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Laser Tag
Laser Tag is one of paintballs alternatives for players seeking low impact games. While paintball is a sport for players that are at least the age of 13, laser tag and other low impact games can be enjoyed by adults and children of all ages. Laser Tag games use laser guns as the firing mechanism, and sensors on the players body to shoot at. While some laser tag games are single elimination, many other games have scoring monitor counting up shots made and shots hit for individual players. Laser tag games are similar to paintball in that each player has a gun for firing shots to tag an opponent as hit. But while paintball tags are exploded paintballs traveling at a high rate of speed, laser tags are non-impact and do not cause any pain to the person being "hit".
Because of laser tag being a non-impact game of tag, it allows for much more flexibility in field design. Because paintballs travel at high velocities, paintball fields must be larger to that players are not shooting at each other from a close range. Laser tag fields, on the other hand, can have layers shooting at each other from inches away. So laser tag arenas can have tons of nooks, crannies, and corners where players are jumping around corners and firing from point blank range. Because laser tag games can be played in more compact arenas, many fields are indoors. One benefit of laser tag games being indoors is that games can be held year round. If paintball players live in cold climates, they often have to wait until the spring to play again. Paintball guns have trouble firing at temperatures below 60 degrees Fahrenheit.
Another advantage of laser tag is for the ability of this tag game to travel well beyond the local paintball field, and into the players backyard. Some paintball business models are light and portable enough to allow small businesses to offer laser tag games at existing woodsball fields, and even "shooter-tag" games "to go" for portable field operations.
Other major differences between laser tag and paintball is the style of fields being played on. The inspirations for styles of play go all the way back to the origins of the games and their founding fathers. Take the founding fathers of paintball, Hayes Noel, George Butler, and Charles Gainer. These men wanted to create realistic but relatively safe games where players and teams would battle each other to sharpen their senses for real life conflicts, Hayes Noel dreamed up a game of conflict and building up basic survival skills. So that is why these paintball games started in the woods and wide open fields. Woods and fields are crated to even resemble real events from past wars and conflicts.
Laser Tag, on the other hand is a totally different stay. For George Carter, the father of laser tag, his inspiration for the game came from Star Wars. Star Wars featured worlds and galaxies with many different civilizations, and lasers as primary battle weapons.
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