I'm just slightly too old to get all the Pokemon jokes, but I do remember these damn things...

guggabump · 9 months

Hey Bart, remember Alf? He's back! In pog form!

MojoGigolo · 9 months

Pogs!!!!

PesetaMan · 9 months

I'm in that perfect age group that have fond memories of pogs AND Pokemon...moslty Pokemon, but pogs were at least cooler than marbles...

kawasaki2007 · 9 months

I had the the sweetest slammers... some plastic and metal ones. Needless to say I was pretty cool.

sneakylfc · 9 months

you must be about 29 years old....I think.

reathe · 9 months

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude, gnarly 8 ball

ManimalGerm · 9 months

Too relevant

ya_machinu · 9 months

seriuosly, reddit needs a Pokemon filter button

milkybee · 9 months

Why not combine both

Over here in the middle east they used to come in lays chips packets I think. I had an album or two of them

Demondood · 9 months

I don't see any Alf Pogs here.

seomener · 9 months

Canisters! Green were my favorite!

Sajam · 9 months

Gootecks and Mike Ross know what's up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkBDZ8Davvg

proto_sidle · 9 months

These aren't pogs...these are knock off bottle caps. This kid wanted to bet that shit against my fucking official ALF pogs. fuck that shit.

piratelukeyo · 9 months

Come on and SLAM, and welcome to the JAM.

I had the Pog Maker. I would cut up old EGMs and Gamepros and turn them into badass pogs. For a short, fad-length period I was the envy of all my friends.

wing3d · 9 months

I don't get it I was born in the 80's and I was into pogs and pokemon.

toadwarrior · 9 months

What, no ALF pogs?

ColonicIrritation · 9 months

How can you be old enough to have never played Pokémon but young enough to have experienced Pogs?

Pokémon came out in 1996 (to be fair, hitting the west in 1998) and Pogs became popular in the early '90s, peaking in the mid. If you were born around the mid to late '80s you were part of the initial Pokémon generation.

jokubolakis · 9 months

I have shit ton of them

Leo-D · 9 months

My sonic slammer was the crowned jewel of my collection.

nooneshero51 · 9 months

i love pogs...i still have my torpedo slammer...

ConfidentFatMan · 9 months

Ahhh Pogs, I had a shit ton of those, never really knew if we were playing it right.

ToMakeYouMad · 9 months

I have hundreads if not thousands of thesein a container in my basement. I agree Pokemon was just after my age group but POGS were the shit! Nothing like winning someones prized slammer.

kcgree · 9 months

This just made my day... And made me feel old.

apple_kicks · 9 months

As was an age when you had pogs but had no idea how to play with them. Then tamagotchis came along.

[deleted] · 9 months

I remember manufacturing POGS and was young enough to latch onto the Pokemon craze, whats your excuse?

rjsaid · 9 months

I feel the same way. I'm 27 and I JUUUUST missed the Pokemon thing.

All the time on reddit, I see all these Pokemon references and I think "God dammit, Pokemon was probably FUN. I'm bummed I was too old for that. I wish they had Pokemon when I was a kid." I totally missed out.

TheYoungestElder · 9 months

Anybody remember the pokemon pogs? (Or tazoz [spanish]) me and all the neighborhood would have tournaments afterschool.

DrewBlood · 9 months

I was slightly too old for them, but saw tons of them at the comic shops. Always thought they were the most inane collectible ever.

akarra · 9 months

Ugh Pogs many allowances wasted on those stupid things, just about every kid I knew had some and I kept a lot of the official ones hoping they would be valuable one day but like sports cards there's no more market for that crap.

clutchmastaflex · 9 months

I remember Pogs and Pokemon, Pogs were for the kids who's parents couldn't afford a Gameboy.

Franholio · 9 months

The US Military uses pogs as currency.

AwwYea · 9 months

Mother fucking Space Jam Tazo's.

That was the shit.

ForeverMarried · 9 months

I remember when people would gamble their pogs by playing for keeps.. it was my first taste of losing "money" in a gamble.. never again.

vancityoriginals · 9 months

you guys are soft. playing for slammers was the real deal.

