The amazing Allysini

Did you play with Pogs when you were a kid? Elementary age? I know that everyone from MY school would know what I'm talking about, but not all do. These are Pogs; small, circular pieces of cardboard used for a game we called, "Playing Pogs" ha! clever.... Anyways, I don't think it was really all that fun, but it killed the time at recess, and knowing me, I probably wanted to do it because all the boys were doing it.

I remember having a giant green plastic case that held all of my Pogs. Can you imagine all the kids carrying these around school and on the bus? Everyone wanted to have the coolest Pogs. You could buy them at random stores, but there was a particular Pog Spot that I frequented. It was a comic book store by the bowling alley, and I would make my Grandpa, some of you know him as Stan the Man, take me there after school to make sure I got the latest Pogs. He even got me a Pog Factory once. Pogs came in Happy Meals at one point, this is why I know I'm not the only person who remembers playing. Happy Meal Pogs were terrible quality, though... the kind you barter with the next day at school. Being my Artsy-Fartsy self, I became fond of buying packages of plain colored Pogs and creating masterpieces on them. I could put "David" on a Pog, in a super-cool font of course, make it the same colors of whatever football team he liked, and trade it for 5 Pogs that I wanted. Deep into the Pog Game, ya feel me?

Pogs were not only collectibles, they were soldiers.... soldiers in a battle between a couple of 3rd graders. The more = The better, and a Big victory could pick you up a whole new set of Pogs like that! Like soldiers need their King, Pogs need a Slammer. Each player had to have a "Slammer". This was a bigger, thicker, plastic Pog that was used to Slam stacks of Pogs.


Click Here to see a demo Pog game.

Pogs Rock, though, honestly. I am totally going to search for mine when I go home for Thanksgiving.