May 17, 2005 (Tuesday)

Callie21V <callie21v@hotmail.com> in a Story forum post dras some interesting parallels between Marathon the 1992 PC/Mac game S.C.Out. As Callie21V points out the game is set on Mars' moon Deimos and involves wiping out an alien infestation. The caricature of your main advisory in S.C.Out is not unlike a certain individual who is strangely familiar to you... as if from an old dream. Check out the image for yourself.

Also on the Story forum...

Missing what... ?
What about BoB
Name those aliens

May 14, 2005 (Saturday)

Featured Marathon site #37

Mac Hall's "Things That Hoot". While this edition of Mac Hall is actually about Red Faction it is being humorously compared with Marathon Infinity. The list of items on on the Infinity checklist should give you a chuckle. :-)

May 13, 2005 (Friday)

On the Story forum:

Bungie influenced by Marvel comics... again?
Redemption Returns
The Hound & Armagedon Beast
Another little known piece of Marathon fan art
More Marathon music remakes from Craig Hardgrove

May 10, 2005 (Tuesday)

On the Story forum:

A little known piece of Marathon fan art is discovered
So you don't have a Marathon keychain... well make your own!
Marathon size T-shirt poll or what size are you?
What color Marathon logo do you like poll... or Red vs. White?
The Marathon vs. Halo story... or something

May 9, 2005 (Monday)

Featured Marathon site #36

Stomp's Marathon Page. Home of the Marathon 4 hoax (aka Marathon: Dr'Ate'R) perpetuated by Nick Roemer (aka Stomp). The hoax gained a life of its own and even featured in a well know Macintosh magazine. There's a scan of the article... somewhere. You'll also find Stomp's Homebrew maps and an early form of Marathon fiction... Pfhor Anatomy. His M1 net map 'Home Pfhor the Holidays' was Marathon Map of the Month back in December 1995. It's one of the classics from the Old School.

May 7, 2005 (Saturday)

The Muller mystery... or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Jjaro.

Featured Marathon site #35

Jeff Russel's Marathon :: Futility scenario page. An old school Marathon scenario... so the blurb goes. Futility is a 14 single player level scenario for Marathon Infinity featuring original storyline, chapter and terminal screen art. There are also 23 net levels included. If you download the screnario you'll also get "A massacre of Bobs.mp3". The title graphic reminds me a bit of the work of Randy 'ydnar' Reddig.

May 6, 2005 (Friday)

Featured Marathon site #34

The Marathon Map Makers Guild. The brain child of Bill Catambay. The MMMG has been around since mid-1995 and its members have created such scenarios as "Devil in a Blue Dress" and "Excalibur: Morgana's Revenge". The current MMMG web page is still very active and features a very handy tools section which includes another hosted version of Hastur's Workshop. This one is truer to the original than the one hosted at the Battle Cats page since the original source code is intact without any additional banners or logos.

May 5, 2005 (Thursday)

Featured Marathon site #33

Sourceforge.net's Marathon-devel mailing list. One of the last places to find active discussion about Marathon. Even if you are not an AlephOne junkie you'll find something of Marathon interest here.

May 3, 2005 (Tuesday)

The return of the Marathon movie script and Marathon Infested.

Featured Marathon site #32

Randall Shaw's Fm's Creations. The legendary Frigidman's levels, designs, and Marathon add-ons, patches and files... some dating back to May 1995. Yes that's ten years ago folks... feeling old? Or perhaps you just missed out on all the fun. Then check out this Marathon master map maker, scenario builder and creator of new worlds.

May 2, 2005 (Monday)

On the Story forum the Nazis, the occult and the Thule Society and why did Jason Jones say that?

Featured Marathon site #31

Juzo Kun's Marathon Page. An Italian Marathon page... so most of the text is in Italian. But check out the excellent fanart section and the comic versions of "You've played too much Marathon when...". For example:

You've played too much Marathon when...

...you printed all the Story Page on paper so you can easily read it when the computer is turned off.

"...out of paper? Again?"

May 1, 2005 (Sunday)

Featured Marathon site #30

Loren Petrich's Marathon Page. Contains the "Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity Timelines", information on Tau Ceti, the Marathon and Boomer's voyage, and 3D models of some the Marathon levels using Loren's Marathon Map Exporter.

Past Featured Marathon sites:

29. Chuck Fox's Marathon Art
28. Stephen Beveridge's Homesick Pfhor painting
27. The Marathon Magazine home page
26. Rudi Gunther's Deathworld onlne comic strip
25. The Battle Cat's Marathon Page
24. psyjnir.org's Marathon music page
23. Aerianne Connor's Marathon Trilogy page
22. RJ Coopers Wheels!
21. Mac Hall Comics' "Now With Better Support" strip
20. Dr. Lex' Marathon Page
19. University of Chicago's Gameboys article
18. The Marathon Fan Fiction Archive
17. Steve Wood's Marathon page
16. Ben Reiter's A brief history of Marathon
15. Bungie's Marathon page
14. The Conversatron on Durandal
13. Randy Reddig's ydnar on infinity page
12. Steve Levinson's Marathon Rubicon Volunteers site
11. arrival.bungie.org. Type in the word ARCHIVE in the top box and OUTLINE in the bottom box
10. Hastur's Workshop
9. Max Etchemendy's Unified Earth Space Council Network
8. Jay (aka. Anaphiel) Faircloth's Digital Art site
7. Agents of Cool interview with Alex Seropian, Doug Zartman, Rob McLees and Mark Bernal
6. Shogoki's Marathon Trilogy Page
5. Craig Hardgrove's Marathon: Soundtrack Remakes
4. Miha's Marathon Workshop
3. John Wallin Liberto's Marathon Art
2. Matthew Lewis Carroll Smith's Games and Games Humor site
1. William Spencer's Marathon Graphic Comic