Paintball's history belongs to everyone who played it — so we're keeping it free.

Paintball is young enough that much of its history is still first-hand — but old enough that gear, catalogs, and stories are already disappearing. Companies close, boxes get tossed, memories fade.

We started documenting markers the way a museum documents artifacts: photographed, measured, dated, and placed in context. Then we made all of it public, because history hoarded isn't preserved — it's just hidden.

Today the archive grows every week through community submissions. If you have a marker, a manual, or a memory, there's a place for it here.