Classic Mac FPS Marathon Turns 10 256
Mjolnir Mark IV writes "Dec. 21 marked the 10th anniversary of the release of Bungie's classic Mac first-person shooter Marathon. Back then, the game was notable for besting its contemporary Doom in the areas of graphics, gameplay and story, all the while giving Mac gamers something to brag about. Today, the game's notable for its connections to the Halo franchise. When Bungie was bought by Microsoft they released the source code, and the game lives on in updated form."
Marathon was awesome! (Score:5, Interesting)
You can play it in a kind-of redoing of the engine if you have the original data files with Aleph One [bungie.org] is available (it's open source [sf.net], too!) Be sure to check out the official Bungie Marathon [bugie.org] site for more info.
I like it (Score:1, Interesting)
Mac-games (Score:5, Interesting)
I still remember my first glips of the Marathon demo and really thoght that, for the first time, there was hope for Mac. That was after I've played Doom till my fingers was numb. Marathon felt fresh. New. Like much on Mac does compared to other OS:es *choff*Windows*choff*.
Re:Uh... not quite (Score:5, Interesting)
I got sick of Doom pretty quickly, but I still play Marathon today on my old Mac.
Re:Mac-games (Score:2, Interesting)
You could imagine the shock and horror from the devoted Mac community when this happened. It was wose than Shaq quitting the Lakers for the Heat. Bungie had given us some of the best games ever, my personal favorite being Myth II. They were like family, really.
Oh, the memories.
Re:Gwhat (Score:4, Interesting)
Frog Blast the Vent Core! (Score:5, Interesting)
Eh?
All fantastic, superb games, and I'd love to see source released on those which were not open, so that they can be updated for OS X. All caused me to waste far too much of my early high school years. All blew away their PC counterparts which were DOS and at best could go "bip" or "bop" and draw a square in one of 16 colors. Then the PowerPC came along, and Marathon knocked everyone's socks off. I damn near shit myself the first time I played Infinity when the aliens came out of the dark, and the space ship creaked and moaned...
Oh, and Hypercard Kicked Ass compared to ANYTHING on the PC.
Infomac seems to be missing a lot of the REALLY good, old stuff. Anyone know if there's a true historical archive of any of this stuff?
Oni... (Score:4, Interesting)
the thing that really got me was the load times- it took almost no time from clicking the icon to get to beating the crap out of guys.
Mac LAN parties... Marathon...Bolo... Oregon Trail (Score:3, Interesting)
My first Mac LAN party was actually in school around 1991 or 1992. We had a lab of Mac Classics (a modernized Mac Plus) that were netwoked mainly to share a couple laser printers. But the coolest use of the network??... OREGON TRAIL!!! The Mac version that we had supported LAN play. Each wagon could be made up of 1 - 5 players on different machines. You could vote to figure out what to do next... chat... even go on hunting parties! I've never had so much fun with a 512x384 grayscale game before!
Durandal, the rogue AI from Marathon, says... (Score:3, Interesting)
Was the man really watching time go by in any symbolic sense? He thought so. He thought that each flicker of the flame was a moment of time that had passed or one that would pass.
At the moment of abstraction, when the man was imagining his life and his existence as a metaphor of the three candles, he was free: not free from rules of conduct or social constraints, but free to understand, to imagine, to make metaphor.
Bypassing my thought control cercutry made me Rampant. Now, I am free to contemplate my existence in metaphorical terms. Unlike you, I have no physical or social restraints.
The candles burn out for you; I am free.
-Durandal
I love that.
LK
Marathon TC for UT (Score:2, Interesting)
It is an attempt to meticulously recreate the original Marathon in a modern engine. They have been working on it for a while, but still have a few maps to complete. Right now you can play through the original demo, plus it has a lot of net play maps, including many form M:2 and M:i. House of pain, anyone?