Kind of diverging from your point, but I’m pretty sure that few boomers actually played what some people call “boomer shooters”.
I don’t think that Wolfenstein 3D (1992) qualifies, given what features it looks like people consider included, so probably Doom (1993) was the very start of that; couldn’t play one sooner.
The youngest Boomer, the very tail end of the Boomer generation, would have been born in 1964.
At bare minimum, someone would have had to have been 29 to be both part of the Boomer generation and played one of those early FPSes. In practice, most would have been rather older. And in the 1990s, video gaming was less of an adult hobby than it is in the 2020s.
I’d probably call early FPSes really more the province of Generation X.
But to young people, “Boomer” means “old person”. Millennials are Boomers, even GenZs are Boomers, everyone’s a Boomer now! (in the world where words don’t mean what they mean but rather how it makes someone “feel”, which ofc is subjective)
Boomer shooters > Souls-like games
Kind of diverging from your point, but I’m pretty sure that few boomers actually played what some people call “boomer shooters”.
I don’t think that Wolfenstein 3D (1992) qualifies, given what features it looks like people consider included, so probably Doom (1993) was the very start of that; couldn’t play one sooner.
The youngest Boomer, the very tail end of the Boomer generation, would have been born in 1964.
At bare minimum, someone would have had to have been 29 to be both part of the Boomer generation and played one of those early FPSes. In practice, most would have been rather older. And in the 1990s, video gaming was less of an adult hobby than it is in the 2020s.
I’d probably call early FPSes really more the province of Generation X.
But to young people, “Boomer” means “old person”. Millennials are Boomers, even GenZs are Boomers, everyone’s a Boomer now! (in the world where words don’t mean what they mean but rather how it makes someone “feel”, which ofc is subjective)