Pogs: The Complete History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- Despite their humble Hawaiian beginnings, POGs grew to quickly become one of the biggest trends of the '90s. From plastic storage tubes to awesome holographic slammers, take a look back at the game that took over classrooms (and sometimes ended up in the principal's office).
Pogs were one of the last great cultural phenomena before the mass adoption of the Internet across the nation and world. I will always remember it as being such a fun part of childhood.
Same!
Did you forget about Pokemon in the 90s?
Er....pokemon and beanie babies to name a few....
Crazy bones :)
@@yujabes Pokémon are pretty special in the regard that it lived through the transistion. It became a real cultural value, not only a phenomenon, given that there is now the third generation of players out there. Which is baffeling to think of.
I still have two tubes of pogs and some metal slammers. I miss the days before the internet took over humanity.
That’s awesome-we miss it too!
Im jealous
Play ya for em!😎
If you wanna meet at the park on Saturday, get your bike and some dunkaroos! We will be there battling.
Pogs were awesome. They need a comeback
💯
In Alf form
Seriously! How has it not already happened?
@@JulianY2K12 I recently introduced POGs to my kids and they love them!
Poison, 8 ball, POG and No Fear were the most badass you could get. But there was probably millions of different POGS back then that weren't even official because the slopes in China were bootlegging them like crazy. Good times simpler times.
Pogs pop up here and there, I remember one time when I used to work for 7-11 I opened up a box of random stuff to put out on the shelves, one of those things was a box of MARVEL Pogs (four years prior to the first Iron man movie), I bought about 5 booster packs that day. Still have all my POGS from my childhood to this day.
What a cool discovery!
These are too awesome, i remember these being the thing back in the late 90s
I've noticed a resurgence in 90s fads from my childhood arising in the teens today. I won't accept this as a full circle till P.O.Gs are back.
We’re with you!
They are 😉
@@NegusXL whaaaa? Looking this up!
i really want pogs to make a comeback. i would see pogs here and there as a kid but never actually got to play it since i had NO idea what i was looking at so i'd really like to try playing now.
That would be awesome!
@@90s-rewind tis true. though not long after making that comment,i went to ebay and got me a few packs (1 animaniacs,1 animaniacs post cereal with yakko and hello nurse,1 pocahontas and 2 gargoyles) and played them for the first time ever about a day ago. tis fun.XD
@@JT5555 Did you get a slammer?
@@90s-rewind of course. a wakko,a john smith,a broadway and a lexington. all my pogs were still in their packs.
@@JT5555 dope✌️
I had a ton as a kid a few glow in the dark ones and some scratch and sniff ones
Remember Alf? He’s back in pog form.
Great Vid!!!
Here from the stream👋👋 R.I.P the tech deck ramp will never be forgotten 😔
Thanks @roszko!
great video, and thanks for not making it an hour and a half long
@@idkidk-i9g you are welcome, thanks for watching!
Dang this is such a well put together video. This page should most definitely blow up.
Hey thanks, we hope so too!
So happy I came across your channel. Love going back in time and learn history behind my favorite things I grew up with
Thanks for visiting!
Yessss you’re back, we missed you guys
I find myself often still examining heavy discs I come across as a potential slammer- like designed coins for card games
Old memories unlocked
Dude I totally forgot about these until recently. This was the best thing ever
Thanks!
Hope this channel blows up soon. Good work.
Thanks!
Nice summary. Short and sweet! 👍🏻
Thanks for watching!
Ya, it's downfall was definitely being banned by some schools and getting labeled as "gambling" , combine that with Pokemon cards eating up the entire collectable tradable toy market, and pogs just couldn't sustain its business
TRue!
i still have a good portion of my Pog collection. I did lose most my slammers though. but happy to have what i still have
That's awesome!
idk for the other countries, but actually you can find pogs in france in a lot of stores, like tabocco-shop or kid's games stores, but it's like really expensive for what it is
it's juste a revival nostalgia thing for the people who grew up during the 90's
(nice channel btw, i'll look at your other videos (: )
Interesting 🤔
I was in elementary school when pogs were at their prime and my school banned them because they considered it gambling
Gambling? lol that was crazy times
90s was the best time to be a kid ever!
