Your First Game, What Happened??

[MarkM]

When - 1987
Age - 23
Attire - Dutch Army trousers, T shirt and Italian Army Jacket
Where - Local Woodland site.
Marker - Borrowed Splatmaster Rapide

Took a bunch of friends from my local bar and a few work colleagues plus the G/F (important this part ) Got the flag in about half of the games played that day. Then on one of the times I had got shot, I got a call that my G/F had been shot and was hurt so I went back into the woods to find her crying her eyes out as she had got shot in the ear and I do mean IN the ear (she was wearing JT Whipper Snappers same as me and they didn't cover the ear at all) anyhow result was that she got taken to hospital to have her ear syringed and flushed out.....I stayed and carried on playing as I was having a great time!
A week later I went and bought a Phantom which I still have to this day

BTW ...we stayed together for another year and a half after that so it must have been love or something

[rkjunior303]

When: 7th Grade. 1992
Age: 13
Where: Paintball Heaven - Local woodsball field

There was a half-day and some of the upper classman (9th grade was in the Jr high, in my town) decided to go as a school 'trip'. I went, played with a pump and I was hooked ever since. Went out and bought a Spyder Compact with birthday money, which I eventually upgraded to a MAG.

[fshrmn76]

1st time

age: 14 (10 years ago)
attire: shorts, t-shirt, brass eagle z-leader mask
marker: none
story:
My brother and his friend 18 at the timeboth got stingrays to start playing paintball. They thought they were the best players ever. I told them they wouldn't even be able to hit me if I played. They gave me a mask and we went to the high school practice soccer field. They put a flag in the center circle and told me I had to get to it before they hit me. We started at opposite ends of the field and when they said go i took off running towards the flag. I got about half way there when they started shooting. My brothers friend never even hit me, they had 45 round hoppers. My brother on the other hand waited untill i got to the flag and stopped running, then he oppend up on me. I must have been hit like 30 times. I had paint and bruises everywhere. They both started laughing as i was laying there crying. They got in so much trouble when they took me home. A few weeks later i went to Canobie Paintball with on of the guys from the soccer team. He bought me a Hammer Plus, my money I was just to young to buy it. I challenged my brother and his friend to another game and this time it was them on the ground crying. I have never stopped playing. Now I own a mag and just dominate the backyard field we play on every weekend.

[Counterfeit_Syn5304]

age 16
Brass Eagle mask, old kswiss shoes, jeans, hoodedsweatshirt
diablo rental marker

I went to Apoc. with some friends who have played a couple times before. We played on some of the wood fields and the first game I ran to a side bunker then went up the field....nobody was shooting after a while so I figured it was over or something....I got up from my bunker as everyone on the other team proceeded to shoot me over and over.

[zackzel]

Age: 14
Marker: Sheridan Xts
Attire: old hunting clothes, and a cheap jt mask
What I Did: First time I ever played was woodsball back in the day, we had like 30 people together, if I remember right they had me waiting in ambush in a spot where a bunch of rocks made everyone funnel together. Three guys showed up together, I shot twice complety missed, fired a few more times managed to get one but the other two got me. I dont' really remember the day very well after that but I remember it was a great day and it got the ball rolling.

[RingOfScale]

Age: 2 weeks until 14th bday (2002)

Marker : rental piranha ...

Attire: Cargo pants, rental goggles, and a camo jacket I borrowed from a friend.

Place: TAG (The Adventure Game) at it's old location near Santa Cruz.

Events: The game started, and I moved to a can that had been turned sideways. Stayed there for the whole game until shot in the back from a guy who had run around the tape. Rather long range and it didn't hurt at all. In the 2nd game I was in a back standup, and was last one left on my team. Someone shooting an imp (i think) bunkered me and shot me 5-6 times on my hip, fingers, and shoulder. Most painful hits i've ever taken too. (never been shot on the fingers since...)

-rIng

[personman]

I dont remember my first game but I remember an early game where I was stuck behind this one bunker and I couldnt see anything because of goggle fog and I just cussed my brains out. They were allll over me.

