{"id":492750,"date":"2025-11-15T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2187281"},"modified":"2025-11-15T07:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T07:00:42","slug":"playing-spelunky-for-the-first-time-a-friendly-interrogation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/playing-spelunky-for-the-first-time-a-friendly-interrogation\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Spelunky for the first time: a friendly interrogation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/playing-spelunky-for-the-first-time-a-friendly-interrogation.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a world in which you have never played Spelunky. I bet many of you can&#8217;t. For Chrsitian Donlan, it&#8217;s impossible. Like so many of you, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2020-09-14-spelunky-2-review-the-depths-beckon\">he&#8217;s been passionately playing the series for years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But there are others who are more easily distracted and seem to miss everything important that comes by. People like Bertie. How he manages this, we don&#8217;t know, but Spelunky, to him, remains unknown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-02-01-playing-spelunky-2-for-the-first-time-a-friendly-interrogation\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2022-02-01-playing-spelunky-2-for-the-first-time-a-friendly-interrogation\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a world in which you have never played Spelunky. I bet many of you can&#8217;t. For Chrsitian Donlan, it&#8217;s impossible. Like so many of you, he&#8217;s been passionately playing the series for years. But there are others who are more easily distracted and seem to miss everything important that comes by. People like Bertie. How he manages this, we don&#8217;t know, but Spelunky, to him, remains unknown. Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Playing Spelunky for the first time: a friendly interrogation | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Imagine a world in which you have never played Spelunky. I bet many of you can&#039;t. For Chrsitian Donlan, it&#039;s impossible. 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