The Journeyman Project 1: Pegasus Prime
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Return to the spectacular origin of the acclaimed Journeyman Project series in this specially enhanced edition. Get primed for time travel as Agent 5, in a desperate mission to stop a mysterious terrorist behind a series of ‘rips’ in the time-space continuum. Immerse yourself in a series of amazing worlds, encountering fascinating challenges and characters along your way. It’s a non-linear race against the clock to stop the deadly temporal distortion waves before you — and your world along with it — become history!- Features all the rich worlds from the original award-winning adventure game, expanded with upgraded graphics and seamlessly integrated with full-motion video.
- Dozens of puzzles and challenges with adjustable difficulty settings and assistance from online artificial intelligence at your disposal.
- Incorporates "lost features" from the unreleased PlayStation version.
- Immersive gameplay, fascinating characters, and a remastered soundtrack provide a dynamic experience.
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No. of Reviews: 20
Review 1
Purchased!
One of the great 'lost' games For those who don't know, Pegasus Prime is a remake of the original Journeyman Project from way back in 1993. Originally planned for release in 1997 it was plagued with problems. Firstly the Saturn version got cancelled, then the Pippin version was released for a platform that quickly vanished into the long list of Apple failures in the mid 90s. Then the Playstation version was cancelled when the publisher went bankrupt. Eventually a rather cut down version was released solely for the Powermac, unlike the original game which was also available on Windows. So even though Pegasus Prime has been technically available (although long out of print) for some years, it's been a real pain to play, if you can even find a copy. However, in 2012 ScummVM added tentative support for Pegasus Prime. Now the game could be played on modern systems, although you still needed one of the rare copies of the 1997 release and a method of extracting the datafiles (which isn't easy). But in a wonderful twist, some of the original Presto staff started working with ScummVM and between them they managed to fix some of the bugs, spliced back in content that was dummied out long ago like the interactive chases, and released a funky modern version compatible with newer systems that was available on digital download services. So now we have effectively the Director's Cut of the Director's Cut of The Journeyman Project. So...how does it compare to the original? As a longtime fan of the original JP I'd say it is a vast improvement in almost every area. The graphics are miles better, the world is more fleshed out and interactive, there are more puzzles, many of the live action actors from Buried in Time and Legacy of Time return as the same characters to provide a nice sense of continuity, and in general it feels like a more lively, snappy game. My favourite enhancements are the vastle expanded Martian Maze, which always felt like a bit of a letdown and too easy in the original, the little bits of video calling that make you feel there is a world going on outside of what you're seeing, the challenge faced when returning to the TSA after the wave hits and you have to deal with the new staff unaware anything is wrong...and the submarine section, which now actually gives the dock a purpose other than providing atmosphere. On the downside, eh...the new music isn't as good as Geno Andrews' original compositions, and there are a few places where you feel that they're just padding for the sake of length rather than bringing anything new to the game, but they can be excused. Also the interface is a little clunky, requiring a bizarre mix of keyboard and mouse - it's not possible to play with one or the other and the default settings aren't very intuitive. There is a lot more back-and-forth between the time periods than in the original game, but I don't really feel this is a downside...it makes it more of challenge and requires a different method of thinking rather than just "Finish zone A then B then C", as all three zones require something from one or both of the others...this is a trait inherited from the sequels. Most of the problems this game has are present in the original too. Perhaps that's no excuse as they could have fixed them...things like how you have to wait for doors to close behind you before you can move off...and the way that every single interactive display feels the need to read the text out to you before you can do anything. But these are minor complaints. I always felt sad that these games were overshadowed by the likes of Myst and 7th Guest which are the ones people remember, but I never enjoyed them. 7th Guest is nothing more than a series of ancient puzzles loosely strung together with pre-rendered video, and Myst is pretty, but very VERY dull and relies an awful lot on thinking-outside-the-box and "solving the soup cans". By comparison the Journeyman series has a great plot, excellent worldbuilding and a much better sense of immersion. Overall, yes. I would say if you're fan of mid to late 90s interactive adventure games then give this one a try. There is a huge amount of worldbuilding, some really interesting puzzles, and whilst it is possible to die the game does let you carry on from an autosave some moments before, so it's never more than a minor annoyance. The Steam integration is great too, with some really interesting achievements to work for. And then check out the sequels, which for some reason aren't on Steam but you can get them from GOG.com. Buried in Time is a little more...dastardly and perhaps unfair, but Legacy of Time is the best of the lot.
