1990s · toys
POGs
Cardboard milk caps flipped by plastic slammers. The playground currency of the 1990s.
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- 90s
- Released
- 1991
- Category
- toys
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The pitch
POG! Flip 'em, stack 'em, slam 'em! Collect the coolest cardboard caps and challenge your friends to recess duels.
Why people remember it
- The satisfying sound of a heavy plastic slammer hitting a stack of cardboard discs.
- Trading rare holographic caps during recess.
- Playing 'for keeps' and losing your favorite slammer.
Did you know?
- POG originated in Hawaii as milk caps from the Haleakala Dairy's POG juice (Passionfruit, Orange, Guava).
- Schools banned POGs because playground arguments made it look like elementary school gambling.
- Slammers were made of plastic, metal, or rubber and had custom designs like poison signs.
How people search for it
“pogs”, “pogs toy”, “retro pogs”
Questions people ask
- What does POG stand for?
- Passionfruit, Orange, and Guava - the juice drink that inspired the original bottle cap game.
- How do you win POGs?
- Stack the caps face down, hit them with a slammer, and keep any that land face up!
