Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a single player graphic adventure video game for the Commodore 64, Amiga and MS-DOS platforms.

31 December 1989

What Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is an adventure game developed by Rocket Science Games and released in 1989. It was published by LJN. It is available on Nintendo Entertainment System, Amiga, Commodore C64/128/MAX and DOS.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Join Bill & Ted on their exciting adventures through time and space. Hey Dudes! You're going on a most excellent adventure through history. You know the whacked-out, time-warped trip we had in the movie. Now, in the Bill & Ted's Most Excellent computer game, you'll meet some neat dead dudes, too- though you'll need more than two to pass that most heinous history exam! At the Circle K, meet Rufus, an ultra-cool messenger and his time traveling phone booth. Just dial a year and take off in time. You're looking for a bodacious bunch of historical heavyweights to bring back to San Dimas High. This is an excellent arcade / action adventure, but only the coolest of dudes will be triumphant! Can…

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Bill & Ted series

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is the first of 3 entries we hold in the Bill & Ted series. The next entry was Bill & Ted's Excellent Game Boy Adventure: A Bogus Journey! in 1991.

See all 3 Bill & Ted games in release order →

What it launched against

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure launched on 31 December 1989, within three weeks of Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Pipe Dream and Denaris.

Released around the same time: Fantasy World Dizzy, A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia, Pipe Dream, Denaris.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure — frequently asked questions