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Marathon's Timeline



Pathways Into Darkness
(forerunner)


Marathon

Demo Terminal Text
Story of Marathon (from Bungie's 1st Web Page, Dec 1994)
Manual Text (or read the full Marathon Manual in PDF format)

Arrival
0. Arrival
1. Bigger Guns Nearby
2. Never Burn Money

Counterattack
3. Defend THIS!
4. Couch Fishing
5. The Rose
6. Smells Like Napalm, Tastes Like Chicken!
7. Cool Fusion
8. G4 Sunbathing
9. Blaspheme Quarantine

Reprisal
10. Bob-B-Q
11. Shake Before Using...

Durandal
12. Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!
13. Colony Ship For Sale, Cheap
14. Habe Quiddam
15. Neither High nor Low

The Pfhor
16. Pfhor Your Eyes Only...
17. No Artificial Colors
18. Unpfhorgiven
19. Two Times Two Equals...
20. Beware of Low-Flying Defense Drones... 
21. Eupfhoria
22. Pfhoraphobia
23. Ain't Got Time Pfhor This...

Rebellion
24. Welcome to the Revolution...
25. Try again
26. Ingue Ferroque

The Final Screen


The Lost Network Packets


Marathon 2: Durandal

Preview Terminal Text
Demo Terminal Text
Manual Text (or read the full Marathon 2 Manual in PDF format)

Lh'owon
1. Waterloo Waterpark
2. The Slings & Arrows of Outrageous Fortune
3. Charon Doesn't Make Change

Volunteers
4. What About Bob?
5. Come and Take your Medicine
6. We're Everywhere

Garrison
7. Ex Cathedra
8. Nuke And Pave
9. Curiouser and Curiouser...

Citadel
10. Eat It, Vid Boi!
11. The Hard Stuff Rules...
12. Bob's Big Date
13. Six Thousand Feet Under

Durandal
14. If I Had a Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Somebody Pay
15. Sorry Don't Make It So
16. For Carnage, Apply Within
17. Begging For Mercy Makes Me Angry!!

Captured
18. The Big House

Blake
19. This Side Toward Enemy
20. God Will Sort The Dead...
21. My Own Private Thermopylae
22. Kill Your Television

Simulacrums
23. Where the Twist Flops
24. Beware of Abandoned Rental Trucks
25. Requiem For a Cyborg

S'pht'Kr
26. Fatum Iustum Stultorum
27. Feel the Noise
28. All Roads Lead To Sol...

The Final Screen


Marathon Infinity

Demo Terminal Text
Manual Text (or read the full Infinity Manual in PDF format)

Prologue
  Ne Cede Malis (end of failed timeline)

Despair
  Rise Robot Rise
  Robot World Arena (co-op carnage break level)
  Poor Yorick
  Two for the Price of One (co-op carnage break level)
  Confound Delivery
  Electric Sheep One
  Where are monsters in dreams
  Aie Mak Sicur (end of failed timeline)

Rage
  Acme Station
  Post Naval Trauma
  Where Some Rarely Go
  Thing What Kicks...
  Electric Sheep Two
  Whatever You Please
  Carroll Street Station (end of failed timeline)

  Naw Man He's Close
  Foe Hammer
  Hang Brain
  Electric Sheep Three
  Eat the Path
  You're Wormfood, Dude (end of failed timeline)

Envy
  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 (end of successful timeline)

The Final Screen


Facts
and
puzzling
things
about...


You

The Colony

The 10th military Mjolnir Mark IV cyborg

Simulacrums

Bernhard Strauss

Dates

Count Roland

Gheritt White

The Number Seven

Durandal (part 1) and (part 2)

Tycho

Bungie's New Timeline

The Pfhor Ship

Red Sand

Distances

Marathon 2: Durandal (Demo) text changes

Latin in Marathon

The Chicken Term

The Unformatted KYT Term. Message

Pict Text

Latin in Marathon 2

Historical & Mythological References in Marathon

Thoth

The Jjaro

UESC/UESG

Charon's Hexadecimal Term. Message

Robert Blake

Leela

The S'pht

Map Writing

Trash Terms

The "Try again" Term

The (Secret?) Fatum Iustum Stultorum Terminal

The Credit Terminal in Marathon 2

The Text That Never Was

The Marathon Infinity Terminal Screenshot Text

The Cthulhu Mythos in Marathon

Shakespeare in Marathon

Grendel

Where am I?

Dream Levels and Failed Timelines

Déjà Vu

Arther Frain

The Player's Height

The Co-op Carnage Break Levels

Rampancy

That Marathon Symbol (part 1) and (part 2)

Marathon Music

The Uplink Chip on Hang Brain

The Switch on Sol

Bungie's Marathon Ads

Pathways Into Darkness

Marathon Cheat Codes

W'rkncacnter

Marathon & The Micronauts Influence?

Win 95 Marathon 2: The Undiscovered Secrets

The Alien Teleporter on Charon

Macintosh Error Codes in Marathon

Original Level Names

The Sixth Panel on Medicine

Marathon v1.1

Vacuum Levels

The Missing Terminal on Confound Delivery

The Marathon Demo v0.0

Weapons in Marathon

Sounds in Marathon

The Breakable Panel on We're Everywhere

Official Marathon Screenshots

What's in a Name?

Level Credits

Missing Aliens

That Marathon Book

The Pfhor Egg

The E O P variations

Release Dates

The Pfhor

Convergent Series

Box Acronyms

Jump Pads

Volunteers

Marathon Scrapbook

Original Level Notes for Marathon

Marathon 2 Story Outline

Jason Jones on Marathon

Greg Kirkpatrick on Marathon Infinity

Bob Sayings

Concept Art

Map Annotations

Hangar Ninety Six

Marathon 2 Preview

Original Level Notes for Marathon 2

Tour of Duty

Philtron's Infinity Analysis

Textures

Mark Bernal's initials

S'pht Terminal Clusters on Charon

The Fourth Terminal on Never Burn Money



Miscellaneous



Blasts from the Past

The Bungie WebMaster

Hastur's Workshop (final version August 15, 1997)

Marathon Manual (PDF format)

Marathon 2 Manual (PDF format)

Marathon Infinity Manual (PDF format)

Marathon Trilogy Manual (PDF format)

Marathon Scrapbook (PDF format)

Pathways Into Darkness Manual (PDF format)

Minotaur Manual (PDF format)

Marathon Demo v0.0

Marathon 2 Preview (.zip or .sit)

Marathon 2 Demo (16 bit version)


Halo
pre-release
information
1999-2001


The Cortana Letters

Blam

Halo submissions since July 99

Iain M. Banks' "Culture" references in Bungie's Halo

Halo Transmissions

Halo ring motif

Lynx Phoenix ad

Official Halo Backstory


The
Marathon Art
of
Craig Mullins

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