Are they any fun? they both look like they requrie $200 or so in equiptment to get started (and that is used equiptment on ebay), but they also look like alot of fun and good exercise. however i wouldn’t know where to find an actual match though, or how much a match costs in these games. Do you set matches up in local groups of paintballers in the forest or something or do you have to go to a club and play there?
Are there other real life war games that adults play, like something with lazers instead of airsoft or paintball?
You can rent paintball stuff rather than buying it, although I’d definitely recommend buying your own mask at the very least.
I’m actually selling mine off as we speak. I don’t play nearly enough to justify keeping all of it.
Paintball is tons of fun. It’s like playing War as a kid, if you ever did. You can rent the mask and gun, but I’d buy some cammies from an Army Surplus kinda store. I don’t play much cause it’d be an expensive thing to get into, and I know I could REALLY get into it.
Laser Tag had a brief resurgence during the late 90s, but I don’t know if any places are still around.
You can do either. Lucky for us, one of the guys in town knew someone who had a large wooded area with creeks and hills that we could use whenever. We would get about 10 guys and just have a blast. For cost, you can save by going together on supplies (balls, CO2, etc…).
Tons of fun but very expensive if you’re not careful.
I did a few times. I found it very/extremely difficult to play/shoot people, after being trained with real guns, and gun safety, for so long in my life. It was hard for me to get it into my mind that this was only a “game”, and that I could shoot my friends.
The first time I played, it took me at least 4 hours or so, until I finally was able to start separating it out as a play game, and not real, and then it was started to be fun.
I think you have to have the right psychie to play if you have long time experience with guns. If I had started the game with it being a “simulated training exercise”, instead of a “game”, I think I could have played it much better from the start.
It is great. My suggestion for just starting out, go to your local Kmart or Walmart and you can get a starters kit with everything for like a hundred bucks. I personally play at home but I also live in the country so space is not a problem. I only know of one course around my home and it is an increasing cost for how long you play. I think they do offer to organize games that you can participate in for like five bucks or so. But dont quote me on that Im not really sure.
Hiya! I play tournament level paintball, amature division.
Depending on where you live, there can be different types of fields. The most common are “outlaw” (playing in someone’s backyard, or on their propery), speedball (typically found at established paintball fields, this is a field with bunkers made out of plywood, pallets, etc) or supair, which uses inflatable bunkers, and is somewhat less common at your average field.
For your first time, it’s probably better to go to an established field. They tend to have strict safety regulations, which include refs to keep people from getting too hotheaded, and enforcement of the velocity on the markers. 300fps (feet per second) is typically the upper limit you’ll find at most fields. 300fps is about 204mph-- you can see why this is the UPPER limit! No worries, the mask you’ll be wearing for eye protection is rated to withstand a shot from a .22 caliber firearm.
As for equiptment, yes, you can typically rent a marker/mask from the field you’re playing at, if it’s run as a buisness. If it isn’t, the paintball store in your area may rent out markers for a nominal fee, but with a refundable deposit that will be returned to you upon return of the marker (This is what my local store does).
However, If you’d like your own marker, I’d reccomend staying away from cheap-o $50 Wal-Mart guns. They tend to be more of a hassle than they’re worth! Go to your paintball store and ask about entry level markers. You can probably get an older model Spyder for around $90. Be warned: you may get quite addicted to this sport. With upgrades, my main marker is worth about $1,200. I also have 3 other “higher level” markers, and 2 old ('95-'96) Spyders that I first started playing with, about 7 years ago.
We used to play that all the time in highschool. There were a couple dozen guys from my HS who played on a fairly regular basis. Most of us started off with old Splatmaster pistols and those crappy gogles you get in chemistry class:
http://www.pukindogspaintball.com/gallery/guns083.htm
These were shit guns that held about 10 rounds with a range of 30yards or so. The best part was if you drew the gun up quickly, the over/under magazine would fly out of the gun leaving you with just the chambered round.
Eventually we upgraded to pump action guns and actual face masks.