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[–]guggabump 243 points244 points ago

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

[–][deleted] 55 points56 points ago

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this is all i came for

[–]ada42 15 points16 points ago

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Nobody comes for Milhouse.

[–]WilliamPoole 8 points9 points ago

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More like Thrillhouse!

[–]kn0where 11 points12 points ago

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THRILLHO

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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If it's an old Simpsons epp then it's worth the TV it's playing on

[–]blind_duck 8 points9 points ago

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Glad to know that I'm not the only one.

[–]stubacca83 12 points13 points ago

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[–]MojoGigolo 106 points107 points ago

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Pogs!!!!

[–]Batman_for_President 24 points25 points ago

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I still have about five hundred of those bad boys stored in their tubes. Slammers and all. When pogs become popular again I'm going to rich, Rich I tell you!

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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I envy you so much right now.

[–]Silverton13 1 point2 points ago

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Explain how you play Pogs please, My 6 year old brother has been buying these square things that looks like this and says EVERYONE at his school plays it. I am not sure if POGS are becoming popular again, apparently you have to try to flip your opponent's thing with yours. Is that how you play Pogs?

[–]FertileCroissant 1 point2 points ago

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Yep.

[–]Silverton13 2 points3 points ago

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Then yes, Pogs have become popular again, at least in Los Angeles elementary schools. Although now they are square and are called "dachis"

[–]palinola 29 points30 points ago

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I excitedly shouted the very same thing.

There was understandably no-one nearby to look at me funny.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points ago

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Me: Can we get go to the store and check out some good slammers mom

Mom: Sure lets go

Clerk: Our "good" slammers are 20$ +

Mom: NOPENOPENOPENOPE

[–]alttruism 6 points7 points ago

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I can't believe what I would spend on a "slammer" back then...

[–]fifilacoquette 1 point2 points ago

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Don't think I ever actually bought one of my own, just taxed other people of theirs with various levels of honesty.

[–]Svx_blue 1 point2 points ago

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Never had to buy one...always made my own in my middle school shop class.

[–]TdotMurderer 1 point2 points ago

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how you making a steel slammer with a serrated edge in shopclass?

[–]biggerx 6 points7 points ago

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Forever alone D: understandably.

[–]phonymahoney 1 point2 points ago

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Ha! I did the same thing. I would totally love to play pogs right now!

[–]Yoshi_XD 1 point2 points ago

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I was on my laptop surrounded by family when I excitedly yelled, "FUCKING POGS!"

I got some weird looks from the younger ones.

[–]Eriden 8 points9 points ago

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SO MUCH WASTED MONEY THAT I COULD'VE SPENT GETTING A POKEDEX.

[–]HULK-SMASH 3 points4 points ago

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Those aren't pogs, those are the shitey cheap knock off ones, there's no way those are going down in the same pile as my proper pogs, not if we're playing for KEEPS!

[–]budtske 10 points11 points ago

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Pogs?

Flippo's !

[–][deleted] 18 points19 points ago

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Tasos!!

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points ago

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Pogs before Tasos (certainly in the UK). Never heard of Flippos.

[–]biggerx 2 points3 points ago

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What the devil is this sorcery!?

[–]mentox 1 point2 points ago

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Never really knew what to do with em though

[–]redskins_are_yum 11 points12 points ago

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They're called Tazos where I'm from.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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PR?

[–]drury 2 points3 points ago

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I'm from Slovakia and we call them Pogs too.

[–]thecacti 3 points4 points ago

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Can believe I wasted my hard earned allowance on those. what a rip.

[–]palinola 11 points12 points ago

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It was an investment in your childhood so that you could be able to participate in threads like these and so that your parents could hate things - as that is what parents do for funsies.

[–]littlejerry 3 points4 points ago

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So... All for karma then, huh?

[–]PesetaMan 76 points77 points ago

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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...

[–]BroadStreetElite 36 points37 points ago*

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Me too, Im 23 and Pogs were cooler a little before the YoYo revolution which was then followed by the dawn of Pokemon. Weirdly enough Pokemon became popular in my city long after the game came out, it was around the time the show and trading cards were becoming popular.

Didn't last long for me though, I only ever played Red and then by the time the next generation of games came out it was already uncool for my age. This is when I started playing Final Fantasy alone like it was my religion.

[–]RoverStoffe 20 points21 points ago

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oh man, I thought the Yo-Yo revolution was just a local thing back in the day. We're not so different, you and I...