[deleted] · 9 months

never bought any pogs. i was the right age, too. quick, someone tell me why some people just don't excited for shit everyone else their age is getting excited for.

cygonsilent · 9 months

i remember flipping a hole stack in one move on a kid who just got Pogs, later im walking home with them and his big brother comes up to me demanding the pogs, he didn't get them i kicked him in the nuts and ran home

dumbkid · 9 months

Wait you could get pokemon ones of these, they were in monster munch bags

jntwn · 9 months

...anyone remember crazy bones? They were big for a year in...1998.

awol-again · 9 months

The one right in the front has arrows in his knees.

twunger · 9 months

Comes with it's own bong.

BrandyonTX · 9 months

Unlike Pokemon, I had no problem making my Pog addiction public knowledge. Had at least a couple 3ft tubes in obnoxious bright colors.

diametric · 9 months

I had my dad fashion me a slammer out of piece of iron rod. Was about 2 inches thick, same diameter as a pog. Painted it nice with a cool design, and proceded to obliterate my opponents in middle school.

[deleted] · 9 months

Had a birthday pog party.

CornEnt · 9 months

Pogs were the shit! Best schoolyard gambling system ever

perds · 9 months

I'll hang out

noseeme · 9 months

Most popular age in these comments: 23

OopsABoner · 9 months

I remember being 11 when these things first hit the scene and thinking "if they can convince people to spend their entire allowance on cardboard disks they can convince people to buy anything." and today people buy rubber testicles for their cars. I was not wrong.

DragonMaki · 9 months

Hawaii checking in... little late to the party. Purely based on what I know, POGS are milk caps. I'm almost certain this was started in hawaii, POG is acronym for Passion Orange Guava, the company that was widely distributing these things in the early 90s. The milk bottles were sealed with caps way back in the days. These caps were used in a game. The basic rules were both players wager their caps, put in a single stack, then players would take turns hitting this stack. Every time a cap would flip over, you keep it. In my area the most common pogs found were S4U brands. The older the cap, the rarer the find...

[deleted] · 9 months

Remember Alf? He's back...in pog form

fullcircle_bflo · 9 months

God pogs had some terrible graphics on them.

camguide2 · 9 months

oh man! i remember when a friend gave me some of these when i was in primary school. at end of the day, we threw some of them around the school playground and thought it was cool.

boilednaners · 9 months

What are pogs?

SlurmNator · 9 months

What ever happened to those awesome things?

qualitas_occulta · 9 months

I'm just slightly too old to get all the Pokemon jokes

It's okay. When we older people finally conquer and enslave you whippersnappers, our communications in Pokemon-code will be ensured cryptic.

Parisa4 · 9 months

Woah, you know those things from your childhood you totally forget because you were too young to know what it was? Yeah this is one of those things for me. It's so weird, just scrolling through reddit and this familiar yet foreign picture pops up.

northbayray · 9 months

I'd still throw down with anyone to this day!

FoolsPower · 9 months

I vaguely remember these.

Digipy · 9 months

I loved Pogs

LSDoomFelucca · 9 months

you must have been born between 80-85

apieceofenergy · 9 months

OH GOD POGS :3

Tmyakal · 9 months

In 2006, my friend was dead certain that pogs were going to make a comeback. He bought thousands of the things on eBay.

...I think he's still waiting for the day he can sell them for profit.

runfromtheraptor · 9 months

you know, i think its time for a comeback for those. i still have my old ones, and by old, i mean the OLD hawaiian milk caps. vintage shit, and they are in prime condition. im sure we could start a revolution with them. and if they call it gambling again we can corner the market.

[deleted] · 9 months

Yes, that's what need, another used-to-be-cool thing that we now will see 100's and 100's of lame posts about.

not hating on you per se, but maaaan am I tired of pokemon references now

[deleted] · 9 months

I knew about these but I never had any idea what they were about. I still don't know what you did with them. 28

funkyoutoo · 9 months

This favorite Pog commercial.. Pog pog pog is the word . Must.. play.. Pog.

SoupdupGent · 9 months

Pogs! Competitive collectables beaten only by conkers and marbles!

ArgumentIsAnInvalid · 9 months

I was able to experience the pog invasion three different times. I was living in San Diego in 1995 when they started to become really popular there. We then moved to Houston Texas and no one had ever heard of them but 2 years later they showed up and became all the rage. We then moved to Northern Virginia and same deal, but they only took another year to show up there.

Also, fuck a pussy ass plastic slammer. It was all about the gigantic brass ones.

Tachik · 9 months

Got to slam them all!

SillyRabbit1989 · 9 months

Pogs, fuck yeah.

