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Survival Game
Survival Game was the original style of paintball games. Survival Game is a contest where the best man wins. There were no teams for the first survival game, the players to win the game was the last person standing. In the first years of the game, paintball was even called the National Survival Game. Charles Gaines and Hayes Noel are often credited with the creation of the survival game, and the sport itself.
"I think that the skills that you acquire and develop by playing paintball are applicable to everyday real life experiences. I think that the survival game, as it was played when Hayes Noel and I played it, is illuminating for anyone who plays it. Unlike Hayes who held that people are born with certain survival skills, I think that for the most part, we learn them based on our will to immerse ourselves in an environment and discover it. And so the game is a way of finding out about you."
Charles Gaines and Adam Cohen, in the paintball book, Ultimate Guide to Paintball.)
The original concept of the Survival Game came from Hayes Noel, who was in his mid-thirties and enjoying a comfortable life as a stockbroker in New York City. Noel was still on active recreational sports players in New York, but sometimes missed the adrenaline rush that he got when playing games like capture the flag and cowboys and Indians as a child. He decided to try to design a sport that would re-capture the rush he got from playing certain childhood games, and he also wanted to create something where people would lean to use their survival instincts if American ever got into real trouble.
To create this innovative sport, Hayes and George Butler and Charles Gaines realized that players would need some type of gun that would fire non-lethal projectiles that would mark a player as eliminated from the game. After much searching, the trio came across a paintball marker in a agricultural catalog. The first marker they saw was a Nelspot Marker sold by Nelson paint. Nelson Paint today continues to sell a line of paintballs from their company, Nelson paintballs. Some products from the Nelson paintballs line include Precision Paintballs, hotspot paintballs, and Hemorrhage. Hemorrhage Paintballs are a premier line of paint. These tournament grade paintballs come in an ultra thick fill of green, pink, yellow, or orange.
The Nelspot Marker and Nelson paint ammo were the first markers and paintballs used for the survival game. The paintballs were oil based. These oil based targets were designed to stick to their targets for a long time, as their purpose was to mark trees for cutting and cows for vaccination. Today's paintballs are water based, and usually come on in one wash cycle. Some examples of paintballs sold today re Ice Paintballs from Core, and Splash Paintballs from Diablo Paintball.
After testing out their new Nelspot Toys, they organized the first survival game. During this game, a player with a clear hit is eliminated from the game, and must leave the field. This first game format gave way to team oriented games.
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