No argument here!
Why is this channel not blowing up yet?
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I'm Swedish and this used to be soo popular here in the late 90s and early 2000s, i remember it being gambling through and through haha, we would play without slammers and each player would put a pog each on top of eachother and we would slam with regular pogs. Me and my friends would literally ride our bikes to different city areas just to challenge people
That’s awesome, and interesting that you didn’t use slammers. Thanks for sharing!
I am Norwegian. We used to do the same thing. We used slammers though. But I got to get to know a lot of different kids in the city and even on the country side. We rode our bicycles just to play. I remember I had a friend that was really technical. He took pogs from every kid in the city. He literally had buckets of pog. 😂
i remember the glow in the dark edition 🥰😍
Yeah!
@@90s-rewind now i have them 😂, you made me search for them everywhere
Haha nicely done@@TysyTube ! Hopefully you got some cool ones.
@@90s-rewindyes full collection 🔥
This guy used to have a big bucket of pogs and you could dip in and pick random pogs for a small amount, I used to jam my arm all the way in and fill my sleeve 😂
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I was born in 91 and while I was aware of POGs I never played them. I wish this or something similar could come back
Us too!
Pogs were hella fun. Never saw anything too graphic on them.
My friends and I always traded willingly, but never for keeps.
Nice! Thanks for watching!
>Pogs: The Complete History
>3 minute video
Thanks for watching!
Yesss, it's back!!!
I used to love these things i just collected them for the art on them i remember all the cool holos with skulls and all kinds of cool characters miss those days
holographics were everything
I won a POG tournament at Disneyland when I was like 12 in 1992. It was so dope.
Thats so awesome! What did you win?
Just ordered a collection of pogs off Etsy, eagerly awaiting them :P my young son is very much into throwing toys around and generally causing messy mischief, so I feel like these would be right up his alley :P Who knows, if I can stealthily reintroduce them to the schoolyard, maybe we can have a resurgence!
That’s awesome!
“Playing for keeps” was serious words on the playground
Right? It could cause a hush to fall over a group of kids
I was thinking about this the other day it was All the Rage in 1994 and 1995 I live in California and since it was created in Hawaii it got to us first. We used to have Pog tournaments in Long Beach California. Even showed up in our local news of the kid that has one. Me and my cousins were really good at the game we would use Snapple Captain Crush them to make Slammers. And we played the game by flipping over a mortar pot😂 it came and went real fast but I honestly wish they would bring it back. Especially with this newer generation they love a lot of the things that we grew up with. Damn near obsessed I think it would be cool for them to bring it back. I just missed the pre-internet days although I love the internet don't give me wrong. But I think we should balance things too. The kid who played video games then went outside to play basketball, then play pogs and then I will write my books. Everything that we did involved critical thinking and problem-solving skills. I would love to show my daughter and the other little kids in my family how to play the game
Love your story, thanks for sharing!
lol at that goosebumps pog
Most people don't know that Steve Allen was actually the inventor of the pog.
Lol
I miss pogs :(
Ditto
The 90’s were awesome
What a time to be young and innocent. Still have my tin of pogs, cherish those days.
Love this!
still have some pogs and slammers waahahahaha
Nice!
Playing for keeps was never a problem during marble week. We just couldn't have grand daddies or knicker knockers.
As a child growing up with pogs, I can tell you that schools banning the game led to the decline of the game and downfall. Had school districts had a better grasp, on marketing the pogs as a way to fund projects and community programs, there wouldn't have been such a sharp decline in it's popularity as it's still obscure to this day.
Thanks for the input!
