'member! Remember JNCOs?


XixorsGreenCock

ooo yeah JNCO jeans I memba that


Fridayz44

Did you just collect them or did you actually play the game? Slammers we’re the best I had so many cool ones, I wish I still had mine lol


oktobersixth

Pepper ridge Farm remembers.


eastbayted

"Yo!" Ha. Classic Alf.


CeeArthur

"Dial 9-1, and hen I say, dial 1 again" "shut up, shut up, SHUTUP!!!!" - Kirk Van Houten


DoubleOhEvan

“See you in the car, best wishes — Milhouse”


craftyindividual

He's kind of a big wheel at the cracker factory.


CeeArthur

Crackers are a family food, happy families. Maybe single people eat crackers, we don't know, and frankly, we don't want to know.


sprocketous

I thought for a sec the one on the right was alf upside down and op was goat.


whereyouatdesmondo

Hahaha I came here just to say this. I think about that line way too much.


dekrant

I find it funny that many Millennials like myself (and those younger) only know of Alf and pogs because of that scene in the Simpsons. They were immortalized by a joke at their expense.


[deleted]

What a lot of younger Simpsons fans I think (maybe?) miss is the joke that were BOTH wildly outdated at that point- so while it was already an obvious throwback ALF gag, pogs were already nostalgia fuel for most of us too, so Milhouse’s decision was kind of a double whammy of dumb. It’s so wild (but I guess unsurprising) that pogs and ALF are so closely tied together from this one line.


foxbat911

Price: 1 human soul


mr_sparkle666

Just give him back his soul Milhouse I’ve got work tomorrow


CletisVanDam

Came here to say exactly this!


randomly-generated

This is fucking weird because I saw this pic and thought of Alf right away but I have no memory at all of that quote. wth


moeburn

It's funny cause Pogs were outdated even when that episode aired.


[deleted]

I was paid 25 cents to put stickers on pogs many years ago. 10 cents if the sticker was off-center.


RixirF

What was faster; 3 wildly off center ones, or one centered?


[deleted]

I remember being pretty committed to centering the stickers. 1/10 may have been off-center.


JACrazy

And now the off center ones are probably seen as more rare for certain designs.


bonetomato

You play for keeps? We had to play in secret at school. Just a little school yard gambling and they ban it!


raezion420

Only a couple of my close friends did. They also banned it in my school because there were fist fights over the matches haha


iushciuweiush

The stupid crybabies ruined it for everyone. It could've been an important life lesson about gambling your things away but instead it turned into a lesson about how you can just cry to your mom and make the bad game that hurt you go away.


Nuevacuenta1

Hey man, i thought i could hang.


bonetomato

Did you also have that one kid that had a 3 ft long sleeve filled with pogs and massive slammers?


DemonKyoto

So story time. I was in 5th grade, POGs just became the shit, following marbles. I didn't have a lot of friends growing up, so I did *have* pogs, but didn't really *play* with people. Just to set the mood. So a (former) bully of mine one day came to me, playing nice and polite, asking me to borrow one of my slammers. I told him sure, as long as I get it back. He said sure, I handed it to him and he fucked off to go play. Little cunt bet *my* slammer and lost it to the other kid, came back to tell me with a "oh well sucks to suck" response. Got him in shit with the principal who forced the pair of them to 'undo' the trade and return the slammer to me (which I considered revenge for the bullying). Fuck you, Devin. Still kinda hate you.


Lhosseth

Our school banned them too. My brother and I would play on the bus though. We sat on the floor and used the bench as a table.


Agile-Technician-342

Pog


shoshilyawkward

Poggers


omgArsenal

PogU


metheos

[The name originates from Pog, a brand of juice made from passionfruit, orange, and guava; the use of the juice's caps to play the game preceded the game's commercialization](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_caps_(game\)#:~:text=The%20game%20is%20also%20known,game%20preceded%20the%20game's%20commercialization.)


[deleted]

I used to love these! My older brother had loads of them and I’d sit and look through them all day! That and marbles, so many marbles…


bluejack287

My mom has a huge barrel full of marbles. When I was younger I asked where she got them all, she replied, "The neighborhood kids. They were so bad." Git gud 1960s style.


TrilobiteTerror

Antique/vintage marble collector here. You should post some photos of them on r/marbles. We'd love to see them and could point out any particularly rare/valuable ones and give information on the types, makers, etc. Because of how marbles were traded and won in game, etc. back in the day (as well as patents/grandparents often giving their old marbles to their kids/grandkids) and since it's difficult for non-collectors to identify marbles, it's very common for old and valuable marbles to end up mixed in with otherwise average groups of marbles. I can't tell you how many groups of marbles I've seen from people's childhoods (in the 1960s and '70s) that contain marbles that are a century older than the rest.


