When did everyone start playing?

[evildead420]

2000 in Kailua Kona Hawaii. up Kaloko Dr. still one of the best woods i ever played in. rented a stingray and kick butt. loved the sport, got myself a spyder compact 2000 (still got), then got into mags. i now own a retro sydarm, custom mech mag and a X mag.

[Outlaw5]

Yeah...I'm that old....

1986

First gun was a Brass Eagle King Cobra Pump with auto-trigger. Quickly became an SL-68I SSN 2060....I still have it and it shoots darts. "Outlaw5"

[CoolHand]

When did everyone start palying? and what was your first gun??

1993
Splatt Master and Tippman SL68-2

Same for me, on both counts actually.

1993

Tippmann SL-68 II

[Lenny]

1998
Spyder Compact

Yeah, I was ten...

[RoadDawg]

HaHa

~1990, w/ a buddies Reb pump. The first marker I called my own was a VM-68, which I played with through the mid-90's. After that, its all mags.

Unless you count those Gotcha guns. Then it was the late 80's, like Muzikman said.

I played Gotcha with my brother when they were first released. Good ol shop glasses and plastic "welts" covered in "paint".

Real paintball I was 11. SL-68 was my first. Semi was "new" technology in my area. So that was 14 years ago. So 1992/3.

[Eatem Alive]

1987...nelspot 007. first person i ever shot was a girl...in the boob.

[pennywise]

1993 / Outlaw II pump. I played one game with that crappy gun and proceeded immediately to purchase one of those brand new Tippmann ProLites. I played with that exclusively until '97 when I got my MiniMag.
Still got my Mini, but now I'm rockin' the E-Mag (just need XMOD...)

[flyingpootang]

1993 with an AutoCocker from I&I sports. Cost me 450.00 with a bottomline and a T-Stock. I passed up a LAPCO SuperStocker that they had hanging on the wall for the Cocker

[hipster]

around 87, with a pump gun bought used from a field had no name on it ,around 90-92 bought my first real guns an early tracer pump and -montneal design semi

[BigEvil]

I was literally dragged out to Skirmish USA in PA in 1991. After about 5 minutes of playing I was hooked. Something very satisfying about shooting that first guy in the back of the head...........

I played for about 2 years using rentals. The first peice or paintball specific equipment I purchased was a pair fo those ultra-crappy shop glasses looking goggles. My first guns were a VM68 and Traccer pump, although I cannot remember which I bought first.

[Maggot6]

Started in 2003, Paintball City in Ontario. Some people I was emerging to become friends with kept on saying how fun it was, and I kept on reading and thinking about it, so I went. I used some black Genesis II I think, I chopped my first ball after trying to "fan" the trigger, and for some reason it got so badly stuck, with the tools we had, we couldn't get it working again.

Then I used a pirahhna rental, chopped it as well, shooting to fast...

Because I thought I needed "mad speed" I got an e-99 avant spider, with a revvy, then I chopped the hell out of that, and then one of my origonal friends got a classic mag, I fell in love, didn't chop, so I got one...Then after I realized I'd need something other than a revvy because eventually I was chopping with that (I had no idea of the lvl 10) I set my eyes on an Xmag...Then realized that was A few hundred over budget, so got a Non Ule emag from Tuna, and never chopped a ball...Then I realized I was shooting TOO fast, so I got a phantom

[grEnAlEins]

in 1997 or 8, some spyder, then mag, then imp, now proto

same here, except now I shoot a Shocker (and an A4 Fly once I am done fixing it)

[buzzboy]

March 13 2004
Tippmann Pro/Carbine

Yeah, haven't been playing that long. Fooled you all.

[mobsterboy]

March 13 2004
Tippmann Pro/Carbine

Yeah, haven't been playing that long. Fooled you all.

1998 or 1999, played with rentals at a crappy woodsball field, but we didnt care, and i was like 10 so...lol
first gun i got was like 2 years ago. spyder shutter. P.I.M.P. baby!!!
from there i owned a gt(spyder clone), got my first mag and man a tippy dragged under the wheels of a semi for a couple miles looked better than my mag, but i didnt care. for me it was a step up. we did outlaw ball so no one cared about velocity(of course, ive seen what it does to masks now so im not dumb anymore) but i had that thing cranked to 360 fps, and i had no clue what you guys were talking about when i first came on here reading about balls breaking and chopping sold the mag, got a sto. raped with the sto, it had an ubernice hinge on it. guys with dm's, imps and timmies were literally afraid of me. traded the sto for an imp, bought another imp, traded one imp for a 2k1 angel, sold the other. built a ecocker, sold the ecocker, built a mech orry, sold the orry, built the hypermag, bout to sell one of my hyperframes. Going back to mech now. I just wanna be able to go out and have fun with guys who have never played before(got a small group from church now, 9th graders) and not have to worry about them hating the sport cuz im outshooting them

[psychowarden]

2000. My first gun was a Piranha VTL.