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Obscure Time Travel lists the unsung and oddest games and sites devoted to the real and fictional pursuit of travelling time..
For the best in time travel on the web, span over to our Timelinks pages. Much of our content is moving to our new Timevideo and Timewords sections, for your elucidation.

Not all of the works listed below are genuinely obscure; their inclusion here is for a number of reasons; often it's simply that this stuff is overlooked on other time-travel link pages, and even the best search engines make finding time travel a challenge.
Our latest finds are marked with this:
which just means newly-discovered additions to this page, not necessarily new pages on the web.
Updated links bear this:
and are current as of the date posted above.
Obscure Time Travel Games.
The Chaos Engine and Chaos Engine 2 [SEGA awards, 1994] (Released as Soldiers of Fortune in US, 3/98) Computer game from The Bitmap Brothers. [2001 Nov 23]
Dinosaur Safari - Bring 'Em Back Kodachrome! as you span millions of centuries to the past to... take pretty snapshots of big lizards. Sponsored by the National Chronographic Society. (CD-ROM from Creative Multimedia)
HISTORY board game - "The real time traveling game". As if!
The Journeyman Project 3: Legacy of Time - Official site
Time cops battle tt aliens in this the CD-ROM (now DVD) Title.
Review at quandaryland.com
Millennia: Altered Destinies CD-ROM from Microware. "The ultimate God Game has arrived." This seems new, as of 1998, but it's DOS platform only??
Chris Angelini's text-based A Night at the Museum of Forever [zip 51k] archived at Snacky Pete's.
Norse by Norsewest - Bionic tt vikings with killer flatulence in a 2-D CD-ROM from Interplay - at gamesdomain.com.
Putt-Putt Travels Through Time now available from Infogrames. Kids' educational interactive game.
Rascal (1997) from Psygnosis, Travellers Tales and Jim Henson Creature Workshop for the Sony Playstation. Kid steals his dad's time machine. Wackiness ensues.
Time Commando
(1996) from Activision. Naked guy fights everyone he meets through time for some lost data chips. "Fortunately, there's none of the related temporal problems to worry about in Time Commando, since it's all simulated."Time Travel Clyde Game - More about the late housecat, Clyde, than you may want to know. There's a song, too.
Time Traveler online game from WGBH Boston's Nova. Produced by "?! Productions". (Requires Shockwave)
Timelapse is now available at the Barracuda site. [2000]
"Tym Keeper is a Time travel roleplaying game I developed. This page will soon contain everything you need to join into the Tym Keeper Universe." [1998?] Full description on his The Foundations page.
Ultima II: Revenge of the Enchantress (1982), Review at classicgaming.com [1998 Jun]
Where In Time is Carmen Sandiego? She began as a game, and became one of the female thieves kids love the most...
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Narc out at Uchronia's Alternate Histories site
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Central Time Travel Network from Jason Shields and "the Brotherhood":
"The goal of CTTN is to explore the possibilities of the existence of time travel and the hopes of making contact with those who have the ability of chronomotion."
Mirror site
Chronos Technologies, Inc.
The "ultimate information resource on time travel and other applications of transdimensional theory" - Well, it's pretty good, with ninth-dimensional theory and other stuff, but ultimate? Call me yesterday and we'll discuss "ultimate".
MegaEpix Enormous Presents:
The Cron Vortex- The Initiation of a Revolutionary Revelation [1998 Nov 16]
"A team of researchers is gathering to conduct experiments in this field. Members include a physicist, engineer, mathematician, statistician, logician, and philosopher."
Experiments to change the time direction and the rate of time by Dr. Vadim A. Chernobrov
"Published in Proceedings of International Scientific Conference 'New Ideas in Natural Sciences' 1996, St.-Petersburg"
Plus his designs for his time machine.
"By my theory it is the way (one of many other ways) to create the 'energy pumping' for some local space-time."
Feedback
Time Travel down to Grateful Dead concerts, and only to Grateful Dead concerts. And only with this guy.
A Guide To SF CHRONOPHYSICS - Justin B Rye's investigation of how time travel works in SF [16 Jun 1997]
KOALA, Montauk and Inter-Dimensional Time Travel Thoth/Tehuti: "This is code name for an Inner Light Network (ILN) research center located in 8885 A.D. in Australia."
Is Time-Travel Possible? by Bill Wisdom
"This article appearred in the June 1996 issue of Phactum. -last updated
6-22-96" Observational model with all the surprises of a police procedural.
Keelynet presented Genuine incident/machine claims through 1/98...
And then came out with the Time Traveller Challenge: Show Yourselves! "Now it's time for all 'Time Travellers' to FISH or CUT BAIT." Sorry, Keelynet, that information isn't available here...
Chet Snow's Mass Dreams of the Future at edgarcayce.com.
At Mathemagicians Circle, Dr Mark Colyvan tortures kids' minds with the grandfather paradox:
"...So if you had died as a baby, you would not have died as a baby."
Then kids post responses, ie:
"Julie Green: I think there could be more than one me. Like when I'm asleep and dreaming, there is one me who is busily doing things in the dream, and another who is in bed with my eyes closed, doing nothing much at all."
But watch out with that information!
"Please do not give your solution to the problem, as that will spoil it for others. You can discuss the problem by submitting your comments. If you think that you have a solution then mail it to the Mentor, Dr Mark Colyvan."
Nasty Little Truth About Spacetime Physics
Check out the fever pitch of the Now of Nemesis-thought:
"The nasty and shocking little truth is that time does not change, a million wormhole and time travel fanatics wearing their little Klingon and Ferengi outfits notwithstanding."
