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I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@beehaw.org
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Not to say I hate the genre, I actually love me some Dusk or Turbo Overkill, but why, oh why are they called Boomer Shooters?

These games clearly took inspiration from 90s FPS games, which ๐Ÿ‘Œ, but they were played mostly by Gen Xers and Millenials, not Boomers. When games like Duke Nukem 3D or Quake were out, Boomers were what? 30 to 50 years old? I'm sure some of them played FPS games, but there is no way they were the majority.

Whenever I see the term Boomer Shooter, my mind goes to games like Shootout! for Magnavox Odyssey. Can't we call them something else, like Retro FPSes or something?

Anyway, rant over. Thank you for your time.

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[โ€“] onlooker@lemmy.ml 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It wasn't? This is what Wikipedia says:

"OK boomer" or "okay boomer" is a catchphrase and internet meme that has been used by members of the Millennial generation and Generation Z (born between the early 1980s and the early 2010s) to dismiss or mock attitudes typically associated with baby boomers โ€“ people born in the two decades following World War II.

Who was it targeted at then?

[โ€“] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 4 points 8 months ago

Young people saying things old people told them.

People who were usually younger than millennials.

[โ€“] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 points 8 months ago

It was targeted at everyone older than the younger people saying it.

It's used as a catch all, with the intention of getting everyone riled up. Because regardless of if you're an actual boomer or not, now you're getting bundled together with them.