This was a great
toy I bought years ago and I think they still sell it today.
The same kind of thing as
LaserTag and
Quasar,
Lock-On consisted of a
headset and
gun. You only got one of each in a pack, so to play someone else they needed to buy it too, which was fairly
expensive.
The
headset was cool, as it had an eyepiece which would show how many lives you had left. The
gun had single or
rapid fire modes and a super shot which you got once per game which would take off more '
lives'.
If you were terrible at the
game then there was the '
Lock-On' mode where your gun would make a noise when it was aimed directly at the other person's headset. Of course this was for
losers only as it required no
real skill.
There was also a single player mode with
target practice, but that was only used on a
rainy day.
I used to stay out until all hours playing this, when it was dark all you could see were two red LED's from the headsets bobbing around a field.
And if you were one of the only kids to have one then everyone wanted a go. I recall my brother hiring his out on exchange for POGS.
As a sidenote I should add that I live in England, where we were never in danger of being shot by the police.