Lazer Tag review (WOW 1986)
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- Опубликовано: 11 дек 2024
- We review a vintage Lazer Tag Game Kit from the 1986 Worlds Of Wonder Lazer Tag toy line.
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Dude, I remember getting this for Christmas and was SO FREAKING HAPPY! Unfortunately, not all my friends had it so I was stuck with my imagination for a while and went on "quests" solo until they were able to get their sets. Then we found out that the range that the laser reached was not all that far. LOL! But it was still a fun game to have.
I had 2 rifles, 4 guns. The design was futuristic, didn't feel as 'toyish' as one would expect. The range was crazy as heck. Those laser guns were just pure fun! I never understood why the competition became more popular, they looked clunky, ugly and awkward !
Lost sleep when I was a kid over this toy but never managed to get one. So great to see an unboxing 30 years later! 👍
The problem with Lazertag is that not enough people had it. I think one other person on my block had it and we played together like one time. The commercial had the benefit of a more elaborate set up but it just wasn’t any fun to play with by yourself.
I guess I was lucky. I watched a group of kids in my trailer park where I grew up. Some how we picked up a set at the swap meet (I think it was the kids I was babysitting for. Played the crap of laser tag (rechargeable batteries) around a massive trailer park (about 150 trailers). So much fun, met my best friend that way.
You where always trying to make friends, so you could trade NES games.
I was 10 when Lazer Tag came out and got the pistol set for Christmas. A few months later I got a vest and the rifle. My friends and I all played that every day for like a year.
It never bothered me that it fired IR light instead of visible laser beams, it was just a thing I took for granted. I just thought "Visible laser beams are fiction, reality is invisible IR light." Am I the only one?
I thought the little red dot sight was the shit!
Still have the helmet, guns, sensors and I bought a vest brand new in it's box on ebay. Such a geek.
Hah, I had the official Lazer Tag rifle that had about three times the range of the standard pistols. I could pick folks off at a solid 100 yards with that sucker with a fresh set of batteries. Plus it had a rapid-fire option where it would just shoot a continuous beam if you held down the trigger. It also had an adjustable-length stock and a shoulder strap for carrying it around. Pretty cool.
A friend of mine modified his pistol into a scatter gun. It only had a range of about 15-20 feet but it would nail any sensor within a 135-degree arc in front of him. He actually had to put a shield on it to keep it from hitting his own sensor.
The original pistol had a bulb in in the pop out panel, and a green filter. So it emitted a green flash when you pulled the trigger. Later versions (post stupid cop) had the bulb circuitry removed. I F'in loved this game. I had 3 or 4 pistols and a rifle, and I'd hand them all out to the neighborhood kids. We'd play ALL NIGHT LONG. Night games were so fun! Still have two rifles, 3 vests and 3 sensors. My 16yr old daugher loves this thing.
Loved that when I was kid, great memories!! Your only limit was your imagination and well, batteries lol!
I just remembered this toy, googled it and found your video. Absolutely awesome! You brought back so many epic memories for me… Thanks dude 😎
I remember my brother and I each got a set for Christmas one year. I remember I got the helmet while he got the cap. We definitely had a lot of fun with those.
So much freaking fun! That was my Christmas present, even had the huge white assault rifle. So awesome. Played with them on through high school. Very cool guns, even better design than most laser tag guns today!
I like the fact they used skateboards in the commercials, while most of us were just chasing after each other in the backyard!
Invisible lasers is where it's at! If they were visible, every time someone fired there'd be a giant line of light pointing out their location with pinpoint accuracy.
I don't remember the commercials, but I vividly remember playing with this set with my brothers.
This is still my all time favorite toy from my childhood. I had the starlite set, ball cap, vest, helmet, rifle, and star base. I've always wondered why my parents didn't let me play with it outside with my friends or in the backyard; the police shooting probably made my mom overly paranoid.
I had the full set...must have got it after the shooting incident. I don't know how else my parents could have afforded all that. 2 pistols, 2 vests, 4 sensors, 1 rifle, 1 helmet, and the starbase thing for playing by yourself.
