Anything popular eventually got banned at our school. POGs, pokemon card, football stickers, you name it. I think it was mainly because whenever somebody dropped their stuff accidentally it was just a mad scramble. I remember seeing many a kid go from pure joy to clinically depressed in a heartbeat as they made the mistake of not keeping a strong enough grip on their stuff. We were like vultures.
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edited October 2008
I don't know about anyone else, but in my school pogs were for the kids to slow to understand how to play Magic: The Gathering.
What's that? This game involves strategy and math? Whoaaaa, take it easy there Einstein. Let's not get out of control. I'm gonna go throw a metal chunk at pieces of cardboard.
Wow man... looking back on it all I am ashamed to say I had at least 1000 POGs back in my day. Jeez man all that money wasted on cardboard when I could've purchased Game Boy games or something.
I think I still have mine somewhere around here... along with my kick-ass metal ninja star Slammer and my D&D standard issue Slammer.
Holy shit, pogs! I remember we had names for certain types of pogs, based on the pictures they had. Anything with a skull symbol was dubbed "Poison," and any pog with an 8-ball was identified as such. There were others, but I don't remember what they were. The very best pogs had a combination, like a skull inside an 8-ball. It was a "Poison 8-Ball," and it was coveted above all other pogs.
Was this just a local thing or did everyone categorize their pogs like that?
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Pogs were the NASCAR of grade school games.
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Holy shit, pogs! I remember we had names for certain types of pogs, based on the pictures they had. Anything with a skull symbol was dubbed "Poison," and any pog with an 8-ball was identified as such. There were others, but I don't remember what they were. The very best pogs had a combination, like a skull inside an 8-ball. It was a "Poison 8-Ball," and it was coveted above all other pogs.
Was this just a local thing or did everyone categorize their pogs like that?
Yeah my school did that. Although our poison pogs had to say poison on them.
I kept all of my poison and 8 ball pogs in these plastic pog holders in a binder. In fact I still have it somewhere I think
GRMikeThe Last Best Hope for HumanityThe God Pod Registered Userregular
edited October 2008
This line from the POG wiki:
Social commentators have generally dismissed the game of pogs as vapid and entirely menial. In particular, experts have pointed out that the game offers almost no opportunity for a child to develop strategic, social, or even motor skills.
Regarding pogs: I remember those damn commercials. (POG. POG. THE GAAAAAAAAME!!!). Also, one time my dad got me a bunch from like the 50's or something he found somewhere. Apparently they're that old.
About Crazy Bones: They were these little plastic figurines of bones....that looked like creatures, with faces and names.....The rare ones were Jaws and Eggie, and there were these giant ones, too. And gold ones. They were banned pretty damn fast at my school. EVERYONE had them stolen. Also there was a game but damned if I remember how it worked. It was something simple, in the pog school of "throw shit at things."
Regarding Yugioh: That was after my time. But my brother was too lazy to learn the rules, and so made me read the manual, and then teach it back to him. So I knew how to play something I had no interest in.
Regarding Pokemon Cards, something that WAS in my time: I remember when they were banned. So everyone switched to Digimon cards. And then the damn teachers were jerks and didn't realize it was a different game, and thought we were being smartasses. Morons.
i played with crazy bones a lot in elementary school
anyone else remember crazy bones?
there was this time a kid i knew cried his eyes out during recess because he lost his little coffin carrying case.
it was kind of sad, but mostly just a little pathetic.
Crazy Bones? What sort of gay thing is that?
They were these little plastic figurines that you lined up like red rover I think. You'd take turns flicking them at the other guy's line and which ever ones you successfully knocked over you got to keep.
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What's that? This game involves strategy and math? Whoaaaa, take it easy there Einstein. Let's not get out of control. I'm gonna go throw a metal chunk at pieces of cardboard.
I think I still have mine somewhere around here... along with my kick-ass metal ninja star Slammer and my D&D standard issue Slammer.
Was this just a local thing or did everyone categorize their pogs like that?
Yeah my school did that. Although our poison pogs had to say poison on them.
I kept all of my poison and 8 ball pogs in these plastic pog holders in a binder. In fact I still have it somewhere I think
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I mean, I see what they are from the picture
but what do you do with them
you threw your slammer down on the stack of pogs and whichever ones flipped over you kept
the whoever had the most pogs at the end of the match won
its kind of like a 90s version of jacks
anyone else remember crazy bones?
there was this time a kid i knew cried his eyes out during recess because he lost his little coffin carrying case.
it was kind of sad, but mostly just a little pathetic.
he wasn't that great of a friend, and I met him again this year and he's turned out to be a douchebag
but still
it was so much fun
I have this old gba game I bust out and play sometimes and it is pretty fun because fuck paying for packs and packs of cards
I don't believe it has been said that POG (pog pog, pog) is the word, you could have said that.
I know some of them had little nipples on the bottom so you could spin them. I'm not sure why though.
About Crazy Bones: They were these little plastic figurines of bones....that looked like creatures, with faces and names.....The rare ones were Jaws and Eggie, and there were these giant ones, too. And gold ones. They were banned pretty damn fast at my school. EVERYONE had them stolen. Also there was a game but damned if I remember how it worked. It was something simple, in the pog school of "throw shit at things."
Regarding Yugioh: That was after my time. But my brother was too lazy to learn the rules, and so made me read the manual, and then teach it back to him. So I knew how to play something I had no interest in.
Regarding Pokemon Cards, something that WAS in my time: I remember when they were banned. So everyone switched to Digimon cards. And then the damn teachers were jerks and didn't realize it was a different game, and thought we were being smartasses. Morons.
They were these little plastic figurines that you lined up like red rover I think. You'd take turns flicking them at the other guy's line and which ever ones you successfully knocked over you got to keep.
those things were great
oh, nostalgia
they were banned after a while though because of the art, i remember my friend told me that the mindrot card gave him nightmares or something.
that was the same kid who put card protectors on every single card he had.
his deck was ridiculously gigantic and he always dropped them when he tried to shuffle them.