Is Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure on Steam?

No. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.

What platforms is Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure on?

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is available on Atari Lynx.

When did Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure release?

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was first released on December 31, 1991.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Dec 31, 1991PuzzleAtari Lynx

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure — frequently asked questions

Is Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure on Steam?: No. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
What platforms is Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure on?: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is available on Atari Lynx.
When did Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure release?: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure was first released on December 31, 1991.

About Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

The Lynx title based on the Keanu Reeves/Alex Winter film franchise actually takes place after the second film, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. Out for revenge after being humiliated by the high-school duo, Death kidnaps their "medieval babe" girlfriends from the first film, and drags them throughout history. Luckily, the girls are able to leave behind pages of the band's latest song as a trail for Bill and Ted to follow. Playing as either Bill or Ted (with a friend able to take control of the other character over ComLynx), the player must search historical periods in an overhead perspective and collect enough musical notes to open travel to a new area. Along the way, they can encounter historical figures who will offer assistance in return for a favor. Bad guys do populate the levels, but can be pacified with a rippin' guitar solo. If Bill or Ted are defeated, they simply reappear back at the last checkpoint. Other items can be found and collected in an inventory. The Lynx title makes use of the series' interesting take on the time continuum, allowing the player to leave items for themselves in the past to collect and use in the future. Likewise, if the player happens upon a sudden fortuitous item that "they" left, they must remember to go and leave the item in the past themselves to avoid creating a time paradox. This quirky view of time forms the basis of many of the game's puzzles. A password system is constantly updated (viewable at the pause screen) to save the player's progress.

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Game details

Developer: Al Baker & Associates
Publisher: Atari Corporation
Themes: Action

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Collector value & authenticity

Atari Lynx · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-08-07

Loose

$14

Complete

$28

Sealed

$32

Region: NA+EU
Released: 1991
Authenticity: Low

Never re-released — the original cartridge is the only way to playLow counterfeit risk

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A licensed tie-in with a genuinely strange structure, and two-player ComLynx support nobody expects.

Al Baker & Associates developed it and Atari published it in 1991, following the film closely: you travel through time collecting historical figures and hauling them back to present-day California so Bill and Ted can pass their history exam. It is a collect-a-thon rather than a straight platformer, and it supports two linked players.

Period reviewers pitched it at younger players, but it was harder than that suggests — magazine tip columns of the day carry reader letters from people stuck deep in it, one marooned in Europe, 1700 A.D. Never re-released, which for a licensed film tie-in is unsurprising.