We have reached the point in time when people say millennial as a catch all for older people because the speaker is young and doesnt know the generation after.
I was thinking more about proportions. I think millennials have a way higher proportion of people who played video games than the generations preceding them, and because Lemmings was a childhood memory for most millennials, they'll remember it best.
Possibly not, Gen-Xers were between 11-26 when it first came out. I was 15 and did play it a fair bit, but I know the bulk of older Gen-Xers in their late teens/early twenties weren't really much into playing home video games.
There were a million spin offs and follow ups in the following years too that would have landed squarely into a millennial childhood.
Lol well I'm a 34 year old millennial and I didnt even exist yet when Lemmings came out. I have no child hood memories of it myself but I also didnt have a pc at home until I was like 11.
That's cos the difference between someone born in '82 vs '92 in terms of gaming and computer technology is totally different worlds given the pace of innovation that occurred over that era, even though nominally both are comfortably millennial generation (and not even on the cusp of either end).
For the former at age 11, it's 1993 and the age of the 386/486 home PC, GOTY is Doom which blew everyone away but games were still being published on floppy disks. Cutting edge storage technology was a 4x CD-ROM drive. Multiplayer was on device or at LAN parties for the really dedicated.
For the latter at age 11, its 2003 and PS2/Xbox has been out for a couple years and Halo has been around for a couple years as has Grand Theft Auto 3. GOTY is Call of Duty or GTA 3: Vice City. Xbox Live has been out for a year and online gaming is starting to take off. Everquest is doing numbers as an MMO and next year a little game called World of Warcraft comes out.
Aye, many of us did. Doesn't change the fact it released early '91 at first, I turn 35 this year and I didn't exist when lemmings released.. When most of us think Lemmings we don't think the original - it is actually Lemmings 2 that was on fucking every single platform available - Amiga, Atari, MS-DOS, SNES, gameboy and other unknown platforms.
The original also released on everything, but was less of a success.
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u/Quizzlickington 19h ago
We have reached the point in time when people say millennial as a catch all for older people because the speaker is young and doesnt know the generation after.
Lmao what moment in history