History VideoGame / TheJourneymanProject

''The Journeyman Project'' is a First Person ScienceFiction AdventureGame series, notable as one of the first and last franchises to make substantial use of FullMotionVideo, as one of the first games to be released in a hybrid format that could be played both on Macs and [=PCs=], as one of the first games to be released on DVD, and for the dubious honor of having the first game in the series released three times.

* TheCretaceousIsAlwaysDoomed: The TSA invokes this when hiding the historical log. They first choose a period in time where it is unlikely historical events would've been changed, and choose the late Triassic. They then set up an island to hide the historical log (the latitude and longitude are given, putting it about 200 miles southeast of Hawaii), locking it away in the cliffside, which would render it safe from any wild animal. However, not long after this period of time, the volcanic eruption known to start the Triassic/Jurassic extinction periods would've commenced, and all of the evidence would've been destroyed by the lava, preventing any of it from changing history.

* UnnecessarilyCreepyRobot: The TSA's security robots, which have the same design as Sinclair's and welcome you into the facility in a creepy-sounding voice that sounds similar to the TSA's ComputerVoice from ''Turbo''.

* CloningBlues: Completely averted with Arthur, who doesn't display the slightest hint of existential angst over having multiple copies of himself in existence, or that the original version is left to perish. He does comment on feeling "like a saved game" about it, though.

* NothingIsScarier: The Mars maze. Besides having a time limit, the music slows down, and then fades out, replaced with a heartbeat and heavy breathing. All the while, you're trying to find your way through a series of corridors before running out of oxygen. There's no threat but the time limit, but it's still deeply unsettling. The ''PegasusPrime'' version ramps up the difficulty by adding robots that can kill you, and some doors that you don't know are locked until you bump into them.

* TreasureRoom: Gage enters one at the very bottom of Chateau Gaillard, where he can take a few gold coins and [[spoiler: find King Richard I's sword.]]

* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Future Gage has a little trouble with this when he meets his past self in ''Buried in Time.'' He stammers over with it for a while before just setting on "we" when referring to what's happened.

** Mercury possesses shapeshifting ability, evoking imagery of the chemical element mercury. Mercury was also the messenger god, and the robot's mission of assassination is meant to alter the message sent back to the aliens.

** The first of the three events has it during the Year 2112, Ghorbestan is about to sign the Worldwide Unification Treaty, Terrorist factions oppose the plan by taking hostages some American, however in the End Ghorbestan still signs the Treaty. The change is the Robot launches a Nuclear Missile from a silo controlled by a United States NORAD Defense Base, NORAD VI towards Ghorbestan and self-destructs it before it actually touches down, this causes Ghorbestan to refuse to sign the treaty because they say they cannot possibly sign a treaty with a country that would use such scare tactics. (The country in question causing Ghorbestan to refuse to sign the Treaty in this incident would be the United States of America since the Nuclear missile was launched by a United States NORAD Defense Base, NORAD VI)
** The second Event is during the Year 2185 when a Human Settlement on Mars witnesses it's first sighting of an Alien Spacecraft. Nothing happens for over a century, the Distortion consists of the Colony and Alien Spacecraft being destroyed, this causes both Humanity and Aliens to distrust each other. This as well as the United States Defense Base NORAD VI Attack on Ghorbestan incident causes the Cyrollans to not invite Humanity to the Symbiotry of peaceful Beings in 2308.
** The last event happens during the Year 2310 just 2 years after the Cyrollans invited Humanity to join the Symbiotry of Peaceful beings which only occurs if the United States Defense Base NORAD VI Attack on Ghorbestan and Mars Incidents never happened. In the the World Science Center in New Sydney Australia, the Scientists are debating whether to accept the Cyrollan's invitation to join the Symbiotry of Peaceful Beings, most of the scientists are against it, but Dr Enrique Castillo gives a passionate speech that convinces the majority of those in attendance to accept the invitation, the anachronism consists of Dr Castillo being assassinated so that the Answer to the Invitation is a refusal instead of acceptance.

** Mercury possesses shapeshifting ability, evoking imagery of the chemical element mercury.
* MirroringFactions: The [[spoiler: Cyrollans and the Quotholas]] in the third game. By the finale it is even revealed that [[spoiler: the monstrous Quotholas are actually of a similar species to the Cyrollans, wearing gigantic biosuits. Both species are rejected as worthy candidates for inheriting the Legacy. This is foreshadowed in both Atlantis and El dorado calling them the children of the earth mother and brothers respectively.]]

* DungeonBypass: In ''Pegasus Prime'', after making the antidote to the tranquilzer dart, Gage can use it from his inventory to bypass the toxin.

* WhereItAllBegan: In the first game, the game begins in Caldoria Apartments and ends there as well [[spoiler:when you go up to the roof to neutralize Dr. Sinclair]].

* PressXToDie: In the original, the Global Transport device allows you to travel to a beach in Arizona or to UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} instead of going to work. You'll be given a small sneak peek of your destination as you arrive...[[RetGone and then get uncreated]]. You can't even go to these two locations after you've completed all of your time-travel assignments (the transporter just gives an error messaging saying those locations are currently unavailable), so the only reasons these two options exist are for flavor and SchmuckBait.