Review 2
Purchased!
BRINGS ME BACK
Review 3
Purchased!
pros: runs stable (most importantly), multiple save files (much needed!), access to hints by selecting the AI chip, 90's cheese soundtrack (remastered) & voice acting (some of the original content with some new), "interface overview" in main menu displays key bindings, lethal & nonlethal options against enemies, upgraded textures compared to the original game cons: cinematics are stuck at 15fps, random fps drops, unforgiving instant death scenarios (a lot of trial-and-error so prepare for a lot of save-and-load), no windowed full-screen option, RNG color puzzle on mars, hit-or-miss on the final puzzle Overall, a PC classic for anyone looking to experience some nostalgia. For anyone new to the game - I would encourage looking at the key mapping first, exercise frequent saves on multiple files, & you will need to time travel at different timelines (usually more than once) to acquire items that allow you to progress. I bought & completed this steam release on day one (7-20-2017) to re-experience this game when I was a young kid during the 90's sitting in front of my family's first PC on windows 95. Nostalgia achieved. Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime has my recommendation, a PC gaming classic!
Review 4
Purchased!
First time in a long time I have bought a game installed it and not turned it off until I finished it. Really great game from the 90s cannot wait to jump into number 2 tomorrow
Review 5
Purchased!
This game was made many years ago, do not rate it as a modern game, you're not going to find that here. For its time it was a great game. and difficult. in the early 90's they didn't really care to provide you forgiveness in games yet. If your a fan of games like shivers or Myst. You'll enjoy this game. I wish they would port over the rest of the journeyman games.
Review 6
Recieved for Free Purchased!
The Journeyman Project series are still fun to play. I loved the original "TURBO" release. I also loved the 3rd one (wish it was on steam). The 2nd one was more frustrating cuz of the puzzles but also the interface felt more claustrophobic. This is a remake of the original and it is amazing. A lot of fun to play through this and the only real criticism I have is some of the hammy acting. The guy playing Baldwin really seems to be overacting like his life depends on it (which is wierd cuz in the 3rd game he's actually pretty watchable). Glad this masterpiece is available to everyone now.
Review 7
Purchased!
I Played the Original, so I know this is good. I'm looking forward to the updates. and I'm suppourting this game in the hopes that the rest of the Journeyman Project Series can be updated throught steam as well. Thank You Very much for this.
Review 8
Purchased!
i only wish they had a copy of the turbo version too
Review 9
Purchased!
The Journeyman Project 1 was the very first game I've ever player, so I knew I'll be picking this one up as soon as it gets released. I remember reading about PP way back then (around 1996, methinks), and being incredibly hyped about it - after all it was a remake of the game from my childhood. And then it happened - the game was only released for Macs and PSX (in Japan), so my chances of playing the title I've waited so long for, were pretty much zero. And suddenly in 2014 a PC-compatible Pegasus Prime was released on GOG, and now, in 2017, a Steam port also joined the family. I could finally experience the game I always wanted to play. Playing Pegasus Prime today is like revisiting your old hometown after several years - things have moved on, some places were built, other demolished, yet everything feels so familiar, welcoming and nostalgic. This is the exact feeling I have while playing PP. Simply put - it's THE adventure game, now available for our modern machines! The "lost" features of the Japanese PSX version have been restored. It features two difficulty modes, depending on how you want to play. Multiple save slots. The AI commentary, including our beloved Arthur (though you need to find him first!). Updated locations and new puzzles. Cheesy (but in a delightful way) and nostalgic 90's acting. And, of course, the time travel plot and the general world design. It's all here man, it's all here. Of course it's not perfect, as some people may be irritated by the control scheme, the interface (though there is an overview tutorial, which explains a lot of things), no windowed-mode option, frequent backtracking and unforgiving character deaths (save often!). However, if you played the original, or just want to experience a damn solid late 90's first person perspective adventure game (as well as a damn solid remake), Pegasus Prime is for you. Now hoping for TJP2 and TJP3 to receive the same Steam treatment!