[–]shindig27 12 points13 points ago

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It really is funny to see that these fads spread much farther than we had imagined. I knew pokemon was national, but I didn't know the same was true about the Yo-Yos.

[–]eighthourblink 5 points6 points ago

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i have to say the same about the yo-yo revolution. I thought it was only a local thing. For me it was between the years of 1997-1999

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[–]barky13 1 point2 points ago

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pretty much exactly how my life went.

[–]trappar 15 points16 points ago

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Are you 22?

[–]KenMaster828 8 points9 points ago

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21 here and I remember both!

[–]EgbertAttrick[S] 4 points5 points ago

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I'm 32. I get nearly all of the references on reddit... except the Pokemon ones.

[–]LoveBiscuits 6 points7 points ago

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I am, And I remember both :)

[–]reathe 5 points6 points ago

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87?

[–]Burcen 4 points5 points ago

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fuck yeah 87! The golden middle-years. And I'm from Sweden, glad to know this was an international affair.

[–]crash331 1 point2 points ago

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'84 4 lyfe

[–]MuggyFuzzball 4 points5 points ago

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23, I had both Pogs and Marbles... and pokemon too. I liked Marbles more than anything, but they were exotic in my house, since I was always losing them, or my parents would get sick of stepping on them. Back in those days, you could put marbles in Nerf Guns and they were more lethal than the airsoft guns I had when I was a bit older. So many holes in our walls from marble projectiles.

[–]cygonsilent 1 point2 points ago

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dude marbles and pogs where school yard gambling. shit was fun hey "man can i barrow a pog all i got's a slammer ill pay you back half of what ever i win". you turn into a lone shark people who don't pay you back get beat up and all they're pogs taken. FUN TIMES

[–]craeeg 1 point2 points ago

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I'm 18 and I grew up in Guam with both of those things.

[–]kawasaki2007 25 points26 points ago

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

[–]vcwheeler 18 points19 points ago

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I had a very timely one that featured OJ Simpson behind bars, called the "OJ Slammer." Nyuk nyuk nyuk.

[–]w4z 2 points3 points ago

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Dude... I have the same slammer. I still have all my pogs in a box in the basement.

[–]robotictoast 1 point2 points ago

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I had one called "OJ in the Slammer" with an engraved picture of OJ Simpson behind bars. On the backside was a picture of "The Chase" where he is driving away in the white Bronco.

[–]picklecannon 1 point2 points ago

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Metal slammers were king.

[–]omnilynx 1 point2 points ago

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Serrated metal with holograms.

[–]sneakylfc 16 points17 points ago

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

[–]puckhead 8 points9 points ago

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Not the OP but I can relate. I'm 31. I 'remember' pogs but never played with them. My friends little sisters and brothers did.

[–]MondoCool 12 points13 points ago

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27 here. Had a respectable pog collection back in the day. Good times.

[–]crash331 1 point2 points ago

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Same here. Had pogs. Was too old for Pokemon. I borrowed my cousins's copy of Blue and played it, but would never tell any of my friends.

[–]Pit_of_Death 3 points4 points ago

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I am around the same age as you, and I was on the old side during the pog popularity phase. But slap bracelets....that was the big thing for me in my elementary school days!

[–]crash331 1 point2 points ago

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The county fair was a joyous time of slap bracelets, Snap-n-pops, and those weird toys with 2 balls mounted on a triangle arm to a stick that you wiggled in a certain way to make them go CRACK CRACK CRACK.

[–]ForeverMarried 2 points3 points ago

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im 25 and even we went on a pog field-trip in 5th or 6th grade.

[–]Bartulf 4 points5 points ago

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I'm 20 and I played with pogs from age 5 to around 8.

[–]frostiitute 1 point2 points ago

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I'm 21 and i remember these fondly

[–]reathe 7 points8 points ago

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duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude, gnarly 8 ball

[–]worstchristmasever 8 points9 points ago

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talk to me when there's POISON.

[–]ManimalGerm 6 points7 points ago

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[–]mentox 1 point2 points ago

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nod nod

[–]ya_machinu 67 points68 points ago

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seriuosly, reddit needs a Pokemon filter button

[–]HeyCarpy 49 points50 points ago

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Nothing like a Pokemon reference to make me feel like the oldest guy in the room. I never have any idea what anyone is talking about.

