[bobjam]

“I’ve always heard that the “Baby Boom” generation were the ones born between 1946 and 1964, and that “Gen X” was born between 1961 and 1981. I was born in 1961 (same year as 0bama, yuk) so I’m never sure which annoying bunch of losers I’m supposed to belong to.”

I define Baby Boomers as those people who are old enough to remember Woodstock and the Tet Offensive but not old enough to remember World War II. I define Generation X as those people old enough to remember the Cold War but not old enough to remember Woodstock or Tet.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Gen-X uses the 70s and the 80s as their cultural heritage. Star Wars, Jaws, and ET were the major movies of our youth.

[Nowhere Man]

I define Baby Boomers as those people who are old enough to remember Woodstock and the Tet Offensive but not old enough to remember World War II. I define Generation X as those people old enough to remember the Cold War but not old enough to remember Woodstock or Tet.

That reminds me, I'm an avid role playing gamer and my favorite games are "Twilight: 2000" and "The Morrow Project" where the Cold War was the theme behind them. In "Twilight," written in 1984, NATO and the Warsaw Pact engaged in World War III in 1996 and had the limited nuclear exchange in late 1997 and you are a G.I. stranded in Europe in the year 2000 just trying to survive and look for a way home. "The Morrow Project" (1980) is where you are frozen to rebuild civilization after a nuclear war or some other disaster. The first canon of the game, the nuclear war happens in 1989 and you wake up 150 years later.

Most players of both games are in their 30's and 40's and some even 50's (I'm 42), people who remember the Cold War. Although you can always adjust the timelines for different collapses, alternate histories where the USSR still exists now, or substitute Red China and/or Islamo-Fascism and push the date back, to many "yung uns" today, the Cold War seems to be ancient history.