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How To Play The Marathon Trilogy In Ubuntu 12.04

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The Powerbase; By Dean Howell
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Halo fans probably know this better than anyone, but for those of you who are in the dark, this is for you. The Marathon Trilogy was a suite of first-person shooters developed for the classic Macintosh in the mid-90s by Bungie Software.

Halo fans probably know this better than anyone, but for those of you who are in the dark, this is for you. The Marathon Trilogy was a suite of first-person shooters developed for the classic Macintosh in the mid-90s by Bungie Software. Mrathon 2 would later see a release for Windows 95, but other than that, the series became the flagship first-person shooter franchise for Macintosh. The first Marathon, released in 1994, was the first first-person shooter to offer modifiable physics and dual-wield weapons and alternate shots. While breaking a lot of new ground, the game itself is undeniably a timepiece, or benchmark example if you will, of the mid-90s pre-Quake era.

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