As a girl I was invited to less of these but remember the era and the excitement my brother and his friends had over paintball games. I always wondered why they didn’t make softer balls for human sport after it caught on.

The lost world of paintball parties
They were a rite of passage for the youth of the 2000s, recalls Zak Asgard – whose life was measured by paintball parties from age nine to 12.
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