Non-Linear Time-Series Prediction by Systematic Data Exploration on a Massively Parallel Computer at the pages of Kurt Thearling, Ph.D., attempts to predict the future...
The Pataphysics pages of Hampshire College, featuring
How to Construct a Time Travel Machine by Alfred Jarry (1873-1907).
The Philadelphia Experiment and Time with Drue - a 1995 interview [1995 Dec 06]
Project Galactic Guide's arguments for and against whether time travellers are among us. [1997 Mar 03]
Dan Quayle's Time Travel Machine [posted 1994]
Quotes of Indiana's favorite idiot, involving the spacetime continuum.
Ram Samudrala, a Stanford post-doc, and his "ramblings" on tt. [1998 Nov 23] Nice, intelligent synopses of current thought, with references:
Jack Sarfatti's Stardrive and Post-Quantum Physics of Consciousness -
"Inspired by Richard Wagner's opera, Tanheuser, on the radio, having just seen Travolta and Sedgwick in Phenomenon, I realized that the post-quantum local decoding of nonlocal form-dependent intensity-independent future forces of destiny is the fundamental act of creative imaginings of a richer and more perfect reality." Actually, this sentence isn't posted on Sarfatti's site anymore. But it was once. Enjoy your stay.
Sev Trek: The Comic Strip has a hard a time wrestling with time travel humor but that's partially because Star Trek's time travel is already just too funny.
Subatomic Humor's Helpful Time Travel Advice: Only the Amish can do it. [1996 Oct 03]
Tasmanian Time Travel
Aussie educator's site
"Keep in mind that your character has special powers to go back to the beginning of the Aboriginal times and into the more recent history of the colonization of Tasmania by the white man. You will want to include the positive and the negative aspects of living during both times." Uhh... like being able to travel time is good? And, uh, wiping out entire tribes on Tasmania, is, uh, bad. [1999 June 25]
Temporal Research at Geocities.
"Welcome fellow Deltachronologist..." Solid Links, Weird Time Devices, Quotes and Electric Piano Accompaniment.
Timelab has been conducting experiments to flush out time travellers or time "seers" with an odd but methodically scientific approach. Will the Timelab team have success after 40 minutes of revealing secret code in a graveyard?
...Apparently not. Experimental results. [2002 Dec 14]
Time Travel - Some child/lesson plan level questions at BlueNose's pages.
Time Travel at crystalinks.com:
"Man is the seeker - always looking for answers beyond third dimensional paradigms - for that is the Road Home!
...As as child I had a clear vision of grid programs that exist as parallel experiences. Within one of those programs I saw myself in Germany - as a physicist working on time travel technologies in a lab of some kind. From there I moved into our current reality - as if I moved my conscious awareness from that time grid program to the one I currently am experience." [2001 Aug 03]
Time Travel - A Discussion [2002 Dec 07]
Prof. John Wheeler's site filled with tidy musings amidst easy-eye graphics. He's gotten through explaining meeting yourself, and actually made a few sapient points about how unlikely the same atoms will ever encounter each other. Hate to be the traveller who had such simple conversations with himself, though.
Plus some of his Time Travel Links, which are mostly standard car and racing links. Odd mix. Time travelling cars? Nah.
Chuck Buckley's TIMETRAVEL - A Temporal Brain Drain
"(we're only using 5%)" Some lengthy, if basic, wonderings and assertions.
Time Travel & Einstein, Mysteries of the Universe & Aliens [1998 Jun]
Homemade but informative site on GeoCities.
Beware! The complete lyrics to The Time Travel Cha Cha (from the Nickelodeon series Roundhouse) lurk somewhere at this link!! Richard O'Brien this ain't:
We've watched enough of sci-fi that Lost In Space has taught us the knack.
I could use my parent's hi-fi to get us back.
I'm so very happy, here's our final destination.
Tumbling through time and space to catch our generation.
Now it's time to have a universal celebration.
Do the time travel cha-cha.
Time Travel = End of the World
Anti-time travel spin from Chris Minnick:
"Imagine that a 24 year old person develops time travel in 2101. Let's call him Jerknose." Jerknose creates an infinite number of himself = End of the World.
But Minnick already has a diagram of Jerknose's time machine here, so perhaps fate is leading him to inspire said Jerknose. Oh the irony.
John Gribben's Time Travel for Beginners [1996 Dec 02]
The Time Traveler's Information Kiosk Many links here are moribund, but it's still an interesting curio on the side of the road. [1998 Apr 11]
TIME WILL TELL [1998 Sep 22]
" This essay is about TIME, DURATION and MOTION. I venture to argue that our current theory of TIME is wrong, that duration is impossible and that MOTION is everything." In fact, Craig D. Hanks gets pretty passionate about it.
Terrence McKenna's Timewave Zero
Marc Twain: Time Traveler [2001 Jul 19]
"You are looking at a man who has serious cause to be angry.
"A man who has journeyed across the span of one hundred and twenty-one years on an invitation to discuss and debate the subject of Time Travel."
Which he hasn't, as of this writing. At least not on his site. [2003 Feb 22]
A virtual space-time travel machine
A site continually updated since 1994 with lots of great images and links from physics and the natural sciences. The time travel gets a bit lost in the menagerie, but it's got all those wonderful toys... [2003 Feb 19]
Wormholes and Time Machines
Fredrik Berndtson, John Gunnarsson and Johan Johansson's project in the course Black Holes at Chalmers University of Technology
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