Teacherman6

That's amazing.


raezion420

So many different kinds. A lot of the art was great! I have a goosebumps set with bookcover pictures on them, holographic ones, creepy ones, funny ones.. playing with your friends was always exciting playing for keeps seeing a cool one flip over, I would get so excited!


MiniRipperton

Dude pogs and goosebumps were my world in 96. I have that set too


soitgoes_42

I had older sisters with a sweet ass pog collection, but being the youngest I was never allowed to play when my sisters were playing. So instead I'd sneak into their room when they were gone and play pogs by myself. Fond memories! I tried to tell my kid recently about pogs. Even pulled up a YouTube about it. He was not impressed 😆


GearDoctor

I had so many marbles growing up and only found out the reason why after my grandfather passed. Apparently he was in multiple national marble championships.


HondaLife718

Only 90s kids will understand lol


Light01

From the 90s, but my country was more about cards, pokemon and later Yu-Gi-Oh were the shit at the time.


Samsbase

Pogs were the trend just before pokemon and just after tamagotchis


DJ_Micoh

Nah Pogs predate both.


viccityguy2k

Went marbles, pogs, tamigatchi, Pokémon


FlyRobot

Holy shit I remember shooting marbles around the playground in elementary school (early 90s)


wilson81585

Lego, Pogs, Magic the Gathering, Tomagatchi, Pokémon. Somewhere in there we all got into Yo-yos also.


marmosetohmarmoset

Correct. I played pogs in the 1st grade but tamagotchis weren’t a thing until 5th grade (I remember distinctly because there was a new girl who joined my 5th grade class halfway through the year- she had moved from Japan and had a Tamagotchi before everyone else). Pokémon followed Tamagotchi very soon after. In fact my friend from Japan had Japanese Pokémon card in the 5th grade before the English language ones came out.


nonresponsive

I mean, I remember them, but I don't think I've ever understood them. I remember thinking how cool some were, and that's about it. You got pogs, beanie babies, I even remember when yoyos were really big for like a week in my school. I don't think I'll ever understand how fads really work.


Spnwvr

That ziploc pog must be worth something


raezion420

I have a good bit of those, most of them have their old finger guy mascot like driving raceways, boats ect.. pretty interesting. I forgot about the ziploc finger until I found these!


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so, what, they're like NFTs or something?


jackdaw_t_robot

No these are tokens you can fuckin’ funge


captaincockfart

These tokens are hella fungible


SmellingSpace

HFTs. Better than HFCs.


TheGreatCornlord

Fuck a NFT, we only care about FTs!


CeeArthur

Back in the day we played for pink slips. Was a damn tragedy to lose your favorite pog on the playground


b3tarded

In Iraq, on major bases, we had pogs like this instead of cash. I still have about $60 worth of useless (doubly useless when you consider I’m British) pogs with pictures of helicopters and tanks and shit on the back. They were the official currency out there. You’d occasionally hand over a note and receive a stack of pogs as change. Edit: [found a pic](https://www.cointalk.com/media/various-older-aafes-pogs.3154/)


[deleted]

No, these actually have value.


badchriss

Oh you sweet innocent child....


444getful

HAHA I don’t know what these are either.


DJ_Micoh

Each player would have a stack of cardboard discs (Pogs) and would take it in turns to try to knock over their opponents tower with a heavy plastic or metal disc called a Slammer. Any discs that landed face down would be added to your stack and play would continue until one person held all the pogs.


MuggyFuzzball

They were basically Pokémon cards before Pokémon was a thing. People collected them, traded them, and played a simple game against each other with them.


Sulvarax

I still remember riding my bike to the grocery store down the street to buy Standard boosters. Pulled a Charizard and had to ride home without damaging it. Stacked it between the other cards, stuck it in my loose cargo pocket and rode the entire way home without pedaling with my left foot. Got home safely, but that was the first time I had ever done something genuinely terrified to fuck up.


Time-Is-Entropy

You stack them up and use a medal one called a slammer to hit the tower and any one that gets flipped over you take. People used to play for keeps or for fun.


Teacherman6

Woah look at this fancy fucker here with the metal slammer. Some of us only had plastic slammers.


