{"id":380,"date":"2007-10-21T20:35:36","date_gmt":"2007-10-22T01:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=380"},"modified":"2007-10-21T21:08:16","modified_gmt":"2007-10-22T02:08:16","slug":"game-design-hall-of-shame-endless-spawn-respawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/380\/game-design-hall-of-shame-endless-spawn-respawn","title":{"rendered":"Embarrassing Moments in Game Design: <em>Spawn<\/em> Respawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qWE3AN7ym-g\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qWE3AN7ym-g\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In this excerpt from the first level of <em>Spawn<\/em> for the SNES, we watch as Spawn&#8217;s mere presence compels the limitless forces of evil to repeatedly hurl themselves off the top of a skyscraper.<\/p>\n<p>I left this game on for a few hours recently while I did my laundry.  By the time I got back, I was morally responsible for the deaths of thousands of pipe-wielding street thugs.  And somehow, I didn&#8217;t feel bad about it &#8212; there&#8217;s always more where that came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this excerpt from the first level of Spawn for the SNES, we watch as Spawn&#8217;s mere presence compels the limitless forces of evil to repeatedly hurl themselves off the top of a skyscraper. I left this game on for a few hours recently while I did my laundry. By the time I got back, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-design","category-humor","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}