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[-] Agent_Karyo@piefed.world 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I am not going to get into the discussion around the "boomer shooter" name, but surely HL1 would be considered part of the Gen X experience.

The youngest millennials were in their early teens in 1998. The last members of Gen X were finishing up secondary school in 1998.

I say this as a relatively early to mid generation millennial born in the late 80s.

The whole generational cohort approach can be very limiting. IMO late cohort Gen X and early-mid cohort Millenials have a lot in common.

[-] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Only the slowest of the last of gen xers were still in school in 1998 :P

Gen X got the console wars, the best arcade years, golden era of DOS games. Late 90s and 00s are millennials territory.

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

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