Getting your family together for a game of laser tag is an easier way to keep track of the kids than ear tagging, which requires tranquilizer guns. Gather your herd sans violence with today's Groupon to CMP Tactical Lazer Tag. Choose from the following options:
- For $24, you get 1.5 hours of open play for two people (a $50 value).
- For $48, you get 1.5 hours of open play for four people (a $100 value).
- For $70, you get 1.5 hours of open play for six people (a $150 value).
- For $180, you get three hours of open play for eight people (a $360 value).
Open-play sessions are available Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday. CMP Tactical Lazer Tag recommends arriving 20–25 minutes prior to session times.
CMP Tactical Lazer Tag brings cathode combat into the modern video-game era with high-tech weapons and a tactical playing experience. Selecting their boom-stick of choice from an arsenal of realistic weaponry, players set off through CMP's 18,000-square-foot complex of multilevel buildings and interconnected rooftops. Players fire and reload SMGs or AK-47s as they zigzag through the streets of a simulated indoor cityscape, watching for attackers hidden behind every window and anachronistic telephone booth. Groups ultimately succeed or fail as a team, and sessions promote teamwork as allied players capture a building, rescue a hostage, or draw a mustache on the dictator's self-portraits. Groups typically fit in five to seven games over a 1.5-hour session, and open-play sessions can include up to 50 participants at one time. In each high-tech shootout, lightweight sensors worn on the head emit audible hit-recognition sounds when digital bullets strike or when players slow down to deliberately cue a tragic montage.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Advertising Soup
In this economy, soup isn’t going to sell itself. Only the perfect commercial is going to get those cans flying off the shelves. But what are the elements of a good soup ad?
The setting can make someone immediately yearn for a bowl of the hot stuff. Good settings include:
• A wealthy person’s farmhouse glowing warmly in a snowy wooded area (farmhouse should show no signs of actual farming)
• A small but cozy shack standing on a craggy cliff over a violent sea
• A bread factory
The main character is the viewer’s connection to the soup. It should be:
• A loving yet endearingly inept dad. He is in decent shape, not too handsome, and wearing a sweater and/or tucked-in collared shirt.
• A Victorian sailor’s wife. She is pale and beautiful, yet jagged. It has been a hard life.
• A bunch of working-class bread-factory guys who are hungry but tired of all this dry bread.
The story of the ad then whips the potential customers into a soup-eating frenzy by depicting:
• The dad’s son playing in the snow. The dad wants his son to love him but he cannot prepare a meal on his own. He makes the son soup, and the two bond over a game of checkers in front of a fireplace. Mom does not interfere.
• The wife gazes longingly at the sea during a windy, daytime rainstorm. She misses her husband’s warm, hearty arms but finds solace in a thick chowder that possesses those same qualities. Just as she finishes her bowl the husband kicks down the door. He has returned from his voyage and he has brought her many exotic hats.
• The bread-factory guys make some soup and have a crazy party wherein they dip the dry crusty breads into the steaming bowls with much joviality and merrymaking. What a day they’ve had.
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