Last Update: 16 SEP 2006

The Laser Tag Virtual Museum

This page is still under construction! Please check back soon, and there should be even more active links to pictures, descriptions, technical specs, etc.

But for now...

The following is a list of homestyle lasertag (or "Lazer Tag") systems, arranged by the year when they first appeared. There is no attempt to order them within the year by any criteria. The listings show the name of the system, followed by the manufacturer's name in parenthesis. In general, only the first year a system was available is listed here, even though the system may have been manufactured in many variants over several years. New entries are created for significant changes to the system, such as for the transition from Worlds Of Wonder "Lazer Tag" to Tiger "Lazer Tag" or from the original "Laser Challenge" to "Laser Challenge Pro" and "Laser Challenge V2". Specific models within a line are linked from the page for that line.

Those systems that I know exist but do not know when they first came out are listed at the end.

Please note that this is a list of all home-style lasertag systems OF WHICH I AM AWARE. There are certainly others that I either have never heard of, or which I haven't gotten around to adding yet. Please help me fill in the blanks! There are instructions for contacting me via e-mail in the paragraph just after the "unknown year" entry.

All of the entries for systems are links -- you can click on them to get to a page with pictures and specifications, in some cases even schematics and waveforms, by clicking on the name of the system. These linked pages are all part of my virtual museum. Most of the gear described is in my personal collection, though some of the information comes from eBay listings, other websites, etc.

Please note that as with ALL of my pages and postings, the information presented is solely the opinion of the author, which is me. And I don't always know what I am talking about, so take it all with a grain of salt...

Most of the system and brand names are protected by copyrights and/or registered trademarks, and may not be used for any commercial purpose without the express written permission of the copyright or trademark owner. Unless othewrwise noted, all photographs are my own, of equipment in my personal collection, and no copyright is claimed on the photographs.

Links beginning with [*] are presently dead links, waiting for me to finish building the linked page.

Links beginning with [**] point to my Lazer Tag Brand page, which covers Worlds Of Wonder Lazer Tag (WOW), Tiger Lazer Tag (TLT), and Tiger/Hasbro Lazer Tag Team Ops (LTTO) lines -- eventually I may give each one its own seperate page.

1979

Star Trek Phasers (South Bend)

1986

[*] Photon (Enertech) [**] Lazer Tag (Worlds Of Wonder) Pursuit (Daisy) [*] XSL Phaser Command (Remco) Phaser Force / Phaser Challenge (Buddy-L) Laser Combat (Panosh Place)

1987

[*] ESS, Electronic Survivor Shot (Tomy, Hasbro) Phaser Sweep (Remco)

1988

1989

1990

1991

[*] Lazer Pro 9000 (Galoob)

1992

1993

1994

1995

[*] Power Penz Laser Shots (Yes!)

1996

[*] Laser Challenge (Toymax)

1997

[**] Lazer Tag (Tiger) [*] Laser Challenge Pro (Toymax)

1998

1999

[*] Laser Challenge V2 (Toymax)

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

[**] Lazer Tag Team Ops (Hasbro/Tiger)

2005

[*] Lazer M.A.D. (Silverlit / Radio Shack)

2006

Year Unknown

Lazer Shot (Tandy / Radio Shack) [*] Lazer Strike (Memorex Kids Club)
If you have information or photos regarding any systems not listed here, or if you are able to fill in any of my "unknown" entries or correct any wrong information on any of these pages, please e-mail me: TagFerret at comcast .net, please start the subject line with "Lazer Tag Virtual Museum". Thanks!

Click here to return to TagFerret's main Lazer Tag page

Click here to visit the Lazer Tag Team Ops group on Yahoo!

Update History:
(16 SEP 2006) Make link to 1986 Panosh Place Laser Combat active and create page for it.

(19 AUG 2006) Indicate dead links. Update introduction and email address. Add Memorex Kids Club Lazer Strike to Unknown Year. Add Silverlit Lazer MAD to 2005 (dead link for now). Update South Bend Phasers page. Create Buddy L Phaser Force/Challenge page.

(22 OCT 2005) Move Remco Phaser Sweep to 1987 from Unknown Year. Update all links, even though most pages do not yet exist.

(19 SEP 2005) Activate link to 1979 South Bend Phasers.

(16 SEP 2005) Add Laser Challenge Pro, Laser Challenge V2, Remco Phaser Sweep, and Yes! Power Penz Laser Shots. Change heading to "Virtual Museum".

(14 SEP 2005) Add unknown year category. Add Radio Shack Lazer Shot. Correct Daisy Pursuit listing. Add update history. Add e-mail contact information. Edit introductory paragraphs.

(???) Original creation roughly mid-MAY 2005.