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Re: Marathon mentioned in Outside Xbox Video
Posted By: Lion O CyborgDate: 2/25/21 7:44 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Marathon mentioned in Outside Xbox Video (General-RADIX)

: Apple and other companies sure did throw a lot of support behind an operating
: system that "nobody" used. :U

It's sad because the Mac ports of some classic games like Prince of Persia 1+2 or the original System Shock ended up looking and sounding better than their DOS counterparts, similar to the Amiga vs DOS vs the Apple II before Windows & Mac came out. I guess if the trilogy started on Mac but all three got ported to Windows back then as well to compete with Doom 2, Final Doom and Strife, DOS & Windows gamers may not have missed out.

Thankfully a lot of us could still accept reading in our shooty games since we had Strife and System Shock (the floppy disk version of the latter had no voice acting so "audio logs" behaved like terminals instead), but they were still very obscure compared to most 2.5D FPSs or System Shock 2 because Strife came out between Duke Nukem 3D & Quake, and the original DOS release of System Shock 1 (not the Enhanced Edition for Windows) had similar controls to Ultima Underworld i.e. god awful.

Despite using Windows all my life, I always wanted to play Marathon when I first heard of it in high school, because I loved Halo and wanted to see Bungie's inspiration game for it (I didn't know about the Windows 95 port back then) but as far as I know, Aleph One wasn't out at that point and being 12 to my early teens, I didn't know what emulators were.

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Marathon mentioned in Outside Xbox Video *LINK*Tim "Mordeir" Branin 2/23/21 6:48 p.m.
     Re: Marathon mentioned in Outside Xbox VideoSharkie Lino 2/23/21 7:01 p.m.
           Re: Marathon mentioned in Outside Xbox VideoGodot 2/23/21 9:52 p.m.
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           Re: Marathon mentioned in Outside Xbox VideoVikingBoyBilly 2/24/21 4:40 a.m.
                 Re: Marathon mentioned in Outside Xbox VideoSharkie Lino 2/24/21 3:32 p.m.
                       Re: Marathon mentioned in Outside Xbox VideoGodot 2/24/21 10:01 p.m.
                             Re: Marathon mentioned in Outside Xbox VideoLion O Cyborg 2/25/21 7:20 a.m.
                             Re: Marathon mentioned in Outside Xbox VideoSharkie Lino 2/25/21 12:09 p.m.
     Re: Marathon mentioned in Outside Xbox VideoGeneral-RADIX 2/24/21 2:30 p.m.
           Re: Marathon mentioned in Outside Xbox VideoVikingBoyBilly 2/25/21 2:34 a.m.
                 Re: Marathon mentioned in Outside Xbox VideoGeneral-RADIX 2/25/21 2:57 a.m.
                       Re: Marathon mentioned in Outside Xbox VideoLion O Cyborg 2/25/21 7:44 a.m.
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                       Re: Marathon mentioned in Outside Xbox VideoSharkie Lino 2/25/21 12:14 p.m.
                             Re: Marathon mentioned in Outside Xbox VideoGeneral-RADIX 2/26/21 4:40 a.m.
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