The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime

This article is about the 1997 remake of "The Journeyman Project". For the entire video game series, see Journeyman Project (series).
The Journeyman Project:
Pegasus Prime

Developer(s) Presto Studios
Publisher(s) Bandai
Acclaim
Designer(s) Eric Dallaire
David Flanagan
Engine Pegasus engine
Platform(s) PowerPC, PlayStation, Apple Pippin, Mac OS X, Windows, Linux
Release date(s) June 1997 (Mac OS 8/9)
December 2013 (Mac OS X)
April 10, 2014 (Windows)
April 10, 2014 (Linux)
Genre(s) Adventure game
Mode(s) Single-player
Distribution CD (4), DVD (1), download

The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime is an adventure computer game developed by Presto Studios and published by Bandai in 1997. It is a complete remake of the original Journeyman Project, 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 CD-ROMs; the layout was criticized for making disc-swapping common. The layout was as follows:

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 timezones.

Development and availability

Originally announced as a "Director's Cut", Pegasus Prime featured enhanced graphics, sounds, movies, and puzzles. It was released solely for the Power Macintosh by Bandai Digital Entertainment in North America. In addition, the title was released in Japan for the Apple Pippin and PlayStation. Presto made plans to port the game to the PlayStation (with publisher Acclaim Entertainment) and Sega Saturn in the U.S., but these versions were never released. As a result, original disks of the Mac-only game have been very rare to find.

By the fall of 2012 the game began to be supported by beta versions of ScummVM, making it playable for platforms which support this VM.[1][2] However it requires extraction of the game files from the original CDs (which are written with Apple Macintosh Hierarchical File System) to a hard disk.[3]

As of December 2013, the game was made available again on DVD-ROM for Mac OS X.[4][5] Windows and Linux versions were made available in March 2014.[6]

As of April 2014, the game is available for digital download on GOG.com [7]

References

  1. ↑ Announcement in the official ScummVM forum
  2. ↑ Pegasus engine entry in ScummVM wiki
  3. ↑ Getting Pegasus to Run in ScummVM from the ScummVM developer's blog
  4. ↑ https://twitter.com/JourneymanGames/status/412016752994693120
  5. ↑ http://thejourneymanproject.com/store/
  6. ↑ https://twitter.com/JourneymanGames/status/448968956598943744/
  7. ↑ http://www.gog.com/game/journeyman_project_1_pegasus_prime_the

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