1987 Paintball News Broadcast

[TheKillknome]

wow look at the hoppers and they didnt have to wera bottom halfs of masks

[jackpaintball]

Ya bowling is expensive its like $10.

[Newengland1250]

It's funny(scary) to listed to that fucking idiot liberal psychiatrist talk about his view of the world in 1980! It's what even today's liberal media says was wrong with the world back then

[Newengland1250]

WTF they use helicopters!

[noobpaintball1]

helicopters why cant they use those now?

[PbreviewerSc]

Gravity fed back then was a speed loader

[swordandsnipe]

how can they mock paintball but we have wrestling and boxing were the basic idea is to beat the shit out of somebody

[theflashdoger]

so this is how the sports was before all the ass holes came in

[bmankool]

LOL this is funny. I love it.

[XSVPUNKk]

such sloppy technique, but atleast the enthusiasm is there!! :p

[Wabaanimkii]

One of those dudes was pumping out almost 8bps on a non AT Sheridan. Holy fuck!

[upnext88]

Retro paintball gun

[barcalonasucks16]

this loos rlly fun actually i gotta get one of these retro guns

[barcalonasucks16]

@aramk86 its better than airsoft

[DiabloVentureGames]

Actually this Techpb guy saw this on my site and downloaded it without my permission. The reason for the excellent copy is that I transferred it from my original Beta master broadcast tape; hence the TCR numbers. Its copywrited and is still owned by ABC which I have written permission to use for an upcoming documentary project on paintball. You can read about this tape at vimeo.com and look up 1987 paintball

[TheDLXLuxe]

@DiabloVentureGames no one gives a fuck if he took it without permission, you should be thanking him, cause not as many people were viewing it on your site.

[legoeeer]

2 games and 3000 wow someones trigger happy

[ScaryCreekPaintball]

The masks didnt even cover the temple gosh.

[kowoh]

@ScaryCreekPaintball ya i played back then JT was the one of the first companies to make a mask that covered anything other than your eyes that was normal back then , i can remember getting hit in the lip and it swelled up a bit hehe

[randallace]

@kowoh

JT was just selling thier motocross accessories to the paintball world back then.....it was cool if you were like me , into both .... i set of equipment used for 2 different sports

[MidnightPaintballer]

Yet again proving the experts aren't always the experts. You would think that someone who calls himself an expert would hold themselves to a higher standard. By perhaps, oh I don't know, trying the sport BEFORE condemning it as encouraging violent action in the community.

[rollthed1c3]

Who is the bigger retard - that doc, or whoever gave him his diplomma?

Seriously - the moment you talk about paintball and violence is when you completely fail to understand the concept - which is not "hey, this thing fires pellets, lets shoot it at people instead of trees", but rather "hey - these paintballs are pretty harmless, we can use them to shoot one another without causing injury". If there's a sure way to turn the other players hostile towards you, its disregarding safety rules.

[Rotoziptheman]

this doctor is a fucking retard

[2PwnNewbs]

Was watching a random video on paintball and BOOM Dr. Zimbardo pops up. Got I love psychology class. Found his comments rather contradicting though..considering the "Tests" he's performed lol. I love seeing things again from college popping up in other things :D

[delawareretribution]

mickeys gihad..... epic lmfao

[TheKillknome]

@delawareretribution not being a troll or nothing but its pronounced jihad

[yowristband]

i saw that psychologist on DR. PHIL

[THATpbGUY14]

Americans f*** ya shootin people with aggressiveness . Vietnam f*** no ya

[TheMonkeytrumpetz]

@THATpbGUY14

lolwut?

[LordofHorror91]

grandpa paintball guns



[Iwillcheckit2010]

3:28 it's got a speedreloader funny to watch it in 2011!! :D

[chaosx522]

what the hell are halloween games?!

[chaosx522]

the reporter and 2:50 is on the field without a mask.

[ChromeGhost0219]

@chaosx522 yeah saftey wasn't a major thing back then

[watermelondewb]

3000 paintball 2100 $

[eclipseshooter123456]

@watermelondewb your bad at math it would actually be $210 7 cents per paintball would be .07 percent times 3000 is 210

[killerbanjo]

@watermelondewb I think you mean $225

[CalaisAutoDetailing]

Dude is a crackpot! Research "Zimbardo Prison Experiment" which was a totally morally fucked experiment he did to college students. Look up the other psychologist he named "Bandura", he did the "Bobo Doll" experiment, another morally fucked up experiment that screwed up a whole bunch of kids psychologically!

Take any basic college psych course and you'll learn about both Dr.'s, as well as how morally wrong their experiments were; by today's standards they would have been brought up on charges!