I agree they really did written off pogs as a distraction but what I felt they should have did was create educated based Pogs that teach you facts or something. They honestly could have did something with it. Like student the month pogs, graduation phone pogs, school spirit pogs etc. Yeah I remember us getting in trouble for bringing them. We would bring them anyway and play it in a cut during recess. A real it did start some fights😅
Very cool! Nice clip of the factory where they were made.
Thanks!
I remember very well that my entire collection was stolen in my school. Italy 94-95 and my age was 9!
Oh no, that's a tragedy!
If pogs could be manufactured in such a way that they are difficult to forge, then they could be a collectible.
NFT tie-in? 🤣
ALF'S back in PoG form
🤣
Man like every 20 seconds I catch a pog or two I still own. So wild seeing this. I think I may have one of the caps from that drink. I recognized the red Hawaii one. The one that is a much softer consistency of cardboard Tham the fancy glossy ones
That's awesome, thanks for commenting!
Born in 1990 I wish I still had my pogs but I think my parents trashed them. Still have N64, Genesis and NES stored though.
nice!
We need Pogs in our life again 😢
Amen!
Now I’m going to spend the rest of the night looking for my pogs
Good luck!
Anyone know the name of the instrumental music?
Hmmm we can’t remember. Pretty sure it was from the TH-cam music library though!
Whats kind of crazy is i had that saw tooth slammer! AND, my neighbors bro had a bunch of those bobby's world POG's, and a funny story, is my friend jasons brother travis, was clever and a few years older, and had written his initials on his pogs, and put a tiny glob of white out overr the initials. me and jason were playing in his house, and i found his bro's Bobby world pogs and took some. fast forward a day or so, his bro asked me if i wanted to play pogs, so i brought my stash, tried playing off that they were mine and i didnt take them, and he scratches off thee white out and embarrassed me lol.. i think i just gave them back and took my ball and went home, but dont quite remember.
That’s hilarious! 🙃
amazing
Thanks!
We don’t return the pogs to our opponents…we keep them 😂
Cutthroat!
im bringing back pogs but stronger
I still got 99% of my og pogs and slammers. Oh thems were the itme,s right when MArvel Masterpieces began to be less interesting, and Magic the Gathering took over collecting in the 90s lol ^
That’s awesome!
Still got my limited edition striker.
Nice!
Damn I really wanna play pogs now
Back in the day you had two sets one you played with and the other set was for collection only. I had a personalized Tiffany Amber Thiessen POG that belonged in its own category, The “ look but don’t touch” category! Hehe 😊
@@normanbaron8408 I’d like to touch her lololol
I still have a small tube of power rangers pogs. I randomly found them too just cleaning my room LOL
Oh wow!
In Mexico they are called Tazos we grew up playing with them from 2000 to 2012 it was so much fun in preschool
Interesting!
Pogs making a comeback rn in hawaii
Really?! That’s awesome!
@@90s-rewind yea. Lot of kids where i live are starting to play pogs again. Everybody at recess play pogs
@@hennythingispossible2061 👏
90’s best time to be a little kid
Agreed!
I’m 13 and I’m school had a lot of pogs but we played a different way
How did you play?
@@90s-rewind we had two pogs and would slam one on the other if the one slamming flipped over the the person try’s to flip it if they do they win and they get both pogs if the one slamming flips both over they win if they both are on the front or the person fails to flip the pog they switch and the other person slams
I remember playing pogs in 4th and 5th grade. My brother had the OJ Simpson slammer. OMG I just got it, OJ in the slammer 🙄
😹
"modern milk caps"
... I'm sure you meant contemporary. Does anyone here know what a milk cap is?
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I remember having lots of those when I was a kid and the most sought-after slammer on the playground, The funny thing is, I can't remember where I got them from or what I did when the fad passed. Maybe they are still around in a box, maybe I've given them away, maybe someone's thrown them away. But the bigger mystery still is: Where did I get all these from?
Haha they did just seem to show up, didn’t they?!
I miss my pog maker!
Earthbound had a scratch and sniff insert ad in some video game magazines in addition to the ones that came in the game. I used that ad in my pog maker for scratch and sniff stinky pogs.
