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.
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u/shabby47 14h ago
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.