Marathon (video game)
- This article is about the video game called Marathon, the first game in Marathon series.
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| Developer(s) | Bungie Software |
| Publisher(s) | Bungie Software |
| Platform(s) | Mac OS |
| Release | December 21, 1994 |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player Multiplayer (cooperative) Multiplayer (deathmatch) |
Marathon is a science fiction first-person shooter computer game from Bungie Software. It was released for the Apple Macintosh on December 21, 1994 and was the first game in the Marathon trilogy.
Set in the year 2794 A.D. the game places the player as a security officer; in actuality, he is most likely a Mjolnir Mark IV Cyborg, dispatched to respond to a distress signal sent from the enormous human starship called the U.E.S.C. Marathon, orbiting a colony on the planet Tau Ceti IV. Throughout the game, the player attempts to defend the ship (and its crew and colonists) from a race of alien slavers called the Pfhor. As he fights against the invaders, he witnesses interactions between the three shipboard AIs (Leela, Durandal and Tycho), and discovers that all is not as it seems aboard the Marathon. Among other problems, Durandal has gone rampant and appears to be playing the humans against the Pfhor to further his own mysterious agenda.
In the first part of the game, the player follows orders from the ship's AI known as Leela. After minor battles, contact between the Marathon and the colony is lost. Durandal reveals his rampancy, and his behavior on the ship begins causing danger to the crew members. Shutting down Leela, Durandal steals the Security Officer and uses him to free a race of enslaved, cybernetic organisms called the S'pht from their Pfhor masters. With the S'pht in revolt and allied with Durandal, the Pfhor lose control of their ship, and are defeated. At the end of the game, this player is teleported to parts unknown.