''The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime'' is an

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developed by

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and published by

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in 1997. It is a complete remake of the original ''

Journeyman Project ''The Journeyman Project'' is a series of award-winning first-person science fiction adventure games, created by Presto Studios and released by various publishers, including Bandai, Sanctuary Woods, and Red Orb Entertainment. Plot The centr ...

'', using some of the actors from '' The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time''.

Story and gameplay

Like the original, this game is played from a first-person perspective, but static location images have been upgraded with walk animations like '' The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time''. The story follows the actions of Temporal Agent Gage Blackwood who travels to three separate points of past to stop three androids who attempt to change history.

Disc layout

''Pegasus Prime'' was split over 4

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s. The layout is as follows: * Disc 1: Caldoria, Norad Alpha * Disc 2: TSA, Prehistoric Island * Disc 3: Morimoto Mars Colony * Disc 4: World Science Center, Norad Delta Discs 1, 3 and 4 included a "Tiny TSA" which included only the inside of the Pegasus Device. This was included so an additional disc-swap was not required when changing between the 3 time zones.

Development and release

Originally announced as a " Director's Cut", ''Pegasus Prime'' featured enhanced graphics, sounds, movies, and puzzles. The new

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video sequences were recorded with a

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. ''Pegasus Prime'' was released solely for the

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by Bandai Digital Entertainment in North America. In addition, the title was released in Japan for the

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and

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. Presto made plans to port the game to the PlayStation and

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in the U.S., but these versions were cancelled when disappointing sales on several games forced publisher

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to undergo massive layoffs and a corporate restructuring.

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later took on publishing the PlayStation version in North America, but this release was cancelled again. By the fall of 2012 the game began to be supported by beta versions of

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, making it playable for platforms which support this VM. However it requires extraction of the game files from the original CDs (which are written with Apple Macintosh

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) to a

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. In December 2013, the game was released on DVD-ROM for Mac OS X. Windows and Linux versions were made available in March 2014. The game was released for digital download on GOG.com in 2014 and

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in 2017.

References

External links

Official website
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