The rifle was beast, almost unstoppable with the rapid fire enabled, the starbase was un-beatable all on its own. It cut you no slack, as soon as your sensor was exposed you were dead. I hated that thing.
I had some good play sessions with this stuff, honestly one of the better toys of its era.
I was going to post my comment,then decided I should read some first.i saw my comment was damn close to yours so I decided not to lol.that damn star base pissed me off so bad lol,and realizing that I'm commenting on a 4 year old post is hilarious too.
invisible lasers yeah we didn't care... if you had 4 people playing this game it was awesome. The range was awesome. We used to laugh at the stupid "Phaser" clone.
Kids all had these in the neighborhood. Lots of fun. Invisible lasers were not a big deal.
I still have 6 of these kits and the TSR game book. Such great times
Shoot the moon stayed in business until 2019. It just turned into a design company for other manufacturers/distributors.
The Lazer Tag Team Ops, Phoenix LTX, and LTAR lines made by Hasbro were all designed by Shoot the moon.
Two of the blasters in the Laser Tag Team Ops even had hidden WOW modes.
Who else was a member of the Radio Shack battery club back then?! haha..
really fun and creative video man, thanks! i love how you captured the zeitgeist of unboxing and discovering. marketing images, production photos, and artwork got me so pumped about toys when i was a kid. super exciting! remember the know off Photon?
I did not expect a video 12 years ago to beso entertaining. 😂
My family was poor, so I had the off-brand version of this called Phaser Force. That one was $40 for a set of 2 sensors and guns. I always wished I would have been able to get Lazer Tag instead, but watching this video just shows me that they were both exactly the same. Only Phaser Force didn't have the cheezy commercials and cool art.
I found my old starlyte pro rifle in white with the vest. If you think 6 AA batteries for the pistol is bad, the rifle take 4 C batteries.
bought that rifle after the craze had passed just because I thought it looked so cool and played with the base by myself
This made us feel like we were living in the future finally, but 40 years ago 🫣
Haha, brings back 2nd grade memories. Everyone nowadays talks about how much better the Photon home version was than this, but I never played it. Everyone I knew had Lazer Tag (probably because it was cheaper) and that's what we played.
Chef Danger Photon had actual arena equipment used in their toys, so that is a bigger step up in quality
@@hellacia8151 uh, no. The photon toy was a cheap plastic scaled down version of the arena system , and the arena system won't work without a game computer, radio link, and an arena enclosed in a faraday cage. I owned photon, played the real thing, and had friends with lazertag. I liked the way photon worked as an integrated system with a sensor in the gun and helmet all tied to the same score, rather than individual sensors of lazer tag.
The build quality and accuracy was a little better on Lazer tag. Photon had a flaw where you can't be hit while firing, and the fire duration was quite long, one team being slightly longer, so those phasers had a slight advantage. Why they didn't put a sensor on the chest pod or back of the helmet escapes me.
Both were toys with advantages and disadvantages and were not compatible so no mixing and matching was possible.
I played real photon in 1987 thru 1989 and again in 1997 on a couple trips back east where a "new" one had opened.
A dozen of us bought these in college in '88 at around $15 per set because they were discontinued. Unfortunately after a couple of weeks of almost nightly games, campus poliice shut us down. I never got the confusion with real guns. I mean, these LITERALLY went PEW! PEW!
+Jeff “Robotguy” Kroll I think the trouble was that the cops mistook the flash at the front of the gun for an actual muzzle flash.
I purchased two of these, and they’re pretty cool.
Great memories! Many thanks
Running Man was 1987 so no go for the arena. I think it was more Solar Babies based which was 1986
I apparently found out about this because of an ad on the back of an old original Marvel comic book from 1987 that I saw at a friend’s place recently! :)
I love the 80's futuristic design of this set
I was one of the lucky ones to get their hands on a brand new WHITE starlyte and star sensor. I didnt even know they hit the shelves I got it from an inside source and still have it never used wrapped in bubble wrap. I am selling a bunch of lazer tag stuff now on ebay but I am keeping that along with my orig.set I still have one brand new boxed black set and some loose sets. This was a fun game I loved it and played all the time I collected the stuff for years and am now 42 years old. Then paintball hit the scene after WOW went bankrupt! That was fun also.
