OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre

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OK Boomer Shooter: How indie games breathed new life into a dying genre - Lemmy Ninja Clan

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ninja/post/10393 [https://lemmy.ninja/post/10393] > “Boomer shooter” is the latest term to follow the likes of “Roguelike” or “Soulslike” in the realm of hyperspecific gaming subgenres. It applies to first-person shooters that intentionally harken back to the classic PC games of the late ‘90s like Doom and Quake. >

These are millenial shooters dangit, boomers were too old for doom.
Solitare on Windows 3.11 is the ultimate boomer game.

Asteroids was my dad's boomer shooter.

It's a great game though. Can't blame him at all

Galaga was my dad's boomer shooter.
Farmville on Facebook might be up there, too.
Pinball on an Apple IIe