I am a Marathon fan and have followed the series ever since i played the "Marathon 4L demo" for the Macintosh, back in 1995. When me and my brother first played that demo, we became hooked and couldn't stop playing it. We used to play the demo almost every single day, hoping to find something new each time.
Luckily, we got the demo around Christmas time, so our father secretly decided to buy us the game as a present for Christmas Day. Our father searched several computer stores here in our country(Puerto Rico), but couldn't find the game. So the only way we could get the game was by ordering the game from a mail order catalog.
So my father decided to start browsing computer product catalogs to see if he could find the game and order it, he had already told us that he was trying to "get Santa Claus to bring us the game for Christmas", but "that Santa needed to know the name of a computer product mail order catalog that had the game so that he would know which helper to send to pick up the game and give it to him(Santa)" so we decided to help him by browsing other catalogs to see if we could find it.
So one day, me and my brother were browsing catalogs, when my brother found not only Marathon, but a "bundle pack" which included Marathon and Marathon 2: Durandal(Which we didn't know existed). I don't remember how much the bundle pack was being sold at, i think it was $52.00, but i can't exactly remember
.At that moment, my brother yelled "Holy crap!!!, no way!!!". When my brother showed it to my dad, my father said something along the lines of:
I only told Santa to bring one game, guess i'll have to tell him that there's also a sequel and it's already available, maybe he will end up getting that bundle pack instead of the first game, who knows!. I'll see if i can get him to bring you kids that one".
Anyway, even though Christmas Day came and went and my father couldn't get the bundle pack to ship home on that date, it shipped home on January 5, 1996. One day before "Three Kings Day", another day that is celebrated here in Puerto Rico, in which children also get presents.
How i got Marathon: Infinity?, well...let's just say that i will leave that story for another day.
I also have to add, that if it weren't for the Marathon series, i wouldn't have decided to start learning english, since the player spends a considerable amount of all three games reading messages from computer terminals, and a certain mastery of the english language is needed to interpret what the AI's are telling you in those messages.
Well, that is all for now.
See you starside!.