[spitfiremk37]

The psychologist is a bit of a wanker. Anyone who doesn't know that it is just a game, needs to take a step back and really lighten up. We have all seen guys who take it too seriously, but they are relatively rare.

It is hard to believe the lack of safety on the field, but I guess the sport was in its infancy. Using red paint doesn't help the image.

On a side note, I would love to have four guys with TM-15s with Apex barrels go "back to the future." They would just wreck these guys (hehe).

[cowboy836]

That is such a liberal show... They see people shooting each other and want to make it look like crazy rednecks... Same people who say violent video games makes kids violent... Paintball is just like football or baseball...

[Stratocaster05]

Watching this now, I can see why paintball had a bad rap at first. Nowadays, games (even woodsball) are relatively tame. This looks (or is portrayed) like brutal warfare, with aggressive psychopaths blasting the hell out of each other without mercy. Maybe that's why the "politically correct paintball", i.e. speedball became popular.

[Winters362]

LOL "Mickeys Jihad"

6:28

[JRV1994]

5:12 "Then again whats the difference between this and golf?"

Good point,

but the difference is Golf is boring compared to this :D

[MaxxPowerFTW]

4:23

Wow...7.5 cents each...cases back then were 150 dollars

[TheHawkeye20]

@MaxxPowerFTW Sure, if you do the math, back then a case was $150. Here's what you have to remember--it was sold in ten-round tubes.

[sora098123]

... That looks like a ton of fun

[geasslver]

0 kids in that wow ....thats weird not to see any kids at a feild

[ChromeGhost0219]

@geasslver back then you HAD to be 18 to play paintball

[Snakessword]

I would like see the psychologist talk without moving his hands....

[MrRotten19]

Speedball, woodsball, xball whatever. long live paintball!

[heybulldog90]

WOW!!! not only is it old school paintball but damn what were ppl thinking in the 80s with their style & hair lol

[JEORGEGREEK]

7:26 damn i wish there was that many ppl at fields nowadays

[mrpaintballfreak11]

back then they were so serious and it was a moch war game now it is just fun

[Necramoniumdotcom]

9:43... Why do people play this kind of game, what do they get out of it?

Uhm... fun?

[Necramoniumdotcom]

Nice to see this footage from the starting years of paintball...

[tymbershade]

Uh, Ted, you might want to call yourself out! There's a huge paintball behind you!

[rlu006]

Mike would pwnd that psychologist

[Jmansfie1]

won youtube .com

[savageriverman]

Yes bobbing for apples for example, very violent,it teaches kids to bite...apples,darn aggressive Halloween games fuckin up this country.

[HammeredAndHorny]

I guess the psychologist has never seen a game of football? Really cool vid, Mike. Glad to see paintball survived those attitudes!

[adidasfootballer]

psychologist is a fruit

[tim31196]

i think one guy should pull out an EGO

[tymbershade]

I don't know, I kind of see the thrill of playing paintball is not as much the shooting, but the not getting shot.

[IIIOSIRUSIII]

Im lovin this video...look at the masks! That shrink is a quack! 

[DrkxNinja]

helicopters? I'd like to go to a paintball field that does that today

[thalilmacogangsta1]

That psychologist's voice sounds like cleveland.

[SASPaladin]

I love how alot of them are wearing straight up Safety Glasses...and even the one guy in a plastic face shield from a medical lab probably

[SASPaladin]

"Mickeys Jihad" HAHA

[bjizzle2194]

@SASPaladin different time my friend different time but still funny after 911 if u had a team named that u would be sent down to be questioned

[SSPspaz]

Mickey's Jihad haha wow...

[changospank1]

that place looked very familiar i grew up in southern california (oasis). we all agree the "psychologist" is a closet fairy but that is ignorant people's stance on most things. that to me is a window to dumb brainwashed america.

[tymbershade]

It makes me wonder if any of the big names in the paintball industry are playing at that field, right at that time?

[GryphisOne]

"Good evening, I'm Ted Koppel at Epcot Center in Florida and this........IS SPARTA!!!!!!!"

[SPiDAAMuNKy]

Holy shit... A helicopter in paintball WTF do we have now , egos, I would way rather use one of those guns with the speed loader lol, imagine that in speedball..

[TMsniper]

Lol they all sound so stupid. Aggresive halloween games?? Wtf??

[AlexKasper]

psychologist owned at 15:30

[AlexKasper]

If that psychologist thinks paintball is agressive, obviously he hasn't studied ice hockey players...

[iseeuat100yds]

@AlexKasper or UFC fighters for that matter. Paintballers are some of the most chill people around!

[no0nesafe]

cool i was born this year, i got a lot of paintball on my page of my team all welcom to check em out.

[MMAGillz]

Micky's Jihad?! lmao

[JustJestr]

maybe there should be more pump scenarios

[96biggo]

Lol,Since when has bowling been expensive

[lpbsv]

psychology is a made up subject anyway, there's nothing wrong with paintball

[sallyandclay1]

fuck u zimbardo

[atlanticraven]

I'm inclined to agree with the former green beret. At least guys like him can see paintball in a more enlightened context.

[apathykush]

fuck that doctor pissed me off. i need to be the one debating with him, id make his head explode, the shit he said did not make much sence

[mokothemonkey]

bowling is very expensive

[SloppyJoeHoF]

Aren't all "sports" about the survival of the fittest??? The best in mind and or body...

[Spetsnaz0o1]

mickeys jihaad,

you wouldnt get away with that shit now,

and plus at 6:45

ive got a welt that hasnt gone away for 1 and a half months, its scarred :/

[eliwood5837]

I'd like to go back in time to 1987 with like a ego 10 sls with like all speedball stuff and see how people react

[foughtwolf]

@eliwood5837

Better bring paint, and alot of air, because compressed air fills arent around, and paints between a nickel and a quarter a shot.

[eliwood5837]

@foughtwolf right i 4got bout that tthen i'd bring rps evil and a ninja 68/4500 :D

[AnAreviews]

very barbaric

[barcalonasucks16]

@AnAreviews how is it barbaric now football is barbaric but shooting ur friends with paint........not so much

[AStaticCharacter]

I love how some people arent even wearing goggles. haha. I wonder what these people would do if they saw even a tippmann or spyder back then. Or a modern xball player with a blue jersey and bright pink proflex. hahahaha

[RosieKR]

Mickey's Jihad.... lol

[AChewy2]

how long were the games back then?

[foughtwolf]

@AChewy2

Hours, if not more. I used to play at a field where the game was on all day, with 'reinforcements' every 2 hours.

[evike4ever]

look at the guns they changed alot in the time it has bin out

[24allix]

if only that psych had known about games like CoD. probably would've passed out at the though of it!

[ballzmgee]

hahahah 7:00 so drinking was legal on feilds then i see?

[mercs2crazy]

that doctor can play the game and he would change his mind totaaly and i wish that many people played today and i play at that course they are at but it is not as big any more its near lake elisnore

[AChewy2]

wow! the cost of a marker was more than i expected!

[boarding117]

stan russell- RRRRREEEEEEDDDDD NNNNEEEEECCCCCKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!

[thraece]

Seeing those guns kind of reminds me of the Mad Max movies :)

[tymbershade]

My God! How times have changed (yet not). Nice to know, the game has not ended.

[Dx1x3]

Oh man, this is awesome. I loved seeing the evolution of my favorite sport. Quite the debate at the latter half of the video.

[spazzymagey]

i dont play much but when i do i go with my friends. i love paintball because it gives me the adrenalin feel of survival!

[dontuenvyme]

look at how far weve come. from oldies like these to luxes that talk

[kiloneter]

my squad lets do common common go

[greenlime14]

Love the name combat... Anyone agree?

[CPRpaintball]

omg so many old school guns i love!!

[LabLaughs]

14:20 to 14:58

owned.

[kyoung700]

Mickeys Jihad!! lol

[zacdrury]

going back in time......just imagine having your modern pb team go against all of these old school players.and damnnnnnn did you see that walky talky????

[SPARTN540]

man... this is a peace of PB history, AWSOME!!!

[rabidsquirrelboi]

i like the "goggles" and "speed loaders". lol

[darkwoodsoutdoors]

These markers are upgrades to the markers I used about 5 years earlier. About 75 to 100 ft max range and a 40-50% hit ratio. Wow has the industry changed and this brings back old old memories.

[LaRazaDeMexico21]

i love the guys mask at 4:55 i want one haha XD

[DarkGamerO07]

I almost fell out of my chair laughing at "Mickey's Jihad".

[circa326]

yay pb

[MiDNight150]

It seems like that psychologist is allergic to fun.

[qskatermaniac]

This is funny. I wonder if football got the same attention when people first started playing, with it being a very physical game( more so than paintball). I love paintball it is a stress relieving game, in my mind making me less dangerous. It is amazing how for paintball has come since i was 4 months old.

[uk2008uk]

lol

[marcfonline]

The psychologist obviously never played tag as a child...

Interesting how I've been playing paintball since 1996 and through the years, I've encountered more respectful, even-tempered people on the paintball field than in most other places.

I'd love to see the psychologist's reaction now that paintball has existed for almost three decades and his predictions have been proven false...