* PressXToDie: In the original, the Global Transport device allows you to travel to a beach in Arizona or to UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} instead of going to work. You'll be given a small sneak peek of your destination as you arrive...[[RetGone and then get uncreated]]. You can't even go to these two locations after you've completed all of your time-travel assignments (the transporter just gives an error messaging saying those locations are currently unavailable), so the only reason these two options exist is for flavor and SchmuckBait.

* PressXToDie: In the original, the Global Transport device allows you to travel to a beach or to UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}} instead of going to work. You'll be given a small sneak peek of your destination as you arrive...[[RetGone and then get uncreated]].

** The first of the three events has it during the Year 2112, Gorbastan is about to sign the Worldwide Unification Treaty, Terrorist factions oppose the plan by taking hostages some American, however in the End Gorbastan still signs the Treaty. The change is the Robot launches a Nuclear Missile from a silo controlled by a United States NORAD Defense Base, NORAD VI towards Gorbastan and self-destructs it before it actually touches down, this causes Gorbastan to refuse to sign the treaty because they say they cannot possibly sign a treaty with a country that would use such scare tactics. (The country in question causing Gorbastan to refuse to sign the Treaty in this incident would be the United States of America since the Nuclear missile was launched by a United States NORAD Defense Base, NORAD VI)
** The second Event is during the Year 2185 when a Human Settlement on Mars witnesses it's first sighting of an Alien Spacecraft. Nothing happens for over a century, the Distortion consists of the Colony and Alien Spacecraft being destroyed, this causes both Humanity and Aliens to distrust each other. This as well as the United States Defense Base NORAD VI Attack on Gorbastan incident causes the Cyrollans to not invite Humanity to the Symbiotry of peaceful Beings in 2308.
** The last event happens during the Year 2310 just 2 years after the Cyrollans invited Humanity to join the Symbiotry of Peaceful beings which only occurs if the United States Defense Base NORAD VI Attack on Gorbastan and Mars Incidents never happened. In the the World Science Center in New Sydney Australia, the Scientists are debating whether to accept the Cyrollan's invitation to join the Symbiotry of Peaceful Beings, most of the scientists are against it, but Dr Enrique Castillo gives a passionate speech that convinces the majority of those in attendance to accept the invitation, the anachronism consists of Dr Castillo being assassinated so that the Answer to the Invitation is a refusal instead of acceptance.

* MachineMonotone: The launch override computer in NORAD VI.

** [[spoiler: He has a very very good reason to do so, though. Problem is that his plan [[GoneHorriblyRight goes horribly right]].]]

* {{Precursors}}: The Sosiqui.

* ProductPlacement: On a coffee table in Future!Gage's house, there's a little action figure made by Bandai.
** Interestingly, Bandai was behind the Japanese release of ''Buried in Time''.

* ProudScholarRaceGuy: The Cyrollans.

* RetGone: One of the possible HaveANiceDeath screens, if you let the time distortion wave erase you.
** Same thing happens if you go anywhere other than TSA with the Global Transporter.

* SanDimasTime: Mostly averted, as the protagonist is a time traveler, but more time than is strictly necessary seems to pass in between acquiring the relics in the third game.
** This could be justified by the fact that a temporal recall in all of the games returns Agent 5 to the exact time he left, so from the perspective of outsiders, Gage could have left and come back in just a matter of seconds.
* {{Scienceville}}: The World Science Center from the first game.

* TemporalParadox: Averted, somehow by time-traveling before a time-wave from the past reaches you, it's possible to... [[MST3KMantra oh forget it.]] See, DelayedRippleEffect.

* TimeMachine: More than one, in suit-form.

* UnderwaterBase: NORAD VI in the first game.

* StunGuns: Mercury drops one when you take him out, and [[spoiler: Agent 5 uses it to take down Sinclair]]. ''Pegasus Prime'' reworks it into a high-tech sniper rifle that shoots tranquilizer darts and plasma rounds, though only the darts remain when Agent 5 can take it.

''Buried in Time'' and ''Legacy of Time'' was re-released on gog.com in 2010 and 2012 respectively while ''Pegasus Prime'' was released in 2015 and on Steam in 2017. There are currently no plans to bring back the original ''Journeyman Project'' or its turbo version due to coding and compatibility issues on modern hardware according to the developers.

* UnwinnableByMistake:
** The launch override puzzle in ''Turbo'' requires using a trackball to move a crosshair around a globe to find missile silos that are active and disable them. However, the hitbox detection for those silos isn't always exactly on the city's location, sometimes leaving the actual target pixels away from the silo on-screen. Worse, the trackball's sensitivity when clicked on is higher than it should be, sometimes throwing the crosshair farther than intended. ''Pegasus Prime'' fixes this puzzle by ditching the trackball entirely and instead using a holographic interface on the globe itself, and you disable the missile silos by clicking on the cities with your cursor.
** In ''Buried in Time'', Walkthru Mode comes with the ability to continue from right before you died instead of forcing you to restore from a saved game every time you die. When you continue, your active biochip is set to the Interface biochip (as it would be if you had just loaded a game) and any items you had used between the restore point and the point of death are returned to your inventory. If you were cloaked, however, the game does not uncloak you. When you are cloaked, you can't switch biochips or move. If you happen to die in Walkthru Mode while cloaked (which is possible in a few cases), you will softlock the game as you'll be returned in a cloaked status but with the Interface Biochip active, preventing you from uncloaking, forcing you to reload from a manual save.