Marathon Trilogy

[sturryz]

ah yes the marathon trilogy. the few people who owned a mac for gaming in the eary and late 90's knew this series was good stuff. for the rest of you, Marathon was the first game attempt by bungie. it had stuff like Duel Wielding, A realistic ammo storage system (even had reload animations), Alt Fire and a Complex story. Marathon came out in 1994 and was already more complex then it's competition, sadly it was a Macintosh exclusive. soon enough sequals came around, expanding on the storyline and gameplay.

you can thank the Marathon series for creating stuff that is taken for granted by todays standards (Half Life didn't invent storyline in the FPS genre THANK YOU VERY MUCH).

all of the games in the marathon series have been released for free and has been ported to all major OS's (Windows, Linux and Mac) thanks to the source port Aleph One.

you can get the games here:
http://source.bungie.org/

great series

 

[Kermi]

I don't mean to be rude, but what exactly was your point? I think a good number of people know about Marathon by now, especially after Halo came out and people were suddenly interested in this strange new videogaming company called Bungie. Marathon became especially well-known during the Halo 2 viral marketing campaign when people in the know drew connections between the clues and segments of the Marathon narrative. Since then an increasing number of links between Halo and Marathon have been established (the cryptic messages in the hidden terminals throughout Halo 3's campaign, for instance), to the point that some people theorise that Halo is a spiritual successor to Marathon (in terms of being either a sequel or prequel) and that a remake of Marathon that connects more fully with the Halo universe could be Bungie's next project.

Not having played Marathon myself (I've been considering downloading it off the XBox Live Marketplace but it's about 150 megs, which is a long time to be choking up my bandwidth when I could be playing online) I don't know how accurate this information is. But it'd be nice, if true. Then again, the idea could be blasphemous to 90's Mac gamers, so what do I know?