[Ubernator44]

lol, physcologist forgot to take into account how you play paintball. you can play it with the soul intent to kill, or you can play as a game of tag. hit the other person and there out. it depends on how far you go mentaly. personally, i see paintball as a kind of tag, but also as hunt and destroy. its fun to hunt, to suprise people and scare the crap out of them when you shoot them, and they had no idea u where there. though i play woodsball which is different than airball.

[VitaminJyo]

@Ubernator44 people like him concentrate on the camo and guns instead of the intense competition that breeds better guns and camo and keeps us comin back to the game

[Ubernator44]

lol funny to see what they called a speed loader XD looks like a total blast, but totaly a different game back then, now we got auto guns lol.

[rubiksfan2000]

if you like paintball play it, if you dont like it, dont play it....personally i like it! so i play it

[SouthernStyle352]

lol this is a great video. Who would have known I would start playing paintball 7 years after this video. This is when paintball was really fun. You were considered dangerous in the early days if you played. But needless to say the psyc had no solid evidence or anything else for that matter. Paintball was really fun back then and still is somewhat.

[theRITTZer]

hahaha,

"dont play paintball kids!! You'll grow up to be a rapist!"

...coming from a sexist. "womens' point of view?!

[theRITTZer]

she had a better view then any of those guys! ha

[fullautopaintball]

You wouldn't get away with saying "Mickey's Jihad" nowadays haha :D

[ripgordie22]

GO DOC JAMES!!!

[sbskate17]

its not the thought of shooting ppl for me, it is the adrenalin rush i get when im on a speedball field or in a scenario game. i will never compare war and paintball ever!

[MrFloppemz]

Disneyland had a team?!?!? Mickey's Jihad?!?! HAHAAH BEST NAME EVER

[malicjose]

Holy Shit! At 4:53 woodstoker googles I never thought I would see those again

[Dopey117]

ha i like how the shrink doesnt say anything about the aggressiveness of other sports. Football is a very aggressive sport but i have never seen anyone question it. Who knows the Saints may be our next generation of soldiers

[gears2lover]

No wonder you can realy get into paintball you pretty much grew up around it

[JEORGEGREEK]

philip zimbardo is an ass

[random2k6]

hahaha 7:30 - actually used helicopters

[paintballtechpb]

@random2k6

FIVE helicopters LOL that shit aint cheap

[danny619ist]

@paintballtechpb man did you see those hoppers or speed loders do u have those markers make a review on one if u have one

[ZetaMan117]

I play paintball so I must support nuclear war and the extinction of humanity. Wicked. >_>

[arnock123]

I find how even back then they were still trying to show paintball as a warlike, dangerous, aggressive sport back then.

Granted, they did emphasize the military aspect a LOT more, but it set a precedent of "paintball is a violent sport" that keeps people from wanting to play yet.

[KoaisA0K]

2:39 and 3:00

yeah AT will ruin the sport"

:P haters

[SuperHolyburrito]

i wish paintball was like that :(

[RoyalSweeetness]

Amen!

[mammaonline1]

Wait on a story and get it right? Wow, how long has it been since a news organization did that?

[kevinseveneleven]

Mickey's Jihad lol let's see them try to bring that team name back for the Corporate Paintball Tournament!

[agedude44]

you know, way back then, it's almost understandable to see people pretending it's real war and taking that to another level. however, the last 23 years have proven this wrong, and with speedball and such it takes all of the mock warfare out of the sport. Rambo? you don't see much of that anymore

[agirard77]

i was 10...man, the 80's were freakin awesome

[greyhoundspb]

lol. thats all i can say.

[leafydialupking1]

enormous popularity and paintball in the same context?

[kyle9128pb]

Mikey's Jihad...win

[newFaction64]

Wow this makes the games we play now look like child's play!

[iflickuoff]

WOW! back in the day with pumps only and ppl wearing only saftey goggles

[Shadowoftheday09]

holy crap 3000 in two games!?

[petrafied77]

yea cuz they used to have huge teams and the games would last for like hours cuz they had injurys and stuff

[dyepmr09]

that women is a milf

[annexman]

lol them high up professors always trying to put a player down

[nick113z]

wow paintball started in new hampshire? my home state

[PaintballHazard]

Lol "Safer than softball" yet they are only wearing safety glasses

[82mage]

true story bro!

[blamhog]

lol made me giggle

[bopbrothers]

airsoft FTW

[JoshJpaintball]

great job!

[Doogleburg08]

Woooo Airsoft! Hoora! :D

[CarrickLightstar]

Lol, it's hard to get over how horrifically unsafe it is by todays standards. Love the reporter standing on the field mid game without any kind of protection.

[JMCounts24]

wow....has paintball ever changed!