Review 10
Purchased!
I loved the idea of the game when i was a kid. trying to play old games i grow up with but never finished. after finding this on Steam and reading on the website I thought i was all three games..... NOT THE CASE only the 1st game, overall not wroth $10 by its self. this was the only game in this series at this time :( . 4.6 hours game play total to finished the game with almost everything done. will we see more?
Review 11
Purchased!
As someone who played this when it was called "The Journeyman Project Turbo!", this is a great, more modern version of a classic PC game. However, the abscence of rippin' guitar riffs during Pegasus sequences is an unconscionable omission.
Review 12
Purchased!
Recommended for those who remember the original game and don't mind returning to the days of non-multithreaded pc's (when you had to wait for all animation and sound effects to finish before you could take any action). Kudos to the devs for all the work they put into polishing up this old chestnut and adding easter eggs, Steam achievements, multiple solutions to some quests, textures, etc. It's still fun if you have the patience.
Review 13
Purchased!
Love this game. It feels a bit slow, now, but it's one of the games my husband (back when we were dating) used to introduce me to gaming. I hope the rest of the series gets to Steam.
Review 14
Purchased!
The Journeyman project was one of the first games I played as a child on the PC. I remember it coming packaged with my family's first CD Rom drive to add to our gateway windows 95 computer. Be it this version is the more advanced version on Mac computers back in the day, the game what can I say or where can I start. The soundtrack is a work of brilliance, the exploration, the time traveling, the complete sci fi story just really takes you away . When I found out the game was being released on Steam I flipped, and even moreso when i found out Presto Studios got back together to do this, I'm sitting here writing this review and already wanting to find my physical copies of JMan II Buried in Time, and Jman III Legacy of time. With any hope , I do hope that team presto released Buried in time, and Legacy of time on Steam, I would happily purchase both sequels, and maybe one day we'll finally get Jman IV time war I think it was supposed to be called. But for any people who never experienced the Journeyman series, definately get it, especially if you liked games like Riven or Myst this game will definately not disappoint you I can promise you that, it's worth every penny!
Review 15
Purchased!
I am an '80s baby, the '90s brought innovation in the gaming community. This piece of my childhood is most welcome, however I would have preferred the Original game, not this updated version.
Review 16
Purchased!
An absolute masterpiece! One of the best game series ever made, no question, full stop, this is a hill I will die on. This series is the poster child for 90s adventure masterpieces. To anyone lucky enough to have had their 90's PC with Windows 95 have Turbo bundled with it, you will completely understand. The story, the game play, and most definitely not least of all, the soundtrack... EPIC at a scale games in todays world only dream of, yet never reach! Get this, immediately!
Review 17
Purchased!
I remember playing the Journeyman Project turbo as a kid and saw a trailer for this game. Except it was called "The Journeyman Project Director's Cut". From playing this version, I can tell that this is a bit more tedious than the original, for it has some quick time events and there's a little something extra at the end. The game works very smoothly on later versions of Windows, which is nice. The Story on the other hand is timeless. The settings in 22nd and 24th centuries are two time periods worth revisiting and reimagining for this generation in the world of entertainment. Presto Studios may have been defunct for fifteen years, but that doesn't mean that this awe inspiring gem from the 90s will be long forgotten. Gage Blackwood is a very relatable character. He has a life to live, a high paying job in the Temperal Security Agency, how awesome can the future get? Anyway, I hope they release the 2nd and third installments of this series on Steam soon.
