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I hate the term "Boomer Shooter"

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 šŸ‘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? Iā€™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. Canā€™t we call them something else, like Retro FPSes or something?

Anyway, rant over. Thank you for your time.

t3rmit3 , (edited )

When games like Duke Nukem 3D or Quake were out, Boomers were what? 30 to 50 years old?

You mean, like most of us Millennial gamers are now (30+)? The youngest Millennials, born in 1996, will be 30 in 2 years.

These games clearly took inspiration from 90s FPS games, which šŸ‘Œ, but they were played mostly by Gen Xers and Millenials, not Boomers.

Iā€™m a middle-Millennial (1988), and Doom was well before my time as a gamer. I was 5 years old in 1993. Halo (2001) was more my generation, just barely. The oldest Millennials in 1993 were 12 years old, which was not the target age group for Doom.

GenX? Sure, they played Doom, but Boomers were by far the larger age group playing ā€œMatureā€ games at that time. Video games have never been just for children.

Blackmist ,

An actual boomer shooter would be like Space Invaders.

But at least itā€™s got a name I suppose so if you like them you can find them and differentiate them from all your online XP bar tutorial modern bullshit.

Kolanaki ,
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I just think of it like boom as in explosions. Boom-boom shooty-shoot; or boomer shooter if you prefer brevity.

Lmaydev ,

Boomer basically means 20+ years old nowadays as far as I can tell. Or older than zoomers.

mctoasterson ,

I dunno, my rich uncle is a boomer and back in the 90s he was one of the only people I knew who could afford a gucci PC and every big box FPS game. So it kinda makes sense from that perspective.

KingThrillgore ,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Itā€™s marketing doublespeak dreamed up by the totally deranged and it works

You have to remember its millennials and Gen Z experiencing this genre, not boomers.

Tak ,
@Tak@lemmy.ml avatar

Boomer doesnā€™t have to be literal boomers but old, like it is a joke in the WoW community to call it a boomer game because most of the people playing it (especially classic) are 30+ years old.

In the same way, people will talk about boomers in politics but Obama was the last baby boomer in the presidency.

Xatolos ,
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Boomer Shooter = Shooter that goes boom

Boomer shooter

onlooker OP ,
@onlooker@lemmy.ml avatar

Okay, then riddle me this: which shooter DOESNā€™T go boom?

Xatolos ,
@Xatolos@reddthat.com avatar

Fortnite

onlooker OP ,
@onlooker@lemmy.ml avatar

Nope, that goes boom, too.

Xatolos ,
@Xatolos@reddthat.com avatar

Rare boom isnā€™t boomer.

It would be like putting Fallout in First person mode and calling it a FPS shooter game since it does have guns.

Dusk is a boomer shooter. Same group who I quoted the first time.

Blackmist ,

Splatoon?

onlooker OP ,
@onlooker@lemmy.ml avatar

Thatā€™s a good one. True enough, Splatoon doesnā€™t go boom, it goes splat.

darkphotonstudio ,

Yeah, it drives me nuts as well! Boomers hated video games. They still hate video games. They had congressional hearings about the evils of video games. Stupid name.

Phroon ,

I always assumed that the Boom in Boomer Shooter was more ā€œGun go Boomā€, which seemed to fit the genre quite well.

derbis ,

If it helps, this is the first time I hear it šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

MayonnaiseArch ,
@MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org avatar

played mostly by Gen Xers and Snake People

For a moment there I was really confused, I forgot about this wonderful extension

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Millennials are going to be in absolute shambles if they ever find out ā€œOkay boomerā€ wasnā€™t directly targeted at boomers.

onlooker OP ,
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It wasnā€™t? This is what Wikipedia says:

ā€œOK boomerā€ or ā€œokay boomerā€ 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 ā€“ people born in the two decades following World War II.

Who was it targeted at then?

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Young people saying things old people told them.

People who were usually younger than millennials.

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

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

Grzmot ,

Boomer today is used for anything thatā€™s old, and I wouldnā€™t be surprised if you get Gen Xers that get called boomers. Since boomer shooters are a homage to old shooters, we call them boomer shooter. The ultimate problem is that itā€™s just catchy, so unless you find a more catchy term, youā€™re shit outta luck.

pelotron ,
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Guys, IT ISNā€™T A REFERENCE TO THE BOOMER GENERATION. Itā€™s boomer as in shotgun-go-BOOM.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Boomer cope

FarceOfWill ,

This is worse tho. You canā€™t just erase the bfg like this

shea ,

Old=boomer sorry. Thatā€™s just the way it turned out, nothing we can do about it. Raging against new slang is just gonna make us more out of touch, and intensify the feeling of being old, so I just accept it and try to keep up. Boomer is old now, not just the Baby Boomers.

onlooker OP ,
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Raging against new slang is just gonna make us more out of touch, and intensify the feeling of being old, so I just accept it and try to keep up.

NEVER! I choose to embrace my inner geriatric and complain about kids these days and their hippy-hop music.

barsoap ,

NEVER! I choose to embrace my inner geriatric and complain about kids these days and their hippy-hop music.

Can recommend, but only when youā€™re subverting expectations. Young student is unloading a bunch of empty beverage crates from the elevator on the ground floor, making you wait, already looking quite self-conscious about it? Bellow, loud but not shouty, ā€œUnbelievable, the students of todayā€. See them flinch and cower, ā€œoh fuck this againā€. Continue, with flawless timing, ā€œwhy isnā€™t that beer?ā€.

Aasikki ,

Iā€™m 26 and Iā€™ve already been called a boomer by younger people. I donā€™t really see the problem as to me itā€™s just funny and reminds me to try my best not to eventually become a boomer that hates everything that isnā€™t how it used to be.

lolcatnip ,

Donā€™t be such a tardigrade.

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