Turn Boomer Shooters up to 11 in 2023

Gaming@beehaw.org – 14 points – 1 years ago

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ninja/post/14972

Yesterday I got lots of questions asking “I used to play (X) are there any current generation Boomer Shooters like it?” I wrote this article to answer many of those questions.

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The term "boomer shooter" is terrible though.

idk... That seems very descriptive and has memorable assonance. I immediately knew the type of games that implies, even moreso than retroFPS since "retro" is such a moving target, it could mean things like Half-Life, which is about as far from boomer shooters as you can get.

I like the name and it's memorable but I dont believe FPS were intended for "boomers", weren't they aimed at Gen X/maybe early millennials who were the young adults/children in these timeframes? Games weren't an adulting pastime back then, it was child's play.

I bet there were a few boomers playing but Gen X would have been the dominant gaming generation.

I can't believe Gen X have been forgotten again.

@Treevan @blindsight Boomer has now been expanded to be synonymous with "old," it barely even means "the baby boomer generation" anymore in modern Internet parlance.

While I don't disagree with your statement, this is what I was referencing:

The term “boomer shooter” is a playful reference to the ‘Baby Boomer’ generation who were the initial audience for these games.

I don't think there is any doubt there.

I agree. If everyone knows what type of game we're talking about, the term is appropriate. Hard agree on retro-FPS.

I saw Fortune's Run referred to as a boomer shooter, which looks like Doom and a lot of games immediately inspired by it but plays much more like Quake, Half-Life, Deus Ex, Max Payne, and Metal Gear Solid in a blender.