I'm getting old...

[El Pirata]

Here I was surfing the 68this page http://gallery.68caliber.com/showgallery.php/cat/571/page/58/sort/1/perpage/12 and I was looking at some of the old markers, masks, etc. Wait what I was trying to say is I remember when most of those items were top of the line. The JT Whipper Snapper goggle system, a splatmaster brand new in the box, woodstock mask, all of the nightmares, crossmann 3357, nelspots, etc... Man the sport has changed a great deal from the early days until now.

I know I used to have an original Line SI Bushmaster which I bought in 88 and I was saving. Somehow I lost in in 99 or 00. I was really bummed when I found out I had lost it. That marker was definately in the top 5 of the era. The lever change CO2. I remember shortly after I bought it using the lever change in a game and I heard the people shooting at me say, "He's changing CO2, charge." Unfortunately they did not know I had a lever change and the CO2 was changed in a second. As they ran up in me I was able to pick them off.

Let me spare you little detail about the lever change vs the old screw in type CO2. The screw type took about 20 - 30 seconds to change CO2 and during that time you were venerable. The CO2 also made a very distinctive hiss that let everyone within 100 feet know you were changing CO2. The lever change made the same distinctive hiss however it only took about 1 second to change your CO2.

Oh well, sorry for rambling about the good ole days of paintball. It's kind of wierd a great many of the members were not even alive when I started playing.

[firemedic30]

Tippman .68 Special baby!!!!

Back when 5bps was cool!!!!

AW.....good ol'e days!!!!

[canyouspellthis]

hah i have no idea what ur talking about

[El Pirata]

Tippman .68 Special baby!!!!

Back when 5bps was cool!!!!

AW.....good ol'e days!!!!I bought one in 91 or whenever they first came out. However if you want to talk old tippmanns then how about the original SMG-60 with the 15 round magazine that held the balls in stripper clips. Remember when paint was sold by 10s. I will say one thing that's cool about the sport is that the balls have gotten cheaper. Back in the day a case of 2500 cost $150.

[El Pirata]

hah i have no idea what ur talking about
You're probably one of the ones who was not even born yet.

[canyouspellthis]

You're probably one of the ones who was not even born yet.
yeah., lol

ive only been playing for 3 yrs.

[Trigga Nometry]

You feel old! Heck I used to be on Compuserve and local BBS's (remember those?) using a 300 baud modem on my ole Radio Shack Color Computer. We're talking 16K with no hard drive. Everything used to get saved on an audio cassette drive! Yeah, that's right a cassette.

Wait a sec.....maybe you young punks out there won't even know what a cassette is anymore :smiley:

Anyway, you think dial-up now is slow. Try getting your data at 300 byes per second :doh:

[El Pirata]

You feel old! Heck I used to be on Compuserve and local BBS's (remember those?) using a 300 baud modem on my ole Radio Shack Color Computer. We're talking 16K with no hard drive. Everything used to get saved on an audio cassette drive! Yeah, that's right a cassette.

Wait a sec.....maybe you young punks out there won't even know what a cassette is anymore :smiley:

Anyway, you think dial-up now is slow. Try getting your data at 300 byes per second :doh:I remember the first computer I used had those cassette disks. I think I was in 3rd or 4th grade when I first saw those types of computers. Remember the big floppy disks? I'm not talking about a 5 ¼" floppy but the ones that were like 10" X 10" and the thickness of a 5 ¼" floppy.

[big azn]

man im only 15 and when i looked back when I first started out i thought how far paintball has evolved since 2000.

[El Pirata]

Yup, played before you were born, a full 3 years before you were born.

[big azn]

:lol: wow now thats funny

[Crazy4Paintball1]

I love all of the old guns....the original owners of my local pro shop used to have a bunch of old guns (PMI-1's, KP's, SMG's, Nelspots, 007's, etc...) I still want to start collecting guns, once I get out of college and actually get some money to spend....lol Its ok El Pirata, we all get old eventually...

[mamba_juice]

i know how you feel...sort of. i only started playing 4 years ago and i myself have kind of evolved as far as my choice in guns. going from the wal-mart cheapies to the tippy, then to all out speed...and finally ending up at stock class and pump play. kinda odd how the last one should be at the first place when compared to many other people. I actually find that my favorite type of people to play with are the 40 year old grandpa's who are just out there to have fun, dont care if they get shot or not, don't give a flying fart who dynasty is, and think of the angel or matrix or timmy as just another gun.

i know how you feel when it comes to older guns, most people would scoff at the thought, but actual pieces of paintball history like '91 cockers and the cyber 9000 go for $1500+, and usually within the day (when they go up for sale that is). Hell you look at the desert duck (not the carter made ones, the original 6 or so)...there the size of a pistol and go for $2000 easy! It's worthless to the average player nowadays because it doesnt shoot 30bps, but to those of us who want to remember paintball as what it once was theres no price you can put on them, even the old splatmasters and nelspot 007's that go for $40 on e-bay are priceless in my eyes.

I know that paintball will never be the same as it was 10 to 20 years ago, and to me that's kind of sad to miss out on what i consider "the golden era"...sure there are still people out there who try to preserve it's style, but it's just not the same when you go back home and all you hear about is how agg this dudes muppet mowing machine is...or who sued who this week and what markers are being put out because of it. I know that it's the way most every industry goes, but it only makes you wonder why in the hell you didnt join sooner, even if you were 7 years old.

[Crazy4Paintball1]

I wish I could find a nice conditioned 007 on ebay for $40...everytime I have some cash they always sell for $100+ on ebay....

I love playing stock class, but no one around me ever did, so I ended up selling my PGP2 and Phantom awhile back...I miss my phantom, that was a killer...

[thog94]

I remember when I got the quick change CO2 for my 007, that was pimpin back then!

[Furby]

*sigh* I remember the first time I got lit up...it was in 1988 and the guy was using a SMG-60. LOUD beast.

[El Pirata]

*sigh* I remember the first time I got lit up...it was in 1988 and the guy was using a SMG-60. LOUD beast.I remember one of the people on the team I was playing for the day had one. Appearantly I spooked him and got 4 stripper clips emptied into me at near point blank range. I had to be physically restrained from knocking his head in.

[Crazy4Paintball1]

12 grams and 10-round tubes are the only way to go...lol

[El Pirata]

I remember those days. I remember carrying bandoliers of tubes and CO2. I think I made a custom wrist holder for CO2 that I had seen in a copy of APG from like 1987 or 1988.