Turn Boomer Shooters up to 11 in 2023
Turn Boomer Shooters up to 11 in 2023
The origins of first-person shooter (FPS) games lie in the 1992 title Castle Wolfenstein by iD Software, which, though not a true FPS, introduced pivotal concepts like weapon usage, enemy confrontations, and complex environment exploration. This set the stage for the revolutionary game Doom, release...
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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I love single player FPS games, I'll definitely try a few from this list. The term "boomer shooter" is terrible though.
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.
For those that prefer another term I recommend “retroFPS”
Yeah. I approve of the idea of shooters where the intended audience is my 78 year old mum though