So what WAS paintball like a decade ago? Wanna see? (Video Link enclosed)

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  • Tyger
    video /k radio star
    • Oct 2002
    • 1210

    #1

    So what WAS paintball like a decade ago? Wanna see? (Video Link enclosed)

    Just updated the site tonight for Web Dog, and decided to add a little eye candy for the masses. I'll be tossing this over to a few other sites, but share and enjoy.

    Chuck Hendsch, in the woods, playing in camo. That's enough to get me all happy to see it. The footage is from the Discovery Channel, aired in 1995. I think it was filmed in 1994, but I can't really be sure. I DO know that it was filmed in California. If the field still exists, I'd LOVE to play there. It looks cool.



    Share and enjoy.

    -Tyger


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  • Blazestorm
    I win
    • Feb 2002
    • 3523

    #2
    Tyger you goober...

    I'm surprised the game hasn't changed THAT much from 10 years ago... I mean... add some fancy colors and some electronic guns... thats about all thats changed in 10 years

    Very cool, I really like your site and all your videos, although I already know most of the stuff some of those are pretty cool =D

    Find more ghetto oldschool videos plz, and if you ever need some webhosting space lemme know, got 6gigs with unlimited bandwidth (not kidding)
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    • Doc Nickel
      Unrepentant Gadget freak

      • Jul 2001
      • 499

      #3
      I still have a series of tapes made from when ESPN broadcast some special made-for-TV games. As I recall they were filmed in '96 and finally broadcast in '97.

      At the time, we thought it was cool as hell, but looking back at it now, the games were silly (there were time limits, where certain players couldn't pass certain parts of the field until a certain time, etc) the equipment was antiquated (at least a third of the players were still using CO2) and there was overall fairly little action.

      Still, it was a stepping stone to where we are today, and today is just a stgep towards where we'll be tomorrow. Those guys in '96 had no idea we'd have electros and force-fed loaders capable of 20 BPS. Makes me wonder where we'll be in 2010.

      Doc.

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      • Blazestorm
        I win
        • Feb 2002
        • 3523

        #4
        We'll probably hit 30bps -_-
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        • gc82000
          LNIB just a few scratches
          • Mar 2004
          • 1346

          #5
          I wonder how heavy that cocker was.
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          • Tyger
            video /k radio star
            • Oct 2002
            • 1210

            #6
            I'm still looking for a few things, more vids, naturally. But I'm also looking for some of the ESPN games. Bad Company vs. Ironmen (Wiht the infamous "Oh Splotch") And I'm loking for more 'local paintball' stuff for the site.

            It's an ongoing thing. I'm also thinking of having an "archive" of movie clips that had paintball in it. 30-60 second clips of movies like "Band of the Hand" or "Gotcha".... Painful, I know.... But all for the audience.

            -Tyger


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            "No social change has ever come about without freaks. Einstein was a freak. Ben Franklin was a freak. Martin Luther King was a freak. ...be proud to be included in those ranks."
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            • Blazestorm
              I win
              • Feb 2002
              • 3523

              #7
              Hey If I had been around that time I would find some stuff... but unfortunately I was born the time the 6-pak was born -
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              • Igotu
                Wannabe gun whore
                • Apr 2004
                • 454

                #8
                I have an uber old video with old sheridans stuff ill show it when i get back from school today.
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                • Bolter
                  Hardcore casual
                  • May 2003
                  • 1223

                  #9
                  hey tyger fantastic site man!! Was looking at it the other day and was gonna PM you to say how great it is!! My favourite part

                  "and there go the Ironmen on a crawl...."

                  hehehe!! Crawling is now a lost art.....
                  Bolter
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                  • jwalker87
                    Wish I hadn't sold my mag
                    • Apr 2004
                    • 431

                    #10
                    did anyone else see a mag in there?


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                    • jewie27
                      Senior Member
                      • May 2001
                      • 1275

                      #11
                      Originally posted by jwalker87
                      did anyone else see a mag in there?
                      You can see the back of the Mag.

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                      • pointm@n
                        Out to pasture...
                        • Aug 2003
                        • 1041

                        #12
                        Did anyone else notice that the female reporter is now the anchor woman for CNN? http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_repor...n.soledad.html

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                        • thei3ug
                          Canicus
                          • Oct 2000
                          • 846

                          #13
                          god i miss games like that.

                          You notice, the three guns that were really shown were tippmanns, cockers and mags.

                          It's so true!!! You can TELL that came from 94.

                          I loved the juryrigged, sort of backwoods feel to it. It was more private, more urgent in a way.
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                          • TeamNausea
                            Registered User
                            • Feb 2004
                            • 1111

                            #14
                            Yeah i saw the mag.
                            See paintball gets peopls places!

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                            • Major Ho
                              Long time no see
                              • Jun 2001
                              • 1262

                              #15
                              Originally posted by pointm@n
                              Did anyone else notice that the female reporter is now the anchor woman for CNN? http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_repor...n.soledad.html

                              Shes cute, and she got that surrender AND the flag!

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