FPS Gamers move your ass ;)

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-11-05 02:44am

Linky Link

A threadmill for FPS gamers, well there is dancemats and stuff like that so why not!

Chardok · Post by **Chardok** » 2004-11-05 06:45am

No.

This goes against all gaming principles of laziness, greasiness, and sloth. Never. I will never give in to the dark side.

Lord of the Farce · Post by **Lord of the Farce** » 2004-11-05 07:07am

Introductory Price: $1,299
Retail Price: $1,799

Why not just get yourself some good quality exercise gear. And some top-of-the-line computer components.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2004-11-05 12:36pm

Hell, I doubt it'll give as quick response and accuracy as mouse & keyboard... Besides, you may get exhausted in a long deathmatch tournament.

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-11-05 12:59pm

Y'know, why not skip all this COMPUTER crap and just buy a BUILDING and decorate it up to look like a giant FPS game, and hire a few dozen people to play the bad guys and then you can actually SHOOT THEM?!?!?

Sure, it'd cost twenty million dollars, but WOW! It's the ULTIMATE first-person shooter experience! The first-personiest you can ever get!!!

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2004-11-05 01:24pm

SPOOFE wrote:Y'know, why not skip all this COMPUTER crap and just buy a BUILDING and decorate it up to look like a giant FPS game, and hire a few dozen people to play the bad guys and then you can actually SHOOT THEM?!?!?

Sure, it'd cost twenty million dollars, but WOW! It's the ULTIMATE first-person shooter experience! The first-personiest you can ever get!!!

IIRC around mid-80 there is (was?) such arena somewhere in the US, where people inside wear some kind of "electronic vest", and armed with some kind of "light guns". You "kill" other people by shooting your guns to certain area on their vest. Hmmm.... couldn't recall...

salm · Post by **salm** » 2004-11-05 01:51pm

an input device like this is only interesting if it can register all movements.

Ace Pace · Post by **Ace Pace** » 2004-11-05 01:52pm

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:
SPOOFE wrote:Y'know, why not skip all this COMPUTER crap and just buy a BUILDING and decorate it up to look like a giant FPS game, and hire a few dozen people to play the bad guys and then you can actually SHOOT THEM?!?!?

Sure, it'd cost twenty million dollars, but WOW! It's the ULTIMATE first-person shooter experience! The first-personiest you can ever get!!!
IIRC around mid-80 there is (was?) such arena somewhere in the US, where people inside wear some kind of "electronic vest", and armed with some kind of "light guns". You "kill" other people by shooting your guns to certain area on their vest. Hmmm.... couldn't recall...

Theres also CS maps built to Scale for Paintball.

Companion Cube · Post by **Companion Cube** » 2004-11-05 02:03pm

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:Hell, I doubt it'll give as quick response and accuracy as mouse & keyboard... Besides, you may get exhausted in a long deathmatch tournament.

Gah, fucking realism mod servers....stamina running low! Bunny-hopping has never been so....difficult!

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-11-05 02:04pm

IIRC around mid-80 there is (was?) such arena somewhere in the US, where people inside wear some kind of "electronic vest", and armed with some kind of "light guns". You "kill" other people by shooting your guns to certain area on their vest. Hmmm.... couldn't recall...

Lazer Tag, and you could buy the vests and guns. The first version was awesome... the guns looked sweet. Then they re-released it about a decade later and it was t3h 5toop1d.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2004-11-05 02:43pm

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:
SPOOFE wrote:Y'know, why not skip all this COMPUTER crap and just buy a BUILDING and decorate it up to look like a giant FPS game, and hire a few dozen people to play the bad guys and then you can actually SHOOT THEM?!?!?

Sure, it'd cost twenty million dollars, but WOW! It's the ULTIMATE first-person shooter experience! The first-personiest you can ever get!!!
IIRC around mid-80 there is (was?) such arena somewhere in the US, where people inside wear some kind of "electronic vest", and armed with some kind of "light guns". You "kill" other people by shooting your guns to certain area on their vest. Hmmm.... couldn't recall...

Lazar-Tag

Losonti Tokash · Post by **Losonti Tokash** » 2004-11-05 02:54pm

SPOOFE wrote:
IIRC around mid-80 there is (was?) such arena somewhere in the US, where people inside wear some kind of "electronic vest", and armed with some kind of "light guns". You "kill" other people by shooting your guns to certain area on their vest. Hmmm.... couldn't recall...
Lazer Tag, and you could buy the vests and guns. The first version was awesome... the guns looked sweet. Then they re-released it about a decade later and it was t3h 5toop1d.

