Moving through the dim smoky maze, your heart pounds faster and faster as you frantically try to find a place to hide from your adversaries. While the theme from Batman plays in the background, you stop in your tracks, sensing that the enemy is just around the next corner and vulnerable to your attack.
Being both the hunter and the hunted is at the heart of laser tag, a high-tech game that is thrilling both the players and the companies that run the rapidly expanding, profitable businesses that cater to people wanting to engage in warfare without the hassles of real bullets.
Also known as laser quest, laser tag is a combination of video game technology with old-fashioned war gaming that is fast becoming one of the most popular recreational pastimes in the world, mostly because it’s futuristic and high-tech but just about anyone can play. It’s something kids and parents can do together. And everybody can have fun on their own terms - size or gender does not matter.
It may be sometime before we see Olympic sportsmen and women running around firing infra-red laser at each other, but laser tag is one of the world’s fastest growing leisure activities. Currently South Africa boasts four laser tag arenas – in Tshwane, Bloemfontein, East London and Polokwane.
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