Elemental Knight
08-07-2002, 01:43 PM
"The invention of time travel may eventually save humanity's future by teaching the world of the tragic mistakes of the past."
- Dr. Elliot Sinclair, inventor of the Pegasus Device, August 2315
Who here's played the Journeyman Project trilogy? It was a fun series of games made begun waaay back in '92, about the future's troubles with mad scientists, turncoat agents, and general destructive forces.
The first game, The Journeyman Project, involved the creator of the Pegasus Machine, Dr. Sinclair, going insane and sending robots into the (relative) past to change the timeline. The heroic, stoic, and slightly handsome Gage Blackwood, Agent 5, hopped into the pegasus machine and went after the robots in locales such as Mars and 65,000,000 BCE. Eventually, Dr. Sinclair is captred and Gage is considered a hero.
Sequals being sequals, tough, all was not well. Some time after the events in The Journeyman Project, The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time chronicled the events of Gage Blackwood, Gage Blackwood, and Arthur. You see, several temporal discrepencies - little things, but bad nonetheless - were blamed on the Gage Blackwood of ten years in the future (relative). He goes back in time to the earlier Gage, tells him of the trouble, and transfers his Jumpsuit - a portable Pegasus machine complete with cloacking Biochip - and goes to jail to allow the earlier Gage to figure out why Gage is being framed. You had to find little clues in locales such as King Richard's castle and Leonardo Da Vinci's compound. It turns out that a renegade agent, Agent 3, had sold out to an alien race and was giving them the blueprints to the Pegasus Machine via changes in certain artifacts that were going to be auctioned off in the future. Gage enlisted the help of Arthur, an abandoned AI in a space station of about eighty years past (relative) to help him figure out the frequent puzzles. Once captured by Agent 3, Arthur turned himself into a virus and infect Agent 3's Jump Suit, blasting both her and it off into who-knows-when. Gage stopped the alien's Pegasus machine and escaped, but the Temporal Security Agency and the Deep Time Unit were pretty much scrapped due to legalities. The earlier Gage's memory was wiped clean of the events, and ten years later he'd start the cycle again, but from the other end of the stick.
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time followed the events after the later Gage was cleared of all charges. Following the disassembly of all the Jumpsuits, a large chronometric displacement wave forced our heor to hop into the experimental Chameleon Suit, able to mimic a person's appearance and alowing interaction with people of the past, and stop the menace. Due to the fact that I haven't beaten this one, I won'
t go further except to say that you get to see Arthur again, and you get to go to Atlantis, Shangri-La, and El Dorado.
So, anyone know where I can get a copy of the games? My mom lent them all to a friend and I haven't seen them since. ALso, do you remember any favorite easter eggs/anomalies/memories/etc.?
- Dr. Elliot Sinclair, inventor of the Pegasus Device, August 2315
Who here's played the Journeyman Project trilogy? It was a fun series of games made begun waaay back in '92, about the future's troubles with mad scientists, turncoat agents, and general destructive forces.
The first game, The Journeyman Project, involved the creator of the Pegasus Machine, Dr. Sinclair, going insane and sending robots into the (relative) past to change the timeline. The heroic, stoic, and slightly handsome Gage Blackwood, Agent 5, hopped into the pegasus machine and went after the robots in locales such as Mars and 65,000,000 BCE. Eventually, Dr. Sinclair is captred and Gage is considered a hero.
Sequals being sequals, tough, all was not well. Some time after the events in The Journeyman Project, The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time chronicled the events of Gage Blackwood, Gage Blackwood, and Arthur. You see, several temporal discrepencies - little things, but bad nonetheless - were blamed on the Gage Blackwood of ten years in the future (relative). He goes back in time to the earlier Gage, tells him of the trouble, and transfers his Jumpsuit - a portable Pegasus machine complete with cloacking Biochip - and goes to jail to allow the earlier Gage to figure out why Gage is being framed. You had to find little clues in locales such as King Richard's castle and Leonardo Da Vinci's compound. It turns out that a renegade agent, Agent 3, had sold out to an alien race and was giving them the blueprints to the Pegasus Machine via changes in certain artifacts that were going to be auctioned off in the future. Gage enlisted the help of Arthur, an abandoned AI in a space station of about eighty years past (relative) to help him figure out the frequent puzzles. Once captured by Agent 3, Arthur turned himself into a virus and infect Agent 3's Jump Suit, blasting both her and it off into who-knows-when. Gage stopped the alien's Pegasus machine and escaped, but the Temporal Security Agency and the Deep Time Unit were pretty much scrapped due to legalities. The earlier Gage's memory was wiped clean of the events, and ten years later he'd start the cycle again, but from the other end of the stick.
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time followed the events after the later Gage was cleared of all charges. Following the disassembly of all the Jumpsuits, a large chronometric displacement wave forced our heor to hop into the experimental Chameleon Suit, able to mimic a person's appearance and alowing interaction with people of the past, and stop the menace. Due to the fact that I haven't beaten this one, I won'
t go further except to say that you get to see Arthur again, and you get to go to Atlantis, Shangri-La, and El Dorado.
So, anyone know where I can get a copy of the games? My mom lent them all to a friend and I haven't seen them since. ALso, do you remember any favorite easter eggs/anomalies/memories/etc.?