As the exact target audience for classic shooters (ion fury is gooooooood))
Idk, I find this term lighthearted and endearing, maybe it makes finding that exact kinda game finally easier
Yeah I love the term. It’s funny, unique, and you know exactly what they’re talking about.
Check out a YouTuber named Civvie 11 if you haven’t already. He covers so many good and bad boomer shooters from old school to mkdern while going pretty deep into their history.
Also, dont sleep on turbo overkill. It’s everything right and then some about the genre.
thanks for the suggestions, but turbo overkill looks a little to too doom 2016 for my taste
Doom is Gen X if anything. Boomers are pongers.
Age 35+
Boomer
Age 1-34
Millennial
Literally A Baby
Zoomer
i thought boomer shooter ment anything that had explosions every 30 seconds to keep the tweens attention.
Does that make 1999 a boomer shooter year? Because Q3A vs UT was one of the great joys of this GenXers early 20’s…
Now if they could do something about games falsely tagged as immersive sim… no, F1 23 is not an immersive sim. It is a sim that is immersive, yes.
How long until someone re-skins boomers onto a shooter?
That kinda sounds like something s serial killer would do…Ed Gein…
Yes it’s annoying because realistically they should be called millenial shooters or something, but “boomer shooter” is somewhat alliterative so I get it
Damn. I’d play all those games, too.
So “boomer” just means anything that’s older than the person viewing it now? Boy they’ve sure killed off any power that word ever had lol
Certified zoomer here to explain. This boomer games tag is not about old games. It’s about games that match what a boomer thinks of as an FPS (as viewed probably by a zoomer). The top 3 most popular games are made in 2020, 2023, and 2023.
Basically if the game play for the game was the style of a pre 2000 shooter it would qualify for the tag. But it could have come out yesterday.
Boomers didn’t and still don’t think of video games at all unless they’re trying to moralise it and outlaw it.
Jack Thompson Is the perfect example of a boomer and their relationship with video games.
Boomer shooters never get played by boomers, what a shame
Seriously tho a boomer shooter would be like maze war not DOOM, by the time this genre of games was created (by GenXers) and played by Millenials, they were becoming geriatric but whatever
The term boomer has degraded over the last several years. I think of mid 90s fps games. And that’s fine. I grew up during that era.