I believe Kreshna was using sarcasm.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2004-11-05 03:03pm

SPOOFE wrote:
IIRC around mid-80 there is (was?) such arena somewhere in the US, where people inside wear some kind of "electronic vest", and armed with some kind of "light guns". You "kill" other people by shooting your guns to certain area on their vest. Hmmm.... couldn't recall...
Lazer Tag, and you could buy the vests and guns. The first version was awesome... the guns looked sweet. Then they re-released it about a decade later and it was t3h 5toop1d.

Think thats crazy? Got a company who copied military Laser tag training equipment and is now offering... Get this, outdoor Laser tag as an alternative to paintball

http://www.zone-empire.com/skirmish/index.htm

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2004-11-05 03:24pm

SPOOFE wrote:Y'know, why not skip all this COMPUTER crap and just buy a BUILDING and decorate it up to look like a giant FPS game, and hire a few dozen people to play the bad guys and then you can actually SHOOT THEM?!?!?

Sure, it'd cost twenty million dollars, but WOW! It's the ULTIMATE first-person shooter experience! The first-personiest you can ever get!!!

Someone once used a bunch of city blocks to play Mega Pacman...

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2004-11-05 04:10pm

I believe Kreshna was using sarcasm.

And I believe SPOOFE was using nostalgia. Ah, Lazer Tag... the "DOO-doo-DOO-doo" sound the sensors made when starting up, the awesome glowing red lines of the gun...

That game rocked.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2004-11-06 04:22am

SPOOFE wrote:
IIRC around mid-80 there is (was?) such arena somewhere in the US, where people inside wear some kind of "electronic vest", and armed with some kind of "light guns". You "kill" other people by shooting your guns to certain area on their vest. Hmmm.... couldn't recall...
Lazer Tag, and you could buy the vests and guns. The first version was awesome... the guns looked sweet. Then they re-released it about a decade later and it was t3h 5toop1d.

Yup, Lazer Tag! I remember now. Never been there, though. Just reading about it in some magazines many, many years ago. Damn, I was still in elementary school at that time, and I *really* wanted to play the game.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2004-11-06 04:23am

Losonti Tokash wrote:
SPOOFE wrote:
IIRC around mid-80 there is (was?) such arena somewhere in the US, where people inside wear some kind of "electronic vest", and armed with some kind of "light guns". You "kill" other people by shooting your guns to certain area on their vest. Hmmm.... couldn't recall...
Lazer Tag, and you could buy the vests and guns. The first version was awesome... the guns looked sweet. Then they re-released it about a decade later and it was t3h 5toop1d.
I believe Kreshna was using sarcasm.

Not this time, bub.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-11-06 04:25am

Ah, lazertag. I played it once a long time ago and looking back now I realize how absolutely ridiculous I must've looked holding my gun the wrong way as I did then. Didn't quite figure out how to comfortably hold it back then.

Archaic` · Post by **Archaic`** » 2004-11-06 06:33am

An Australian company, Laser Force, still runs a number of those centers world-wide. Used to go to the one back in Brisbane for the New Years lock-in games, 12 hours of shooting at people, pigging on soft drinks and snack food, and throwing up between games. Good fun.

JointStrikeFighter · Post by **JointStrikeFighter** » 2004-11-06 08:57am

Were i live in Australia [Perth] there are a couple of laser tag places. And up in the hills 20minutes from Perth there is a place that offers full MILES gear tag.

Vendetta · Post by **Vendetta** » 2004-11-06 05:48pm

England still has them in abundance as far as I know.

Paintball has kind of superceded it among the 18-30 crowd though.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2004-11-07 12:37am

Lazer Tag is fun, except it's hard to find a good place, and then find people who are willing to let me shoot them. There's a family fun centre type place my father's company has Christmas parties at, they have a lame version with lame vests and guns, and then there's this Lazer Quest downtown that has big vests with multiple flashing points of contact, and big rifles. That one is like, two, three stories, IIRC, with ramps and stuff. Crazy. It's always more fun if it's played under black lights.

CSquared · Post by **CSquared** » 2004-11-07 01:14pm

Best ever laser tag game I found... I bought it the other day. When you're hit, you get electrocuted. Great fun.

Paintball hurts, but is a lot better, especially if you disregard the rules and just put up with the pain of a terminator-style walking full-frontal attack on the enemy base.

Back to the topic... I once played Burnout 2 by sitting on an exercise bike. It was so much more fun...