LASER TAG – Q. What Missions (Games) Do You Play?
We play a variety of games and vary their lengths based on the age of the kids. Here is a list of some of them:
Free For All – AKA Every Man for Himself – Most Hits/Kills wins the game: We see who the best shooters are in the group (Then we divide the better shooters up and put all the recruits into Red and White Teams!)
Basic Tag/Elimination – or what we call our Team Death Match: Equal teams, equal lives, teams start out in their own forts, each team attacks the other. When gamers lose their lives they must sit until the game is over. We can add a medic and/or respawns (Usually we do this in the second game we play so it adds an additional factor and changes the gamerz’ strategy) This is another simple game – eliminate the enemy, time ranges (depends on age) 5-20 minutes
Capture the Flag – Each base has a flag. Capture the other team’s flag and return it to your base to win. In case each team has the other’s flag, the first one back to their own base and yells “Game Over” (or blows a whistle if playing on a large field) is the winner. If a player is “dead” while holding the flag (before he makes it back to his base) he must stand still until a teammate grabs the flag and advances it toward the base. Every player should start with only 1 life. When a player is “dead” he must walk off to the side of the field, unless he is the one holding the flag.
Protect the President/Birthday Child/VIP (Very Important Person) – Each team is assigned a president. Each team knows who the other team’s president is. The presidents start with 4 or 5 lives, everyone else with only 2 each. The object of the game is to protect your president and “get” the other team’s president. The team that kills the other team’s president first wins.
Attack and Defend your Fort – Give each player on one team 9 lives. Give each player on the other team 1 or 2 lives each. The team with 9 lives is the attacking team, while the other team secretly hides randomly behind the bunkers, they are the defenders. The referee uses a stopwatch to time how fast the attackers can eliminate all the defenders. When done, the defenders become the attackers and the previous attackers become the defenders. Whichever team can eliminate the other team in the fastest time wins.
Paintball style – Everyone starts with only one life. When you’re “dead” you hold your gun in the air and walk off the field and wait until the game is over. The winning team is the one that eliminates) the entire other team. People play a lot more carefully with only one life. The game is the same as Elimination above.
Medic – Each team is assigned a medic. The medic starts out with four lives. Everyone else has only 1 life each. As long as your team’s medic is still alive you can run to the referee to get reset if you’re “dead”. But when your medic is dead no one on your team can get reset. Of course, the medics can never get reset. So the object of the game is to protect your medic while going after the other team’s medic. The team that eliminates all the players, including the medic, on the other team wins.
