Hrm...

[pblunchbox]

Are you sure paintball started as a simulation of war?
Can you site me the source of that information?
What are the odds that it was a bunch of cow herders, or tree loggers who decided to shoot one of their friends in the arse and then it degenerated fromt here?
Paintball is all about IMAGE now days.
Look at the "Pro" uniforms.
Look at X-Ball.
those of us who care about image care about articles such as this one.
Those of you who do not care about image Please feel free to continue to give paintball a bad name.
Brandon

[shartley]

[pblunchbox]

Whoops

Yeah this was ment for my thread about stuff magazine.
and oops.
/blush
So paintball started as simulated warfare? then why are the markers called just that.. markers?
i am now confused.
And i do agree with you, the games we play are elimination, but then again so was Capture the flag (tag style).
GiJoe is fine, capguns are fine.
Smurfs were communist, but thats a different topic.
Paintball gets a bad name because of teens and even young 20's doing ignorant things with a paintball gun.
Robbing stores, doing "drive bys", shooting roadsigns.
I guess what i am getting at is it does matter what face we show the country. We are under eyes all the time. Mom's watch kids play.
Remember that.
Brandon

[ShooterJM]

I believe they're called markers for two reasons.

1)The original equipement used was actually meant for marking trees.

2) Soccer moms freak out when they hear the word "gun"

[shartley]

[pblunchbox]

kk

Awesome thank you, i had been wondering off and on for quite some time.
Brandon

[Evil Bob]

The very first game was a contest that pitted several men from different walks of life, some guys from the city, some from rural areas, to see who had the best survival skills.

There were several stations where the participants had to check in at to prove they had been there (ie. sign their name on the check sheet). Each was armed with a marker to eliminate any of the other players that they came acrossed.

The guy that won the game never fired a shot, he was a forestry ranger by profession.

-Evil Bob

[Webmaster]

The main objective of the first paintballers wasnt war - but survival. Hence how the early franchise was titled "The Survival Game".

While I suppose there were war like elements (you are shooting at one another) it was more to see if city boys had the grits to roll in the muck with the country boys and survive.

We call the markers now as a more politically correct term - both to be less inflamatory, and to try to distance ourselves from fire arms. They were called guns back then.

Of course we have come a LONG way since we were running around for 3hours for a game with Nelspots!