“ This was the beginning of the Texas scenario scene with game after game being produced at Brazos Survival Games( BSG) by Viper, with players trekking between Texas, Florida, and Pennsylvania playing Wayne Dollack and Viper’ s 24-hour scenario games,” Wright continued.
Dollack made the trip to Texas to support Kerry and played the role of a UN Inspector in that first major Viper-produced game. Wayne ' s son Marc, Diane“ Mother” Howe, and magazine writer and early paintball photographer, Ken“ Hollywood” Gilder, also made the trip to Texas for the game. The game was held at Brazos Survival Games, which was owned by Patrick“ Pacman” McKinnon. Jamie McKinnon, Pacman ' s teenage daughter, was also in attendance, and she would become a regular on the scenario scene. The game, a first of its kind in Texas, drew around 100 players. But Viper ' s games quickly created a second scenario paintball Mecca, this one in Texas, matched only in size and scope by Dollack ' s games in Florida.
Viper Enterprises’ follow-up games were Texas Revolution III, The Twilight Zone, Escape from LA, Texas Escape from New York, The Rock, Die Hard, Revolution IV, Die Hard II, and Die Hard III, all taking place from 1997 through 1999. The Rock and Die Hard series ' were unique in that they were the first indoor paintball scenario games ever.“ Viper” was the first scenario game producer to introduce both slapsticks and the concept of a final battle— both are still used today in most scenario games. He is also credited for introducing award pennants, for most valuable player, most valuable team, etc.
“ My first final battle was early on, probably my second or third game,” Kerry said.“ It seemed kind of anticlimactic to just have everybody do their last mission and then walk off the field.”
And so he made a production out of the game endings.
“ Brazos Survival Games had a big P. A. horns out on the field, so we would actually play rock music for the whole thing. The first part was
Viper ' s Holy Grail game, Blact Tree Paintball, 2020
060 paintball. media magazine