I’m not sure if the name stems from the Baby Boomers or, like, “BOOM! Headshot!” Because Doom and even Wolfenstein were the games of my very millennial youth, and didn’t exist for most of most Boomer’s life time.
That said, my dad (who is a boomer) played the shit out of Doom and Heretic. But stopped when Quake came out and everything started centering around aiming with the mouse. He always used the mouse to move. 🤢
It comes from a few years ago. Some team making a boomer shooter weren’t sure what genre they wanted to advertise it as, since just plain “first person shooter” is saturated. One of them saw the original DOOM described on twitter as “some kinda boomer-ass shooter” and thought it was hilarious, so they went with it.
I’m not sure if the name stems from the Baby Boomers or, like, “BOOM! Headshot!” Because Doom and even Wolfenstein were the games of my very millennial youth, and didn’t exist for most of most Boomer’s life time.
That said, my dad (who is a boomer) played the shit out of Doom and Heretic. But stopped when Quake came out and everything started centering around aiming with the mouse. He always used the mouse to move. 🤢
It comes from a few years ago. Some team making a boomer shooter weren’t sure what genre they wanted to advertise it as, since just plain “first person shooter” is saturated. One of them saw the original DOOM described on twitter as “some kinda boomer-ass shooter” and thought it was hilarious, so they went with it.