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 👌, 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.

      • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        The burn you think you are deploying, to a casual categorical label and those who use it, is not very effective.

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            8 months ago

            If you observed it to be abundantly clear you wouldn’t have made your original comment.

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              8 months ago

              Speak for yourself. I comment on obvious things all the time.