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Classic Mac FPS Marathon Turns 10

Posted by timothy on from the explosive-candles dept.

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."

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  1. Thats nice and all... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But Church is still trapped there, and the blue team does not seem very concerned. o_O

  2. I remember... by mfifer · · Score: 5, Funny

    playing that EVERY night for 1 hour starting at 5 PM.

    I remember it had voice chat so you could taunt your buds.

    I remember watching LanDesk's network bandwidth utilization go off the hook while we played.

    And I remember a network tech with a sniffer one time asking "do you guys have a computer named Bitchslapper? It's using an awful lot of bandwidth!" :-)

    Man those were good times.

    Lemme end by trolling and saying, as a Mac user, Bungie are sellouts. But I''ll always have a soft place in my heart for the original Marathon...

  3. Re:Is... by ollie_ob · · Score: 5, Funny

    I pledged to punch all switches, to never shoot where I could have used grenades, to admit the existence of no level except total carnage, to never use Caps Lock as my 'Run' key, and to never, ever, have left a single Bob alive.

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    #define ROSE any_other_name
  4. Re:I like it by Moofie · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I like them more then the Halo games Bungie's doing now."

    You misspelled Microsoft.

    Yes, I am still THAT bitter.

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    Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist!