Marathon is a series of science fiction first-person shooter computer games from Bungie Software originally released for the Apple Macintosh. Marathon is also the name of the giant interstellar colony ship that provides the setting for the first game and figures prominently in the plot of the sequels; the ship is constructed out of what used to be the moon Deimos of Mars.
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Marathon was first released for the Macintosh in 1994 and introduced many concepts now common in mainstream video games. These features included dual-wielded weapons, friendly non-player characters, and most notably an intricate plot. The sequel, Marathon 2: Durandal, was released in 1995 and expanded the engine technologies and the story universe. It also introduced several types of multiplayer modes beyond the deathmatch and cooperative game such as king of the hill. In 1996, the game was ported to Windows 95, and the Marathon Infinity package was released, including a new scenario using a modified Marathon 2 engine, and most importantly, the tools used to build it, Forge and Anvil. In 2000, Bungie released the source code to the Marathon 2 engine, and the Marathon Open Source project began, resulting in the new Marathon engine called Aleph One. Finally, in 2005, Bungie released the full original Mac OS trilogy for free distribution online [1]. Using Aleph One, Marathon 2 and Infinity may now be played on any of the supported platforms (Mac OS, GNU/Linux and Windows). The original Marathon can also be played via Aleph One using a scenario conversion called M1A1.

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