Airsoft has grown massively. While it is more of a whole day event, it fills that same niche but better in many ways.
Most lazertag places I remember seeing were inside or connected to arcades, and those really aren’t a thing for kids these days either so it makes sense the lazertag places aren’t as widespread as they used to be. If you’re specifically going to travel to just do lazertag, you’ll probably just travel to do airsoft or paintball.
I really wish there was a good airsoft group nearby me, but it seems like the only ones who are close by don’t play on a schedule that works for me. It’s really frustrating.
I played laser tag once and it was so incredibly underwhelming. I thought you’d see the laser in the air and I didn’t see that. I much prefer airsoft. You’d probably have more fun playing airsoft with tracer rounds in the dark
Iirc, the beams need to have smoke machines or foggers or something running in the arena to be visible. The machines where you went might have just been off.
Laser tag.
It’s really dropped off as a sport over the last thirty years. I think kids get the same rush from video games these days.
Airsoft has grown massively. While it is more of a whole day event, it fills that same niche but better in many ways.
Most lazertag places I remember seeing were inside or connected to arcades, and those really aren’t a thing for kids these days either so it makes sense the lazertag places aren’t as widespread as they used to be. If you’re specifically going to travel to just do lazertag, you’ll probably just travel to do airsoft or paintball.
I really wish there was a good airsoft group nearby me, but it seems like the only ones who are close by don’t play on a schedule that works for me. It’s really frustrating.
It’s still big for kids. At least one kid per class did a laser tag birthday every year throughout elementary school.
omg my dad used to take me to laser tag so much when I was a teenager lol. it was fun
I played laser tag once and it was so incredibly underwhelming. I thought you’d see the laser in the air and I didn’t see that. I much prefer airsoft. You’d probably have more fun playing airsoft with tracer rounds in the dark
Uh… every laser tag I’ve ever been to (even the cheap ones) had a visible beam as you shot.
I probably went to one of the only ones where you couldn’t
Iirc, the beams need to have smoke machines or foggers or something running in the arena to be visible. The machines where you went might have just been off.
Yeah there weren’t smoke machines that was probably it.
Blazertag in Austin, Texas has been open for ever.