Does anyone remember "Pogs"?

Of course.

I remember Pogs! I used to collect them when I was a teenager. As a matter of fact, I still have a few of my favorites stored away somewhere.

I remember one day, my friends and I bought a massive tub of them from a bulk store. We divided them up between us all and traded them all the time.

Funniest thing is, to this day, I don’t know how to actually play the game Pogs. :/

ZOMG. Pogs and slammers!
I collected them when I was younger. I still have hundreds.
I didn’t really play with them, it was just an obsession to collect as many as I could and show them off to my friends and walk around like I was the shit. Yeah, that’s right – I was the shit with my Power Ranger pogs. Jealous?

@Vunessuh Slammers! Forgot about those. I had a couple bad-ass metal ones. Ooooh, Power Ranger pogs?! You must have been the shit!

@erichw1504 Slammers are so pretty.
And check it. XD

Yes! :) I remember pogs & slammers.
Ah, those were the days indeed! I don’t remember how we played with either though.

Here’s how the actual game is played…

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Rules may vary among players, but the game variants generally have common gameplay features. Each player has their own collection of Pogs and a slammer (a heavier game piece). Before the game, players decide whether to play ‘for keeps’, or not. ‘For keeps’ implies that the players keep the POGs that they win and forfeit those that have been won by other players. The game can then begin as follows:

1. The players each contribute an equal number of pogs to build a stack with the pieces facing down, which will be used during the game.
2. The players take turns throwing their slammer down onto the top of the stack, causing it to spring up and the pogs to scatter. Each player keeps any pogs that land ‘face up’ after their throw.
3. After each throw, the pogs which have landed ‘face down’ are then re-stacked for the next player.
4. When no pogs remain in the stack, the player with the most pogs is the ‘winner’.

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If I had known how to play when I collected them, I would have definitely played all the time. This sounds like fun!

@erichw1504 That’s how you play? Oh wow. I had no idea. 0.o

I LOVED Pogs.

I had a huge collection at one time. I think someone spilled a beer on them a long time ago and they got thrown away.

I remember them being something the kids played with once they got bored with Pokemon. I was busy getting drunk at the bar and sleeping with random women when they were popular.

yeah lol I’m 13 and I remember. I still have them. There’s a fatty collection inside my closet and….funny….my cousin just found some pogs last sunday.

I thought pogs were very cool. Fun to collect and trade. Some were pretty to look at .

I had a shitload of them, but I loved slammers, (Metal disks.) especially shredders, (Slammers, but shaped like a buzzsaw.) although those worked like shit and ruined your pogs when you used them.
We also had cylinder shaped cases to store them in.
I loved all the pogs with either skulls or Yin-Yang symbols on them.

The way you play is, you and your opponent pile some pogs in a pile, then you use the slammer to smack the top of the pile and make the pogs fly all over. Say it’s my turn, then all the pogs that fall so you can see the drawings on them are mine to keep. Then you do the same, and reap whatever pogs you flip drawing face up.

That’s if you pick ’‘Keepsies’’. Categories are called out each match, and determine certain things.

Keepsies is keeping whatever pogs, Friendsies is everyone gets their pogs back at the end, and Tricksies is, you slam your slammer on the ground four times around the cardinal sides of the pog pile and grab the whole fucking thing for yourself.

This pissed people off so much that a pre-declaration before every match was usually announced; No Tricksies! Only assholes did that anyways.

@Vunessuh Haha it’s funny you mention that, Power Rangers…there was this fat guy who came back with three garbage bags full of Batman and PR pogs, and let us all kids grab huge handfuls for us to keep. I ended up with like…literally hundreds of Batman and PR pogs, where they were pretty much all the same lol.

I never liked playing it much either, because I wasn’t good and I always lost all my pogs, despite spending all my allowances on slammers haha. I just liked collecting them.

I have 4 three foot tubes completely full of pogs in my basement :P

I heard my teachers talking about them when I was a little younger, but never owned them… for the record, I was a die-hard Yu-Gi-Oh card fanatic…

I had pleasantly forgotten about Pogs, until now. Thanks.

You love em and you know it!

I never played, actually. It was slightly behind my time but I remember feeling very, very sad when I heard about the “World Pog Federation.”

…I didn’t know about that, but it doesn’t surprise me much. Anyways I feel the same way about Pokemon today as you most likely do with pogs. It’s fucking bullshit lol!

Wow pogs that one I haven’t heard of since the third grade. My best friend and I still have our collection. She said it would be worth money some day. But I use my taz slammer as a paperweight so it still gets used.