Holy shit. That box took me back to Xmas, 1987.
Not an invisible laser. Infrared light. As you said, like a TV remote. That Starlyte was pretty freaking badass though. It was very comfortable to hold, and it looked badass. You didn't even mention the beam adjustment switch on the front. It switched it from a narrow to a wide beam. Though, you really couldn't tell much difference. The narrow beam would go a little farther.
I still have a Lazer Tag pistol and two of the white Lazer Tag rifles (with boxes) and chest and softcap sensors.
A friend of mine still had one of these pistols, let me borrow it so i could 3D print it. Turned out pretty well, still need some adjustments though.
I didn't care that the beam was invisible. I cared that this toy settled the infamous "I hit you, your're dead!" "Nu-Uh! You didn't see me there!" aspect that ALWAYS rang across every kid's neighborhood when running around playing with toy guns.
So Nerf actually released their own version of Laser Tag like last month called Laser Ops Pro. Connects to your phone and the app of the same name via bluetooth and it's just as fun as it was back in the day. The best part is you don't need a phone or the app to play. They work with or without the app, minus the score count and weapon upgrades. And what's funny is that a set of two guns is like $40 and there's a rifle version for $5 more.
Love your channel. Subbed. Great content, sir. Keep it up!!
Guys I bought my kid two complete lazer tag setups for Christmas. Both guns and both sensors come on and make noises and have flashing lights like they are supposed to. However neither gun will score a hit on either sensor even if I point them directly in front of them at close range. Any ideas what the problem might be?
Mold of that gun was used for lightgun included with Famicom clone BS-500AS.
The Lazer Tag brand is still going strong and is in many stores now. Designed by Shoot The Moon( same guys that started WoW ) and mass produced by Hasbro. It can be used with or without an i-phone or i-pod touch and soon on android devices, and on the screen display of the smart device, you can see the lazers! :D And so many other things are better than the original version, better range, accuracy, and computerized scoring!
Thanks for the memories, I fondly remember getting one of these sets for xmas. Cheers and great job, just gave you guys a sub too.......
Me too loved this
I wanted that ball cap sensor so bad
damn I miss those . i had them and I loved them.
We had some damn good toys in the 80s. Anyone remember Tyco 9.6v Turbo? Yeah. Go price those on ebay. Esp the bandit truck.
Haha man I always wanted this. I never knew about the LA shooting...crazy
I wanted this so bad as a kid but never got one. I believe my parents ended up buying me Castle Greyskull from Masters of the Universe instead, looking back it was probably the better choice.
In my experience, if you try to play this on a skateboard, you're gonna have a bad time. While these were kind of fun, the real failing point was the propensity for people to cheat by placing their hand over the sensor was overwhelmingly high and took the fun out of the rest of the game. The laser tag models you can buy today come with brighter guns and multiple sensors so it makes the game easier to have fun with. The easiest way to make the beams visible is a nightshot camera and a fog machine
5:02 I got 380s in my house right now none of them I wish they would come back
Just found my 80s laser guns they worth anything??
I remember the sight having a red dot if u slightly depressed the trigger....and u end up showing it lol. I commented as I watched
WoW, wham-o, Kenner, Tyco, Galoob... great brands back then.
I have the set up with the rifle, helmets, pistols, etc. but they need alot of repair. If you know of a company that does so, let me know.
Any way to make a Glock feel like a star lite pistol?
I remember wanting one so bad in 86, i finally got one for Christmas and played with it for literally 5 mins and then it sat in my closet for years.... it just was not fun at all to play with....
i just found out about these babies.....
i just bought a pair on Ebay for my Mando costume :)
hey can you give me the names of people you bought from on Ebay with the Laser Tag stuff?
Got mine right now on my desk....
I still have mine. I have one gun.. one sensor.. silver vest a harness thing helmet and ball cap. I want more though. Don't care if I am 30 years old!
