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This Day in Marathon.
Day #802. Happy Marathon Reveal Day. On this day 31 years ago Bungie revealed their new game Marathon at Macworld Expo 1994 in Boston. Bungie had shown a Marathon Alpha at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco earlier that year but fans were highly critical of the quality of the game.   The late Spring '94 release date came and went. Marathon needed more work. If you are getting a déjà vu feeling about all this... welcome to Marathon where (circumstances are cyclical). But back to the Marathon reveal on August 2, 1994. People queued up for hours to play Marathon using a Virtual Reality (VR) headset.    In a MacFormat magazine interview Jason Jones explained how this 'magic' was achieved. We knew we were eventually going to get into VR. We didn't expect it to be this soon, but from the start, we set up Marathon to let you look up and down, which is an important feature for a headset. We set it up so you could render a stereo image. If you plan from the start it's not a big deal.Not a big deal? To this day no one has been able to replicate playing Marathon on a CyberMaxx Virtual Reality headset leading some to believe that it was all faked like the moon landings. Others point to timeline shenigans, alternate realities and in-game characters now wearing CyberMaxx headsets.  Happy Marathon Reveal Day. (circumstances are cyclical). |
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