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

[Tyger]

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.

http://www.webdogradio.us/video/oldschool/KnowZone.wmv

Share and enjoy.

-Tyger

[Blazestorm]

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)

[Doc Nickel]

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.

[Blazestorm]

We'll probably hit 30bps -_-

[gc82000]

I wonder how heavy that cocker was.

[Tyger]

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

[Blazestorm]

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 -

[Igotu]

I have an uber old video with old sheridans stuff ill show it when i get back from school today.

[Bolter]

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.....

[jwalker87]

did anyone else see a mag in there?

[jewie27]

did anyone else see a mag in there?

You can see the back of the Mag.

[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

[thei3ug]

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.

[TeamNausea]

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

[Major Ho]

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!