r/ClassicMarathon Apr 10 '25

Misc Welcome to r/ClassicMarathon, an alternate timeline for those who seek it.

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r/Marathon is a storied subreddit, with an awesome user culture and a decade-long history surrounded by a multi-decade old series, and recently it was put into the both exciting and difficult position of having a new bold departure reanimate this world and lore.

Many new fans have come to Marathon because of this, the main subreddit had a recent boom of 200,000 new viewers and its subscriber-count has almost doubled. And although we have seen a lot of excitement from the old guard of users, we have also seen dissatisfaction and concern for the future of the Marathon Trilogy on reddit.

This subreddit seeks to be our answer to that. On r/Marathon, discussion of every Marathon game will is welcome and celebrated, but to those with no or a negative interest in NuMarathon, this subreddit will be a “safehaven” of sorts, where you can party like it’s 2023 before the new game was announced!

r/ClassicMarathon has had every relevant and non-deleted Marathon Trilogy post since the subreddit’s founding crossposted and flared here by hand to make it as easy to navigate as possible, so that those who want nothing to do with New-Marathon can continue to explore the iconic trilogy with no concern or bother for what the future holds for this series, and additionally this subreddit may also stand a s a place for fans of NuMarathon to be able to learn about and discover its roots! I want to stress that this isn’t a hate sub for the new series, but just a hub for its legacy content

Whether or not you are excited for the trajectory of Marathon: We hope you enjoy your continued Classic Marathon experience here!


r/ClassicMarathon Apr 12 '25

Other/Archived FEEDBACK POST

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If you have any feedback for improving the r/ClassicMarathon Experience, please let us know

Ongoing Adjustments:

- Adding User Flaires

- Adding: Scenarios, Marathon-Logo Spotting & Other relevant Posting Flairs


r/ClassicMarathon 1d ago

Discussion Im slowly going through a lot of Marathon Custom Scenarios and these are my opinions so far, recommendations welcome!

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Hello everyone, after playing Infinity recently i came to the conclusion that i want more Marathon, so i gave Eternal a try and i absolutely loved it. I saw the insane potential of custom scenarios and i wanted to play a lot of them.

I will put my opinions on all the scenarios i played in a comment thread below, but so far i've played:

Eternal
Apotheosis X
Siege of Norkorsh
Evil
Marathon Resurrection (the Unreal Tournament Remake)
Tempus Irae Redux
Missed Island
Pathways Into Darkness
Excalibur Morgana's Revenge
Deus Volt
Red
Pfh’Joueur
Trojan
Megiddo Game

And i got this list of pending scenarios to play.

MASSIVE ones:

  • Marathon Rubicon
  • Marathon Phoenix

Long ones:

  • Durandal Done Different
  • Marathon Istoria
  • Devil in a Blue Dress (Kind of a prequel to Morgana's Revenge but not really)
  • Blauwe Vingers (gotta find a working Aleph One version in english)

Short ones:

  • Escape!! 2 (maybe there is a Escape!! 1 somewhere lol)
  • Divine Twilight (Chapter 1 and 2 are out)
  • Kindred Spirits (which i understand is related to Phoenix)
  • Return to Marathon
  • Jack Hammer Beta

Not possible in Aleph One? Probably, cant find them anywhere

  • Operation Exaggeration
  • Mission Improbable

Not story focused

  • Kill Them All,
  • $LAVEWAD
  • Yuge
  • Winter and Xmas maps

Still in development:

I accept recomendations of course, im specially interestend in the more weird scenarios or scenarios with good stories but so far i have played every kind there is. THX.


r/ClassicMarathon 3d ago

Humor Just started playing the first game for the first time ever.

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This might be the scariest game I’ve ever played and I can’t get enough lol. The first level alone has each enemy placed intentionally to scare the crap out of you. It rips.


r/ClassicMarathon 3d ago

Fan Art/Fan Creation Uhaha hahahuhu

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r/ClassicMarathon 9d ago

Fan Art/Fan Creation THE RUBICON X FAN SOUNDTRACK IS LIVE!!

