What Does This Mean?
In multiplayer shooters, waiting near an opponent's respawn point to repeatedly kill them immediately upon respawning, generally considered an unsportsmanlike tactic.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"They had two guys spawn camping our base the entire match, it was basically unplayable."
LORE & ORIGIN
"Camping" as a strategy traces back to Doom (1993), which pioneered online multiplayer FPS play, but the specific term "spawn camping" is most associated with being popularized around Quake (1996) and Quake III Arena (1999), which cemented deathmatch conventions where spawn points were exploitable. Mechanic roots go back to roughly 1993 (Doom); the term's popularization dates to roughly 1996-1999 (the Quake era).
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