I Miss Pogs And Marbles

[Deleted User]MoonlightSonata (deleted user)
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When I was a kid I collected a lot of things like cards, cars, coins, fossils, rocks, gems, and so on.

I also used to collect pogs and marbles.

We used to play the pogs game at my elementary school. I had all sorts of neat ones with various characters and even some holographic ones. I also had a lot of cool slammers (what you hit the pogs with to turn them over in the game).

My friends and I also used to collect marbles and play the game. I had all sorts of neat ones like the cat's eye marbles and galaxy ones.

Anyway I kind of miss playing pogs and marbles and those games aren't really as common anymore.

How about you guys? What are some games from your childhood that you miss playing? I am curious to know.

Comments

  • UKGuyUKGuy
    edited April 2018

    I have no idea what a pog or slammer is. In England as schoolboys we played conkers. I bet you don't know what that is. You can look it up on Wikipedia. We also played marbles, I guess that was more universal.

  • [Deleted User]MoonlightSonata (deleted user)
    edited April 2018

    @UKGuy To answer your question, here's a video about pogs. XD

    I don't know what Conkers are but they sound interesting. :) What was the game like?

  • UKGuyUKGuy

    @MoonlightSonata - can't possibly explain Conkers, it's best to look at the Wikipedia article. I did research Pogs, it has a fascinating history going back to Hawaii in the 1930's but the game reached its most popular in the early to mid 1990's and then faded away pretty quickly.

  • [Deleted User]MoonlightSonata (deleted user)

    @UKGuy I found a video that it explains it. XD

    Apparently there are world championships too.

    It looks like a fun game, but I wouldn't want to be hit by one of the chestnuts. :P

  • UKGuyUKGuy

    A couple of games girls used to play were hopscotch and skip-rope. Both to my knowledge played exclusively by girls. In fact, I can't think of any game that was played by both sexes, but then again I went to a boys-only school so had zero interaction with girls.

  • warmlyhelenawarmlyhelena

    In the late 80's at my elementary school, there were two boys who dared to be themselves and join us for jumprope and hopscotch (they were also masters of cat's cradle). I hope that these days, there are more!

    Our most popular games that everyone played at the time were: handball, foursquare, red rover, and tetherball.

  • netrunnernetrunner Mod
    edited April 2018

    I still have my pogs and slammers in a box in my closet somewhere... and I think Beanie Babies too. I was lied to being told they'd be worth so much by different years LOL of course finding someone to pay those amounts never enters the mind of a kid.
    I collected marbles too and I think those too are in the same box as the pogs

  • [Deleted User]MoonlightSonata (deleted user)

    @UKGuy @softandlovely Both boys and girls used to play jump rope and hopscotch. My school had jump rope as a competitive sport which meant that the jumpers competed in various tournaments. They would do a lot of famcy moved and such. There were a lot of guys on the different teams.

    Pretty much everyone at my school played cat's cradle, handball, foursquare, red rover, tetherball, volleyball (we had a volleyball net), basketball, soccer, badminton, croquet, and other games.

    We also played on the big toys, monkey bars, and swung on the swings.

  • [Deleted User]MoonlightSonata (deleted user)

    @reurbo I actually wish that I still had my pogs and marbles. I would totally break them out and play a game with friends for nostalgia purposes.

    I also had a bunch of beanie babies. I just collected them because I thought they were cute. But I did hear something about them being valuable over time. From what I understand their value never increased for whatever reason. Maybe because there were too many of the same kinds in circulation. I'm actually not too sure why they never gained any sort of value. But that's my best guess.

  • UKGuyUKGuy
    edited April 2018

    The yo-yo was a big craze at some point. but it did not last too long. I think it coincided with some yo-yo expert being on TV a lot and demonstrating all the tricks. I think that would have been the early 60's, before your time probably.

  • netrunnernetrunner Mod

    @MoonlightSonata it's because the company making them was making limited quantities and only shipping certain ones to certain regions to try to make them valuable, also randomly discontinuing certain ones, and then making that book showing an estimated value they somehow came to for 12-20+ years later. basically they made the product, controlled the distribution, made an intended scarcity for them, and then tried to tell everyone that they were an investment with a huge payout that people bought into... but you can't make something and then predict the value a decade or 2 of that something you made.

  • respectfulrespectful
    edited April 2018

    @MoonlightSonata Whenever I see the title of this thread, it makes me think Pogs and Marbles were two pets you used to own ... maybe a cat and a dog:

  • [Deleted User]MoonlightSonata (deleted user)

    @UKGuy Yo-Yos were actually a big thing at my school as well. Kids used to collect the different Yo-Yos like the ones that would do tricks easier because of the design or the ones that lit up (with small internal lights) when they were spun.

  • [Deleted User]MoonlightSonata (deleted user)

    @reurbo That's really interesting. It definitely explains why it never took off the way the company intended it to.

  • [Deleted User]MoonlightSonata (deleted user)

    @respectful Those would actually make great pet names. :)

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