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airsoft
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Airsoft, also known as survival game is a team-based shooting game. The gameplay involves participants eliminating opposing players by shooting them with spherical plastic projectiles shot from airsoft guns. It is most popular in Japan.
Key facts
- Sport.name
- Airsoft
- Sport.image
- Airsoft_squad.jpg
- Sport.imagesize
- 300 px
- Sport.caption
- Airsoft players defending an objective.
- Sport.first
- Early 1970s in Japan
- Sport.contact
- Dependent on ruleset
- Sport.mgender
- Yes
- Sport.ball
- Airsoft pellets
- Sport.venue
- Varies between outdoor (fields or woods) and indoor
- Sport.category
- MilSim, Live action role-playing game, team sport, outdoor and indoor sports
- Sport.region
- Worldwide
- Sport.equipment
- Airsoft guns, airsoft pellets, goggles
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- History
- Equipment
- Hop-up
- Customization
- Projectile
- Ballistics
- Safety
- Community safety precautions
- Legal restrictions
- Ireland
- United Kingdom
- Canada
- United States
- Military and police training
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
Airsoft, also known as survival game is a team-based shooting game. The gameplay involves participants eliminating opposing players by shooting them with spherical plastic projectiles shot from airsoft guns. It is most popular in Japan.
Although similar to paintball in concept and gameplay, airsoft pellets do not leave visible markings on their target and hits are not always apparent, though the pellets can leave small bruises or welts on exposed skin (and so protective gear is still recommended), the game relies heavily on an honor system in which players who have been hit are expected to call themselves out of play in keeping with honesty, fairness and sportsmanship.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “airsoft” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.