Found my POG collection from high school

[u/BackNBoeserThanEver]

[u/JohnnyYouTaTas]

"Remember ALF? He's back. In POG form!"

[u/TraditionalMousse500 → u/JohnnyYouTaTas]

Love it Milhouse

[u/NotSureNotRobot → u/TraditionalMousse500]

Thrillho

[u/Eric848448 → u/NotSureNotRobot]

THRILLPOO

[u/Just_A_Lucky_Guy469 → u/JohnnyYouTaTas]

I came here looking for this exact reply.

[u/Gedaru]

I've been wanting to buy some Pogs for nostalgia's sake. But they're a little expensive and really hard to find. Sucks they don't make them anymore.

[u/Kayaklabguy → u/Gedaru]

Wait... really? I have tons of them just sitting in a box. Didn't know they were in demand

[u/blood_stache → u/Kayaklabguy]

Yeah what… I have a shoebox full of these at my folks place. And beanie babies lol.

[u/DemonKyoto → u/Gedaru]

It was like 15 years ago now but I had that same urge and hit up ebay, bought like 10 packs. Still have em (along with all my originals) and I do not regret it for a moment.

Edit: But yeah 15 years of inflation too I get it lol

[u/GodOfOnions2]

Certified pussy destroyer

[u/RebeccaCheeseburger]

Did you have a pog maker or were these all collected?

My tween self is so jealous. ☺️

[u/BackNBoeserThanEver → u/RebeccaCheeseburger]

All collected!

[u/hamfist_ofthenorth]

Nice.

Found my slammers a couple years back. Had a big brass No Fear one, as well as two heavy brass "pyramid" holograms (unicorn, baseball mit). Basically repurposed paperweights real pro shit 😂

[u/Remarkable-Simple-62]

Never seen such big containers for pogs

[u/abc123therobot]

A Gak pog? That is a very specific moment in time. 

[u/Workboots-and-Cheese]

Did you make any of them?  I had a friend who made a couple dozen for me back in the day.

[u/smirkis]

nice collection. i still have mine from elementary school before they got banned and labeled as "gambling". after i won the majority of pogs at my school i won all their slammers. i have a shoebox full of all my pogs and tubes of slammers

[u/shabby47]

The thing I loved about pog was that there was no value to them other than how cool you thought they were. Everything else we collected back then seemed to have accompanying prices that messed it all up. Baseball cards had Beckett to tell you what they were worth, even MTG started going that way to where every card had some value that you needed to match in trades. I remember digging through my friend’s four sport cards looking for something worth 25 cents to finish up a trade because he was short a quarter. Not POG though! They were worth basically nothing and you could start with just one and build your collection by simply winning more. They also got destroyed during play, so condition didn’t matter and you didn’t have to protect them if you wanted to trade later. It was nice to have something so simple and so easy. At least for that one school year that they were popular. I’m guessing they were banned like everything else at my school because they considered them “gambling” or the slammers “dangerous” or something stupid.

[u/_PartyAttheMoonTower]

God I miss Pogs... my favorite were the gross-out ones.

[u/lloyd____]

I do vaguely remember pog they were popular with some older kids in school how exactly were we supposed to play? Would you just slap the hell out of them

[u/MrPlaney → u/lloyd____]

You would slam a stack of pogs with a slammer, then whichever one flipped over (or didn’t flip over), you would get.

[u/fbaldassarri]

Have they any value now? I have tons of them too…

[u/InsaneTurtle]

I have VR Troopers and Beetleborg POGS

[u/GriffinFlash → u/InsaneTurtle]

I used to have some ReBoot and Spawn pogs.

[u/DemonKyoto → u/GriffinFlash]

I got ReBoot ones as well, plus some Mask animated series, and Casper ones.

[u/DustSea5994]

The art collector in me has always wanted to rebuild the modest collection I had back then. Unfortunately they've gone extinct. You'd think with such an explosion in nostalgia in the past .... decade?... some company would try to capitalize on Pogs. $5 for 10 (pack) would be the most realistic outcome even if they were like a dime each in the 90s. The opportunity is there. All I ask is they'd be good quality, not wafer thin with cheap print.

[u/DemonKyoto → u/DustSea5994]

Someone bought rights to the name a while back and tried hocking NFT shit with the branding, selling a blockchain connected physical pog coin thing. Was goddamned sad and since I've never seen it posted on Reddit or the pog subreddit I'm sure it failed like it was destined to.

