Tokyo Marui introduced a lot of innovations in airsoft. In the 1980s, they also introduced the tracer unit and tracer BBs as seen in the Tokyo Marui Vz61 Scorpion that was released in 1987. This is the aircocking version, with the AEG/AEP version released years after. Hyperdouraku got a unit to do a review of this airsoft gun... "Tokyo Marui entered the toy gun market in the 1980s and has always launched epoch-making products. The famous one is probably the world's first electric gun . And the world's first blowback gas gun I introduced earlier, well , this one has a different structure than it does today. And this time I will introduce the world's first air cocking gun that can shoot BB bullets that emit light. Yes, it is now also called a tracer.

The principle of the tracer is that a light emitting unit (like a camera strobe) built inside is illuminated at the same time as the BB bullet is fired and passed, and the light is stored and fired in the BB bullet mixed with the phosphorescent material. Then, the BB bullets fly while drawing green and pink light trails. Currently, there are many products that emit ultraviolet rays.

Tokyo Marui was the first in the world to release this tracer in 1987. What's more, the first one is surprising because it has a built-in light emitting unit in a small submachine gun called Vz61 Scorpion in Czechoslovakia.

Immediately after the release of this Scorpion, a silencer type light emitting unit was also released.

Even now, various products such as tracers and phosphorescent bullets have been released by various companies, and are widely used by users in night games and indoor games. Its roots are in this Marui Scorpion."

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