Marathon (computer game)

Marathon is a computer game from Bungie Software, with a science fiction theme. It belongs to the first-person shooter genre, and was released in 1994.

Marathon was released on the Apple Macintosh computer. It was one of the very earliest first-person shooters to appear on the Macintosh.

Unlike some other similar games of that era (for example, id Software's Doom) Marathon and its sequels, Durandal and Infinity were notable for their intricate plots.

The game placed the player as the Security Officer aboard the human colony ship Marathon. Throughout the game, the player attempts to defend the ship and its inhabitants from a race of alien slavers called the Pfhor. As he fights against the invaders, he witnesses the three shipboard AI's interactions, and discovers that all is not as it seems aboard the Marathon.

An excellent open-source engine for all three Marathon games is available at the Marathon Open Source Project. It is called Aleph One and is available at http://source.bungie.org.

The best source of more information on the Marathon series is http://marathon.bungie.org.