National Honor Society brings laser tag to Lincoln

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[March 13, 2013]     Send a link to a friend

Saturday the Lincoln High School National Honor Society brought some new kind of fun to Lincoln: laser tag.

Laser tag is a high-tech, action-filled game conducted inside a special inflatable building. The large gray square contains 16 rooms with strobe lights, black lights and smoke as special effects.

Gamers wear specially designed chest armor and carry laser guns. The guns shoot a laser, aiming at a light on the chest armor of the opponent.  If he or she gets the hit, then the opponent is unable to fight back for a short period of time. Players can take shelter in the corners of rooms, kneel down and wait for their victims to come to them, or they can chase each other through the rooms, at a walking pace only.

Each session lasts approximately six minutes. Players are tracked by computer, and when they come out, they can view their scores and compare notes on who got whom.

The game system was brought to Lincoln courtesy of the National Honor Society through funding from Verallia-St. Gobain and with help from the Lincoln Park District as a social event for junior high students. The game system itself was provided by Mobile Laser Tag of Springfield.

The system is owned and operated by George Backstein and his wife, Cindy. To learn more about mobile laser tag, visit their website, http://mobilelasertag.net/

Pictures by Nila Smith with contributions from Mallory White, NHS president


Backstein, in the foreground, with wife Cindy, in the background, get the kids their gear.


Backstein and his crew get the kids ready for their game.

 

The kids are getting anxious to get in and try out this new kind of game

 
 

Watch out for this little gal, boys. She may be a sleeper!
 

The kids gather for a picture and learn the rules. This was the second group of the day to go into arena.
 

 


This is game name Priest. Priest played in the first round of the day.

 


But, if you look at the final scores of that first game, Priest was being picked on heavily inside the arena, so he went for a second game to try to redeem himself.

 

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