Right when I was wondering yet again if I'd be able to think of anything to write a post about to break up the commentary on Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes, I saw news that the long-running project working on the open-source version of the Marathon games had at last reached its "1.0" release. What mattered a bit more to me, though, was that self-contained package versions of the three Marathon games had also been updated and released. It does sort of bring me back.
If there's one thing about these new packages that's going to take getting used to, though, it might be "control schemes." I grew used to playing Marathon using the keys on the numeric keypad, but with the computer I now have (vastly more capable than the one we had back then), the numeric keypad is a third-party add-on I have switched off most of the time to save its batteries. Adjusting the trackpad settings and using keys I admit to having already put to use with Halo and Portal seems to be a little tricky.