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Valve Makes "Boomer Shooter" An Official Genre On Steam
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bearly anyone who's a boomer is playing these games or probs has ever played them short of seeing their kids boot it up. if anything these would be gen x shooters. People don't seem to even know wtf a boomer is. boomer for gen z seems to = anyone over 40 lmao.
The most Gen X move is to get overlooked, so this feels right to me.
We'll just be over here in the corner. If anyone needs us, don't.
I claim gen x. I'm outside the range, but I have more in common with that gen than either millennials (my actual gen) or boomers (what everyone calls me). I mostly listen to classic rock (late 70s and 80s), still whine about removed MtG rules from the 90s, and my first video game systems were the Atari and NES.
So if it's okay I'll just sit next to you. We don't need to talk or anything though, I won't be a bother.
Technically, they’re all millennial shooters, because the entire genre was only invented in the 90s and mostly played by teenagers.
In fact, boomers started a whole episode of “satanic panic” about them after it turned out that the Columbine shooters loved to play DOOM.
The first millenials were born in 1981, so yes, they were definitely teenagers by that point.
Isn't it 82? Whole reason they're called millennials is because they graduated high school in the "new millennium". 81 would have graduated in 99.
There's rarely a strict cutoff for this sort of thing. If you're on the edges, it's sort of "whichever feels right". I am only a year older than my wife, and we were both born in the late 70s, but I had a brother 7 years older than me and she was her parents' first. Based on the TikToks she sends me, she identifies as a millennial. I am much more in tune with the Gen X zeitgeist.
Yeah the whole thing is just opinion and nothing official. Even Wikipedia 's definitions are based off others opinions. However to me, millennial makes sense as 82 and on being the first graduating classes of new millennium. I remember in elementary school they'd make such a huge deal about being the class of 2000.
I've also seen another group cut into the early 80s as the Oregon Trail generation, as a way to for people who don't associate well with Gen x or millennials.
Nah dude. I'm a millennial, born in 80s. I was a teen in the 90s.
Gen x was in their 20s. They were the ones making these games, for the most part.
John Carmack, one of the programmers of Doom, was 23 when Doom was released. (Born 1970)
Just pitching in some additional info about who was making theses games.
Yeah, he's right in Gen x.
I had a good laugh when I noticed this tag on steam yesterday.
I think the reality is, "boomer" as a term is here to stay and a moving target: as gen x ages into 40+, they'll become boomers. One day when gen Z becomes old, they'll be called boomers. At least here, there's a fun double meaning to the term. For me, I came into the Doom franchise at Doom 2, at an age where what I played was still very much influenced by my parents and friends' parents. So yes, Gen X were the primary player base, but it's not unfair to say the boomers often paid for the game and maybe sat down to a round or two of it. And given that, it might have been one of the last games they were able to sit down and enjoy. I don't know if anyone else experienced something similar, but my dad in the last 20 years of his life or so really locked in on the 1997 MTG: Shandalar game, and despite several computer upgrades along the way was never interested in any of the newer MTG digital offerings, preferring the cards and UI and experience he was familiar with. And while similar with Doom that game was played by many Gen X and Millenials, I think those demographics mostly continued to follow the franchise through newer releases: but maybe not the boomers.
This is a nitpick, but gen x moved into the 40+ age group long ago. As a gen Xer I'll be in my 50's later this year. 🤮
And yeah, doom is peak Gen X probably.
In fact, millennials have begun turning 40 already. Not everybody agrees on generation cutoffs, but I don’t think there’s anyone who considers someone born in 1984 to still be Gen X.
Kind of like how "Millennial" for a while meant 'teenager' despite the oldest Millennial being 40.
Yup. I'm apparently a millennial to some people and a boomer to others. Go figure.
Yeah, boomer is shorthand for old person now. And these are games for old people. Because we're old now.
Boomer became an insult for anyone vaguely older then zoomer. Millennials are also called boomers if they are out of touch as well. Then boomer just meant old. More importantly Boomer ends with er and so is more fun to say as Boomer Shooter over GenX shooter or old shooter of classic shooter.
But this comment has big Boomer energy according to zoomers