Marathon

Marathon is a first-person action game first released in 1994 for Macintosh operating systems. The game was created by Bungie, developers of the Halo and Destiny sagas, among others. Marathon offers a gameplay experience that's very similar to that of these two franchises as far as the concept goes.

Bungie released the code for Marathon 2 in 1999, which led to the development of Aleph One, an open-source engine capable of running the Marathon trilogy on modern computers. And this engine, Aleph One, is precisely the one used in this version of the game. It lets you, among other things, play at high resolutions and in widescreen format, as well as customize many other options, both graphic and control.

Marathon is an excellent first-person shooter that, for context, came out only a year after the original Doom. The game has a more intricate story, told almost exclusively through a series of terminals spread across the spaceship in which the adventure takes place, but a somewhat slower action. The result, as surprising as it may seem, is closer to the experience that years later Half-Life would provide.

Marathon is one of the great SPFs of the 1990s that, despite its great importance in the genre, remains relatively unknown. Fortunately, thanks to this free and open-source version, it is possible to enjoy it on any modern computer, regardless of your operating system.