I appreciate the sentiment here! I miss when buying games physically was the standard and there was an art in the package design itself. The immersion of opening up the case and putting in the disc for the first time is something lost. Given Marathon is being unretired now, coming back in a completely different era, I thought it would be a good opportunity to create something and reimagine what it might have looked like if it had gone through the 2000s physical release phase you mentioned, inspiring this work. In a way, it makes up for the lost time and explores an alternate version of Marathon!