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Laser Quest
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3 reviews for Laser Quest
PEW PEW PEW
What. Doesn't everyone like to spend a leisurely Saturday in Danvers?
We saw the red beacon of hope signage off of the highway, Laser Quest?...GET OFF AT THIS EXIT! I don't care if you have to swerve over 4 lanes of traffic. GET OFF.
Good luck finding the entrance, I still have no idea what to tell you. Behind a shopping center? Past an 18 wheeler depot?
I opened the door and my eyes adjusted to the waiting room littered with little exuberant boys running around playing Air Hockey, Cruisin USA(Exotica(!)), DDR, Basketball, and smell of dirty hands. Delightful.
A door labeled "Phase II briefing" that looked like it was stolen from the set of Legends of the Hidden Temple seemed to conceal something MORE.
I needed to find out what what going on. We walked up to the glorified reception area next to a .50 cent bling machine and asked CODE NAME:ANACONDA what the deal was. You could tell Anaconda thought his name would be a clever reference to that thing in his pants and looked like that guy who slept with every townie in highschool. I bet he once entertained becoming a white rapper, and still uses AOL chat rooms religiously under the SN xXxXxStRyKeRxXxXx and throws out those annoying macros producing large ASCII Calvins peeing down the screen and make it impossible to type.
Basically, it's a large game of laser tag, in a 9,000 sq foot arena. You choose a name as clever as his, get a gun and a vest, and WALK not RUN around the premises. $8 for a 20 minute game and we were in. Damien and I mulled over nicknames, and disregarded the dated choices in the couples list like "Ren and Stimpy". After being unable to think of something radical as a duo, he went the Termidepredinator route reduced to 10 characters, and mine was a misheard Vampire Gasleak which was vmprghstly. NOT GHASTLY, ANACONDA, GAS LEAK.
We wandered the waiting area among the kinder sea and checked out the LQ team glamor shot containing crossed armed/fist under chin badazzes in JNCO jeans, greasy hair, and codenames from the early 90s like "J0ker", and "Emberrrr". I think there was one girl on the team, and I bet she gets railed by the other guys...but enough speculation! Time for phase II!!
..Which instead of dirty hands, now smelt like sweaty feet as we were briefed in a small black light room decorated with space age airbrushing in flourescent paints. After some safety precautions they released the hounds(26 of us) into a vest/gun area where we suited up and moved awn out. Chest/back/shoulders/sides of gun were all ripe for the tazing and I ran out behind D into the field of darkness.
We had 30 seconds to disperse before our packs all became active and we took off into the labyrinth of mirrors(to deflect lasers), hills, netting, crannies and the likes.
I should probably mention at this time I have an irrational fear of being chased.
(!!!)
All of a sudden, my vest rumbled...WHAT THE..
I swung around to see the black light cheshire cat smile of a small blonde boy. And my gun was disabled for 5 seconds. Avenge my deat...D was already running through the aisles forgetting about his lady friend, and I was made to scamper after him like a lemming. I didn't want to be left alone! Because of my dedication to US and insistence on sticking together(emphasised by my lack of skill), I was obliterated.
Hint: Make sure to wear black, or else you are a glowinthedark target.
Every little boy relished in my screams, and took it upon themselves to gang up on the poor cri-cri girl at every turn. ;* flirties.
I understand the personal missions that evolved during the course of the game and mine involved beating the snot out of any girl 13+ who came after me. If I flipped around to see a blonde flowing mane over 5'6" was the snipe culprit..it was all "OH NO SHE DIDN'T BISH!" and chased those wretches down over many sq ft after my 5 second penalty was up and pummeled them! I continued to shoot them after they were deactivated like a gangsta filling someone full of holes after they were already dead.
At the end of 20 minutes, my gun beeped 3x and we had to follow the arrows on the floor towards the exit to get our scores.
Buckets.of.sweat.
Just FYI, the punkass kid who got #1 TOTEZ cheated and put the sensors of his vest under his shirt!
I HATE CHILDREN.
Whatever, at least I could go drink a beer afterwards and bangbitches while he drank a juicyjuicy and waited for his dad to come pick him up! HA!
Sooo not bitter.
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We went with a group of 9 year old boys at 4:30 this afternoon (Friday) and the place was packed with several birthday parties of varying age ranges, a large group of teens that dropped in, and us. The staff handled it all very smoothly, so it was very quick to get the boys right into playing. Everyone had so much fun and could not get enough!
The staff was incredibly friendly and helpful, they went out of their way for us on several counts. There are a couple arcade games to play while you wait for your next session to start. I counted four party rooms that can be rented.
The drinks in the drink machines are spendy and there's not much variety, so you might want to bring your own. Everyone seemed to get pretty thirsty after all that running around.
I'm not sure if this is the norm, but by 6:00pm the crowd had thinned out significantly -- so that might be a good time to go if you're thinking about heading over on a Friday.
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This place is so much fun for kids and adults alike. There is a maze of several levels and you can choose your own moniker. The price is right, $7 a game. If you bring a group you can use a decorated party room. It's loud but tolerable. There is a warning that the fog may trigger asthma, but we didn't see much fog! Laser Quest is an international franchise, too bad there's nothing close to downtown Boston. It is worth the trip!!
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