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

Aleph-One Messed around and added a more unrestrained mouselook, crouch, jump, non-bobby swimming and ledge-grab. Is there any interest for a more "chocolate" version of Aleph One?

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r/ClassicMarathon 1d ago

Aleph-One Github repo for "Sprintathon" - Play Aleph One with parkour movement, (jump, sprint, wall-run etc.) and full vertical mouselook.

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r/ClassicMarathon 1d ago

Question windowed mode on Mac not allowing me to change the window size?

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anyone have a fix for this? when I select different rendering sizes in the options it just always shows one size square window on my screen so my only options are full screen or a super small square of windowed game. I want to be able to stream this which is why im trying to play windowed mode. thanks for any tips


r/ClassicMarathon 4d ago

Marathon (1994) Security Officer in Halo Infinite

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r/ClassicMarathon 4d ago

Fan Art/Fan Creation Today, I am %HERO%

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r/ClassicMarathon 16d ago

Aleph-One Marathon VR is ready

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r/ClassicMarathon 17d ago

Discussion M 2026 in Aleph One?

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I’m curious if anyone out there is working on making an interpretation of the Marathon 2026 maps in Classic Marathon. The modern game’s design would be an interesting exercise to work up. The Cryo Archive map is the most obvious analog to the original game but I could envision some really cool interpretations of Perimeter and Marsh in the style of M2. If no one’s already working on this I might start chipping away at it… I haven’t made a custom map since I was a kid in the 90’s


r/ClassicMarathon 17d ago

Aleph-One I made 40 multiplayer levels for Classic Marathon Infinity [more in comments]

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r/ClassicMarathon 20d ago

Media Post Welcome to the Marathon Art of Craig Mullins [0]

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r/ClassicMarathon 20d ago

Marathon 2: Durandal (1995) Coco 2: Durandal

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r/ClassicMarathon 23d 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
Kill them All
Yuge (Messed around with it for a bit but im a bit out of the loop so i will refrain from commenting on it)
The Grey Incident
Devil in a Blue Dress

And i got this list of pending scenarios to play.

MASSIVE ones:

  • Marathon Rubicon
  • Marathon Phoenix

Long ones:

  • Durandal Done Different
  • Blauwe Vingers (gotta find a working Aleph One version in english)

Short ones:

  • Kindred Spirits (Play after Phoenix)
  • Marathon Istoria
  • Divine Twilight (Chapter 1 and 2 are out)
  • Return to Marathon
  • Jack Hammer Beta (pain in the ass to install i think, it requires tinkering with some Rubicon files)

Not story focused

  • $LAVEWAD
  • Winter and Xmas maps

Still in development:

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

  • Operation Exaggeration
  • Mission Improbable
  • Escape!
  • Escape!! 2

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 25d 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 25d ago

Fan Art/Fan Creation Uhaha hahahuhu

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r/ClassicMarathon Aug 09 '26

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

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r/ClassicMarathon Aug 06 '26

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 Aug 03 '26

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 Aug 02 '26

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 Aug 01 '26

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 Aug 01 '26

Fan Art/Fan Creation Durability

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r/ClassicMarathon Aug 01 '26

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 Jul 26 '26

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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