Based on research of the Laser Tag Museum, Star Laser Force was believed to have opened April 16, 1985. This assumes that the Houston Magazi...

This early article about Photon appeared in the November 12, 1984 edition of Advertising Age , and is an exemplary piece of writing—detaile...

Other than a brief mention in this writeup , I really haven't addressed the music played in the arena at Star Laser Force. I tried to wo...

This short video is from the final testing and photo shoot for the Star Laser Force pack. I used a flashlight to "shoot" the p...

Isn't it amazing that laser tag, which was thought to be a passing fad when it was invented, is more popular than ever today? 30-plus ye...

Here are a few photos of the restored Star Laser Force pack. Front view. Side view. Back view. Powered up and ready (no gu...

Memory is a fickle thing. For instance, I believed the helmet on this system had over a dozen LEDs. Obviously I had confused it with ano...

Reconstruction of the display pack is almost done. There seems to be a flaky connection somewhere causing the score to go up; this was a VER...

The helmet being reconstructed has been gutted and its insides blown clean. Helmet cleaned up and being rewired. The team color LE...

Time to catch up on posts. First, some reflection on the helmet I'm refurbishing. The holes in the helmet being reconstructed do not ...

Why are there no photos of people playing Star Laser Force?  You're about to find out. The only available weapon for the Star Laser F...

More posts coming on the Star Laser Force equipment soon; in the mean time, have a look at Tiviachick 's tour video of the actual Laser ...

The museum site posted a full-color scan of the Star Laser Force sales brochure from 1985, including a full-color copy of the promotional ph...

On to the logic board inside the front box of the Star Laser Force pack, or suit. I was personally eager to see this system again after so ...

The back box of the Star Laser Force pack is pretty much all batteries, which is not uncommon in the industry to this day, although technolo...