What was your 1st paintball experience?

[Snake Eyes 88 USMC]

Well I've been playing "War Games" all my life.
Probably about 14 years ago I saw my first paintball gun, I got one shortly after.
There was no concius effort of lets go play paintball.
Me and a large group of freinds played "War Games" w/ BB/Pellet guns for years.
We had cammo, shop glasses, match-head grendes, and a host of other "scenario" garb.
Slowly paintball guns would show up to the games, slowly Squadbusters would be flung instead of mathheads grenades, slowly Masks replaced shop glasses.
A dude here a dude there untill we were all Paintballers.
I was one of the first to get my paintball gun a Wintec Deringer MachII.
It was thought of more like a "specialty" weapon at the time.

**Those were the days I tell you boys, I would however not recommend having battle w/Pellet or BB guns though.
Although back in the day of my country boy youth who knew better, BB/Pellet guns were a right of passage for any young bird slaying boy.

[bulldog]

My little brother and I discovered APG magazine back in '86 while trying to sneek a peek at the Playboys on the mag stand in a drug store. Bought one (APG, not PB), got hooked, and a few weeks later got Mom to drive us to Toledo to pick up 3 Splatmasters at Andersons General Store, one each for my brother, his best friend, and I. I was old enough to drive there myself, and we paid for them ourselves, but you had to have an adult to buy the markers. We also picked up about 100 rounds of paintballs at $0.12 each in 10-round tubes to split between us.

When we got home we donned our shop goggles, loaded up with 10 rounds each, and played in the trees aroud the house. Missing a shot was grounds for much ridicule. When the goggles fogged we put them on our foreheads and played "no headshots" We were immediately hooked, and within a month or so all our friends had talked their parents into getting them guns.