Marathon Screen Shots
| Filename | marathon-screen-shots.hqx |
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| Size | 162.8 KB (166736 bytes) |
| Downloads | 14 |
A small collage of pre-release screen shots from Bungie Software's then-upcoming 3D action game Marathon, gathered from America Online and submitted to Info-Mac in September 1994 by Stephen Jonke (jonke@gsfc.nasa.gov). The package preserves a snapshot of how Marathon was being previewed to Mac users months before its 1994 release.
Contents
The archive expands to a StuffIt file named Marathon_ScreenShots_Folder.sit containing image files of in-engine views of Bungie's first-person shooter. The shots capture early environments and HUD elements as they appeared during the game's pre-launch promotion.
Origin
Jonke notes the images were pulled from America Online, where Bungie and enthusiasts circulated promotional material in the months leading up to Marathon's debut on the Macintosh. The collage reflects the period's typical online preview culture rather than an official press kit.
Format
Distributed as a BinHex 4.0 (.hqx) wrapper around a StuffIt archive. Decoding requires BinHex 4.0 (or Stuffit Expander) followed by extraction of the inner .sit folder to view the individual screen shot files on a Classic Mac OS system.
This file is part of the MacTrove archive. See the Thank You page for the upstream mirrors we rely on. It is BinHex encoded — use The Unarchiver to decode it.
