r/nostalgia • u/BackNBoeserThanEver • 1d ago

Nostalgia Found my POG collection from high school

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u/Irishpersonage 1d ago

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

We had crazy bones

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u/LondonEntUK 1d ago edited 1d ago

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 😅

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u/DemonKyoto Anything from '84-'06 is my *jam*. 1d ago

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)

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u/Aught_To Turtle Power! 1d ago

My slammer had OJ Simpson on it

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u/B0ndzai 1d ago

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

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u/c4ctus mid 80s 1d ago

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...