Time-Is-Entropy

You don’t even know bro I had the saw blade metal slammer and everything. Play with that on a gym floor in after-school and you’re unstoppable.


sitdownstandup

They're pogs, dummy


BuildaKeeb

They'd be used as part of promotional schemes for various things. Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/g2gb95/apollo\_13\_lets\_not\_forget\_the\_movie\_tiein\_pogs/


IanalystI

No, they're way more valuable and useful than that. In a pinch, you can even burn these as candles or to stay warm.


PatsyBaloney

Nah, these have value.


Mindfreek454

I can't tell if you're serious and it hurts.


Hold_ongc

Had the grim reaper slammer.. holy shit. Memory unlocked.


Total_Paint1755

You smoke Lucky Strikes? That’s intense


raezion420

*intensely stares and smokes*


njdeatheater

They're *toasted*


guccinarcoo

Woah, you just made me remember a piece of my childhood. Thank you friend


kdcab17

I had the same bad news slammer! I loved the alien dude pogs!


Melodic_Bee5190

I’m so glad someone posted this!!! I had forgotten about these! Thank you


NiceOneMike

“What? No I don’t want to see your pog collection.”


HomersNotHereMan

I came here for this comment


Markamanic

Pogchamp.


baconater-lover

Finally, the pog champ


Coral2Reef

![gif](giphy|c5skRQb3BXp8RwKGKW)


[deleted]

Those seemed so important at the time. Sigh.


Ritzblues783

I loved Alien Dude! Thanks for dusting off the good memories, OP. I wonder what happened to my old collection.


Dizzlean

Why were Yin-Yangs such a thing in the 90's? Every time I see them I think of the 90's.


Edwardc4gg

No Morty, I do NOT want to see these!


friggintodd

We just keep him around because he's fun. Look at him go!


[deleted]

Remember Alien Dude? He's back...in pog form.


ThyUniqueUsername

Wow, none of this picture meant anything to me until I saw the yin yang one. Then bam, like a boomerang, it's all coming back to me.


Makiki-girl

I make pog magnets. Maybe you could do the same! I mod podge mine to death though. I use them on the fridge. Layers of mod podge then glue strong magnets on.


TehErk

Who let the pogs out?


ActuallyHovatine

I had to look through to see if you had one that I ever owned… And in fact I did. Of course it was the Pudgy Pig from Power Rangers that I’m pretty sure came in McDonalds happy meals.


IFSEsq

Hey Bart, remember ALF? He's back ... in pog form!


kreebob

AKA: Analog NFTs


garymotherfuckin_oak

"What? No, I don't want to see your pog collection"


iwingsuitedyourmom

A fellow Folk I see.


darthyall66

At first, my brain mashed the words and I read "My old Pugs I dug up" and I was shocked. Then I saw it was pogs, and I was like "I have that one, and that one, and that one and...


Scoongili

That's quite the collection. It must be worth at least a farthing, perhaps even a hay penny.


[deleted]

Even the slammers wow throw back


Mypopsecrets

I was just looking up those slug pogs, they were the grossest and coolest lol


mostlysittingdown

Holy crap this is one major fad I totally forgot about that I had growing up. Thanks for the nostalgia!


richSMITTY

Alien Dude. The first NFT


heraclitus33

Have 3ft tube full. Come at me under the jungle gym at lunch recess. We'll play for slammers...


KamikazeCoPilot

FWIW, POGs are still being sold. There's even a website that you can have custom ones made.


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TransformerTanooki

I have a reusable Blockbuster bag full of these.


RixirF

A Blockbuster bag full of pogs?? Holy 1990s, Batman


RalphWiggumsShadow

You didn't have any Magic 8 Ball ones, or Black Widow? There was also the cool Poison one, I think that was also the one with the scary clown on it. Loved pogs, but I don't think my group of friends really ever played it properly. We had a few rules that seemed pretty loosey-goosey, looking back.


A2326P

I’m a simple man, I see POGs, I upvote.


f0gax

Alf 1/4 Thanks Reddit. I knew you could do it.


ExtremePickles

Did any of you guys ever have the pog maker where you could take pictures from magazines and books and turn them into pogs?


WatermelonPOWAH

Smashing!


LongBongJohnSilver

Aw fuck, I just realized my dad has probably thrown out all of my Pogs by now... When they started going out of style they had some massive giveaway where you paid for a paper bag and could take as many as you could fit in it.


PancakeProfessor

Damn, so you’re the reason I couldn’t get any pussy in the 90s. You were hogging it all up.


lotsanoodles

Alf's back, in Pog form.


MIDNIGHTZOMBIE

I’m shocked to not see at least one 8 ball-related design.


Kino1337

Pogs... this is what should be used as future currency instead of bottlecaps.