When did everyone start playing?

[REDRT]

1st day of play in April 1994 w/retal tippmanns. What piles of crap! After the first game I wanted a mag. First owned maker was sadly a Spyder SE because I couldn't afford a mag. A bigger pile of crap than the rental tippmanns. Shooting mags only since 1996.

[SpecialBlend2786]

started summer of 2000, a friend intoduced me to it, and I played with his flatlined m98

Later I got my own m98, and then a minimag. Registered on AO in 2002 under the name Azaam86 and then completely forgot, only to come back a year later lol.

[hgp3fat]

March of 06, Spyder Pilot ACS... then a Tippmann 98 Custom... and today ordered my first mag... Tac-One Warp Left... w00t!!!1!

[UltraMag527]

1987 - rental at first, then moved to pump ( something SI ). AutoCocker in the 90's

[paintman1234]

March 2003, played with my jt excllerator 5.0 pawned newbies in the woods!!!!

[Earthy]

1989 rental Advantage SI
rental Splatmaster
rental Pirhanna SB
1989 secondhand PMI II with direct feed adapter
1990 new Splatmaster (still going strong)
1994 new P68AT (Pirhanna Autotrigger - loved that marker but sold it to buy next marker
2001 used Palmer Typhoon
2004 used minimag with ULE body and intelliframe
2005 upgraded mag with x-valve, ULT, omega rail, and rosewood grips

[dave p]

97 with a rental pro lite. i was instantly hooked and started scheming a way to buy a 68 carbine, pack and a mask. by my next game i had all my own stuff(wearing a smelly rental mask is something i was only about to do once). played with that for a year or so and saved up 450$ (yes, thats right 450$) for a minimag which at the time was the gun to have. i remember telling my wife it was the last marker i would ever have to buy because of the quality. i then bought a pgp because i had 100 bucks laying around. and then a few years ago i picked up a 2004 BKO for playing indoor speedball. now im set for anything that comes up. im not too concerned about having the latest and greatest, they all seem to function as advertised and im happy. i still have everything except for the carbine.

[RRfireblade]

Oh you crazy crazy man.....but when did you seriously start? i've been wondering?

K.

Uh , first game I played was probably 86 or 87? , somewhere in upstate New York. I lived on Long Island vack then and I remember having to drive for a few hours. I was still in high school I do remember that (grad in 88'). I can't believe everyone remembers so much detail from way back then.

Other than that , they were Rental guns. I don't remember much about them tho. Played a couple times over the next few years then didn't play for a while after that till a friend bought a marker and it broke. tipp 68 special I think. I fixed it and the rest is history.

I've had a bunch of lay offs in between tho , both playing and business wise.

Right now there's more playing than business (kinda) and I like it that way much better.

[50 cal]

First gun was a 007. Started playing in late '86. Geez, 20 years!

[Temo Vryce]

I think it was 1988 or 1989. I can't remember for sure. I do remember that I played with a PMI3 now known as a VM68. Shortly after that I bought a Tracerr which a friend of mine still owns. After the Tracerr has been 2 mags, 2 of which I still own. Even if they are mostly in pieces.

[SR_matt]

first time i played was oct of 2001 and i bought my first gun in april of 02

first gun was a spyder extra,

since then ive had a trraacer, cocker, sniper 2, and coming soon is a mag.

-matt

[91Foxtrot]

First time I played was in 94. Rented a few more times before I bought my Piranha in 2002. Between then and now, I have picked up:
Autococker (converted to pumpococker)
Impulse
Trracer
Minimag
RT Pro
Z-gripped RT
Spyder Imagine (purchased to supply parts for spydermag. Currently stiil an Imagine though...)
PGP 2k1

Still have them all.

[space_weazel_45]

1993 : F4 Illustrator

[White_Noise]

1999

Piranha, RT(old style), Mech Cocker, Built an Ecocker, RT Pro, Emag, New RT Pro, SFL Emag, Sydarm, PM6

working on a project classic mag, and somewhere along the line i picked up 2 rusty nelspots which i want to restore.

[skipdogg]

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1989 - PMI 1 DF Pro