Darrin
06-22-2008, 10:32 AM
Happy World Paintball Day! http://imgs.pbnation.com/smilies/smile.gif
27 years ago this weekend the first paintball game ever was played!! We would not have the game of paintball we all love so much with out these people. Thank you!!
That first paintball game ever played was held on the first
weekend after Father's Day In 1981.
From Wikpedia
Twelve players competed against each other with Nelspot 007s pistols in the first paintball game on June 27, 1981.[9] They were: Bob Jones, a novelist and staff writer for Sports Illustrated and an experienced hunter; Ronnie Simpkins, a farmer from Alabama and a master rhino hunter; Jerome Gary, a New York film producer; Carl Sandquist, a New Hampshire contracting estimator; Ritchie White, the New Hampshire forester; Ken Barrett, a New York venturer and hunter; Joe Drinon, a stock-broker and former Golden Gloves boxer from New Hampshire; Mark Chapin, a trauma surgeon and hunter from Alabama; Lionel Atwill, a writer for Sports Afield, a hunter and a Vietnam veteran; Charles Gaines; Bob Gurnsey and Hayes Noel. The game was capture the flag on an 80 acre wooded cross-country ski area.
Thereafter, the friends devised basic rules for the game fashioned along the lines of capture the flag, and invited friends and a writer from Sports Illustrated to play. They called their game "Survival," and an article about the game was published in the June 1980 issue of Sports Illustrated.[10] As national interest in the game steadily built, Bob Gurnsey formed a company, National Survival Game, and entered a contract with Nelson Paint Company to be the sole distributor of their paintball equipment.[11] Thereafter, they licensed to franchisees in other states the right to sell their guns, paint, and goggles. As a result of their monopoly on equipment, they turned a profit in only six months.[12]
The first games of paintball were very different from modern paintball games; they often threw the paintballs at each other, and Nelspot pistols were the only gun available. They used 12-gram CO2 cartridges, held at most 10 rounds, and had to be tilted to roll the ball into the chamber and then recocked after each shot. Dedicated paintball masks had not yet been created, so players wore shop glasses that left the rest of their faces exposed. The first paintballs were oil-based and thus not water soluble; "turpentine parties" were common after a day of play.[13] Games often lasted for hours as players stalked each other, and since each player had only a limited number of rounds, shooting was rare.[
World Paintball Day is a grassroots effort to
attract new players to paintball. This is a chance for
paintball companies to offer specials for new players
to come out and try paintball. What is offered is up to each
company. From food, discounts, to free entries or rentals.
Together we can help paintball grow.
Players should bring someone new out to try paintball on June 22, 2008.
It does not matter where you play, just that you play!
"World Paintball Day"
Play Safe!
2009 World Paintball Day is June 28, 2009.
www.worldpaintballday.com (http://www.worldpaintballday.com/)
27 years ago this weekend the first paintball game ever was played!! We would not have the game of paintball we all love so much with out these people. Thank you!!
That first paintball game ever played was held on the first
weekend after Father's Day In 1981.
From Wikpedia
Twelve players competed against each other with Nelspot 007s pistols in the first paintball game on June 27, 1981.[9] They were: Bob Jones, a novelist and staff writer for Sports Illustrated and an experienced hunter; Ronnie Simpkins, a farmer from Alabama and a master rhino hunter; Jerome Gary, a New York film producer; Carl Sandquist, a New Hampshire contracting estimator; Ritchie White, the New Hampshire forester; Ken Barrett, a New York venturer and hunter; Joe Drinon, a stock-broker and former Golden Gloves boxer from New Hampshire; Mark Chapin, a trauma surgeon and hunter from Alabama; Lionel Atwill, a writer for Sports Afield, a hunter and a Vietnam veteran; Charles Gaines; Bob Gurnsey and Hayes Noel. The game was capture the flag on an 80 acre wooded cross-country ski area.
Thereafter, the friends devised basic rules for the game fashioned along the lines of capture the flag, and invited friends and a writer from Sports Illustrated to play. They called their game "Survival," and an article about the game was published in the June 1980 issue of Sports Illustrated.[10] As national interest in the game steadily built, Bob Gurnsey formed a company, National Survival Game, and entered a contract with Nelson Paint Company to be the sole distributor of their paintball equipment.[11] Thereafter, they licensed to franchisees in other states the right to sell their guns, paint, and goggles. As a result of their monopoly on equipment, they turned a profit in only six months.[12]
The first games of paintball were very different from modern paintball games; they often threw the paintballs at each other, and Nelspot pistols were the only gun available. They used 12-gram CO2 cartridges, held at most 10 rounds, and had to be tilted to roll the ball into the chamber and then recocked after each shot. Dedicated paintball masks had not yet been created, so players wore shop glasses that left the rest of their faces exposed. The first paintballs were oil-based and thus not water soluble; "turpentine parties" were common after a day of play.[13] Games often lasted for hours as players stalked each other, and since each player had only a limited number of rounds, shooting was rare.[
World Paintball Day is a grassroots effort to
attract new players to paintball. This is a chance for
paintball companies to offer specials for new players
to come out and try paintball. What is offered is up to each
company. From food, discounts, to free entries or rentals.
Together we can help paintball grow.
Players should bring someone new out to try paintball on June 22, 2008.
It does not matter where you play, just that you play!
"World Paintball Day"
Play Safe!
2009 World Paintball Day is June 28, 2009.
www.worldpaintballday.com (http://www.worldpaintballday.com/)