{"id":751,"date":"2011-03-21T09:48:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T14:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=751"},"modified":"2011-03-21T09:56:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T14:56:52","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-spawn-for-snes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/751\/retro-scan-of-the-week-spawn-for-snes","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Spawn: The Video Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/spawn_snes_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/spawn_snes_small.jpg\" alt=\"Spawn for Super NES SNES Ad - 1995\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;Unleash the fury of the full force blast!&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ah yes, <em>Spawn<\/em>: the game that launched a thousand thugs&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/380\" target=\"_blank\">directly off the roof of a building<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll pause while you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/380\" target=\"_blank\">watch the video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from that slight programming snafu, <em>Spawn<\/em> is a passable, if graphically rich, platform beat-em-up for the Super NES.  Does anybody out there own this game?  How do you feel about it?<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Wizard, December 1995, back cover ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> What&#8217;s your favorite comic book-based video game?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Unleash the fury of the full force blast!&#8221; Ah yes, Spawn: the game that launched a thousand thugs&#8230;directly off the roof of a building. I&#8217;ll pause while you watch the video. Aside from that slight programming snafu, Spawn is a passable, if graphically rich, platform beat-em-up for the Super NES. Does anybody out there own [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,24,27,26,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-humor","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-retrogaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","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=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}