* The Marathon Trilogy, a series of first-person shooters for the Macintosh produced by Bungie Software in the mid-1990s

* " Marathon ", an episode from the tenth season of the NBC series Law & Order

The MCG, often referred to by locals as " The G ", has also hosted other major events, including International Rules between the Australian Football League ( AFL ) and Gaelic Athletic Association, international Rugby union, State of Origin series ( rugby league ), FIFA World Cup qualifiers and International Friendly matches, serves as the finish line for the Melbourne Marathon and also major rock concerts.

The World Marathon Majors series includes the five most prestigious marathon competitions at the elite level – the Berlin, Boston, Chicago, London, and New York City marathons.

The Marathon Trilogy is a science fiction first-person shooter video game series from Bungie, originally released for the Macintosh.

The three games in the series — Marathon ( 1994 ), Marathon 2: Durandal ( 1995 ), and Marathon Infinity ( 1996 )— are widely regarded as spiritual predecessors of Bungie's Halo series.

Marathon 2 brings many elements to the game that can be considered staples of the series such as: a Lh ' owon-native species known as F ' lickta, the mention of an ancient and mysterious race of advanced aliens called the Jjaro, and a clan of S ' pht that avoided enslavement by the Pfhor: the S ' pht ' Kr.

Marathon Infinity, the final game in the series, includes more levels than Marathon 2, which are larger and part of a more intricate plot.

Bungie produced a compilation of all three games of the series called the Marathon Trilogy Box Set in 1997.

The first contained all three Marathon games as well as Pathways Into Darkness, an earlier Bungie game that the series included in its continuity.

Fans of Marathon have discovered many uses of the number seven throughout the series.

In the Marathon series, rampancy occurs most often to AIs with limited jobs or those treated with extreme disrespect.

1968 brought the first of a series of British-organised intercontinental rallies, the Daily Express London-Sydney Marathon, which attracted over 100 crews including a number of works teams and top drivers ; it was won by the Hillman Hunter of Andrew Cowan / Brian Coyle / Colin Malkin.

* Aleph One ( game engine ), an ongoing project related to the computer game series Marathon

White retained her normal sixth-seat position and was the only one from the original series to appear for this segment of Gameshow Marathon.

On 29 October 2005, Family Fortunes returned as the " grand final " of Ant & Dec's Gameshow Marathon, a series of revivals of former popular ITV game shows shown to mark the channel's 50th anniversary, and hosted by its most ubiquitous presenters of recent years.

After her talk show had wrapped production on its final season, Lake went on to host the 2006 CBS limited series Gameshow Marathon, which re-created classic game shows with celebrity contestants.

Elite level road running series include the World Marathon Majors, the Great Run series, and IAAF Road Race Label Events.

The game's code changed little since Marathon 2, and many levels can be played unmodified in both games.

Marathon network games can be played over AppleTalk Remote, LocalTalk, TokenTalk, Ethernet, and more recently, a LAN network or the Internet.

Marathon was first released for the Macintosh in 1994 and introduced many concepts now common in mainstream video games.

Within the next few years, Marathon 2's engine was reused by other developers to create the games ZPC, Prime Target and Damage Incorporated.

All three Marathon games can be downloaded for free for the Macintosh, PC and Linux platforms, release notes can be found here:

They are first introduced in Pathways Into Darkness, in which they warn Earth of the imminent threat of a " waking god " ( possibly a W ' rkncacnter, a chaotic entity from the Marathon games ).

The W ' rkncacnter is a chaotic entity ( or possibly entities ) from the Marathon Trilogy of games created by Bungie.

The Marathon Trilogy has often been looked upon as a symbol of Macintosh gaming for its innovative technologies previously unseen in mainstream games.

* Damage Incorporated, Prime Target and ZPC, three commercial games created using the Marathon 2 engine.

On June 22, 2006 Match Game was the sixth of seven classic game shows featured in CBS ' month-long Gameshow Marathon hosted by Ricki Lake and announced by Rich Fields, and the second of two " semi-final " games in the tournament.

Annual events include Dance Marathon, a thirty-hour event that raised more than a million dollars for charity in 2011 ; and Project Pumpkin, a Halloween celebration hosted by the Northwestern Community Development Corps ( NCDC ) to which more than 800 local children are invited for an afternoon of games and sweets.

The distance from the start of the Marathon to the finish at the stadium was established at these games.

In 2004, in a series marred by controversy ( Ponce almost threatened to pull out of game six during the fourth quarter ), the Leones won their twelfth championship, defeating the Coamo Marathon Runners in seven games, with a game seven score of 92-77.

During the Olympic games in 2004, a part of the historical Marathon passed through Agia Paraskevi in Mesogeion avenue, and this was deemed a great moment for the municipality.

Blood was also one of the first FPS games ( along with Marathon, Heretic, Strife and Star Wars: Dark Forces ) to feature " alternate " or " secondary " attack modes for its weapons ; most weapons in Blood have two different methods of dealing damage, in contrast to previous games in which each weapon had only a single type of attack.

was later included in several compilations of early Bungie games, including the Marathon Trilogy Box Set and the Mac Action Sack.

* Born on Board, the humans in the Marathon Trilogy computer games

Halo Effect: An Unauthorized Look at the Most Successful Video Game of All Time, an essay on references to mythology in Halo and previous Bungie games, analyzed the significance of Cortana's name, stating is a variant of Curtana, the sword used by the legendary Ogier the Dane, just as the titular AI character of Marathon 2: Durandal is apparently named after another legendary sword, Durendal.

It is the more remarkable that no incidents are recorded in the period between Marathon and Salamis, since at the time of the Isthmian Congress the war was described as the most important one then being waged in Greece,

# There is an incidental indication of time, which points to the period after Marathon as the true date for the events which are referred by Herodotus to the year before Marathon, viz.

There are many variations of this theory, but perhaps the most prevalent is that the cavalry was re-embarked on the ships, and was to be sent by sea to attack ( undefended ) Athens in the rear, whilst the rest of the Persians pinned down the Athenian army at Marathon.

Head courses usually vary in length from 2, 000 m to 12, 000 m, though there are longer races such as the Boston Rowing Marathon and shorter such as Pairs Head.

The origins of the Olympics and Marathon running are shrouded by myth and legend, though the first recorded game took place in 776 BCE.

* April 17 – The first Boston Marathon in which women are officially allowed to compete.

There are two roads out of the battlefield of Marathon towards Athens, one more mountainous towards the north whose distance is about, and another flatter but longer towards the south with a distance of.

Elements of the plot and setting of Marathon are similar to The Jesus Incident by Frank Herbert and Bill Ransom.

In Marathon 2 and Marathon Infinity, the player can swim in four different types of media: water, sewage, lava and acid / plasma ; the latter two are damaging to health.

There are beta versions of Marathon on this disc as well.

They never appear in gameplay, and in the Marathon Trilogy are referred to only within the computer terminals.

Marathon 2: Durandal contains many mythological texts of the S ' pht, but they are inconsistent on this point.

There are instances of this number in the plot, such as the player being seven years old at the time of his father's death, and Marathon 2 beginning seventeen years after the events of Marathon.

The three chapters of Marathon Infinity are entitled " Despair ", " Rage ", and " Envy ", suggesting that the player himself ( strongly implied to be a cyborg ) may be undergoing his own Rampancy throughout the course of the game's events.