Arrival
Bigger Guns Nearby
Never Burn Money
Defend THIS!
Couch Fishing
The Rose
Smells Like Napalm, Tastes Like Chicken!
Cool Fusion
G4 Sunbathing
Blaspheme Quarantine
Bob-B-Q
Shake Before Using...
Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!
Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap
Habe Quiddam
Neither High nor Low
Pfhor Your Eyes Only...
No Artificial Colors
Unpfhorgiven
Two Times Two Equals...
Beware of Low-Flying Defense Drones...
Eupfhoria
Pfhoraphobia
Ain't Got Time Pfhor This...
Welcome to the Revolution...
Try again
Ingue Ferroque
Waterloo Waterpark
The Slings & Arrows of Outrageous Fortune
Charon Doesn't Make Change
What About Bob?
Come and Take your Medicine
We're Everywhere
Ex Cathedra
Nuke And Pave
Curiouser and Curiouser...
Eat It, Vid Boi!
The Hard Stuff Rules...
Bob's Big Date
Six Thousand Feet Under
If I Had a Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Somebody Pay
Sorry Don't Make It So
For Carnage, Apply Within
Begging For Mercy Makes Me Angry!
The Big House
This Side Toward Enemy
God Will Sort The Dead...
My Own Private Thermopylae
Kill Your Television
Where the Twist Flops
Beware of Abandoned Rental Trucks
Requiem For a Cyborg
Fatum Iustum Stultorum
Feel the Noise
All Roads Lead To Sol...
Ne Cede Malis
Rise Robot Rise
Poor Yorick
Confound Delivery
Electric Sheep One
Where are monsters in dreams
Acme Station
Post Naval Trauma
Where Some Rarely Go
Thing What Kicks. . .
Electric Sheep Two
Whatever You Please
Naw Man He's Close
Foe Hammer
Hang Brain
Electric Sheep Three
Eat the Path
By Committee
One thousand thousand slimy things
A Converted Church in Venice, Italy
Son of Grendel
Strange Aeons
Bagged Again
You Think You're Big Time? You're Gonna Die Big Time!
Aye Mak Sicur
Robot World Arena
Two for the Price of One
Aie Mak Sicur
Carroll Street Station
You're Wormfood, Dude Try again
If I Had a Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Somebody Pay
You Think You're Big Time? You're Gonna Die Big Time!
Arrival
Bigger Guns Nearby
Never Burn Money
Defend THIS!
Couch Fishing
The Rose
Smells Like Napalm, Tastes Like Chicken!
Cool Fusion
G4 Sunbathing
Blaspheme Quarantine
Bob-B-Q
Shake Before Using...
Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!
Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap
Habe Quiddam
Neither High nor Low
Pfhor Your Eyes Only...
No Artificial Colors
Unpfhorgiven
Two Times Two Equals...
Beware of Low-Flying Defense Drones...
Eupfhoria
Pfhoraphobia
Ain't Got Time Pfhor This...
Welcome to the Revolution...
Try again
Ingue Ferroque
Waterloo Waterpark
The Slings & Arrows of Outrageous Fortune
Charon Doesn't Make Change
What About Bob?
Come and Take your Medicine
We're Everywhere
Ex Cathedra
Nuke And Pave
Curiouser and Curiouser...
Eat It, Vid Boi!
The Hard Stuff Rules...
Bob's Big Date
Six Thousand Feet Under
If I Had a Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Somebody Pay
Sorry Don't Make It So
For Carnage, Apply Within
Begging For Mercy Makes Me Angry!
The Big House
This Side Toward Enemy
God Will Sort The Dead...
My Own Private Thermopylae
Kill Your Television
Where the Twist Flops
Beware of Abandoned Rental Trucks
Requiem For a Cyborg
Fatum Iustum Stultorum
Feel the Noise
All Roads Lead To Sol...
Ne Cede Malis
Rise Robot Rise
Poor Yorick
Confound Delivery
Electric Sheep One
Where are monsters in dreams
Acme Station
Post Naval Trauma
Where Some Rarely Go
Thing What Kicks. . .
Electric Sheep Two
Whatever You Please
Naw Man He's Close
Foe Hammer
Hang Brain
Electric Sheep Three
Eat the Path
By Committee
One thousand thousand slimy things
A Converted Church in Venice, Italy
Son of Grendel
Strange Aeons
Bagged Again
You Think You're Big Time? You're Gonna Die Big Time!
Aye Mak Sicur
Robot World Arena
Two for the Price of One
Aie Mak Sicur
Carroll Street Station
You're Wormfood, Dude Try again
If I Had a Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Somebody Pay
You Think You're Big Time? You're Gonna Die Big Time!
What's New

