Laser tag-a high-tech game,

Laser tag (from the English. laser — laser, and tag — tag), or laser battle, quasar — a high-tech game that takes place in real time and space. The essence of the game is to defeat the opposing players...
The history of the commercial idea of operating a laser tag began in 1977 When the American George Carter III (mark TWAIN III), after watching the movie "Star wars", came up with the game "Photon". It was his idea that formed the basis of all current commercial laser Tagging both in terms of the style of the game and in terms of the concept of the game.
In 1979, the company South Bend Toys begins to release the game Star Trek Phasers: the game was a set of 2 guns (blasters) with sensors attached to them. Simple and difficult at the same time, but, nevertheless, there was one distinctive feature — the game had a function for indicating close fire or ricochets, repeated in MILES. Hits and misses were tracked depending on the power level of the transmitter (in 100% of modern systems, the pseudo-random probability of a miss is programmatically calculated). In reality, sales of this game begin only in 1986. The term "Lazer tag "(using the letter" Z") was originally introduced by Worlds-of-Wonder in 1988-89[7] (which produced consumer-grade equipment), and then with a minor modification (replacing" z "with" s") was applied to all systems using the"Photon" principle.
A similar principle to laser tag is also used in the army's systems of simulated shooting and hitting, which appeared in the late 1970s in the US army as a way to simulate combat operations, training and training of soldiers. For this purpose, the MILES system (multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System) was developed. It included special emitters attached to the combat weapon. The emitters ' signals were picked up by sensors mounted in the uniforms of each of the participants[8]. After a fairly long existence (until the early 1990s), the MILES system was replaced with its improved MILES-2000 modification, which performed well in 1998 at Fort Benning.