Lazer Tag is a brand name for the infrared pursuit game generically known as "laser tag

Laser tag

Laser tag is a team or individual sport or recreational activity where players attempt to score points by tagging targets, typically with a hand-held infrared-emitting targeting device. Infrared-sensitive targets are commonly worn by each player and are sometimes integrated within the arena in...

," "lasertag," or "lazertag."

The brand name was created by the toy company Worlds Of Wonder

Worlds of Wonder (toy company)

Worlds of Wonder or WoW was a 1980s American toy company, founded by former Atari employees, including Don Kingsborough and Mark Robert Goldberg.Their products included:* Teddy Ruxpin, a story telling bear, in 1985...

 in 1986, appearing at approximately the same time as the home version of the Photon

Photon: The Ultimate Game on Planet Earth

Photon was the name of the first commercial lasertag arenas. The company also came out with a home lasertag game, and there were various media tie-ins: a TV show also called Photon and a series of novels by Peter David.- History :...

 brand.

The Lazer Tag brand name was acquired by Shoot The Moon Products of Pleasanton, CA after Worlds Of Wonder ceased operation in late 1990. Since then, the brand name has been licensed to Tiger Electronics

Tiger Electronics

Tiger Electronics is an American toy manufacturer, best known for its handheld LCD games, the Furby, and Giga Pets. When Tiger was an independent company, Tiger Electronics Inc., its headquarters were in Vernon Hills, Illinois....

 from 1996–1998 and to Hasbro

Hasbro

Hasbro is a multinational toy and boardgame company from the United States of America. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world. The corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States...

 from 2004–present under the Nerf

Nerf

Nerf is a toy brand created by Parker Brothers and currently owned by Hasbro. The acronym NERF stands for "Non-Expanding Recreational Foam". Most of the toys are a variety of foam-based weaponry, but there are also several different types of Nerf toys, such as balls for sports like football,...

 banner.

Like Photon, Worlds of Wonder's Lazer Tag brand also inspired a TV series. The animated series Lazer Tag Academy

Lazer Tag Academy

Lazer Tag Academy was an animated television series inspired by Worlds of Wonder's Lazer Tag that was created by Ruby-Spears Productions.-Synposis:...

was produced by Ruby-Spears Productions

Ruby-Spears Productions

Ruby-Spears Productions is a Burbank, California-based entertainment production company that specializes in animation...

, with one season airing on NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 from 1987-1988. Three Choose Your Own Adventure

Choose Your Own Adventure

Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome. The series was based on a...

-style books were released based on the game as well. A boy is briefly shown playing Lazer Tag in the 1988 film Married to the Mob

Married to the Mob

Married to the Mob is a 1988 American comedy film directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Matthew Modine.Michelle Pfeiffer, in something of a departure from her previous roles, gave an acclaimed lead performance as a gangster's widow from Brooklyn, opposite Matthew Modine as the...

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The latest Lazer Tag product as of 2010 is the Two-Player Battle System, featuring the Phoenix LTX. The blaster features mechanical recoil, a built in vibration system and a physical ambidextrous clip release/reload. It has the same range and accuracy in broad daylight as the older Laser Tag Team Ops (LTTO) system - which sets it apart from other consumer grade systems in the market. A detachable virtual green laser scope is packaged with the unit to facilitate aiming.

A Lazer Tag video game was released in the late 1980s for the ZX Spectrum

ZX Spectrum

The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd...

, Amstrad CPC

Amstrad CPC

The Amstrad CPC is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990. It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom,...

 and Commodore 64

Commodore 64

The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595...

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseek.cgi.