: I know there are quite a few in Oni (I expect at least 7even people to claim
: Konoko isn't Major Kusanagi), but does anyone know if Shirow Masamune's
: venerated cyberpunk series had any influence on the Marathon games?
: The security officer's description of being superior to other colonists
: reminds me of a line from Stand Alone Complex, but I might be remembering
: both with a bit of a miss.
: Just a thought. I have quite a few "what if" plots, or ideas for
: silly, non-cannon modifications to games like marathon, and Ghost in the
: Shell's weapons have always captured my fascination. This is sort of a
: by-product of that, I guess.
I know the first Ghost in the Shell movie came out in 1995, several months after Marathon 1 was published. I'm not sure when the manga was released in the west but I'm sure such things were hard to come by in the mid-1990s.
That said, there appears to be some anime influence in the art design in Marathon.