sentences:  Gaines enlisted his friend Bob Gurnsey, a New Hampshire ski-shop owner, to help him and Noel organize the game, and in October of 1981 the three men, along with nine other friends, played the first paintball game ever played in Henniker, NH.Among the players in that game were three writers for national magazines.All of them wrote articles about the game, and Gaines was deluged with letters from people all over the country who wanted to play the Survival Game.