POGs is Slamming its Way to the Blockchain
Throwback Schoolyard Classic Making a Digital Return
Back in the early ’90s, nearly every playground across the globe had a serious case of POGs fever. Kids brought their ‘regular’ pieces — and heavier ‘Slammers’ — to school and challenged other gamers to winner-take-all matches.
For roughly five years, students went absolutely bonkers (also the name of weird candy from that era!) over POGs.
Just to refresh your memory, here’s what the old pieces looked like:
POGs game pieces were everywhere for a while there. Like, they were included in WacArnold’s Happy Meals popular.
Now, as you can imagine, the potent cocktail of kiddo gambling, kiddo immaturity, and general schoolyard-aged kiddo punkassery was an invitation to go off the rails on a crazy train.
Not long after seven countries banned POGs in schools — Australia, Canada, Germany, Iceland, Sweden, the U.K., and the U.S. — the mania began to fade.
But like a sleeping giant, POGs is now set to rise again. Everything is virtual this time around, and the ‘local’…
