Movie To game comparison

Were the film and videogame excellent to each other?

WYLD Stallyns

One of the key elements of the film is Bill and Ted’s obsession with becoming famous as a rock band. Their oddly-spelled group, The Wyld Stallyns, features heavily in most videogame adaptations, as you would probably expect – usually spelled wrong.

the time machine

Given that the whole story of Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure revolves around time travel, you would expect to see this featured heavily in the games too, and it most certainly is. The phone box-shaped time machine is certainly hard to miss in every version.

historical figures

In the film both Bill and Ted get to meet a wide range of famous historical figures, each of them teaching the duo something new. This continues in all the home versions of the game as well. Interestingly, the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Billy The Kid are foes in the Game Boy version.

circle K

The film really gets started when our heroes first meet up with Rufus outside a Circle K convenience store. This might not seem like something that really needed to be in the game, but the local shop made it into all of Capstone’s computer versions.

rufus’ Wisdom

While his name might not feature in the title of the film, Rufus plays every bit as an important role in the movie as Bill and Ted themselves do. So it’s pleasing to see that George Carlin’s character makes it into most of the videogame adaptations, too.