Nov 5, 1999

John Sumner <UTJohnS@aol.com> completes 26 of the 27 levels in the Marathon Vidmaster Challenge. What level was left out? Well you'll have to find out for yourself. All 26 levels are completed Vidmaster style with a few Vid tips thrown in for good measure. The Vid pack includes the usual detailed Sumner Read Me. John's Marathon Vid pack can be got here (338K). :-)

July 16, 1999

John Sumner <UTJohnS@aol.com> completes the Marathon Infinity Vidmaster Challenge. All 33 solo levels completed Vidmaster style. Quite a few Vid tips in this bunch, some new ways of approaching levels and of course the usual detailed Sumner Read Me. John's Infinity Vid pack can be got here (313K). :-)

June 19, 1999

While it is possible to kill a Looker with your fist and not take damage few films have actually demonstrated this technique. However John Sumner <UTJohnS@aol.com> sends in a film of Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap where the technique is put to good use. The film is the first fist-only film of this level. As expected with Vid films these days the raising of the seven pillars is handled with panache. John also grabs all the ammo off this level even the stuff in three octagonal rooms with the rising floors. Talk about pushing the Vid boundaries. You can get John's film here.

May 22, 1999

John Sumner <UTJohnS@aol.com> completes the Marathon 2 Vidmaster Challenge. All 28 solo levels completed Vidmaster style. A number of the films demonstrate new variations on a theme. John's Vid pack also contains a detailed Read Me describing the main highlights of each level. You can get it here (411K). :-)

Apr 23, 1999

Making it look easy! Matthew Grieco (a.k.a. Incognito) <grieco@virtu.sar.usf.edu> completes Acme Station once more. This time with fists only. You can grab his film here.

Apr 3, 1999

Think it's impossible to reach that hidden Magnum on Charon Doesn't Make Change under Vidmaster rules? Then think again. John Sumner <UTJohnS@aol.com> reaches it in his Vid Tip film of this level. Check the Charon Doesn't Make Change page in the Vidmaster Tips & Tricks section for details.

More Vid Tips to come...

Mar 15, 1999

On the Marathon 2 level We're Everywhere there is a small raised alcove (above the waterline). It's easy to miss since it's tucked away in the far west of the map but it contains 14 Shotgun Cartridges (in two neat rows of seven each!). Up until now it was thought impossible to reach under Vidmaster rules. Now John Sumner <UTJohnS@aol.com> shows how it's possible to reach the ammo. Check the We're Everywhere page in the Vidmaster Tips & Tricks section for details.

Mar 12, 1999

John Sumner <UTJohnS@aol.com>, a 45 year old Associate Professor of Mathematics, becomes the ninth person to Vid Acme Station. John uses a technique similar to Daniel Gentry's to Vid this level. John's vid pack contains two films of this level. You can get them here.

Mar 1th, 1999

Matthew Grieco (a.k.a. Incognito) <grieco@virtu.sar.usf.edu> becomes the eighth person to Vid Acme Station. Matthew is a friend of Daniel Gentry's at New College in Sarasota, Florida. With friends like these who wants to be the enemy? You can grab Matthew's film pack here

Feb 28, 1999

Marathon Infinity. Command-Option Begin New Game. Acme Station. Smash three panels.Survive. Get off. Simple!

Greg Kirkpatrick, the creator of this level, when asked whether it was actually possible to Vid this level replied:

viding acme? Sorta - It's probably the hardest one to straight vid, because you have no room to move around.

With time however people did Vid it. In some cases pushing the boundaries - fists only, no recharging etc. Now Daniel Gentry (aka Asmodeus) <gentry@virtu.sar.usf.edu> goes one step further. Asmo's Best Acme is a film of Acme Station completed with no hits and fists only.

Vidmastery has come along way since those early days of January '95 when Jason Jones (Bungie Software) first posed the Marathon Vidmasters Challenge.

Vidmastery has indeed become an artform!

Just Vid It - With Style!

Feb 22, 1999

Daniel Gentry (aka Asmodeus) <gentry@virtu.sar.usf.edu> takes on the king of levels - Acme Station - not once but twice. Daniel's approach involves not getting the KKV-7 Flechette or opening the room with the 2X recharger. How does he do it? Well check out his film pack Asmodeus Vids Acme.

Note the Marathon Vidmasters' Page is now at two locations:

http://www.marathon.org/vidmaster/

and

http://164.58.172.178/marathon/vidmaster/


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