Remember the POG Life?

Remember the 90's game POG? This was a game so simple and stupid it actually was fun, at least for elementary and middle school kids. I remember a few high school kids playing; the same guys that played card games like Magic the Gathering and Pokemon during lunch and in between classes. POGs literally annoyed the crap out of adults so much so that they actually banned it in schools across the nation. They said the ban was because the game was too much like gambling, but personally I think they hated the mess it made during and after class when kids would scramble to get a quick games in, especially when they'd end up missing their buses because they couldn't find all their pieces. Here are the rules in case you forgot how the game was played:

1. You take these laminated cardboard disc called POGs that really look like milk jug caps and you make a stack on the floor in front of you, face up. 
2. You take this weighted, hard disc of a similar size called a "Slammer" and like it's name you slam it on top of the pile and see how many POGs you can get to land face down. The ones that do land that way go to you.
3. You re-stack the remaining POGs and your opponent does the same. You both keep repeating this process and claiming the ones that land face down until there are no more left on the floor. 
4. Count up each other's POGs to see who earned the most; the one with the most wins the game.

Yep, it was that simple! Kids would play for keeps of an agreed upon number of  POGs at the game's start. This was the part that kept us using all our allowance money and our parent's spare change to buy these little cardboard things at local card shops, big box and convenience stores. Because the game was licensed and trademarked there were "official" and "unofficial" POGs, which you could tell by the trademarks on the back, making the real POGs cost more.

My official POGs

POGs I didn't lose

American Eagle "Slammer"

Thickness of eagle slammer