| Pogs is the
name of a fad game that was popular from the early-to-mid-1990s.
It got its name from POG, a brand of fruit juice
(made from Passion Fruit, Orange and Guava); the
caps of POG bottles were originally used to play
the game. Pog originated in Hawaii around the
1930's, and was repopularized when a Canadian
company, Canada Games, reintroduced them to the
mainstream public in the mid 90's.
The classic game involves one player picking an amount of pogs
(cardboard disks), and the other player matching
this amount. All the pogs are stacked, and then
one player throws a Slammer, which was basically
a thicker, heavier version of a pog made from
plastic or steel at the pogs with the goal of
turning over as many as possible. Any that turn
over go to the person that threw the slammer,
and the rest are for the other person to try and
flip over. It goes until all the pogs have been
flipped, and then it starts again with the other
person starting.
Pogs became so popular in the 1990's, that hundreds of types
of Pogs were manufactured covering a wide array
of toys, cartoons, movies, games, sports and people's
images on the front of the Pogs. The popularity
of the game spawned knockoffs, such as "Slammer
Whammers." This was a similar game released
under a different brand name. Today, the Pog fad
has died down considerably, but Pogs can still
be found in locations such as eBay.
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