Journeyman Project Trilogy

by Mindscape

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00001WRSO
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,257 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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For a limited time, you can own this critically acclaimed time-travel game as it was meant to be played--as a series! The Journeyman Project Trilogy boxed set includes these three award-winning games: The Journeyman Project: Turbo! Detecting a rip in the fabric of time, Agent Blackwood must jump back in time and prevent its opening before the timestream is forever changed! The Journeyman Project 2: Buried in Time. Agent Blackwood is accused of altering earth history. He must walk through the shadows of time in a dangerous and challenging mission to clear his name and reveal the true conspirators.

The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time. Agent 5 runs a race against time, traveling to the lost civilizations of Shangri-La, El Dorado, and Atlantis. Apprehend renegade TSA Agent 3 to find the clues that will save the future from certain destruction. Use the Chameleon Jumpsuit to assume the identities of 18 different characters and experience their ancient cultures firsthand.

Customer Reviews

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I LOVE THESE GAMES, December 16, 1999

By 

DH2k2 (Redwood City, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Journeyman Project Trilogy (CD-ROM)

The Journeyman Project Games are the best surrealistic, problem solving games in existence, even though i didn't buy this bundled package, i got the original and Buried In Time as a bundled package years ago, i later bought Legacy of Time, the third chapter to this illustrious saga. These games are challenging, the graphics are beautiful, they may not be fast paced, but they give great fun to the sci fi fans, all of my friends love these games and I certainly do and always will.

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Adventure, Learning, and Awesome Problem-solving, November 14, 2000

By 

Lorelle VanFossen - See all my reviews

This review is from: Journeyman Project Trilogy (CD-ROM)

While the first Journeyman game didn't excite me too much, the second and the third are so much fun we've played them several times, challenging friends and family to join us. Until Myst and Buried in Time, the only games with any intelligence were the Zork series. Everything else on computers were about killing and bloodshed. Journeyman continued much of the bloodshed tradition, but Buried in Time left that behind for intellectual problem-solving and a fantastic time.

My husband and I played the games from within our trailer as we traveled across North America. We were photographing the wildlife and nature of the continent for two years. During the long waiting times waiting for cooperation with the weather and the wildlife, we would not only play the game when the laptop was with us, but we would spend an inordinate amount of time discussing the plot and trying to figure out what to do next. It kept what could have been a dull and tedious time exciting and alive.

The challenges that face the player, playing Gage Blackwell, stimulate the imagination and capacity for learning and figuring out potential solutions. It enhances the eye's capability for detail, paying attention to EVERYTHING all the time as one small thing missed means a problem not solved in time, or left behind. We spent hours going over the tower room at Leonard D'Vinci's studio, looking for the clue to get us out of there and down, and the clue of the intruder in time. What detail were we missing? Once in the studio below, it was wonderful and exciting to go through the plans and books of the master's work, and then actually put together some of his incredible instruments. Even finding the wonderful computer character, with all his snappy comments, added magic to the game. We didn't find him until later in the game and wished he was with us for the Mayan time period, so we had to play it again to experience that. Legacy in Time just continues much of the same magic.

For parents with children 10 years and older, this is an excellent game to share with them. The skills to play this game are not an eye-hand coordination required for shooting and kiling things. It is an adventure and learning experience for the mind. The history that is revealed through the games makes it come alive, not residing dark and dank in a dusty text book. You can not go wrong with these games, especially the later two in the series. The graphics, the challenges, the entire spirit of the game is excellent for families.

I'll stop talking about it now so you can just buy it. I could talk about it for days. And I do.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware, December 18, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Journeyman Project Trilogy (CD-ROM)

PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE PURCHASING THE JOURNEYMAN TRILOGY

As you read the reviews, you might notice that some reviewers had problems with the 2nd game of the trilogy. Specifically, disk 2 of Buried in Times would not read. In fact, if you look carefully, you will see that everyone who bought the trilogy had this problem. Those reviewers who bought Buried in Time separately did not.

I did not notice this at first, so I took a chance on a used copy of the Journeyman Trilogy. I also have a disk 2 of Buried in Time that cannot be read. I decided to explore this a bit further by examining the files on each of the 3 disks. Disk 1 of the Trilogy version of Buried in Time is named BIT_MPC_1 and has an identifying file called BIT_DISC.1. Disk 3 is named BIT_MPC_3 and has an identifying file called BIT_DISC.3. So we would expect disk 2 to be named BIT_MPC_2 and its identifying file to be named BIT_DISC.2, but its not. Instead, Disk 2 is named BIT_MPC_3 and its identifying file is BIT_DISC.3 -- identical names to those used for disk 3. Not only that, but the size and creation date of the BIT_DISC.3 file on disk 2 is exactly the same as the one on disk 3. In other words, the disk that is labeled disk 2 is really just another copy of disk 3; there is no disk 2.

Given the prevalence of the problem (see other reviews here), it looks like this was a manufacturing problem. It's likely that many packages were shipped with this error. In fact, it appears that the technical support folks weren't even aware of the problem so whenever it was reported, they just shipped out another copy of the same defective disk (see one of the reviews here).

I haved tried to track down a correct copy of disk 2 for Buried in Time, but since so many of the original developers and marketers have either gone out of business or have been sold and merged with other companies multiple times, I am having no luck.

I am still happy with my purchase because I bought an inexpensive used copy. I will be able to play Journeyman Projects 1 and 3. I am trying to find someone who has the original Buried in Time so that I might use their disk 2. I wouldn't spend the money for an unopened box unless I was interested in it as a collector's item.

I hope this was helpful