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Paintball


Paintballing

The 90s were all about letting out aggression - through box-aerobics, watching The Gladiators, and finally paintball.

First came Laser Quest, where friends would enter a darkened maze and fire light beams at each other - but it just wasn't messy enough.

People wanted blood and pain, and the closest they could legally get was paintball.

By the mid-90s, stressed executives across the UK were regularly taking their bosses into a nearby forest and shooting them.

It was supposed to be a team building exercise, but it was really get your own back time.

And those paintballs really sting.


1993 Toys: Wind-up Radios | Paintballing | Mr Blobby






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