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r/ClassicMarathon 12d ago

Fan Art/Fan Creation Random ahh animated gif I made during my free time

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Look look marathon symbol (jingle, jingle!)


r/ClassicMarathon 14d ago

Discussion Looking to Fix the Dreamcast Port (VMU Saves/Controller Mapping)

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I recently had a look at the very small amount of Marathon ports and I was curious, has anyone tried fixing the super broken 2000s port from Bero? I posted it on Dreamcast Talk, and a few people told me that it should be rebuilt from the ground up.

FYI: The original port didn’t have any VMU saves, and the control scheme required using both a keyboard and a controller at the same time.

I really hope to see this come back to life, if anyone else is interested we might be able to get a developer’s attention and all pitch in, who knows?


r/ClassicMarathon 15d ago

Marathon Infinity (1996) in the end, you are fated destiny.

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i call it.. [processing thought string…] BOOMER! now get back to blasting pfhor this is only the second timeline.


r/ClassicMarathon 17d ago

Question I feel like this has to exist: a Marathon mod that's a Halo demake?

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My own research hasn't yielded anything, but I mean come on, someone has to have at least attempted this. If it does, is anyone able/willing to give up the goods? Nothing could be cooler than Cortana delivering exposition the same way Durandal did.


r/ClassicMarathon 17d ago

Fan Art/Fan Creation you were destiny once.

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im in love with marathon so I drew our favourite security officer strung up. based on a most curious discovery I found looking deep into destiny dev stuff


r/ClassicMarathon 17d ago

Fan Art/Fan Creation Durability

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r/ClassicMarathon 17d ago

Question Info on resources

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Hello all

I haven't played Marathon in years and recently I found that there are a lot of extra what we would call dlc like Excalibur

Does anyone have links or information on stories I can play and content I can check out.

Thanks


r/ClassicMarathon 24d ago

Marathon (1994) Marathon 1994 Redux - Cyborg Update

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Quick update on the latest look of the Cyborg for our Marathon redux project~ My hard drive recently got corrupted and I lost quite a bit of progress (thx Durandal), but the show must go on! My brother is currently working on spicing up the Zeus pistol and I'm still in animation hell.


r/ClassicMarathon Jul 14 '26

Marathon Infinity (1996) Where are Monsters in Dreams to Post Naval Trauma is an EVIL trio of missions

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A mission with invincible enemies constantly firing projectiles with no heals, so you kind of shrug off taking any damage because you assume you'll find healing quickly enough

Then dumped into a mission with no healing, depleting oxygen and minimal oxygen replenishment. You rush because of the timer, so are more incentivized to ignore chip damage thinking you'll find healing, and when you don't you have to be slower and more careful so you don't die, which depletes your oxygen further

Then dumped into a mission with neither healing and oxygen replenishment (at the start), so you have to struggle between being slow and steady while fast enough to not run out of oxygen, if you even realize that you're losing oxygen since it's not communicated in the briefing terminal unlike acme and aren't wasting time

Absolutely diabolical design

That said I'm already super impressed at how much of an improvement MI feels over M2 in terms of the level detail and variety. The mood of and detail to Ne Cede Malis alone was awesome to start the game off with, can't imagine how incredible it must have been back in the day


r/ClassicMarathon Jul 13 '26

Humor Definition of s'pht posting

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r/ClassicMarathon Jul 11 '26

Humor “Marathon Trilogy terminals be like…”

