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Laser Tag Is A Team Or Individual Sport Or Recreational Activity

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1. INTRODUCTION

Laser tag is a team or individual sport or recreational activity where players attempt to score points by tagging targets, typically with a hand­held infrared­emitting targeting device. Infrared­sensitive targets are commonly worn by each player and are sometimes integrated within the arena in which the game is played. Since its birth in 1979, with the release of the Star Trek Electronic Phasers toy manufactured by the South Bend Electronics brand of Milton Bradley, laser tag has evolved into both indoor and outdoor styles of play, and may include simulations of combat, role play­style games, or competitive sporting events including tactical configurations and precise game goals. is a game which resembles paint ball, the only difference is that it is played using harmless laser guns.

Indoor laser tag is typically played in a large arena (may be dark or may not) run by a commercial laser tag operator. The packs are tightly integrated with the devices inside the arena. The arena devices, and the packs themselves may be linked into a control computer for scoring and control over game parameters using radio equipment or infrared links. The game computer often serves to control other game effects and to manage player scores.

Though the guns used in commercially played laser tags have lasers they are not used in actual mechanism of the game, they actually use infrared to register hits. Infrared has its own cool properties such as it gets scattered in very short

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