[Mat]

I'd agree computer games are bringing alot of new players into the hobby.

They're also doing wonders for the large amount of sniper rifles and support weapons that are being sold second hand after a couple of uses when people find out that airsoft isn't quite like the game, lol.

[Vader266]

Been there, walked down that path and here I am! A mediocre player who takes the game too seriously. I think I was originally drawn to paintballing to try and replicate the experience of shooting and being shot at. I failed. A few years of doing nothing, and I found airsofting and loved it. When you successfully secrete yourself in ferns as an enemy patrol walks past you, centimetres away, and all you can do is hold your fire, you get a much better high than you do when it's artificially recreated in a certain Chernobyl mission!

I suppose the fact it's closer to life than paintballing but sufficiently lenient to allow you to have fun that draws people to it from games like battlefield.

[shooter1990]

i got into airsoft after i left air cadets. there we used .22 and .177 air rifles and i loved it. then when i left i had withdrawel symptoms from not shooting. so i spoke to a mate he had a BB pistol( ironicly it was 2 tone) but it was rubbish. so i decided to get into work and save up to get my own and it went from there .i would tell you the rest of the story but you lot would prob fall asleep whilst reading it :tounge:. lol

long story short i got into airsoft when i was 13 and all this before the UKARA thingy came out :D

[two tone kid]

Like shooter1990 I am too a air cadet and the whole military experience is great.So airsofting will have to last me until I apply for the RAF Regiment Gunner's.
But id have to say that computer games do contribute to airsofting, 7 of my mates r thinking of buying 2 tone guns because they think it will be like the MW2 experience where they camp and shot NOOB tubes and stuff but they'll all get owned by the more experienced players!

But id have to say that gaming didn't get me into airsofting it would have been my cousin who is in the army and suggested it to me.

This post has been edited by two tone kid: 14 April 2010 - 12:58

[Bodgeups]

While I can't deny I spent a good deal of my youth playing FPS (god bless you Ming Lee for creating CounterStrike <_<), my inspiration came from the cap guns of old!

Everyone must have had one of the 8-or-12-shot revolver cap guns. I was given a Beretta look-a-like cap gun, with a removable magazine that clipped off the spent caps and ejected them! I was gutted when I lost it :(.

But yes, computer games do seem to have a huge impact on new Airsofters. I've lost count of how many times I've heard new players at my site ask "what map are we playing next?"...