History
Most references about the game originate from unofficial sources and personal accounts from players. Estimates suggest that it has existed since the 1960s.
As part of the Punch Dub marketing campaign run by Volkswagen, a man named Zachariah Davis was presented as "the guy who made a game out of seeing VWs and punching his friends." This campaign, launched in 2009, claims that the game was started "over 50 years ago." as a humorous historical fiction created by the ad agency Deutsch Inc.
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