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Steam adds "Boomer Shooter" as an official tag (store.steampowered.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm around 40 and I played these games as they were coming out back in the 1990s. I call them either "FPS" or "Retro FPS"...

People born in the 1940s/50s never played them much. Although my dad did play Wolfenstein3D and Doom some, but that was not common for people in his age group.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Well, it was boomers that made them, so presumably SOME of them played them.

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