[KillingSpree]

lmao first time...

age:13
year:2001
gun: rental tippman 98 custom
gear: overalls, old school scratched armorlite mask and thats about it



i remember the first time a played i was alone on the feild with my freinds. it was a t action commando. right when i went on the field i ran straight for cover thinking the game starting when u walked ont he feild. while i was camping like a noob the rest of my freinds were in the middle of the feild in a group wondering where i was. as soon as i poped out a shot one in the hand..only after i realized the game didt start yet
....lmao those were the good ol days

[cdacda13]

Age:14
Marker: 98c
Cloths: Shorts, t-shirt

Situation: First time for both me and my friend. He had a Brass eagle. We played in the woods by our houses. Velocitys turned all the way down. One bag of paint last 3 hours. We played 3 hits and your "frozen" for 1 minutite, and the other person could get the flag.

Twas fun.

[lew]

1998
Age: 12
Gun: Pro-Lite
Attire: BDUs and jungle boots.
Location: uncle's house, the back 40 near Brighton, MI

It was woodsball. I did pretty good, actually. Just like any other red-blooded American, I grew up playing war, so it wasn't too much of a stretch to have me run around the woods with a paintball gun. There were ten people there, all family, so they all knew I was the newbie. Not to brag or anything, but they quickly learned not to take it easy on me. I got a respectable number of eliminations. Of course, I couldn't touch my cousin. He had an Automag, so he had to be good, right? While he was indeed good, I soon learned, as any noob should the marker doesn't make the player.

Thus began my paintball saga. From such lowly and humble beginnings.

Now, who wants to touch me?

(You guys should be doing this: )

[Hairball]

Age: 10
Gun: Rental Pirhana

Hid with my friend in the backmost bunker, kept cover, then I stuck my head out and got hit right in the lens.

Hey, I was 10. :P

[wanna-b-ballin']

when- june of 2002
gun- rental piranha
location- Bear Creek Paintball in los gatos
threads- multiple layers of clothes, with outer being camo.


in my first game, i thought i would be a cool sniper guy or something, so i laid down behind a log and shot from its end around the side. the balls started coming in on me, so i ran like hell. then i hid about mid-field and took somewhat long range shots and actually hit about 4 people like that. then the "bad guys" got closer, so i retreated. and then i got shot in the neck. didn't really hurt.

i realized it wasn't bad, so i shed all my clothes but a t-shirt and jeans and played again.

2nd game. dont remember much about it except that i was surrendered by someone with no paint and air. . he just had to show me he had none either as i was walking away.

i still have a picture of me proudly showing the camera my neck shot.

what a noob.

[master_alexander]

age:13
marker: brass eagle silver eagle REFURBISHED

first time bunkered from behind by an aurora autococker... (didnt know that then), the rest of the times it was pretty good, especally for being up against heavys... yea. i didnt know alot then. i put a stock on my gun and polished the internals. i kinda wish i had it, becuse i want to heavily mod it... lol. i am bored now since i cant buy or sell annymore.

[warbeak2099]

Age: I was 12 I think... yeah 12
Marker: Tippmann 98 Custom
Where: Splattball indoor (bunch of rooms and wooden bunkers)
Clothes: Camies (lol what a noob)

What happened: I actually started pretty agressive. My adrenaline was pumping. I ran to a bunker in front of me, sparying shots and yelling. I turned towards some noise on one side of the field and started to aim. Then my friend on the other tea peaked over my bunker and shot me in the butt. I wouldn't have it any other way. The rest of the day was pretty shweet even though my Tippy went down because the field owner dicked with it and I had to use a Black Knight rental.

[peewee]

Year 1988/89 ish pretty much a drunken blur...
Gun Splatmaster
local indoor field.
Remember remember cars & getting lit up by 3 of the local team with SMG's at the same time. Great experience

My first real sober game .... Right after I got back from desert storm.
Boomers big game
Gun Aussi made scorpion elite (I miss that gun)
Hit the first guy that I shot "golden BB" Little did I know he was on the "big" local team. At this point I found out what automags were. ( in spades) The whole team (13 guys ) had them I got a very thorough beating. It only made me stronger. Had a mag within two months.