Bl4cBird · 9 months

I remember both these and pokemon...

DextrosKnight · 9 months

I loved Pogs. They'll come back in style again... some day....

Sandvicheater · 9 months

Anybody here played pogs using a 50 cent piece???

picard_for_president · 9 months

Wheres yo slammer? I play for keeps.

sebastianallan · 9 months

The best shot glass coasters ever.

KHRoxas · 9 months

I still have mine ! =D I also had that pog maker.. ah.. good times..

Wonder if I still have that maker....

cbergstrom · 9 months

I was in high school when those pogs thingies were popular in middle school. I would see kids playing with them on the floor of the arcade. (yes, we had arcades back then. Crazy, I know!)

Never really understood the appeal.

Altcoop · 9 months

Wow. I had the same ones! Jagged 8-ball ftw! Post some slammers!!

sikadelic · 9 months

Where's your slammer? You can't play without a slammer!

Sneaklemming · 9 months

I'm old enough and yound enough to remember both.

Ahhh.

[deleted] · 9 months

OMFG!!! Pogs!!! Hahaha.

ddevlin · 9 months

Sick pogs, bro. But where's the slammer?

rugtoad · 9 months

The original "Forced Meme"..

zimm3rmann · 9 months

As I am too young to remember them, but know of their existence from the music video for Here in Your Arms by hellogoodbye

Xci3nc3 · 9 months

POGS ! FTW !!! I was like 6 at the time !

nfconnon · 9 months

Pogs wow. I have a whole tube of em under my bed. And I'm only just old enough for the Pokemon generation ha.

g00dis0n · 9 months

I am 27. I remember for weeks (maybe months) people in my school collected them but I don't think many knew exactly how to play or what the rules were. Once people (and the head teacher) knew how, they were banned by the school as they were a form of gambling! It seemed to be a phase lasting only a couple of years or so?

dan-o07 · 9 months

I was born at the right time where i had both pogs and pokemon, good times indeed!

Lanezy · 9 months

Holy shit sack.

I had that exact case and the pog with a skeleton wearing a bandanna. I've just nostalgiad all over my cat's face.

lynxon · 9 months

You think that's bad? I only sometimes understand Pokemon jokes because Digimon is better. I realized this as a kid but most didn't and still don't. ;D

[deleted] · 9 months

I had some OJ Simpson ones that I pulled out of a Mad magazine

Seeofgreen · 9 months

Believe it or not, i had all those pogs shown. I think there were only 100 different varieties spread to all the boys and girls.

frostiitute · 9 months

fuck yeah pogs!

Require_Minerals · 9 months

Oh god I still have my pog maker my brother gave me o-o

dackkorto1 · 9 months

I was young when these were popular, I never understood why my brother collected these.

mradsomer · 9 months

I have a bag full of my mom's old pogs, still don't know how to play the damn game.

Digiimandan · 9 months

I had all pogs of old people from retirement homes. It never bothered me to loose them.

gynoceros · 9 months

I have a sheet of OJ Trial pogs... It's a sheet of cardboard a little larger than 8.5x11 and shows like an artist's rendering of the courtroom and you punch out each person's face on a pog.

It's sooooo 1995.

Beeton_meat420 · 9 months

Then: pogs Now: pawgs

Grimlokh · 9 months

POGS ROCK! I had a Sick Slammer!

95DC2 · 9 months

Upvote for nostalgia, ive got a box with at least 2,000 of these in it. Wonder if i could get anything out of them these days?

[deleted] · 9 months

Where are your slammers?

New-Dude · 9 months

so does everyone else who grew up in the 90s

alttruism · 9 months

No joke, I had those exact same pogs and case in the stock photo. Man that jut brought back some middle school memories, like the first time I touched some bewbs.

PantWraith · 9 months

I don't remember all of my Pogs, but I definitely have strong memory of owning those front three.

sandvichmaking · 9 months

I still have some xD

Vuul · 9 months

In belgium we call them "Flippo's"

[deleted] · 9 months

I was about 5-6 when I got my first set of pogs. I'm old enough to remember pogs and also have pokemon as my childhood.

Awesome!

tangledlight · 9 months

I remember pogs AND played the fuck out of pokemon. So there!

Fickelbra · 9 months

I can remember these got banned from my elementary school because so many fights were breaking out over this game. The funniest thing was same time next year, no one had them.

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