Collector's Item that is sure to come back as things always make a repeat in "what's hot". This is in mint condition, never used, bronze Pog Slammer with designer, star edges. This slammer features OJ Simpson behind jail bars picture etched into the front and on the back, is a design of the infamous police chase down the California highway.
This was made by a jeweler in Houston Texas and is one of a kind as there were no others made like this.
The POG Game - Brief History
According to what I have read, the Japanese played a game called MENKOS over 600 years ago. They used round playing pieces the same size as milkcaps but they were made of clay, ceramic or wood, and had colorful images of classical Japanese icons such as Sumo wrestlers, Samurai warriors, etc. on them.
The early 20th century Japanese immigrants to Hawaii apparently brought this game with them, and from the early 1900s until the about the 1960s, bottled milk in the islands, and elsewhere, had a waxed top insert which kids used to play basically the same game as Menkos.
In the 1980s, the Haleakala Dairy on Maui introduced a new fruit drink called Passion Orange Guava juice, and advertised it on their milkcap inserts as POG. This led to the phenomenal popularity of the POG game in the mid-1980s and into the 1990s.
At about the same time, a young Californian saw his first POGs in Hawaii, and decided to design a "better" one, which he called TROV. It also became a staple of POG players and collectors.
In the meantime, a shrewd business-minded California dude, Alan Rypinski, went to Hawaii and bought the POG trademark from the dairy and later founded the World POG Federation (WPF). They hold POG/TROV tournaments around the country. One was held at Disneyland in 1994.
POGs are also VERY popular in Europe (England, Germany, Holland, Belgium, France), and I have them round and hexagonal (6-sided) shaped. At least in England they are called TAZOS and I have also seen the word PAWG used for them by European collectors. Special soccer, Star Wars, Star Trek and many other POG series were often included in bags of potato chips or other foods. Special storage albums were also available by mail order. Some of the European POGs which I collected have several small slits or groves along the circumference, or one at the center of the sides of the hexagon. These may be used to construct things by interlocking the individual POGs. CLIPPOS are also found.
In the United States and Canada, Special Collector Editions were included as premiums at fast-food joints and sold at places such as Disney World, or distributed by sports teams. They may be found today at select toy, hobby, sports collectible and other specialty shops.
Some of the kewl series include - Power Rangers, Barbie, Toy Story, Flintstones, TROV GOLD, Poison Caps, State Capitals, Hi-C Marvel X-Men, Knott's Berry Farm series, World Soccer Cup, Disney characters, Spice Girls, Sumo Dudes, Beavis and Butthead, Haleakala Dairy POG (THE ORIGINAL!), Anaheim BULLFROGS, Smurf, 7-Eleven and McDonalds sets, Pokemon, DC SkyCaps with Super Heroes, Super Villains, Jurassic Park, among others, including MANY different promotional series issued by different businesses.
POG - The Game
May be played with from 2 to 6 players. Each player stacks some of his POGs, image face down, in the center of the playing area until about 10-12 POGs are in the stack. Mix them up before stacking. Decide who will go first, then play right to left (if there are more than 2 players). The player than tosses/throws his KINI - SLAMMER - BLASTER - TROUNCER on top of the stack, attempting to turn over as many POGs as possible on his move. He then wins those which flip face up. The next player restacks those remaining in the playing field and repeats the process. When only one POG remains in the center, it may be TIPPED by pressing a KINI on the edge of the POG, hopefully causing it to flip over - much in the same way as one would play Tiddly-Winks. The winner is the one who was able to turn over the most POGs. I have been able to turn over as many as 4 POGs in a single move! There are MANY different variations of this basic game plan, and at a tournament, there are official rules and even judges. It is a kewl game for kids, non-aggressive and great fun. They can learn from some of the series, such as the State Capitals, and they get to appreciate their collection!
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