Totally legit WizardWorks Marathon compilation scan found!!

[oneselfSelf]

 

This is the only scan I could find of it. A bit crusty but I cannot find any other listing for this compliation and not even the most in-depth Marathon sites even mention it.

[LadyMistDragon]

If that existed, that might be a holy grail. Except that the quality is obviously going to be comparable to other WizardWorks products but still.

[mrthejoshmon]

If this is actually real and legit I would love to see the "new aliens" and other wacky things snuck in.

 

Already checked Archive org and found a few compilations but not this one.

[taufan99]

What a coincidence that I just (re-)downloaded Aleph One yesterday! Hope this one makes it to te internet, no matter how questionable the quality is.

[Murdoch]

Why the interest? Surely this would just be a compilation of stuff "borrowed" from the early Internet? Or did something happen that caused maps for this game to get lost? 

[Wahrnehmungskrieg]

11 hours ago, Murdoch said:

Why the interest? Surely this would just be a compilation of stuff "borrowed" from the early Internet? Or did something happen that caused maps for this game to get lost? 

There's a Will Self novel exploring the religion that would arise from a mentally ill cab driver's rants when rediscovered in the far future. Imagine if we could do the same for a crap Marathon level pack when the whatever-we-copy-it-to's get read in the year 6000. It would be the biggest and most belated April Fools' joke one could ever pull on humanity

[mrthejoshmon]

13 hours ago, Murdoch said:

Why the interest? Surely this would just be a compilation of stuff "borrowed" from the early Internet? Or did something happen that caused maps for this game to get lost? 

Novelty mainly.

 

Secondly, I am very curious on what would be included, it could be literally anything and that is a compelling dive in upon itself (I recently came across a Duke 3D shovelware that was utterly insane in the ranges it went through, one level was a bad 90s user map consisting of odd shaped rooms, the next level was a room filled with strange Build Engine mapping experiments in a fully designed test chamber, the next one was just high resolution (for the time) naked women).

 

Thirdly, the custom content (the mentioned aliens and weapons), what could they be? It's intriguing.

[chemo]

13 hours ago, Murdoch said:

Why the interest? Surely this would just be a compilation of stuff "borrowed" from the early Internet? Or did something happen that caused maps for this game to get lost? 

I think these shovelware map packs are super fascinating even if it is stuff that could maybe be found elsewhere on the internet. Just the fact that this was sold in stores by a fairly prominent company (WizardWorks was a subsidiary of GT Interactive, btw) is highly amusing as-is, but if you delve into these packs without prior knowledge of what's inside, you may find some gold nuggets of hilariously incompetent map-making that may catch you by surprise.

[taufan99]

14 hours ago, Murdoch said:

Why the interest? Surely this would just be a compilation of stuff "borrowed" from the early Internet? Or did something happen that caused maps for this game to get lost? 

I know two persons have quoted you before me at this point, but the Marathon series, among 1990's FPS giants, has remained extremely niche among the genre aficionados due to it being confined to Mac at the time, despite having even been re-released as freeware for all major computing platforms in the 21st century. As such, even (most of) the custom content made for the games back in the days has remained mostly unknown to this date.

[DNSKILL5]

Unless a copy is found, we must consider that this advertisement is for something that never actually got released. 

[oneselfSelf]

Alright before it gets out of hand and someone really tries to find this, I need to admit that this is not real and is merely a tribute I created for those crappy shovelware packs like D!Zone. I find them really fascinating and I don't ever think Marathon ever had shovelware made for it, so made a mockup of what it possibly could have looked like if it did.

 

Had this been real though I think it would have been called M!Zone but I wanted to make it obvious that it was a fake so I used a different name. I don't think WizardWorks ever went off the "!Zone" branding.

[mrthejoshmon]

38 minutes ago, oneselfSelf said:

Alright before it gets out of hand and someone really tries to find this, I need to admit that this is not real and is merely a tribute I created for those crappy shovelware packs like D!Zone. I find them really fascinating and I don't ever think Marathon ever had shovelware made for it, so made a mockup of what it possibly could have looked like if it did.

 

Had this been real though I think it would have been called M!Zone but I wanted to make it obvious that it was a fake so I used a different name. I don't think WizardWorks ever went off the "!Zone" branding.

I am going to bury you alive.

 

Just joking. ^{Live dissection.}

[taufan99]

49 minutes ago, oneselfSelf said:

Alright before it gets out of hand and someone really tries to find this, I need to admit that this is not real and is merely a tribute I created for those crappy shovelware packs like D!Zone. I find them really fascinating and I don't ever think Marathon ever had shovelware made for it, so made a mockup of what it possibly could have looked like if it did.

 

Had this been real though I think it would have been called M!Zone but I wanted to make it obvious that it was a fake so I used a different name. I don't think WizardWorks ever went off the "!Zone" branding.

Not forgivable. I hope your days are haunted by W'rkncacnter everywhere in every nook and cranny of places you know and/or visit.

[oneselfSelf]

7 minutes ago, taufan99 said:

Not forgivable. I hope your days are haunted by W'rkncacnter everywhere in every nook and cranny of places you know and/or visit.

 

The W'rkncacnter ain't nothing to me. They couldn't even consume one very sleepy Battleroid.

[ReaperAA]

On 5/22/2024 at 11:59 PM, oneselfSelf said:

Alright before it gets out of hand and someone really tries to find this, I need to admit that this is not real and is merely a tribute I created for those crappy shovelware packs like D!Zone.

 

What gave it away for me was not the lack of !Zone name, but the "Marathon 2: Durandal". Marathon 2 never had the Durandal in mentioned its title until the XBLA version.

[oneselfSelf]

33 minutes ago, ReaperAA said:

 

What gave it away for me was not the lack of !Zone name, but the "Marathon 2: Durandal". Marathon 2 never had the Durandal in mentioned its title until the XBLA version.

 

Are you sure? Because the original covers do have the Durandal subtitle in it. The XBLA version dropped the "2" and called it "Marathon Durandal".

[ReaperAA]

21 minutes ago, oneselfSelf said:

 

Are you sure? Because the original covers do have the Durandal subtitle in it. The XBLA version dropped the "2" and called it "Marathon Durandal".

 

Oh. Well thanks for correcting me. I don't why I thought the Durandal was only added in xbla. Yeah, they dropped the 2 in xbla.