[–]texpundit 12 points13 points ago

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You think that's bad? I'm too old even for pogs. I'm like first gen, pencil & paper D&D. I wouldn't get a single Skyrim reference if I hadn't watched my nephew play it over Christmas.

[–]thedrunkenmaster 1 point2 points ago

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You should play it, its awesome. If you want a more D&D feel go track down a copy of Baldur's Gate!

[–]dallen 5 points6 points ago

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RES can do it

[–]platzie 1 point2 points ago

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And here I've been using RES for a while and never realized I could do that. Thank you good sir!

[–]Surgepoint 1 point2 points ago

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What? You mean Reddit Enhancement Suite can do that? Man, I love Reddit Enhancement Suite.

[–]Yellow_Curry 2 points3 points ago

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Yes - like a NSFW tag - we need a pokemon tag so I can filter. I enlisted in the Marines when pokemon came to the US...

[–]BitchinIndika 1 point2 points ago

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Yeah, any mention of the p-word is an instant downvote

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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yeah fuck people for enjoying something I don't enjoy, right?

[–]milkybee 7 points8 points ago

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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 7 points8 points ago

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I don't see any Alf Pogs here.

[–]seomener 10 points11 points ago

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Canisters! Green were my favorite!

[–]Sajam 3 points4 points ago

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

[–]proto_sidle 5 points6 points ago

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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 3 points4 points ago

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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 2 points3 points ago

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

[–]toadwarrior 2 points3 points ago

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What, no ALF pogs?

[–]ColonicIrritation 4 points5 points ago*

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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.

[–]shit_reddit_says 11 points12 points ago

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Because by the time pokemon came out, it was a (seemed like a) kid's game to us born in the mid 80s.

[–]MurphyBinkings 5 points6 points ago

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I'm 29, born in 82, was all over pogs in early 90's. Too old to ever even want to play with a pokemon

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[–]ColonicIrritation 1 point2 points ago

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Jesus, when I was around 13 I hadn't started drinking for a couple of years to come and then never tried weed until i was 17. Where the hell did you grow up?

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[–]ManikArcanik 1 point2 points ago

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I remember Magic the Gathering! But in my day they were drawn with goat blood on tree bark.

[–]quest4derp 1 point2 points ago

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and you had to cut open a vein and say the ritual chant just right if you wanted to tap your mana!

[–]LieutenantTaters 1 point2 points ago

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By 96 I was all into boy bands and video games. My dad ripped Wolfenstein 3d and Doom for my first computer. I didn't have time for pokeballs and pikachu, I had Nazis to kill.

[–]ColonicIrritation 1 point2 points ago

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My first video games were stuff like Monkey Island, Quake and Flashback on DOS... still played the fuck out of every (non spin-off) Pokémon game so far though!

[–]jokubolakis 1 point2 points ago*

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I have shit ton of them

[–]Leo-D 1 point2 points ago

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My sonic slammer was the crowned jewel of my collection.

[–]nooneshero51 1 point2 points ago

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

[–]ConfidentFatMan 1 point2 points ago

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

[–]ToMakeYouMad 1 point2 points ago

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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 1 point2 points ago

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

[–]apple_kicks 1 point2 points ago

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

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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

[–]rjsaid 1 point2 points ago

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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.

[–]Alex2539 1 point2 points ago

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Anyone who told you you were too old for Pokemon lied to you. I'm 23 and I'm still not too old for Pokemon.

[–]TheYoungestElder 1 point2 points ago

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

[–]realBender 1 point2 points ago

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You mean the ones that came in bags of Sabritas chips??? Upvote. You have to be from either southern CA, AZ, NM or TX.

[–]TheYoungestElder 1 point2 points ago

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Simoon [TX]. My Gyarados was the shit but, then my dog chewed the shit out of it. That was the first time I beat the shit out of an animal.. Like, literally beat him 'til he shat himself.

[–]realBender 1 point2 points ago

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Only available in Mexico-bordering states. Never saw the pokemon tazos though, all mine had tiny-toon characters on them.

[–]ChuffedToBits 1 point2 points ago

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I remember those too. Sadly, I didn't keep those :'(

I cry myself to sleep every night because I wonder how much better my life would be if I had kept them.

[–]DrewBlood 1 point2 points ago

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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 1 point2 points ago

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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 1 point2 points ago

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

[–]Franholio 1 point2 points ago

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The US Military uses pogs as currency.