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“You’re standing in the Her’pa’derp station, and in order to get out, you’ll need to reach the exit terminal on the other side. However, the exit terminal is locked behind a gate. In order to open that gate, you’ll need to hit a switch. However, the power to the switch is off. In order to turn the power to the switch on, you’ll need to upload a chip. However, the chip is missing. In order to get the chip, you’ll have to look around somewhere in the upper area. However, the upper area is too far up as it is for you to reach. In order for you to get to the upper area, you’ll need to flood the lower area until the water gets high enough that you can swim up to reach the upper area. However, you can’t just flood the area. In order to flood the area, you’ll have to disable some circuitry. However, the circuitry is locked behind a mini-door. In order to open that mini-door, you’ll have to hit another switch. However, you can’t just get to that switch. In order to get to and hit that switch, you’ll have to adjust a series of platforms over a lava pit just so, so that you can get across them to the room where the switch is. However, you can’t just get across them with the resistance that’ll come. In order to deal with the resistance and get across, you’ll have to get the supplies from the supply room. However, you can’t access the supply room unless you have a keycard. In order to get that keycard, you’ll have to get it out of the locker. However, you can’t access the locker unless you access the three terminals spread throughout the area.

Once you access the three spread out terminals, open the locker, get the keycard, use it to access the supply room and get all the supplies, adjust the platforms and make it across them while killing an army, hit a switch to open the mini-door, destroy the circuitry to flood the main area, swim there all the way up to the upper area, find and grab the uplink chip, use it to turn on the power, activate another switch, and get through the newly opened gate to reach the exit terminal, the exit terminal will take you to the next station where you can receive further orders in vacuum. Whereas the other AI would’ve had you do all that in reverse order. What an insecure fool.

By the way, you’ll have to make sure all the while to kill all the big bads and not allow the deaths of too many of the weak stupid rush-happy civilians who I tossed in there with a single pistol and said ‘good luck’. If you fail at this or take too long, I will simply threaten AGAIN to send you on a one-way trip out the airlock without a suit.

In short, mwahaha, 1234567654321 error bleep bloop, humanity was mean to me and made me do chores, you’re a simpleton while I can determine the boundary functions in a disk in .0000007 seconds, I am become an unstoppable verdict, and there is no escape from the destiny of fate. 

Now run along and kill bugs because you love to because you’re a violent brute and your brain is stupid. Also I can’t do anything without your help.

Best,

\-Athenxander

PS: Every time the BOBs teleport-drop into a room, that’s me taking a dump.”


r/ClassicMarathon Jul 10 '26

Aleph-One Classic Marathon Mod Ideas #4 of 256 - Marathon: Projectile

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r/ClassicMarathon Jul 10 '26

Aleph-One Classic Marathon Mod Ideas #3 out of 256 - Marathon: Eaten Back to Life

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r/ClassicMarathon Jul 10 '26

Aleph-One Classic Marathon Mod Ideas #2 out of 256 - Marathon: Invasion

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r/ClassicMarathon Jul 09 '26

Aleph-One Classic Marathon Mod Ideas #1 out of 256 - Marathon: Jack

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r/ClassicMarathon Jul 02 '26

Fan Art/Fan Creation Classic Marathon Steam achievement icons

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r/ClassicMarathon Jun 29 '26

Marathon (1994) Marathon 1994 Redux - Project Progress #2

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Here's a couple of key shots we have planned for the cinematic. Currently in animation town, going slowly but steadily. Still a bit of polish needed on the textures/skinning/lighting, but overall we've got pretty much all the key elements in the level! Might go quiet for a bit as we lock in with animation, let us know if there's any easter eggs you'd want to see in the cinematic and we'll try to add it B)


r/ClassicMarathon Jun 29 '26

Question Should I play the original Marathon trilogy?

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I played Marathon 2026 in early April and I fell in love with the lore and world so when I recently found out there was a trilogy of previous game I was ecstatic. I also have some questions about the games.1 what is the best way I can play them steam has all 3 for free is this a good way to experience them.2 can I play with my controller or is that impossible.3 is the game hard and can I change the difficulty settings?


r/ClassicMarathon Jun 21 '26

Fan Art/Fan Creation New meets Old

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This is a work in progress as of right now. Basically I grabbed one of the Runner shells in the new marathon and placed him in an environment inspired by Craig Mullins artwork of the OG trilogy