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* NightmareFuel: Lots of it, particularly the underground section of Mars (scary ambient music, big scary robot that kills you in a scary way, the Shield Generator, with more scary background noise, that skeletonizes you if you take too long solving the puzzle, and the Maze with the music that slows down as your oxygen decreases, and finally fades to heavy breathing and heartbeats), and Sinclair's lab, where you get shot with a dart and are slowly dying, while creepy/sad music is playing.
* MostAnnoyingSound: The alert in NORAD VI of sleeping gas in the base's vents. This goes off for almost the ENTIRE TIME ZONE! At least ''Pegasus Prime'' tones it down a bit.

* FridgeBrilliance: The problem with a Time Enforcement Agency is how do you SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong when your memories have been altered by a time disruption? The TSA thought of that, and put a historical log deep in OneMillionBC so they always have a record of what happened.

* FridgeBrilliance: The problem with a Time Enforcement Agency is how do you SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong when your memories are?
** The third game allows you to do a lot more with the people and scenery, including incredibly elaborate changes to Shangri-la, which would seem to violate the rules of the last two games. Until, of course, you realize all three will be destroyed in 24hrs and have no effect on history... (See Fridge Horror).
** The TSA put a lot of futuristic equipment in the prehistoric time zone in ''Pegasus Prime'', but, as your AI Biochip explains, that too will be destroyed when the nearby volcano erupts, as the island everything is on is geologically unstable. This explanation also works for the ''Turbo'' version.

* {{Retcon}}: While ''Pegasus Prime'' did a good job connecting with the fleshed out storyline which Buried In Time kicked off following the original game, it still makes a couple of minor points look confusing and out of place.

* ScrappyMechanic: In both the original game and Buried in Time, you always start in the same location when traveling to a specific time period (mainly to prevent the game from becoming unwinnable). This isn't much of a problem in Turbo and Buried in Time, as there isn't a ton of required backtracking outside of a few items. Pegasus Prime, on the other hand, switches up item locations just enough to make this very annoying. You have to do a lot more jumping between time periods to get the required items, so you'll have to navigate the same areas and watch the same animations multiple times as you progress. Especially annoying with the Mars Colony, where you'll be forced to do the rather long mine tunnel segment more than once. Fortunately, ''Legacy Of Time'' removed this mechanic, allowing you to lock in the location you last left a time zone from, so that you can come right back to it later.

* ScrappyMechanic: In both the original game and Buried in Time, you always start in the same location when traveling to a specific time period (mainly to prevent the game from becoming unwinnable). This isn't much of a problem in Turbo and Buried in Time, as there isn't a ton of required backtracking outside of a few items. Pegasus Prime, on the other hand, switches up item locations just enough to make this very annoying. You have to do a lot more jumping between time periods to get the required items, so you'll have to navigate the same areas and watch the same animations multiple times as you progress. Especially annoying with the Mars Colony, where you'll be forced to do the rather long mine tunnel segment more than once.

* ReplacementScrappy: One of ''Pegasus Prime's'' largest problems is the AI Biochip you're given at the start. It replaces not only the relatively benign text message window from ''Turbo'', but also the woman in the TSA videos. The problem with this is that in-game this version's warnings and such are much more harried, inconvenient at times, and sometimes fall into CaptainObvious territory, especially if you've already played Turbo.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: "CHEESE GIRL!!!"

* {{Squick}}: In ''Turbo'', hidden in a corner next to Elliot Sinclair's video log is a viewer that shows the first stages of BioTech devices, in an endoscopic view of a rat's brain being worked on WAY up close.

* MostAnnoyingSound: The alert in NORAD VI of sleeping gas in the base's vents. This goes off for almost the ENTIRE TIME ZONE! At least ''Pegasus Prime'' tones it down a bit.

* FridgeBrilliance: The problem with a Time Enforcement Agency is how do you SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong when your memories are
? Simple. You make a Database in the Jurassic Era, so that no one can access it but your agency, and it would be destroyed long before any humans evolve.

* FridgeBrilliance: The problem with a Time Enforcement Agency is how do you SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong when your memories are changed? Simple. You make a Database in the Jurassic Era, so that no one can access it but your agency, and it would be destroyed long before any humans evolve.

** Possibly through use of the suit's secondary features. In the 2nd game, in the intro, Future!Gage is found and apprehended by a fellow suited time travel agent. He at the time does not have one. The same beam he uses on Gage is equipped on Michelle's suit. She conceivable could have used this to boot herself to the time you find her in.

* NightmareFuel: Lots of it, particularly the underground section of Mars (scary ambient music, big scary robot that kills you in a scary way, the Shield Generator, with more scary background noise, that skeletonizes you if you take too long solving the puzzle, and the Maze with the music that slows down as your oxygen decreases, and finally fades to heavy breathing and heartbeats), and Sinclair's lab, where you get shot with a dart and are slowly dying, while creepy/sad music is playing.