Marathon

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This article is about the game Marathon. For the information about the ship, see UESC Marathon.

Marathon (retroactively called Marathon 1) is the first game in the Marathon trilogy and was shipped December 21, 1994[1] for Macintosh computers. The game has a total of 27 levels in 6 chapters.

In 2005, Bungie released Marathon as a free download through the Trilogy Release. The original game only runs on versions of Macintosh System Software prior to Mac OS X, but a fan-created port called M1A1 exists which can be run on other systems using Aleph One.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Engine 3 Levels 4 Music 5 Volunteers series 6 External links

Overview

Engine

Levels

The levels are split into six chapters: Arrival, Counterattack, Reprisal, Durandal, The Pfhor, and Rebellion. Note that the Marathon engine numbers levels from 0, as opposed to the more conventional 1 used in the Marathon 2 and Infinity engines.

I		Arrival
	0	Arrival
	1	Bigger Guns Nearby
	2	Never Burn Money
II		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
III		Reprisal
	10	Bob-B-Q
	11	Shake Before Using...
IV		Durandal
	12	Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!
	13	Colony Ship for Sale, Cheap
	14	Habe Quiddam
	15	Neither High nor Low
V		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...
VI		Rebellion
	24	Welcome to the Revolution......
	25	Try again
	26	Ingue Ferroque

Music

The music in Marathon was composed by Alex Seropian.^{[citation needed]}

The format of Marathon's "Music" file is based on the MIDI format, which means that the file contains instructions for generating the music, rather than any actual audio data. The instructions are interpreted by the user's QuickTime install; because of this the sound of the music depends on which version of QuickTime the user has.

The CD release of Marathon included enhanced CD audio versions of seven of the original music tracks. However, Seropian has asked fans to not post these tracks online.[2][3]

Volunteers series

In 2001, a number of Marathon's Story Forum members worked together to create Marathon Volunteers, a series of forum threads discussing the game's levels in detail.

External links

• Guide to Marathon at The Marathon Spoiler Guide