Marathon
Explore a besieged colony ship and fight alien forces in Bungie's first-person science-fiction adventure.
Bungie, 1994
Source and version
This entry uses the freely distributable original Marathon archive, unchanged from the classic Macintosh release.
Gameplay
Aboard the Marathon
The UESC Marathon hangs above Tau Ceti with its crew under attack and its three shipboard AIs pulling you in different directions. The corridors are spare, lonely places: exploration, switches, lifts and terminal messages matter as much as a quick trigger. Reading those terminals is the game; Durandal's voice slowly turns a rescue mission into something more unsettling.
License
Licensing information recorded for this game archive. These terms are separate from the Systemless runtime and website licenses.
Game archive
- License
- No license recorded
- Rights holder
- Bungie
- Redistribution
- Recorded as permitted
Permission
Bungie authorizes free distribution of the original Marathon trilogy; copyright is retained and commercial sale is not permitted.
Notes
The Trilogy Release FAQ documents the original games’ free-distribution permission. Retrieved 2026-09-13: 5627676 bytes; SHA-256 a8ddcadc6f193fb10901433eb8958fe97898a692182bae584e351f40147d2489.
Sources
Screenshots, plugins and other files may have different terms. See their individual catalogue records in the repository source.