Review 18
Purchased!
A classic, well remade. The original only runs in Windows 3.1, but I run Pegasus Prime on a Skylake platform just great. A clear example of good story-telling meeting good gameplay elements, it emerged as a success in the relatively niche marketplace of PC gaming in the early-to-late 90s. A lot of options or hidden items and easter eggs affect your experience of the atmosphere and of the very course of the game itself. Some of the most successful games to date still follow such a philosophy. Pretty interesting gem of 90s stereotypes and some its ideas of the future. The music is classic, totally early-90s theme music and cyberpunk type sound. The game is very cheesy where it needs to be, nothing over the top I would argue. It's always fun to die, provided you save regularly. Other than the obvious ways, plenty of at-first-sight logical steps or simple mishaps can result in your demise and some often hilarious commentary about you. Some people have FPS problems or stuttering, as did I. RivaTuner and no native vsyc were to blame. I changed the OSD render type, then forced vsync, and all was well.
Review 19
Purchased!
This game brings back old memories! It's a great little adventure game, and this is the updated version I never got to play. After playing this version on steam, I still consider it to be one of my favorite adventure games. I just hope they eventually release the rest of the series!
Review 20
Purchased!
Pros: Its full of Nostalgic goodness as well as being something new to me (i never owned a mac so i never got to enjoy this remake when it originally came out.) It has Adveneture mode which allows you to experience all the game and walkthru which removes some of the elements to make the experience more casual. Cons: Compared to what we have today the graphics would be considered horrible (my friends saw me playing and looked at it then began commenting on "how old" it looked. I have also had some weird crashes that just kind of appear out of the blue so save often. I'm not in this for the Graphics though, I'm here for the story. A more detailed critique: I remember the original game tha came on my family's Packard computer back in the late 90's. It was known as Jounreyman Project Turbo and i played it every chance I got. I remember looking over every detail trying to find clues and rubbing every item in my inventory over everything always looking for secrets. This was the game that got me into the "point and click" genre of gaming. The story is somewhat unique as it similar to Quantum Leap with the "putting right what once went wrong" theme, however you are not lost in time in a broken time travel experiment. Instead you play as a security agent who's purpose is to safe-guard time against anything or anyone who tries to change it. Now as I mentioned earlier, this is a remake, the major difference between the two besides the original using still images and the remake using something like pre-rendered interactive video. Another difference that it also includes a larger cast (the same cast that appeared in the sequels just not in the original). there are also other subtle differences like adding in and removing of some puzzles as well as greatly expanding the areas you can explore and of course, changing the solutions to some of the puzzles which threw me off when i started playing. This of course made me enjoy the experience more as my memory betrayed me. Now for the one thing that, while i absolutly loved this character in the sequels, felt bizzarly betrayed by the inclusion of Arthur in the remake. For those of you who don't know who Arthur is, I'm only going to tell you that you meet him in the sequel "Buried in Time" and he acts as an informative comic relief. While he is an easter egg in the remake and somewhat easy to find, i was kind of hoping that he would have new dialogue and be at least extremly entertaining. Well he wasn't, not that i didnt find myself snickering at his dialogue, its just that i heard it before as it is the same things he says in the sequels all chopped up to make what he says a little more relivant to what you are doing (i will admit that he is less annoying than the AI that noramally assists you in the game). I will admit there are some moments where he does say something I don't remember him saying in the sequels but i can't help but think now that they could have been things that ended up getting cut out out of the sequels (i find it hard to believe as the creaters left in about 10 minutes of him joking about a hairy rug in "Legacy of Time" that still makes me laugh when i think about it). I mean I understand his inclusion to help sell the product and maybe give a nod to the fans of the series but it all felt a little "phoned in" by Presto if you get my drift. In conclusion I feel the game is worth getting, it has good story, the gameplay is a little trial and error, and it's a great game for killing time.
