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Technically, they’re all millennial shooters, because the entire genre was only invented in the 90s and mostly played by teenagers.

In fact, boomers started a whole episode of “satanic panic” about them after it turned out that the Columbine shooters loved to play DOOM.

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The first millenials were born in 1981, so yes, they were definitely teenagers by that point.

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Isn’t it 82? Whole reason they’re called millennials is because they graduated high school in the “new millennium”. 81 would have graduated in 99.

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Nah dude. I’m a millennial, born in 80s. I was a teen in the 90s.

Gen x was in their 20s. They were the ones making these games, for the most part.

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John Carmack, one of the programmers of Doom, was 23 when Doom was released. (Born 1970)

Just pitching in some additional info about who was making theses games.

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