ORDERS ARE CLOSED! 2023 BladeForums.com Traditional Knife.

birdsbeaks said:
The beanie-baby bubble, the pog bubble, the tickle-me Elmo bubble, the US-housing market bubble, and more.
Click to expand...

RickHuf said:
Oh my....

I may still have some buried deep in the archives from childhood.
Click to expand...

mrknife said:
I love my slammers, I even made one in sterling silver! i believe recently with @Jack Wolf Knives releases, he includes a pog as one of the goodies!!
Click to expand...

My kid just started kindergarten and walking into an elementary school after 26 or so years all these things came flooding back to me.
The first thing I thought of was pogs.
I had a sweet brass slammer with a yin yang routed into it, but my friends would never let me use it because it was knurled and would mark up their pogs.
 
Misplaced Hillbilly said:
Here I sit and don't even know what a "pog" is.....🤔
Click to expand...

Simply put, its a little round piece of card board with a design. i want to say it was a cultural phenomenon of the early 90s, just like magic the gathering cards, which my parents also tried to tell me not to waste money on. We didnt have much when we got here, so 2.95 for a booster pack of pieces of card stock was not in the general budget. Sadly they do not understand the potential value those cards from those years have now.
 
Misplaced Hillbilly said:
Here I sit and don't even know what a "pog" is.....🤔
Click to expand...
it's a small disk, about an inch / inch and a quarter in diameter, made out of compressed card stock.
They'd have designs on there that would appeal to young boys- snakes, eight balls, fire...
you stack them 10 high and then you use this oversized metal or plastic coin-looking thing called a "slammer" to knock the stack over.

I'm fuzzy on the rules now, but I think any pogs that were turned upside down from your friend's stack you could keep.

ETA: What mrknife mrknife said.
 
mrknife said:
Simply put, its a little round piece of card board with a design. i want to say it was a cultural phenomenon of the early 90s, just like magic the gathering cards, which my parents also tried to tell me not to waste money on. We didnt have much when we got here, so 2.95 for a booster pack of pieces of card stock was not in the general budget. Sadly they do not understand the potential value those cards from those years have now.
Click to expand...
I didn't have many pogs (my sister had more) - it feels like I was just a tad old for it at the time. But I do remember having one commemorating the pre-trial OJ Simpson debacle, which was a current event at the time. One side showed a happy, smiling OJ with "not guilty" printed around the rim - the other showed his mug shot photo with "GUILTY" plastered across it in big red stencil-like letters.

A little slice of history, that. 🤣

Edit: At the time, I don't even think I knew he was a football player and found it perplexing that the funny guy from the Naked Gun movies got mixed up in such a sordid affair.
 
mrknife said:
Simply put, its a little round piece of card board with a design. i want to say it was a cultural phenomenon of the early 90s, just like magic the gathering cards, which my parents also tried to tell me not to waste money on. We didnt have much when we got here, so 2.95 for a booster pack of pieces of card stock was not in the general budget. Sadly they do not understand the potential value those cards from those years have now.
Click to expand...
Oooh, that's what the pog is! Yeah, we had those too, but never used any slammers. We just stacked a few, then one of participants grabbed them by the edges with thumb and index finger, and dropped them flat (and with some technique, ish) on some flat surface, and we checked how many turned upside down and one of us got them depending on the preliminary agreement about who's the each side. Maybe that was incorrect, simplified rules, but we were kids and only knew those. Plastic ones, such as those from Cheetos, were especially valued. Also, we called them caps here.
 
Last edited:
JB in SC said:
The only thing that came to mind was the cardboard caps on bottled milk….how’s that for thinking in the past?
Click to expand...

That's basically it. There was a fruit juice drink that came in Papaya, Orange or Guava (I think), P-O-G. The Pogs were cardboard centers from the caps. I know this was common in Hawaii, and when it hit the mainline there were manufacturers who made fancy Pogs and sold them in packs.
 
I also heard there's a connection to some old gambling game, popular within criminals, and that's why many adults didn't appreciate us playing them.
 
Back in the late 90's I was on a big project at work (think 1500-2500 people assigned) and the company would occasionally give out little gifts one time they gave everyone a plastic film container like thing filled with Pogs (with stupid slogans on them), not sure when they were a big thing , but we all thought they were tacky then.
 
oldrifleman said:
Back in the late 90's I was on a big project at work (think 1500-2500 people assigned) and the company would occasionally give out little gifts one time they gave everyone a plastic film container like thing filled with Pogs (with stupid slogans on them), not sure when they were a big thing , but we all thought they were tacky then.
Click to expand...
Well let me tell you. 1996? As a ten year old? Nothing cooler.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top