Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ahoy00:00 Introduction00:50 How was DOOM originally described?02:20 DOOM clones04:33 Quake Killers6:06 A hypothetical questi...
absolutely not, and arguably boomer shooters are not boomer shooters. boomers are either the old parents or grandparents of the people that played Doom. I got into it with someone about this topic and they suggested “classic shooter” and I genuinely thought it fit nicely! you could make an argument for Simple Shooter or maybe Stripped Shooter but I kind of love Classic Shooter.
When I was a teenager in the 90s I played doom with both friends of my age and of my parents generation. They would have been in their 40s but not really “old”.
Looking at the maths boomers would have been between 30 and 48 when doom became widely available in '94.
Honestly, when I first heard the term “boomer shooter” I thought the games were called that because of the amount of explosions they have. Ion Fury in particular is full of them. It a was a while after I realised that by “boomer” they basically mean “old”.
I think “retro shooter” is the much better term, though “classic” also works.
Yeah, a boomer shooter is like the original Asteroids, but that’s also a stretch because it didn’t come out until 1979, which is around the tail end of the Boomer generation.
Boomer Shooter?
absolutely not, and arguably boomer shooters are not boomer shooters. boomers are either the old parents or grandparents of the people that played Doom. I got into it with someone about this topic and they suggested “classic shooter” and I genuinely thought it fit nicely! you could make an argument for Simple Shooter or maybe Stripped Shooter but I kind of love Classic Shooter.
My dad was born in 1947 and he loved Doom and Duke Nukem 3D, I always assumed that other boomers also loved the genre.
When I was a teenager in the 90s I played doom with both friends of my age and of my parents generation. They would have been in their 40s but not really “old”.
Looking at the maths boomers would have been between 30 and 48 when doom became widely available in '94.
Gen X shooter would be more apropos… but I still would love Classic Shooter as a dead on description for the category.
Honestly, when I first heard the term “boomer shooter” I thought the games were called that because of the amount of explosions they have. Ion Fury in particular is full of them. It a was a while after I realised that by “boomer” they basically mean “old”.
I think “retro shooter” is the much better term, though “classic” also works.
Yeah, a boomer shooter is like the original Asteroids, but that’s also a stretch because it didn’t come out until 1979, which is around the tail end of the Boomer generation.