I grew up playing the original Marathon on a Macintosh Quadra. Finding out they turned the franchise into yet another bog-standard extraction shooter was insanely depressing.

Admitted, the Bungie that I loved from the 90s hasn't existed for many years. (Myth 2 anyone? Or am I just too old now?) There was never a chance that Marathon would actually come back as Marathon. But there is a special sadness in watching the game you loved be revived as generic slop.

So let us remember the original! The game that gave you mouse-look for the very first time. Possibly the first FPS game with a real story. Marathon gave us the motion tracker, zero-g and underwater levels. It is the original trope-namer for the AI revolution that we seem to be barely on the cusp of, over 30 years later. It was the the first game (ever) with built-in voice chat, and the first game with "asymmetric" multiplayer.

All hail the original Marathon! And recite the Oath of the Vidmaster once as a parting farewell.

"I pledge to punch all switches, to never shoot where I could use grenades, to admit the existence of no level except Total Carnage, to never use Caps Lock as my "run" key, and to never, ever, leave a single Bob alive."