First Paintball Game
With the Nelspot 007 paintball pistols, twelve people contended against each other in the first paintball game on June 27th, 1981. There names were: Jerome Gary, a New York film producer; Carl Sandquist, a New Hampshire contracting estimator; Joe Drinon, a stock-broker and former Golden Gloves boxer from New Hampshire; Bob Carlson, a trauma surgeon and hunter from Alabama; Bob Jones, a novelist and staff writer for Sports Illustrated and an experienced hunter; Ken Barrett, a New York venturer and hunter; Lionel Atwill, a writer for Sports Afield, a hunter and a Vietnam veteran; Ronnie Simpkins, a farmer from Alabama and a master turkey hunter; Ritchie White, the New Hampshire forester; Charles Gaines; Bob Gurnsey and Hayes Noel. On an 80-acre wooded cross-country ski area, they played a game of capture the flag.