paintball traces its history to the early 1970's, when the nelson paint company created gun like markers for farmers and industrial companies - the tools were used to mark cattle, trees and other areas from a far distance.

in 1981, the game of paintball was created by charles gaines and bill gurnsey - the two experimented with the nelson paint company guns and designed a survival style game that included a series of specific rules.

with twelve friends included, charles and bill played the first ever paintball game -  using the industrial paintball guns over a  field measuring at least one hundred acres and the game was an absolute success.