Laser sets today looks stupid. When I was a kid toy guns looked like guns and cops weren't babies who shot at little kids with toy guns.
I still remember that commercial, but I don't remember what happened to the gun.
Where can buy them?
The “Lazer Tag” brand would have been given to Tiger Electronics sometime in the 90’s and start of a string of laser tag blasters and later in 2004 Lazer Tag Team Ops, which paid tribute to Worlds of Wonder by having the IRT-2X and TMB taggers have a hidden feature that makes them act like WoW blasters. The brand would then go to Hasbro in 2008, who eventually killed off the series after the poor marketing of the Lazer Tag Augmented Reality system in 2012.
I got the lazer gun and the starbase for a dollar at a yard sale so i looked this thing up to see how much it was worth so i came here. Also, how do you turn on the sound?
What does the starbase do exactly?
Oh yeah, i was reading some of the 80's amazing spider man comics and they were full of lazer tag ads
yeah well i just picked up a whole lot of gear from eBay over the past month. i got 2 starlyte pistols, 2 starlyte helmets 2 star caps 1 star base and 2 starlyte pro rifles and they all work.
It won't stop a Terminator because everyone knows that a 9volt StarLyte pistol is no match for a phased-plasma rifle in the 40-watt range.
I remember it being bastard expensive £50 I think but back in the 80s that was a shit ton of money.
I got a kill one summer by shooting a truck side mirror and hitting the reflection of the sensor. Best kill ever!
Only thing that sucked was your friend covering the sensor. I played with my brother for about 4 hrs and said well this is a piece of shit. Spend more money on batteries then anything.
I had this. My grandma got it for my birthday in 1986, but the problem was finding someone else to play, kind of lame to shoot myself repeatedly...
*references The Running Man, uses the Total Recall theme*
Concept
What if all nerf, x shot, dart zone & Super Soaker blasters were laser tag 80s?
back to the future!
Nice video but you are wrong on one point. The Lazer Tag brand is still going strong. Designed by Shoot The Moon( same guys that started WoW) and made by Hasbro. The new line is due to be released this summer and uses an iphone.
I love lazer tag
I came here just to hear the sounds!
I got this toy for xmas when I was about 10 and was playing Lazer Tag outside one night with my friend when someone spotted us and called the police. They arrived guns drawn and ordered us to drop the "weapons" and put our hands in the air while holding us at gun point. I don't fault the police, but the shock of having a real gun pointed at me forced me to never play with toy guns outside of my house ever again. I still have all of my Lazer Tag guns and gear. They're just too damn cool to toss.
STUDIO NOT INCLUDED?!
How much did this cost you? Also did you get from eBay or "the old fashioned way"
old but now to bad try the laser tag stinger its about 10 years newer and was more fun
I Broke my knee when I was a kid. Back in the 80’s anddd my knee had to be reset into the socket and all this other shit. We went to a walk-in medical place (they don’t use Anesthesia or whatever) and they had to hold me down my leg was propped up with the heel of my foot in this thing that was higher and they pressed down on my knee and put a cast on like that.
Anddd I got laser tag for being brave.
😶🌫️
Photon was the superior Lazer Tag TV show.
That needs to be in 40 watt range to be able to stop the Terminator.
Wasn’t there a short lived TV series because of this? I’m thinking Photard or something like that.
2:09 There you go, Lazer Tag academy
The show photon was because of photon, Lazer tag and laser tag in general is also because of photon.
Photon first opened in 1984 and the photon toy version actually came out a couple months earlier than wow lazertag.
The creator of photon wanted to call it laser tag, but his lawyer told him it was too generic to patent so he went with photon. Ironically
@@k.h.1587 Awesome! Thanks for the info.
They still take six AA's.
WOW i accidentally discovered that this pistol from our childhood on the Balkans is actually this think! :D en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ending-Man_Terminator
Haaaa and Rockeeeeeee
Sorry, but that cop should have been charged. Considering no gun shoots with complete silence. He was totally incompetent.