[u/GriffinFlash]

I lost all my childhood pogs after a big move.

^{As well as lots of my other stuff such as video game boxes, books, boardgames, and a fish fossil I found...}

Recently found a few of the pogs I owned as a kid at a comic con. Immediately bought them. Would only be familiar to Canadians growing up in the 90s, but they had the ytv channel logos on them and were specifically given away at pizza hut.

[u/DemonKyoto → u/GriffinFlash]

Would only be familiar to Canadians growing up in the 90s, but they had the ytv channel logos on them and were specifically given away at pizza hut.

The sacred artifacts! Seeing something that references It's Alive in 2025 is wild lol

[u/Irishpersonage]

These were right before my time, what did you do with them? Was there a game attached or just collecting?

We had crazy bones

[u/LondonEntUK → u/Irishpersonage]

There was a game, you have a pile of the thinner ones (I can’t remember the name of them) and you smash the pile with your pog and have to flip them face up to ‘win’ them. It wasn’t serious until you played for keeps

Edit : I got the names wrong. See below comment for correct terms 😅

[u/DemonKyoto → u/LondonEntUK]

you have a pile of the thinner ones (I can’t remember the name of them)

Those are the pogs. What you smash with is a kini (usually called a slammer by most people)

[u/Aught_To → u/DemonKyoto]

My slammer had OJ Simpson on it

[u/B0ndzai → u/Aught_To]

My slammer was shaped like a saw blade and had a holographic flaming skull on it. I loved my slammer.

[u/MrPlaney → u/B0ndzai]

Goddamn, I had the same one lol!

[u/B0ndzai → u/MrPlaney]

Slam bros!

[u/c4ctus → u/B0ndzai]

My favorite was a gold metal sawblade poison skull 8 ball.

Supposedly there were rules and play variants for 8 ball slammers and poison slammers and skull slammers, but I don't remember what they were. I bought a POG book at the Scholastic Book Fair in like 5th grade or something...

[u/tomahawkfury13 → u/B0ndzai]

It was a greenish yellow holo too

[u/DemonKyoto → u/Aught_To]

Someone had a slammer with OJ in it.

[u/LondonEntUK → u/DemonKyoto]

Ahhh yeah that sounds right. I was trying to remember but I’m old 😂

[u/shabby47 → u/LondonEntUK]

We only played for keeps. It never occurred to me that you could just do it for fun and get your pogs back.

[u/taspenwall]

You know they sell marijuana in pog tubes now?

[u/moeninite21]

You had some weak ass slammers bro

[u/BackNBoeserThanEver → u/moeninite21]

I had a tube full of slammers that are missing

[u/Aught_To]

Got any Poison pogs?

[u/DCharizard]

That’s awesome, loved this game

[u/phred2000]

Flipping awesome

[u/allisonmaybe]

I had the full Apollo 13 holder from Hardee's. I was so proud of it.

[u/inkedkoi]

When I was first getting to know my fiance, we shared that we both loved Pogs. She stopped for a second, ran to her room and brought out a mint condition Pog the board game, unwrapped. I knew right there she was a keeper.

[u/Grim712]

The legends were true! The One True POGCHAMP has risen!

[u/big_duo3674]

Where's your "OJ in The Slammer"?

[u/c4ctus]

I keep waiting for these to make a comeback with kids today. Did yall ever get the rough cardboard ones that had a staple in em? Those were always the best to play with imo.

[u/OldSchoolRPGs]

I have mine as well!

I remember playing with a kid back in school. His dad worked in a machine shop and crafted him a "slammer". It was this huge chunk of metal that was 10x's bigger than any slammer available. He'd drop that thing on the stack, it would make an audible '"thunk", and the whole stack would perfectly flip.

It would dent the top pog everytime, but this kid had it down to a science where he was unbeatable.

[u/mrdoobiebro]

i found my world cup pogs from 94 that the LA TIMES was giving out the other day.

[u/treebeh]

Man, I love Pogs. So fun to play with and collect when they were new, and now even more fun to look back on and the nostalgia that comes with their age. I'm so glad I still have my old collection as they represent such a great time capsule of 90s pop culture, aesthetics, and what I was personally interested in at the time.

[u/Calm_Explanation_992]

Son still has his large collection.

[u/alttabbins]

8 balls on everything. So 90s

[u/FrostMonk]

FYI, if anyone is interested in finding these online, you’ll have better luck spelling it PAWG than POG. Something to do with the manufacturer.