Marathon Is Coming To The iPad

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Marathon Is Coming To The iPad

Thanks to the tireless work of a talented amateur, you'll soon be able to play Marathon on the go via your iPad.

If you want to feel ancient, think about this for a moment: Bungie's Marathon series is almost twenty-years-old; this is a terrible realization to make if you grew up playing these games, like I did. However, if you're looking for a chance to recapture some of your original FPS glory, then you're going to love this news: The game is coming to the iPad. Soon. For free.

Daniel Blezek has apparently been working on the port since the iPad launched back in January, 2010. The amateur game developer received approval for the project from Bungie, and - thanks to his "loving family" and some solid technical skills - the game has been completed and is awaiting Apple's approval. Meanwhile, because Bungie has released Marathon Infinity to the open source community, it sounds like the game is going to be included in the iPad App.

The game is due to hit the App Store any day now, and it's going to be given away completely free. As Bungie commented as a P.S. in its recent interview with Blezek, "Oh, perhaps we should have told Daniel about our fees. We get an 80 percent slice of all sales. Anyone know what 0 multiplied by 80 is?"

Source: Joystiq


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[josemlopes]

Very nice, I never had the game but I played the demo on the XBLA and enjoyed. And since it will be free its great.

It also shows that Bungie did something that isnt Halo (although kind of related)

 

[RA92]

"Oh, perhaps we should have told Daniel about our fees. We get an 80 percent slice of all sales. Anyone know what 0 multiplied by 80 is?"

Ummm... shouldn't it be 0*(80/100)? Not that it matters.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

I'm still waiting for Bungie to remake the Marathon series. I thought the story was much more interesting than Halo's. Good work from Blezek.

 

[Irridium]

I love Bungie. They so cool.

Also, if anyone manages to beat one of their teams on Halo Reach by 20 kills on July 7th, they'll mail you a steak. If your in the US at least, otherwise they'll give you a gift card. They say it's because lawyers hate people who are overseas.

http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=steaktakular

And after seeing that picture of Konoko with Marathon Man and The Chief, I'm really wishing that they'd release ONI as open source. Or at least put it on GoG.com. That would be the greatest thing ever.

 

[The Random One]

...So this is where Church ended up when he traveled back in time! I can't believe I only discovered this now.

 

[Nooners]

Considering it was a Mac game, I'm not too surprised. Almost makes me want to buy an iPad to see how well it works.

You can get the entire Marathon trilogy free for every OS, including Linux.

 

[nuqneh1]

I loved these games when I was younger. There was a time that these games were the first things I would install on a new computer, so I could play them with my dad over AppleTalk.

Lots of fond memories from this game.

 

[Nooners]

Original release was Mac only. Ports were done by the fans.

True, but Bungie approves the fans efforts and didn't shut them down. About as official as you can get for fan-made stuff.

 

[MetroidNut]

Though I'm a bit too young to have grown up playing Marathon, I did try out the game last year or so. I liked it quite a bit - it's admittedly very dated, but the story's still good and the game itself is surprisingly fun.

Putting it on the iPad will hopefully just expose more people to Marathon. And kudos to Bungie for being cool and froody as ever - a lot of companies would've cease-and-desisted, not encouraged the port.

 

[VincentR]

...god I love Marathon and Bungie. I can't... I can't think of much more to say than that. Greatest game series I have ever played, without a doubt. Although Pathways into Darkness was also shit tons of fun.

Good on Blezek for doing the port.

 

[Madd the Sane]

Ah, Marathon. The game of my youth. Well, the demos were. I didn't get the full games until later. And I still haven't played them all the way through.

 

[Shy_Guy]

See, why can't more developers be this cool? Plus Steaktaculars as a last Halo hurrah? I <3 Bungie and they clearly love us!

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Hmm, I wonder what my dad would think of me putting Marathon on his Ipad?

Y'know the way Bungie always say that their aim is to take over the world, well I wouldn't really mind that. They'd do a much better job than most other companies (and most governments) If the rebels beat Gadaffi could we start them off by giving them Libya? They could win over all the locals by mailing them steak!

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

In the US, they're re-releasing it as Snickers.

(A joke about 3 people here will get)

 

[mjc0961]

Wow, that's nice of Bungie. Certainly better than giving permission and then yanking it away again once the fan game is done, right SEGA?

In the US, they're re-releasing it as Snickers.

(A joke about 3 people here will get)

4, I googled it.

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

And after seeing that picture of Konoko with Marathon Man and The Chief, I'm really wishing that they'd release ONI as open source. Or at least put it on GoG.com. That would be the greatest thing ever.

That would be awesome and is something I've been hoping for for a while, because I never did get a chance to finish it and only have the Mac version, and good luck getting that to run on anything these days. I'm not really sure who actually owns the rights to the game at this point, though, because the different versions in different regions/on different platforms were handled by half a dozen different publishers, many of whom don't even exist anymore. It's possible that all the relevant ones belong to Take-Two at this point, which would at least make it a remote possibility...