I have two big boxes of pogs somewhere
Awesome!
I'll never forget the tear-stained faces of the two girls who played POGs for keeps, got into a slap-fight, and then caused the principal to ban POGs at our elementary. They ruined it for everyone.
Also, I loved it when a milf emerged sensuously from a pile of POGs. Happened all the time.
😆
Looking for that Punisher, Flash, Rugrats [TRex] , Hey Arnold, Doug, Ren & Stimpy, and the all but inevitable Where's Bobby's world 🌎
Great suggestions!
I'm surprised pogs didn't survive like card games like magic or Pokemon
It's due for a comeback!
@@90s-rewind I wish I still had my set. I was a kid when the first came out. Unfortunately I remember selling them in a yard sale. Oh well.
Yep, all my Pogs n Slammers got confiscated at school and my mom would not get off her dead ass to go and get them back.
Nooo 😭
open the flood gates on the most valuable pogs heavy metals precious stones etcs
This was such a big part of my childhood. I loved this period of my life!
We always played for keeps. We had strict rules and conduct. We were just 10-year-old kids, but this was serious business.
I remember this kid in the neighborhood. If he lost he would get his older sister to collect his pogs back. If he won, he would of course take someone else’s pogs. He got beaten up pretty bad and nobody ever played with him again. It was serious business and no forgiveness.
Wow that’s intense! Thanks for sharing!
Oh yes it was always business never personal.😂 strictly business
whos here after seeing Pogs comeback ad?
What’s the link?
Say to all the comments saying this was popular right before the internet...man Pokemon would be able to steal that claim and more...Not everyone Had a computer before 98 tf...computers werent in everyone's home till about 2003....even then...Pogs were not popping more then pokemon in 1999 ..reason I keep bringing up pokemon for the fact the card game took over
Good point!
What do you think about a POG resurgence? I actually emailed most of the major card grading companies and nobody grades these. Opportunity for start up? What do you think?
Sign us up!
POGs have made their start thousands of years ago???? Japanese Menko is around 400 years old maximum.
Our sources seem cloudy about the actual origin. Definitely 400 years in recorded history, but possible much older than that
I remember when this took off where I lived. Was made fun of for not having pogs, but I refused to buy in because it was so stupid. Spent my money on video games, and I remember not a lot of time passing before the fad died down, and you saw pogs all over the playground like the garbage it was. Don't remember it being banned, I just remember it dying down and some kids feeling bad that they had wasted so much money
Haha that’s too funny.
Pogs and marbles are the only thing I remember about grade three and four, the toys were with the playing with for those who had fun and made and built friendships.
I couldn't really get into vids at that age.... my mom would always make me shut it off by like the third boss...
You must have been, either rich, or too old to play pogs anyway, btw...
Who had their own money in the third grade?
BRING BACK TAMAGOTCHI!
Pokemon cards is what killed it I feel.
Maybe so!
Every single fact in this video sounds made-up. " 'Pog' stands for 'passionfruit, orange, guava'. It's an ancient Japanese game and has been banned for satanic imagery. It made $10,000,000 per week."
hahaha they are true though
1993 - 1995 aye?...
Assuming those who are viewing this must be Millennials.
Safe to say haha
Crist Track
RIP OJ
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parents n teachers probably regret crying about pogs
Indeed!
I only played them for one year in 97 when I was 13.
In my jr high iy got banned because school started looking like a casino
Too funny!
My grandma said Pokemon cards was a fad like pogs back and left late 90s. So I got rid of a lot of mine for $5.00 at a garage sale I basically gave away my first edition Charizard. 😭
Oh no 😭
Keebler Light
Noel Spring
I wish I was part of this Gen and not my Dumb Gen Z, damn my childhood was lame...
Haha
Romaguera Orchard
Richard Mill
130 Bernhard Shore
I had street fighter Pogs
Sure they were knock offs
Barrows Forge
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