Gotcha!

On the campus where Jonathan (Anthony Edwards) is attending college there is an organization that plays a game called Gotcha. It is a game of paintball played on the campus that is active all day long. So you have to keep you paintball gun on you when walking to class, going to lunch, going to the bathroom, all the time. For Spring Break Jonathan and some friends go to Europe. In Germany Jonathan meets the sexy Sasha (Linda Fiorentino) who takes him to East Germany where they get seperated. Jonathan escapes back to West Germany on his own and he and his friends had back to the states. When he gets home he finds a film canister in his luggage. Suddenly Sasha re-appears and so do some East German spies.

IIRC there was a line of paint ball guns called Gotcha or Gotcha Guns. This movie uses the popularity that paintball rose to in the 80s as a plot device, it really doesn't play a major role except to set Johnathan up as someone that might be able to play a little cloak and dagger. I remember being a little disappointed by this movie, because it wasn't what I expected. I was expecting the paintball game to play a bigger role in the movie.

Jonathan: "Wirgins? You mean virgins! No I'm not a virgin."
Sasha: "I like wirgins."
Jonathan: "Yes I'm a wirgin."

It's based on the trademarked Gotcha! version of paintball. You are the ONLY member of the yellow team, and you're playing capture the flag against the red team, which has infinite members. Hmm.

This game requires the simultaneous use of the controller and the Zapper, making it suitable for either one or two players. The controller controls your movement through the current level, and the Zapper SHOOTS BAD GUYS, believe it or not.

The game has three levels: a forest, with lots of trees, a waterfall, and mostly natural fortifications, where the red team wears woodland camouflage; a city, filled with burning oil drums, abandoned cars, chainlink fences, and motorcycle punks with paintball guns; and the wintry lands, with the apparent remains of a playground, and lots of walls and forts and fences for the enemy to hide in.

Your job is to pick one of three difficulty settings and head off for a rousing game of capture the flag. You against an endless army.

Fortunately, you have almost unlimited ammo. Everytime you shoot and get a hit, either on an enemy, the enemy flag, or an ammo box (which gives 10 extra bullets) the round you just shot magically reappears in your magazine. If you run out of ammo, you lose a life. (of which you have three. Getting hit obviously makes you lose one too.)

You start each level at your team's flag. You must go right towards your opponents' flag, shoot it, and return left to your flag. If your flag is captured, the background music will change, and the guy carrying the flag will appear on your radar. Eventually you will spot him waaaay off in the background, perhaps behind a waterfall or a fence. You must shoot him, because you lose a life if your flag is captured AND because having both flags at the end of a level gives you an extra 1000 points!

I'll admit it; this game is BORING. The only reason I played it was because I loved using the Zapper, and the Hogan's Alley Trick Shot got boring after a while. My dad used to play it with my little brother; they'd switch between using the gun and the controller, much like he used to help me with the gas and brake pedals on Spy Hunter. *sigh*