The History Page
Paintball is an interesting game. It supposedly
began with small guns which fired paint balls
to mark cattle. Apparently some ranch reject
thought it funny to mark a pal, and things got
out of hand.
Someone, then took the idea and ran,
creating the sport of paintball. They felt these
"markers" could be used in a safe way as
some sort of militaristic game. Basically, it
came out as Tag. The original game, as the
tale is told, took place in the wilderness,
when a small group of people went out and
played a game of "every man for himself" tag.
Using the markers to fire paint and "tag" you.
From there they developed a basic set of
rules and safety precautions, and the first
version of paintball was born.