Mine would be Buried in Time it was the first game I played in this great series and has it all comedy, drama, action and cheeze whiz as a propellent! The cow thrown from the caste tower was also great same with Arthur the AI.

Turbo (Never played Pegasus) is second to me it started off the series with a bang and I did like the villain Sinclair and his motives hopefully it will show up on GOG soon.

Last to me is Legacy of Time while not a bad game it just seemed to have a cliche and a confusing story, and the new time periods felt unapealling.

Hope to hear what others think of this fantastic series.

Buried in Time is also my favorite. I played Turbo first, on my parents' Packard Bell, but the game was too much for my young brain at the time and the Mars time period scared the daylights out of me. The asteroid time period in BiT scared me too, but once I got Arthur the game took on this amazing tone of friendship and comedy and mystery that still stays with me to this very day. BiT is thee game that defines how I value all other games. It is the standard for me.

I spent many hours playing Burried in Time, on a MAC II vx


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1. Buried In Time (Deaths + Arthur)
2. Legacy of Time (No Deaths + Arthur)
3. Turbo (Deaths + No Arthur)

Yup some of the deaths in Buried in Time really stick with you, like the Mayan one where the Jump suit is preserved and praised as a icon... time travel sure can be messy.

I would have to order it:

1. Buried in Time
2. Pegasus Prime (mainly because of the lack of Arthur)
3. Legacy of Time
4. Journeyman Project Turbo

Oh my dear, indeed the farnstein space station in Buried in Time scared me very much! I immensely enjoyed Journeyman Project Turbo, and after that I received BIT for my birthday. However, I needed several plays to be able to pass through the farnstein space station and meet Arthur. I literally quit playing because of the fear. :)

I really really dislike JP3, it felt totally different then the first 2 games. My favorite is JP1, but JP2 was the most awesome.

Legacy, although oddly, it was the first one I played. I found it whilst rummaging through a friend's game stash, and now I've bought the entire series twice (once as CDs and once through GOG so I could still play them on newer machines without my having to DOSBox everything myself).

Arthur, of course, has ruined me for any other sidekick with the possible exception of Crow in the *first* Longest Journey game. I'm replaying from the beginning of the series and plan on choosing "verbose" for Arthur's comments when I get to Legacy. I think that's the one option I never chose in all the times I played it.

Granted, it's a close call between Legacy and Buried (gotta love those Monty Python references), and some of this may be that my heart is in mythology and religion more than it is in history. The dealmaker for me SPOILERS was the story of Siddha Biwawa in the Shangri-La section. I know the story is an archetype in Tibetan Buddhism, although I've never been able to find out if this specific character is a folk figure. But the beauty of the story and the fact that THIS IS THE SPOILER you have met him in-game and that he actually becomes part of your quest as his final step toward salvation---I'm a fantasy author, and if I could ever write something even half that beautiful, symmetrical, and poignant (I'm actually crying as I write this), then I feel I would finally be able to call myself an author.

That said, Journeyman was far ahead of its time considering the technology that was available 20 years ago. I know the first time I played it, I expected the usual interactive logic/inventory-based puzzles romp, but I was surprised at how many fun little arcade games it fit in---chasing robots and YKES playing Mastermind while you're on the clock. And on this run-through, I found another Siddha Biwawa moment---once the time rip hits and you learn one of Sinclair's aims was to disrupt the conference that would lead to world peace. We are so close to self-annihilation right now that even a game that holds open the door that would lead to a world in harmony with itself resonates---and makes it all the more horrifying when some idiot decides to sabotage it.

Thank you all for the recommendations.