[–]AwwYea 1 point2 points ago

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Mother fucking Space Jam Tazo's.

That was the shit.

[–]ForeverMarried 1 point2 points ago

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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 1 point2 points ago

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

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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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 1 point2 points ago

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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 1 point2 points ago

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

[–]jntwn 1 point2 points ago

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

[–]awol-again 1 point2 points ago

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

[–]twunger 1 point2 points ago

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Comes with it's own bong.

[–]BrandyonTX 1 point2 points ago

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

[–]diametric 1 point2 points ago

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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.

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[–]CornEnt 1 point2 points ago

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Pogs were the shit! Best schoolyard gambling system ever

[–]perds 1 point2 points ago

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[–]noseeme 1 point2 points ago

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Most popular age in these comments: 23

[–]OopsABoner 1 point2 points ago

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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 1 point2 points ago

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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...

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

[–]fullcircle_bflo 2 points3 points ago

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God pogs had some terrible graphics on them.

[–]camguide2 0 points1 point ago

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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 0 points1 point ago

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What are pogs?

[–]Ukkie 2 points3 points ago

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Called flippo's in other countries.

[–]canitoy 1 point2 points ago

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Called tazos in México

[–]RagingButtSex 1 point2 points ago

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Also called tazos in Brazil.

[–]SlurmNator 0 points1 point ago

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What ever happened to those awesome things?

[–]qualitas_occulta 0 points1 point ago

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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 0 points1 point ago

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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 0 points1 point ago

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

[–]FoolsPower 0 points1 point ago

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I vaguely remember these.

[–]Digipy 0 points1 point ago

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I loved Pogs

[–]LSDoomFelucca 0 points1 point ago

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you must have been born between 80-85

[–]apieceofenergy 0 points1 point ago

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OH GOD POGS :3

[–]Tmyakal 0 points1 point ago

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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 0 points1 point ago

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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.

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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

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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 0 points1 point ago

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

[–]SoupdupGent 0 points1 point ago

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Pogs! Competitive collectables beaten only by conkers and marbles!

[–]ArgumentIsAnInvalid 0 points1 point ago

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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 0 points1 point ago

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Got to slam them all!

[–]SillyRabbit1989 0 points1 point ago

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Pogs, fuck yeah.

[–]Bl4cBird 0 points1 point ago

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I remember both these and pokemon...

[–]DextrosKnight 0 points1 point ago

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

[–]Sandvicheater 0 points1 point ago

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

[–]picard_for_president 0 points1 point ago

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Wheres yo slammer? I play for keeps.

[–]sebastianallan 0 points1 point ago

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The best shot glass coasters ever.

[–]KHRoxas 0 points1 point ago

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

Wonder if I still have that maker....

[–]cbergstrom 0 points1 point ago

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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 0 points1 point ago

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

[–]sikadelic 0 points1 point ago

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

[–]Sneaklemming 0 points1 point ago

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

Ahhh.

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OMFG!!! Pogs!!! Hahaha.

[–]ddevlin 0 points1 point ago

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

[–]rugtoad 0 points1 point ago

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The original "Forced Meme"..

[–]zimm3rmann 0 points1 point ago

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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 0 points1 point ago

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

[–]nfconnon 0 points1 point ago

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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 0 points1 point ago

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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 0 points1 point ago

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

[–]Lanezy 0 points1 point ago

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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 0 points1 point ago

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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

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

[–]Seeofgreen 0 points1 point ago

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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 0 points1 point ago

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fuck yeah pogs!

[–]Require_Minerals 0 points1 point ago

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

[–]dackkorto1 0 points1 point ago

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

[–]mradsomer 0 points1 point ago

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

[–]Digiimandan 0 points1 point ago

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

[–]gynoceros 0 points1 point ago

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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 0 points1 point ago

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Then: pogs Now: pawgs

[–]Grimlokh 0 points1 point ago

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POGS ROCK! I had a Sick Slammer!

[–]95DC2 0 points1 point ago

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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?

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Where are your slammers?

[–]New-Dude 0 points1 point ago

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so does everyone else who grew up in the 90s

[–]alttruism 0 points1 point ago

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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 0 points1 point ago

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

[–]sandvichmaking 0 points1 point ago

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I still have some xD

[–]Vuul 0 points1 point ago

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In belgium we call them "Flippo's"

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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 0 points1 point ago

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

[–]Fickelbra 0 points1 point ago

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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.