2000 March 3, kid_fierce [username], “Re: Camping”, in alt.games.unreal.tournament[1] (Usenet):
Not to mention the COUNTLESS times I've been spawnkilled. Games should be fun not frustrating because of some asshole who wants to be cheap.
2001 July 9, universal [username], “Re: Aimbot Police”, in alt.games.unreal.tournament[2] (Usenet):
Aimbot users are as pitiful as the sad turds that hang around that little nook in Eternal Caves and spawnkill (you know who you are).
2002 February 21, Alan 'TriGem' Kennedy (quoting unknown), “OT Post : What PC Gamers really are.”, in alt.fan.furry[3] (Usenet):
They don't go and spawnkill people. Know why? Because console gamers, when they play multiplayer, have their opponent sitting right next to them.
2002 April 21, Sterling, “Re: Just getting this off my chest.”, in alt.games.unreal.tournament[4] (Usenet):
There are a few people that like to spawn-kill and mine the spawning grounds but they're usually flamed and dealt with harshly (not as harshly as TKer's of course...).
2002 May 15, Kornish [username], “Re: Spawn Killing Should be allowed”, in alt.games.unreal.tournament[5] (Usenet):
Spawn killing takes no skill. I consider those who spawn kill newbies or players who just can't play with the 'big boys.'
2002 May 19, Jonathan Veldhuis, “Re: Please Read (ZF)”, in stardock.games.sf.fleet-comm[6] (Usenet):
Explain why you let Command spawnkill me 20 times while I was afk ?
2002 August 26, Flashheart [username], “Re: Why should CTF Flag Camping be wrong”, in alt.games.unreal.tournament[7] (Usenet):
He was spawnkilled about 30-40 times in 20 minutes by one player.
2002 November 18, Bob, “Re: Camping Vs Defending”, in alt.games.medal-of-honor.allied-assault[8] (Usenet):
If you snipe a spawn point I am going to spawn kill you repeatedly until you either leave the game or get the point.
2004, Dan Irish, Men of Valor: Prima's Official Strategy Guide, Prima (2004), →ISBN, page 110:
It is ridiculously easy to spawn-kill the VC at their outdoor spawn location, from several relatively safe locations inside the Embassy's ground floor, especially the library windows.
2004 January 16, Tim Auton, “Re: Your best kill ever?”, in alt.games.battlefield1942[9] (Usenet):
Sod rules. It's just not fun to spawnkill or be spawnkilled. There's no challenge.
2004 October 23, Grl/Grl_Prn [username], “Re: Thank you... I guess”, in alt.games.battlefield1942[10] (Usenet):
Nothing lowers your morale faster than some jerk spawn killing you for the fifth time and yelling that your mother worked in a Nevada brothel.
2010, Scott Reiter, Call of Duty: Battle Reports, Reiter's Writings (2010), →ISBN, page 117:
At one point in the first game Mitchabob and I got in both tanks and just spawn killed them all over and over.
2014, Kishonna L. Gray, Race, Gender, and Deviance in Xbox Live: Theoretical Perspectives from the Virtual Margins, Anderson Publishing (2014), →ISBN, page 66:
Ok everything depends on the map. So if we get Wetwork, or Bog, or Ambush (names of maps from Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare), we just hang out in the back and spawn kill.